The Tower of Babel by Canetti, Elias - 1st edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild toning and wear to spine and edges of boards, faint stain to rear board, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout, faint stain to top edge of block. DJ has edgewear that includes some tears, some of which are taped on verso side, rubbing, toning and soil, now in archival mylar wrap.

1st American ed. HB no jacket has just light shelf wear, prev owner name on halftitle page otherwise nice clean pages and tight binding, in all a G+ copy of this great retro read

VG / VG stated first U.S. edition. Features a beautiful cover design by George Salter.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 8x6x1. 1947 Knopf hard cover - 1st American edition 1st printing - no dust jacket - sun fade to cover - minor tanning to closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1947. First US Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. George Salter. 8vo. Pp. 426. Red cloth, titles and decorations stamped in gilt on the spine, illustration stamped in blind on the cover, black topstain, fore-edge untrimmed: small spots to cover, owner initials in ink on the front endpaper. In the three-color Salter illustrated dust jacket, price clipped, light edge-wear, spine very slightly sunned. Canetti was born in Bulgaria to Spanish-Jewish parents. The "realistic parable" of a scholar, Die Blendung was first published in Vienna in 1935. An especially handsome jacket design by George Salter, with calligraphic titles over a wall of book spines - the books that will eventually be consumed by fire in the novel's narrative. For reference to the dust jacket in the evolution of Salter's design, please see Classic Book Jackets The Design Legacy of George Salter by Thomas S. Hansen ("Salter's designs for Alfred Knopf are among his greatest… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Originally published in German as "Die Blendung" in 1935 and later banned in Nazi Germany, Auto-Da-Fe did not become widely known until the publication of Canetti's "Crowds and Power" in 1960. "In Auto-da-Fé no one is spared. Professor and furniture salesman, doctor, housekeeper, and thief all get it in the neck. The remoreseless quality of the comedy builds one of the most terrifying literary worlds of the century" (Salman Rushdie). "Savage, subtle, beautifully mysterious--one of the few great novels of the century" (Iris Murdoch). "A strange, eloquent and terrifying book" (Philip Toynbee). Auto da Fé is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti builds up the elements in Kien himself, and his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction.