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A selection of our antiquarian books for sale Stastny Jim. AMIS (Kingsley).
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Stastny Jim. AMIS (Kingsley).

£300.00

First Czech Edition. 8vo. [206 x 133 x 17 mm]. 294, [2] pp. Original binding of pale cloth blocked with "amis" repeated, once in green, green spine, lettered in black, in the original pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Vladimir Fuka.
Praha [Prague]: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury, Hudby A Umeni, 1959

No copies appear on Library Hub. WorldCat locates four copies of a 1959 Prague edition, at the National Library of the Czech Republic, Thomas Fisher, University of Alberta, and Huntington, but a check of the library catalogues reveals that the Alberta copy is a 1970 edition and the Huntington copy, which was Amis's own, is a 1992 edition. It attributes the translation to Josef Skvorecky, whereas the translator of this edition is clearly stated in the book and on the wrapper as Jiri Mucha. He was the son of Alfons Mucha and an alleged double agent, as exposed by British journalist Charles Laurence in The Social Agent.

A very good copy, with just minor signs of wear. It was signed by Amis on the title-page, most likely when he was lecturing in Prague on "The Literature of Protest in Great Britain".

Stock no. ebc7697

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First Czech Edition. 8vo. [206 x 133 x 17 mm]. 294, [2] pp. Original binding of pale cloth blocked with "amis" repeated, once in green, green spine, lettered in black, in the original pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Vladimir Fuka.
Praha [Prague]: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury, Hudby A Umeni, 1959

No copies appear on Library Hub. WorldCat locates four copies of a 1959 Prague edition, at the National Library of the Czech Republic, Thomas Fisher, University of Alberta, and Huntington, but a check of the library catalogues reveals that the Alberta copy is a 1970 edition and the Huntington copy, which was Amis's own, is a 1992 edition. It attributes the translation to Josef Skvorecky, whereas the translator of this edition is clearly stated in the book and on the wrapper as Jiri Mucha. He was the son of Alfons Mucha and an alleged double agent, as exposed by British journalist Charles Laurence in The Social Agent.

A very good copy, with just minor signs of wear. It was signed by Amis on the title-page, most likely when he was lecturing in Prague on "The Literature of Protest in Great Britain".

Stock no. ebc7697

First Czech Edition. 8vo. [206 x 133 x 17 mm]. 294, [2] pp. Original binding of pale cloth blocked with "amis" repeated, once in green, green spine, lettered in black, in the original pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Vladimir Fuka.
Praha [Prague]: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury, Hudby A Umeni, 1959

No copies appear on Library Hub. WorldCat locates four copies of a 1959 Prague edition, at the National Library of the Czech Republic, Thomas Fisher, University of Alberta, and Huntington, but a check of the library catalogues reveals that the Alberta copy is a 1970 edition and the Huntington copy, which was Amis's own, is a 1992 edition. It attributes the translation to Josef Skvorecky, whereas the translator of this edition is clearly stated in the book and on the wrapper as Jiri Mucha. He was the son of Alfons Mucha and an alleged double agent, as exposed by British journalist Charles Laurence in The Social Agent.

A very good copy, with just minor signs of wear. It was signed by Amis on the title-page, most likely when he was lecturing in Prague on "The Literature of Protest in Great Britain".

Stock no. ebc7697

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