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Perutz, Leo.
FROM NINE TO NINE... Translated by Lily Lore.
New York:
The Viking Press,
1926. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-224, original pictorial black cloth, front panel stamped in red and blind, spine panel stamped in red.
First edition in English. A translation of ZWISCHEN NEUN UND NEUN (1918). "Most of Perutz's work is distinctly fantasy or supernatural fiction, ironic, well-crafted, engendering something of the same hectic doom-laden civility that so marks the work of, say, Karel Capek ... FROM NINE TO NINE ... is a posthumous fantasy in which -- as in Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' (1891) -- the protagonist's long, complicated flight from a terrible even takes place, in reality, in an instant, at the point of death." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 753. "The mystery is well sustained and the mixture of frivolity and despair form an effective combination with the morbid ending." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1301. Bleiler (1978), p. 157. Reginald 31482. Not in Hubin (1994). Some light damp marks to cloth along lower fore-edge of front cover, a very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with shallow chip from bottom spine end, some shelf wear with small areas of loss along bottom edge of front panel, and front flap missing. Both the Viking and later UK John Lane editions are uncommon. (#108410)
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