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CAPEK, Karel (Chapek) Karel Čapek.

Title An Ordinary Life. (Obyčejný život). Translated by M. and R. Weatherall. [Science Fiction classic]. Illustrated by Frederick Kirby.
Illustrator Frederick Palmer Kirby
Publisher London Allen & Unwin
Date 1936
Book ID 38778
First Edition  

Description

8vo.. Red lettered light-blue cloth in original superb unclipped Deco dust-wrapper. Cover design by Frederick Palmer Kirby. 245pp., 6pp. publisher’s list. In good condition but showing its age. Brittle dust-wrapper a little browned and chipped at edges with light foxing all over. Book itself very slightly shaken, spine a little sunned. Minimal foxing to fore-edges. Nevertheless, clean inside and mainly tight. First published in Prague in 1934, this is the first English edition in its very attractive period dust-wrapper. Third part of the "Noetic Trilogy", 'Hordubal' and 'Meteor' being the first two. Science Fiction classic.
Price: £80.00