THE HANGWOMAN ... Translated from the Czech

by Kaca Polackova-Henley by Pavel Kohout

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition in English. An employment counselor sends the angelic fifteen-year-old Lizinka Tachezy to hangman's school. So begins this wildly funny, deadly satirical novel about a black-comic Lolita by one of Czechoslovakia's foremost writers, novelist and playwright Pavel Kohout. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #162073

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