Isbn: 9780394492933 - title: miss silvers past (9 resultados)

Condición: Fine. First Edition. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. GP-723. Translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. Foreword by Graham Greene. First American printing. Very good in a very good (stray pen mark on verso) dust jacket.

hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1974. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Small Moisture Mark On Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394492935. Foreword by Graham Greene. Translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. 297 pages. hardcover. GP-723. Cover design by Kenneth R. Deardoff. keywords: Europe Czech Literature Translated Eastern Europe World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In this novel, Josef Skvorecky tells a spellbinding story of moral corruption and political cynicism in the guise of a love story that turns into a murder mystery. Karel Leden falls in love with Lenka, a beautiful girl with shiny black hair, the minute he sees her on the beach clad in a scanty bikini. But Lenka rebuffs Karel's advances, preferring instead the company of Karel's boss, a balding, middle-aged Communist party official. after a nocturnal boat ride with Lenka his body is washed ashore. The police call it a tragic accident. Who is Lenka? A girl with a mysterious past, a beautiful tramp who teases her lovers? Karel can't make her out, In anguish he begins to drink, in desperation he plays detective. What he discovers is part of the gruesome history of our time. And what had begun as a story of love's labors lost suddenly turns into a political whodunit in which the victim, instead of the murderer, is the criminal. But beyond being a diverting thriller, this novel also offers a remarkable account of life among the privileged few in a Communist society, the first book to give us a glimpse of the underworld of intellectual pimp and literary prostitute that rules the cultural establishment, a truly authentic picture of the corrosion of the spirit that besets the party hacks and party-line writers, of hypocrisy rewarded and idealism betrayed. Skvorecky sets his story against the background of a State run publishing company, and he provides an astonishing tour of the literary machine of a Communist state. inventory #34208 Very Small Moisture Mark On Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. …

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 297 pages. A novel by this well regarded Czech-Canadian writer that was translated by Peter Kussi. Features a foreword by Graham Greene. A tight near fine copy in cloth boards with some slight pushing to the spine ends in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear.…

0 Text in English, Czech. xvii, 297 p.; 21 cm. Translation of Lv? ? ce. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. moderate shelfwear, protected in brodart that shows some shelfwear, inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Publisher: Grove Press, NYC., 1974. First Edition, First Printing. VERY GOOD hardcover book in NEAR FINE dust-jacket. Forward by Graham Greene. Previous owner writing on front free end paper. Edgewear. NOT remainder marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Sunning to outer edge of clipped d/j. Inscribed and dated by author to previous owner on title page. Inscription dated in '78; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Top edge foxed. ).