Op. Non Cit. Four Tales.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 215, [1 (blank)]. Black cloth boards, lettered and blocked in gilt to spine and front; burgundy endpapers. Tracey Winwood-designed glassine wrapper, printed in black.

Signed by Author to title page. Minute closed tears and some creasing to glassine edges, else fine.

Isler's third novel. Published as The Bacon Fancier by Viking in the U.S. At once literate and literary, Op. Non Cit. [or 'works not cited'] comprises four novellas linked by a common theme, the Jew in the Gentile world. They move in time through the last four centuries, and in space from the Venice ghetto to contemporary New York, via a Somerset village and the mid-Atlantic, aboard the SS Arizona. In 1994 Isler won the National Jewish Book Award and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize for his first novel, The Prince of West End Avenue. "[F]our exquisite novellas... replete with classical allusions." –Library Journal