KOESTLER, Arthur. Darkness at Noon … Translated by Daphne Hardy. London: Jonathan Cape, [1940]. 8°. Half title (corners of 3 leaves creased, some light mainly marginal staining). Original grey cloth lettered in red (stained and spotted, spine discoloured, extremities rubbed, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO ANTHONY HOBSON, the half title inscribed, “Anthony from Arthur.” SCARCE. A proportion of the first printing was destroyed during The Blitz. Connolly The Modern Movement No. 89: “… Another classic of the literature of the condemned cell …”