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.

Toning to spine and shallow chipping to extremities of dust jacket with tape repairs to verso. Interior fine light rubbing to spine ends. 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. 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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