Donovan's Brain

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition. Light shelf wear along bottom of boards, otherwise about fine in a lightly used but bright graphic dust jacket, slightly worn at spinal ends and with some areas of discoloration on the underside and flaps from where a previous protective plastic cover was affixed.. 8vo, 234pp; cloth. A science-fiction cult classic by the German emigre, and younger brother of the director Robert Siodmak, Dononvan's Brain was adapted for the screen three times. Its principal device of a disembodied brain kept alive and functioning has served in numerous other narrative contexts.