Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Text fresh, rear inner hinge expertly reinforced, faint bubbling to cloth minor chipping to lightly-toned spine of price-clipped dust jacket, small stain to rear panel. Without original printed publisher's note from Howard Fast. The 1960 premiere of Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning film adaptation broke the Hollywood blacklist by awarding on-screen credit to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. When publishers rejected this epic work after Fast was blacklisted, he published the novel himself and its immediate popularity made Spartacus "the only self-published best-seller in recent history" (Wald, "Legacy"). Son of a factory worker, Howard Fast published his first novel before the age of 20 and quickly established himself as "a literary phenomenon… the champion of the progressive novel in the United States" ( Guardian). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of this popular historical novel, boldly signed by Harold Fast, basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Kirk Douglas. New York: Published by the Author, (1951).
“A WHISPER OF SOMEONE CALLED SPARTACUS WHO HAS SET THE WORLD ON FIRE”: SPARTACUS, BOLDLY SIGNED BY HOWARD FASTįAST, Howard.
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