Description
For sale: a very good Twentieth Anniversary Edition , first printing hardcover copy of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. First Edition stated, 1980 Knopf. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Very Good condition with bright boards with moderate to heavy fading at the edges. Also with, a few smudges on the foxed top page block, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Good condition with the price intact on the front flap, light soiling and heavy edge wear, chips and gaps. First state jacket with $10.95 price on the creased front flap and 11/80 date on the rear flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
Ships promptly in a manila envelope with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
