FLIGHT WITHOUT END (First UK paperback edition)

First impression of the first UK paperback edition, published in J. M. Dent's Everyman's Library series in 1984. Translated from the German by David le Vay in collaboration with Beatrice Musgrave. With a nine-page Introduction specially written for this edition by author and translator Michael Hofmann. The book was first published in the UK in hardcover, in a different translation, by Hutchinson in 1938, and was reissued by Peter Owen in 1977 with the new translation as used for this Everyman edition. The book was originally published in German as "Die Flucht Ohne Ende" by Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1927. ***Near fine in glossy card illustrated covers, with the original publisher's printed price of £2.95 net on the back cover. The covers are virtually fine with very little rubbing or creasing at the edges. Spine tight without any reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no annotations or foxing. The paper stock and the inside of the covers have tanned slightly with age. No creases or tears. ***144 pages. 190mm x 124mm. ***'"Flight Without End", completed in Paris in 1927 in the aftermath of the First World War, is perhaps the most personal of Roth's novels.' [Quote taken from the back cover] *** Joseph Roth (1894-1939), was an Austrian writer and journalist. He was forced out of his country because of the rise of Nazism. ***The novel (Tarabas: A Guest on Earth, in English) is a fable set early in the Russian Revolution. "Tarabas" is the story of a Russian peasant who, in his youth, is told by a gypsy that it is his destiny to be both a murderer and saint. "Tarabas", a later novel, was written when Roth was living in exile in Paris. Five years later, an alcoholic, he died in a Paris hospital. [Wiki] ***First impression of the uncommon first UK paperback edition of Roth's first book to originally appear in English in 1930. Of interest to collectors of the work of Joseph Roth. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…