Napoleon Symphony A Novel in Four Movements by Burgess, Anthony - 1974

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First US Edition. "An hEROICAl novel, a grand and loving tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, by Burgess out of Ludwig van, that unteases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed - in liberty, equality, fraternity - from Beethoven." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Book has small bumps on top corners and both ends of spine, spine is skewed and loose, head edge color is faded near spine, fabric along head edge is slightly faded. Pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has some edge wear, small spot of discoloration near tail end of spine visible on inside of jacket, lightly tanned, price-clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 366 pages .