Lot—2—LEO PERUTZ Lit Thrillers—"I admire his style, language & art"

Description: • For your consideration: • A LOT of two (2) BOOKS by: • LEO PERUTZ • “I admire your style, your language and your art, down to its tiniest details.” —IAN FLEMING, IN A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR • “A craftsman of the first order.” —GRAHAM GREENE • “Undoubtedly the finest fantasy author of his time.” —FRANZ ROTTENSTEINER • “If LEO PERUTZ does not teach your flesh to creep, it certainly never will.”—SIEGFRIED KRACAUER • “PERUTZ is the great magical realist of German literature. He is someone who basically does what GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ and JORGE LUIS BORGES have also discovered for themselves: namely, to tell the wonderful, the incomprehensible and the magical with—as MÁRQUEZ calls it—an immobile face.:—DANIEL KEHLMANN • TITLE 1: • “THE SWEDISH CAVALIER: A Novel” (Arcade, 1993) (First Edition, Hardcover) • By LEO PERUTZ • “A thief and a nobleman, both down on their luck, cross paths on a bitter winter’s day in 1701. One…is fleeing the gallows; the other…has escaped execution to fight for his Swedish king. Neither will reach his destination…. LEO PERUTZ has created a picaresque world of barons and brigands, swashbuckling dragoons and spurned lovers, gentleman farmers and masked robbers, and lucky parchments, magic spells, and mystical visions. Part adventure, part historical novel of war-ravaged Europe, THE SWEDDISH CAVALIER is also a moral tale of deceit, betrayal, and redemption.”—THE PUBLISHER • “PERUTZ is a master, and THE SWEDISH CAVALIER is his masterpiece.” —FIGARO MAGAZINE • “As much a gothic tale with a message as a good literate page-turner. Vintage PERUTZ.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS • “An immaculately constructed story, full of ironic parallels, where every episode and piece of dialogue echoes with significance.”—SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (UK) • “A beautifully constructed parable of justice and redemption…by an acknowledged master of the historical novel.” —TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT • “It’s surely one of the best historical novels I’ve ever read. It's something between JORGE LUIS BORGES and RAFAEL SABATINI (and sure enough, BORGES praised PERUTZ highly).” —PULPETTI (BLOG) •• TITLE 2: • “MASTER OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: An Arcade Mystery” (Arcade, 1994) (First Edition Thus, Trade Paperback) • by LEO PERUTZ • “Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor EUGEN BISCHOFF is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on BARON VON YOSCH, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man’s wife. By all appearances—the door was locked from the inside when the two shots rang out—the actor took his own life, but someone, or something, drove him to it. The baron sets out to learn all he can about the actor’s death in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, within a few days, similar apparent suicides are reported. What started out as a straightforward quest to establish BISCHOFF’s last deeds and discover the truth of his death becomes a search through the ages for an invisible enemy identified only by the actor’s dying whisper, ‘…the Day of Judgment.’ In this probing mystery, LEO PERUTZ combines his hallmark blend of suspense and the fantastic in a tale that leads back into history and forward to the bloodred trumpets of the Apocalypse….” —THE PUBLISHER • “Reading PERUTZ may alter your perception of popular fiction. For a while you may find yourself expecting twists that never come and outcomes most authors never intended, but it is worth the trouble. As does BORGES, he finds deeper mysteries lurking in the shadows of genre fiction and like NABOKOV illuminates them with a quiet but barbed humor. That his eye is also sharp as a scalpel and cuts as deeply is only one of the bonuses of discovering his work.” —DAVID VINEYARD, MYSTERY FILE (BLOG) • “A haze of supernatural horrors clouds the book with increasing density, and the explanation which might easily, in the hands of a less distinguished writer, fall into the banal and commonplace, here takes on the correct tone of unearthly reality. It is decidedly not a book for the bedside: the strings of naked pagan fear are so well played on that an uncomfortable chill sensation must be left on even the midday reader. Those who like sensation will certainly not be disappointed.” —FRANICS LLOYD, THE LONDON MERCURY (1930) • “PERUTZ tells his tale in a flowing, worldly manner that gives the very flavor of life in Vienna in the old days, cultured, mocking, gay. The book makes interesting reading both for its story and the fine technique of its telling.”—ROSE C. FELD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1930) • “Hair-raising.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “Spellbinding story that will enchant, mystify, and astonish.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL • “A master…in the grand page-turning tradition.” —BOSTON GLOBE • “A great modern writer.” —PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER • “Macabre…gripping.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “Brilliant.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “Beats the DAN BROWN hands down.”—PULPETTI (BLOG) •• For other details, please see below. • TITLE 1: “THE SWEDISH CAVALIER: A Novel” AUTHOR: LEO PERUTZ TRANSLATOR: JOHN BROWNJOHN TYPE: HARDCOVERPAGES: 181PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Arcade (New York), 1993EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright page, the statement “First North American Edition 1993” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” FIRST PUBLISHED IN AUSTRIA: 1936 ISBN: 1-55970-170-6 CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.Price (19.95) is unclipped. Corners are rubbed with scuffs. A scuff runs ¼ of an inch along the back fore edge (which separates back from back inside flap). Spine tips are lightly rubbed. Shelf-wear along bottom edge includes a tiny tear at bottom of inside flap. Minor scratching & smudging on sides. Overall: Bright & clean. (Now protected by a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Spine is tight with rubbed bottom tip & fine top. Boards are clean with top corners sharp & bottom corners rubbed (with crumpling). Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. Pages are thoroughly bright & clean (with no marks, etc.). Looks unread. •• TITLE 2: “MASTER OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: An Arcade Mystery” AUTHOR: LEO PERUTZ TRANSLATOR: ERIC MOSBACHER TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACKPAGES: 148PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Arcade (New York), 1994EDITION: First US Edition Thus* *RE: On the Copyright page, the statement “First North American Edition” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” FIRST PUBLISHED IN AUSTRIA: 1926 ISBN: 1-55970-334-2 CONDITION of WRAPS: VERY GOOD PLUS.Wraps are clean & bright with bumped corners on front (back corners are fine). Spine and tips are fine. One faint crease runs lengthwise up the spine. Only faint scratching & smudging on sides. Edges are fine. CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Spine is tight. There’s a light smudge near the spine on the bottom text-block edges but even so edges are fine. Endpapers fine too. Pages are v. bright & clean (with no marks). Looks unread. SHIPPING NEWS: These two books will be wrapped separately being shipped together in a cushioned & sturdy mailer. 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