The Neverending Story
Ende, Michael. Doubleday & Co., 1983 (1st American Ed., 2nd Printing). Hardbound. First published in 1979 in Stuttgart as Die unendliche Geschichte by Thienemanns Verlag. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Illustrated by Roswitha Quadflieg. Dreamy, tapestry-inspired wraparound jacket art by Richard Mantel and bold two-color printing throughout this elegant edition, reflecting the dueling worlds of pedestrian physical reality and Bastian Bux's bibliographic voyages in Fantastica (gaming magazine White Dwarf quipped in a contemporary review, 'A good buy . . . unless you suffer from red/green colour blindness'). Ende would go on to be disappointed by the book's film adaptation, calling it and its sequel 'gigantic melodrama made of kitsch and commerce, plush and plastic'.
Spine is tight, but has the very subtlest lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Light shelf-wear to the book. Price-clipped jacket has areas of rubbing and moderate to heavy edge-wear. 396 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
