Krakatit

by Karel Capek

$1,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Praha Prague : Aventinum, 1924. First edition, first printing. 254, 2 pp., text in Czech. Bound in publisher's printed wrappers. Very Good+ with moderate wear to covers and toning to contents, some thumbing to lower corners. Final page gathering detached.The first edition of Karel Capek's prescient science novel about a man confronting the world-shattering possibilities of an explosive he has invented, called

• Binding: Wrappers

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