Apartment in Athens FIRST EDITION
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945.
First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 268pp. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket with toning, creasing, tears, and heavy chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in blue. Rubbing, toning, and gentle bumps to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Faint toning to gutters of endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A presentable first edition in admittedly very worn but present original dust jacket.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion—an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.(Publisher). Good / fair. Item #11076
Price: $14.00