Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, first printing of Travesties by Tom Stoppard.
The exterior of this trade paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, illustrated covers with a vertical reader’s crease, mild surface wear, strong title on a tilted spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no cracks, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
Travesties was born out of Stoppard’s noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century’s most crucial revolutionaries — James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin — were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers.
Thin volume ships promptly in with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
