{"product_id":"night-games-mai-zetterling-1st-edition","title":"Night Games, Mai Zetterling — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication\u003c\/strong\u003e: London, Constable and Company Ltd, 1966\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormatting\u003c\/strong\u003e: 8vo, pp. [vi], 282.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e: Near Fine. The purple cloth binding is remarkably sharp and fresh, preserving a clean, bright, and taut structure with crisp silver-lettered spine titling and square corners entirely devoid of shelf-wear. The text block is firm and solid, showing exceptional tightness to the sewing with crisp, unblemished white leaves throughout. The unclipped pictorial dust jacket remains vibrant and exceptionally well-preserved, exhibiting only the lightest touches of trace rubbing at the extreme corners and crown of the spine, maintaining a striking gloss and structural integrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/strong\u003e: This first British edition of Mai Zetterling’s provocative debut novel marks the literary entry of the celebrated Swedish actress and filmmaker. Translated from the Swedish, the work explores complex psychological motifs against a surreal European backdrop, capturing the raw, modernist avant-garde aesthetic of the 1960s cinema and prose movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is bound in the publisher's primary purple cloth boards, featuring sharp silver stamping to the spine, and is housed in its original pictorial dust jacket illustrating stills from the cinematic atmosphere associated with Zetterling’s artistic vision. On the open market, clean and unblemished copies of the British first edition complete with dust jacket are uncommon, particularly in this high grade of preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this striking and daring first novel, Swedish actress and film director Mai Zetterling weaves a brilliant, uncompromising tour de force of imaginative writing. The story follows a young man searching through the shadowy corridors of his past and his memories, confronting deep-seated ghosts in an intense psychological journey through human vulnerability and ultimate purgation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54482882855251,"sku":"4024","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260729_154720.jpg?v=1785843247","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/night-games-mai-zetterling-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}