Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City Tapa dura - 2015

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2015. 244pp. B/white city map illustrated endpapers. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated boards have a light bump to upper foredge corner. From the rear panel: "John Banville first visits Prague - that 'mysterious, jumbled, fantastical, absurd city on the Vltava' - in the depths of the Cold War. It is a difficult time in a city of exceptional highs and lows. Through several subsequent visits and excursions into history, drawing from literature and living-room chatter, Banville introduces us to the city's writers and rabbis, bureaucrats and prostitutes, emperors and astronomers. He captures some of the difficult magic of a city that has, through the invasions and the floodwaters, long persisted and entranced." Book weight approx. 332pp. (This book will post as a small parcel within Australia only, and postage charge will be reduced accordingly). Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo - (approx. 20.25cm x 13.5cm).

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.