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Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Text in Czech, English. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st ed. Black half cloth over grey marbled boards, with embossed figure of man playing saxaphone, gold lettering is bright, very light fading at edges, else near fine in unclipped dust jacket ($8.95 price intact). The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophone brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas. In "Emoke", which is set in the shadow of the Communist regime, jazz becomes the means by which a jaded young man plots the seduction of a mysterious girl enmeshed in superstition and the occult. Spurned, but fascinated, he is drawn into her tortured existence until catapulted into the final bitter comedy. In "The Bass Saxophone" a young Czechoslovakian student living under the rule of the Nazis is lured by his love of jazz-the "forbidden music"-into secretly and dangerously playing in a German band, with bizarre and unexpected results.
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Very good. 1st American Edition. [ix], 212pp. Octavo. Black cloth binding with silver lettering on spine, 1/4 paper covered with grey paper. Clean, tight text block with some pencil underlining in text. In B/W illustrated Dust Jacket. White spine with black lettering, Price clipped, Rubbed and slightly discoloured with minor chipping around edges. very good Inscribed by the author on half title "To Hallvard and Belly, cordially Josef Skvorecky, 21 86 Calgary". A very nice copy of the 2 novellas showing a strong relationship with Jazz.