inspiring Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker and countless later works that explore the unknowable and the consequences of contact
The Camberwell Beauty and Other Stories
A timeline by Peter O’Neill is on pages liii–lviii
Publisher's illustrated boards with lettering to front board and spine
Candide eller Optimisten (Norwegian) Agatha Christie inspiring Andrei Tarkovsky’s film StalkerCandide eller Optimisten, by Voltaire. Bergen: John Griegs Forlag, 1945. Rare Norwegian edition. Smartly, but amateurishly, rebound in half red leather with handmade decorated paper boards, with four raised bands and gilt decorations and title to spine, and original front cover bound within. A very good copy, the binding square and tight, the pages clean and uninscribed, with only light rubbing to the leather exterior, mostly contained to extremities,