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“THE SEDUCTIVE SHIMMER OF AN URBANE BLACK-AND-WHITE HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC”: TRUE FIRST EDITION OF KINGDOM OF SHADOWS, SIGNED BY FURST

FURST, Alan. Kingdom of Shadows. London: Victor Gollancz, (2000). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.

True first edition of Furst’s award-winning espionage novel, boldly signed by him in black felt pen on the title page.

Winner of the prestigious 2001 Hammett Prize, awarded by the International Association of Crime Writers, Alan Furst’s Kingdom of Shadows earned high critical praise. “With its beguiling sophistication, knowing political overview and utterly assured narrative tone,” wrote Janet Maslin, “Kingdom of Shadows offers a realm of glamour and peril that are seamlessly intertwined? Furst’s writing has the seductive shimmer of an urbane black-and-white Hollywood classic” (New York Times). This is a work that “transcends genre, as did some Graham Greene and Eric Ambler classics. It is one of those rare novels that provide unqualified pleasure” (Washington Post). True first edition, preceding the first American edition by several months.

A fine copy.