The Messengers Will Come No More (Signed Copy, Signed to Playwright Arnold Wesker)

First UK edition, hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 16cm, 216pp. This copy has been signed by Leslie Fiedler to British playwright Arnold Wesker and his wife in Vassar in 1979. A work of speculative fiction. With Judeo-Christian overtones, this novel is set 500 years in the future has Jacob Mindyson, an archaeologist who specializes in the "Old Sciences" of the Twentieth century, translating the secret never-before discovered journal of a Jewish priest Eliezar ben Yaakov ha Kohen, Jesus' genetic father. Jacob's adventures take him from the handsome black goddess rulers of his native Gynocracy, to dalliance with a girl from the Ancient Hypsie cult, to an encounter with the Meta-Technicians (a robot clan in search of knowledge) through to the long buried scrolls whose message he is determined to record and save. Condition: The book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is a little tatty to the edges and slightly faded to the spine.