KOESTLER, Arthur. The Gladiators … Translated by Edith Simon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. 8°. Half title. Original tan cloth lettered in red, dust-jacket (frayed at head of backstrip and corners, lower wrapper stained). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, “To Anthony – not to Tania – because it’s a man’s book. From Arthur.” With 6 other books by the same author, namely Darkness at Noon …Translated by Daphne Hardy (New York, 1941, without the dust-jacket, INSCRIBED “To Anthony, enviously Arthur, 4.iv.77”), Arrival and Departure (London, 1943, INSCRIBED “A bad novel with good chapters in it. A.K.”), Twilight Bar. An Escapade in Four Acts (London, [1945], INSCRIBED “A lousy play – with love from A.K.”), Thieves in the Night (London, 1946, SIGNED “A.K., 21.10.64”), The Age of Longing (London, 1951, INSCRIBED on the verso of the title, “Enviously – first edition, which I haven’t got, A.K.”) and The Call-Girls (London, [1972], INSCRIBED “Anthony from Arthur”), all in original cloth and dust-jackets, except where indicated