
MORAVAGINE
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Peter Owen, London, 1968, First British Commonwealth/English translation ed. Translated from the French by Alan Brown. ISBN 0-7206-5202-2. Hard cover, 236 pages including Postface. Withdrawn library book with usual treatments, labels and stamps. Teal boards with gold lettering on spine, binding sound with a lean, some wear at upper rear corner. Price-clipped dust jacket protected in Bro Dart cover affixed to paste-downs. Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages, very occasional smudge/age spot. ‘In this semi-autobiographical story, the narrator finds Moravagine in a Swiss mental asylum and promptly helps him escape. Together they travel the world – rally to support the Russian Revolution, narrowly avoid being eaten alive by American Blue Indians and fight in the First World War.’ (from front flap)