Tales of the Little Quarter

Translated from the original Czech by Edith Pargeter. First UK edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 296pp. Tape marks to endpapers. Some foxing to edges of text block. Jacket a little rubbed and with tape marks to flaps; slightly chipped to head of spine. A very good copy of this first appearance in English of Neruda’s celebrated tales of the Little Quarter in Prague, originally published in Czech in 1878. Translated by Edith Pargeter, better known under her pen name Ellis Peters.