The Escape of Socrates by Pick,Robert - 1954

NY: Knopf, 1954. 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hard cover book/ chips in spine and front dust jacket panel otherwise good dust jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1954. stated 1st . hard. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Austrian-born novelist. Fiction set in ancient Greece George Salter dj. near fine, vg+ lightly chipped dj, siena cloth. Clean text 326 pgs

Knopf, 1954. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Edgewear to jacket..

London: Chatto and Windus, 1955. Book. Good. Cloth. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition.. 256pp; inscribed by author; Size: 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf in association with Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1954. Fine condition in bright, Very Good Dust Jacket. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. NOT price clipped ($3.95). Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "First Edition" so stated. Two-color title page. Stamped in silver on spine. Blind stamped on front and rear covers. Typography and binding design by W. A. Dwiggins. Agner p.77 (THE BOOKS OF WAD). Dust Jacket design by George Salter. Novel based on the famous trial of Socrates in ancient Athens. Original rust-colored cloth.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Dwiggins, W. A. (binding design); Dust Jacket by George Salter. 8vo. xvii, 328pp.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fair. Salter, George. (1st) Slightly smaller book, brown cloth with embossed title and initials with design on front, silver near fine on spine, ink note written big on first front end paper, 326 lightly browned pages. DJ heavy paper, colorfully illustrated in muted colors by George Salter, b/w photo of Pick on top back, nick and tear with slight wear overall. Fair DJ/Fine book.

GB: Chatto & Windus, 1955. DW has minor edge wear.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG DW.

Chatto & Windus. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, toning. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1955.

New York: A.A.Knopf, 1954 Book. Good > Very Good. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. A novel set in ancient Athens focusing on the trial of Socrates and the efforts of his friends to save him and the result of his conviction. and "va rious avenues of escape offered to him.".

1954 Knopf hardcover stated 1st edition inscribed by the author on the ffep ("For Aaron Asher, in friendship - 10.3.57 Robert Pick"). Edgewear, soil and chipping on dj, price clipped, light sunning on cover, a bit of page tanning and soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight .