THE UGUPU BIRD ... Translated from the Polish

by Konrad Syrop by Slawomir Mrozek

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Macdonald, 1968 . Octavo, boards. First edition in English. These stories satirically mix fantasy and absurdist elements in a manner similar to that of Italo Calvino. - Clute and Nicholls eds , The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 837. Nakedly mythic and archetypal, tightly constructed narratives told independently of a communist ideological context. - Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-293. A fine copy in fine

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