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New York: Coward-McCann, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. B/w Title Vignette. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In pictorial jacket, 8vo. 288 pages. "Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism has the directness of a fist in the face" (Time magazine, quoted on jacket front flyleaf). Originally published in Czechoslovakia under title: Zert (and in Austria and Germany under title: Der Scherz). First U.S. Edition of a complete translation. (jacket price clipped).

First printing with full number line. Minor wear & light soiling to boards & edges of text block. Wear to front hinge. Text is unmarked. Dj shelf worn & toned with scuffs, creases & small scratches in a mylar cover.

NY: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. The story takes place in a small Czech town when a girl was arrested for stealing flowers from a cemetery to give to her lover as a gift. Book has seven parts: Ludvik, Helena, Ludvik, Jaroslav, Ludvik, Kostka and Ludvik, Jaroslav, Helena. Clean copy. Record # 385608

Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. First American printing of the complete translation. Smells a bit musty, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.

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New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1982. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover..

Size: 8x5x0; First printing with full number line. Minor wear & light soiling to boards & edges of text block. Wear to front hinge. Text is unmarked. Dj shelf worn & toned with scuffs, creases & small scratches in a mylar cover.

NEW YORK NY: HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS. FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.. 1982. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FIRST U.S. EDITION OF A COMPLETE NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL HENRY HEIM . BOOK IS FINE WITH A REMAINDER STAR ON THE BOTTOM EDGE OF TEXT BLOCK. D.J. HAS A SMALL NICK AND A SHORT TEAR ON THE REAR PANEL WITH A TRACE OF RUB AT THE TOP CORNERS. AN EXCELLENT COPY. .

8vo. 267pp. Beige cloth-backed boards; pictorial dust jacket. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Some nicks to edge of dust jacket, a few pages creased at corner

New York. 1982. November 1982. Harper & Row. 1st Edition of This New Translation. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060149876. Newly Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. 267 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Europe Czech Literature Translated Eastern Europe World Literature. DESCRIPTION-All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after THE JOKE was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera ‘s work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence. The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of THE JOKE. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic. inventory #2745.