Egon Hostovsky 1908 1973 (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 249 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with brown label with inverse label to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Ewald Osers. First edition. The great and fascinating background of this novel is the Communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia and the struggle between American and Communist intelligence services. As a Czech diplomat who quit the service of the Communist regime in 1949. Egon Hostovsky undoubtedly knows his subject. Condition: Corners gently rubbed, light soiling to covers, spine extremities lightly stained and rubbed. Jacket badly chipped & torn else a very good copy in a torn and chipped jacket.…

Hardcover. First printing. 12mo, 112 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is black with gold print. Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and grey paper to boards; slight shelf wear. Text block has tanning to endpapers, cracked front hinge. Inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1400640. FP New Rockville Stock.…