The Neverending Story

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1983. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind on spine and front cover; marbled endpapers; dustjacket; [iv],396pp; with illustrations by Roswitha Quadflieg. Spine ends gently nudged, tiny owners ink name to front pastedown, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $15.95), with some light wear and creasing to extremities, and a tiny tear at upper rear flap fold. The German author's best-known work, first published in 1979 as Die unendliche Geschichte. Basis for Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 film of the same name. (Inventory #: 51829)