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Zustand: Very Good. reprint. Paperback, VG. 154pp, crease to the upper cover, paper a little yellowed. Mr Yorick's account of his tour through France [ the novel was intened to be completed in four volumes, but was cut short by Sterne's death - Mr Yorick never makes it to Italy ]. Laurence Sterne [ 1713 - 1768 ] Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. 150 grams. …

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition in English. Penguin Modern European Poets series - Penguin Catalogue No. D130 - published as a paperback original (PBO) on 25th Feb 1971. ***First printing of the first UK edition in English, with an Introduction by Graham Martin. ***Very good in colour illustrated thin card covers. The covers have some light edge wear and rubbing commensurate with age and handling, with just some light creasing at the bottom corner of the front cover, but no tears. Spine slightly faded and marked but with no reading creases. Fore-edge of page block slightly marked. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. Paper stock lightly tanned but pages clean. No creases or tears. Spine tight. Covers bright. ***180mm x 108mm. 158 pages including an Introduction by Graham Martin to the fore. ***'This volume represents three generations of Czech poetry. Vítězslav Nezva (born in 1900) adopted surrealism to express the paradoxes of experience, above all in his briefer impressions of Prague. Antonin Bartušek (1921), like Eliot (whose influence he admits), is a master of suggestion: there are hints of greatness in his language and rhythms, in his concern with life and death. With Josef Hanzlik (1938) we enter the contemporary world: here is a poet who, freshly and fluently, records his response to a world of political violence.' (Quote taken from the back cover) **A first printing of the true first edition, published as a paperback original, in its original card covers, in nice condition. An uncommon title in the series. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition in English. Penguin Modern European Poets series - Penguin Catalogue No. D130 - published as a paperback original (PBO) on 25th Feb 1971. ***First printing of the first UK edition in English, with an Introduction by Graham Martin. ***Near fine in colour illustrated thin card covers, with an old faded shop price label over the printed price on the back cover. The covers have some light edge wear and rubbing commensurate with age and handling, but there are no serious creases or tears - just slight creasing to the top corner tips of the last few pages. Spine just very slightly faded but clean with no reading creases. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine, with an ownership name to the top of the first page, but no other inscriptions or annotations. Paper stock lightly tanned but pages clean. Spine tight. Covers bright. ***180mm x 108mm. 158 pages including an Introduction by Graham Martin to the fore. ***'This volume represents three generations of Czech poetry. Vítězslav Nezva (born in 1900) adopted surrealism to express the paradoxes of experience, above all in his briefer impressions of Prague. Antonin Bartušek (1921), like Eliot (whose influence he admits), is a master of suggestion: there are hints of greatness in his language and rhythms, in his concern with life and death. With Josef Hanzlik (1938) we enter the contemporary world: here is a poet who, freshly and fluently, records his response to a world of political violence.' (Quote taken from the back cover) **A first printing of the true first edition, published as a paperback original, in its original card covers, in nice condition. An uncommon title in the series. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition in English. Penguin Modern European Poets series - Penguin Catalogue No. D95. ***First printing of the first UK edition in English, published as a paperback original (PBO) in January 1967. Translated from the Czech by Ian Milner and George Theiner. Cover design by Harriet Walters. ***Very good in colour illustrated thin card covers, with the printed price of 3/6 on the front cover. The covers have some light edge wear and rubbing commensurate with age and handling, and there is a bump to the bottom outer corner of the page block which affects the interior pages. There is also a crease to the top corner of the back cover which affects the last few pages (please see scans). Spine unfaded and clean with no reading creases. Spine tight. Covers bright. Internally also very good with no ownership details or annotations. Paper stock lightly tanned but pages clean. No creases or tears apart from to the corners already mentioned. ***180mm x 108mm. 99 pages plus six pages of adverts for Penguin Modern European Poets at the back of the book. ***'Miroslav Holub would like people to read poems as naturally as they read the papers, or go to a football match. Not to consider it as anything more difficult, or effeminate, or praise-worthy." Holub, and internationally distinguished scientist, is Czechoslovakia's most lively and experimental poet. The scientist in him is always creatively present in his poems, lurking behind his restless experiments in free verse and his constant probing below the obvious surface of things. Above all he shows an unwavering sense of the realities of life.' ***'Penguin Modern European Poets is designed to present, in verse translations, the work of significant European poets of this century for readers unfamiliar with the original languages. The series already includes Yevtushenko, Rilke, Apollinaire, Prévert, Quasimodo, and four Greek poets.' (Quotes taken from the back cover) ***A first printing of the true first edition, published as a paperback original, in the original card covers, in very good condition, albeit with the bump to the page block mentioned above. One of the scarcer titles in the series. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Harriet Walters (Cover design) (illustrator).…

Hardback. xvi, 432pp London 1962 very good copy in dust jacket.