How Many Angels [*SIGNED*]

Toronto: Macmillan. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1956. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, faint staining to fore-edge, age-toning to top of text block; jacket a bit edgeworn (a few tiny nicks along top edge), light dampstaining at bottom right corner of front panel and bottom left corner of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For Tess Sobol with / my best regards, / Charles / December, 1956"; beneath the author's inscription is an additional Christmas gift inscription in another hand. A novel, the author's first, dealing "with the small Sudeten German community in Czechoslovakia after the Allied victory, and war's aftermath in the life of Karl Rindl, a distinguished Sudeten surgeon who has run desperate risks in giving help to those who were outlaws under the Germans -- Jews, partisans, Communists. In liberated Czechoslovakia this record does not protect him." He ends up expelled from his community, becoming "a fugitive in Germany, deserted by his wife and daughter, and barred from medicine, [so] he can only live by turning his skill to illegal uses." Signed by Author .