The first definitive edition of the brilliant first novel from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Originally published in 1967, but banned after the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia, The Joke is a classic story of love, politics, and revenge.
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The first definitive edition of the brilliant first novel from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Originally published in 1967, but banned after the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia, The Joke is a classic story of love, politics, and revenge.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. bookplate and gift inscription else Fine in Fine DJ, 1st printing. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 317 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0060190302. Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 317 pages; 1992 HarperCollins HC/DJ 1st printing of this new revised "Definitive Edition." Tightly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $25 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears generally unread. Trace dust spotting top edge; superficial shelf rubbing to jacket externals. Handsome copy. VG++/VG++
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New York. 1992. July 1992. Harper & Row. 1st American Printing of This Definitive Version. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060190302. Fully Revised by The Author & Newly Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. 317 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Translated Czech Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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. inventory #16740.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 317 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade. Near Fine. July 1992 hc stated 1st ed (1st thus of the definitive edition) with full number line. Slight tilt to spine, a bit of sunning on cover and soil on edge, else fine.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; 1992 Harper and Row hard cover-1st edition THUS REVISED Edition-1st printing-slight foxing to top closed page edge and ink mark at bottom closed page edge otherwise a fine clean like new copy with like new dust jacket-enjoy.
