Author: Saul Bellow
Title: Mr Sammler&Apos;S Planet
Description: London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1970. First edition. Cloth. An award winning novel by Saul Bellow. 'Mr Sammler's Planet' won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1971. The plot follows a Holocaust survivor named Mr Artur Sammler. He finds himself caught in a world where there are strange almost crazy promises of the future such as moon landings. He observes that how if the world has greater luxury and leisure it has and only will lead to more suffering. Sammler spends the novel coming to terms with the changing world. The first UK edition of this work. In original blue boards and held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is generally smart with chips to the extremities. Small closed tear to the head of rear wrap and to the joint at head of rear flyleaf. Another closed tear to the tail of front endpaper. Wrap is slightly sunned, mostly to spine. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper, P D Van Der Merwe. Aug 1970. Bookplate to the recto of front endpaper 'Pieter and Valerie Van Der Merwe&apos. Internally, work is firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good.

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