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Neruda, Jan; Pargeter, Edith (trans.).
Tales of the Little Quarter.
Publisher: Heinemann, London;
Date of Publication: 1957
Stock Code: 15268
First Edition in English, after the Czech first of 1878. Octavo, pp., vii, 296. Publisher’s rose red cloth; titled in silver to spine; in the original unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket by Jerzy Faczynski. Minor shelf-wear to head of upper jacket panel; finger-marks and light toning to lower panel; price to jacket flap corrected in pencil. Very slight mottling to cloth; otherwise binding strong and square, the corners sharp. A few spots to edges of text-block but otherwise internally clean. A near-fine copy in like jacket. A collection of short stories painting a picture of life in in the Malá Strana quarter of Prague. An important piece of Czech realist literature translated into English for the first time by Edith Pargeter in the striking publisher’s dust-jacket. £50.00