OP. Non Cit. - Four Tales.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,opaque,black text illustrated dw/dj panels; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Some minimal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj and tiniest of snicks at head of same,a small corner crease to top corner of front inner flap of dw/dj.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt decoration (gilt silhouette outline of half the body of a viola/violin (?) to each bd and gilt m/m measurement scale at each vertical edge of either boards) and similar bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-215pp [paginated] includes four inter-connected/themed novellas; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table, and four separate novella title separator pages.Author's 3rd work of fiction.
At once literate and literary,'Op. Non Cit.' comprises four novellas linked by a common theme,the Jew in the non-Jewish world.The novellas move in time through the last four centuries,and in space from the Venice ghetto to contemporary New York,via a Somerset village and the mid-Atlantic,aboard the SS Arizona.The characters include an unnamed but familiar Venetian,a young Romantic poet and Mr Oscar Wilde. Isler's tales share that distinctive blend of high comedy and dark tragedy,of grotesquerie,hilarity and sorrow, that characterises his acclaimed novels 'The Prince of West End Avenue' and 'Kraven Images',but this time there is an added pleasure: the sudden recognition of the 'works not cited'.In each tale Isler has buried allusions to other more familiar stories which, once recognised,enhance the delight of reading a master craftsman at the height of his powers. Alan Islaer was born in London in 1934.His first novel 'The Prince of West End Avenue',was acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic.In America it won the National Jewish Book Award and was one of the five fiction nominees for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award.In Britain it won the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Award.His second novel,'Kraven Images',was published in 1996. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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