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“NOTHING CAN BE LIKE WATCHING CASABLANCA FOR THE FIRST TIME, BUT FURST COMES CLOSER THAN ANYONE HAS IN YEARS”: FIRST EDITION OF DARK STAR, SIGNED BY ALAN FURST

FURST, Alan. Dark Star. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Octavo, original half black cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.

First edition, the sixth novel by award-winning novelist Furst, boldly signed by him in black felt pen on the title page.

Alan Furst’s sixth novel, Dark Star, was praised by The New York Times as “a rich, deeply moving novel of suspense that’s equal parts espionage thriller, European history and love story.” Fellow writer Nelson DeMille called this novel, set in 1930s Europe,“as fine an evocation of prewar Europe as anything I’ve ever read. Dark Star is an extremely well written and literate novel that practically creates a new genre: historical espionage.” “Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time,” observed critic Walter Shapiro, “But Furst comes closer than anyone has in years” (Time).

A fine copy.