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• For Your Consideration:
• A First Edition, First Printing in Hardcover:
• “THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: A NOVEL”
(HARPER & ROW, 1984)
• BY MILAN KUNDERA
• “KUNDERA is a virtuoso…. A work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness.”—ELIZABETH HARDWICK, VANITY FAIR • “Brilliant…. A work of high modernist playfulness and deep pathos.”
—JANET MALCOLM, NEW YORK... REVIEW OF BOOKS
• “KUNDERA has raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity."
—JIM MILLER, NEWSWEEK • “The mind MR. KUNDERA puts on display is truly formidable…. He has a first-rate mind and, like BERNARD SHAW, the capacity to argue both sides of a question.”
—E.L. DOCTOROW, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “I can’t remember precisely when I read my first KUNDERA or which it was, because once I had started I couldn’t stop until I emptied them all. Fresh from the English classics at Oxford…. I was drawn into a restless world of ideas and characters in which nothing is how we first perceive it, and meaning and motive are bent like light refracting through a prism. It was heady stuff, original and subversive…. This [THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING] is a shamelessly clever book – at times a little cold – but exhilaratingly subversive and funny. KUNDERA takes you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you pitilessly: ‘Is that what you really believe? Is that what you are like?” Can you ask more of a novel?”—ANDREW WILLIAMS, THE INDEPENDENT (UK) • “KUNDERA’s ability to interweave philosophy, history, dreams and romance into his stories, whilst also keeping them incredibly readable is a testament to his originality and extraordinary talent.”—CLAIRE HAYWARD, THE CULTURE TRIP (WEBSITE) • “If one of the overriding characteristics of the experimental point of view (usually white and male) fiction writer who peaked sometime between the 1970s and 1990s tends to be a lack of reverence for intricate character development in favor of feats of language and form, KUNDERA does not fit in, quite, on this playground…. Rather, it is fascinating that KUNDERA [in THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING] should develop Tomas—as well as his wife Teresa and lover Sabina—in such profound and loving depth only to constantly remind us that they are novelistic creations he came up with while looking across a courtyard.”—GINA FRANGELLO, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “The narrative concerns a young Czech physician and his relationship with two women—the one he loves, and the one he loves to bed…. All the characters are well-drawn and complex. They move and behave with a rational sense of self. It is 1960s Czechoslovakia, and all are suffering under the terror of the KGB-styled National Front and the Soviet-inspired Federal Assembly…. But KUNDERA’s work is no political treatise; nor is it some cold and fact-based accounting of past sexual conquests. It is one of the warmest novels I have ever read, and it proves MILAN KUNDERA a genuine master of the printed word, equal to JOHN UPDIKE or TOM WOLFE…perhaps a blending of ARTHUR KOESTLER and HENRY MILLER (but so much more spirit than MILLER could ever imagine.)…. THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING is a masterpiece of contemporary fiction.”
—DAVE AVENDER, GOODREADS REVIEW
•
• For details about this title, please see below.
•
TITLE: “THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: A Novel”
AUTHOR: MILAN KUNDERA
TRANSLATOR: MICHAEL HENRY HEIM
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: HARPER & ROW (New York), 1984
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 314
EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING*
*RE: The statement “First Edition” on the Copyright Page & this Year/Number Row:
“84 85 86 87 88 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN: 0-06-015258-3 EDITION EMPHASIS: Not ex-library. Not a book club edition.
CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD MINUS.
Price ($15.95) is unclipped. There’s a long crease at the top on front & a ¼-inch tear at top of spine (front)—and two (paper-exposing scuffs (both tiny) on the back side of the top of the spine. Three of the four corners are chipped. Shelf-wear, mainly crumpling, at edges. Light scratching & smudging on both sides. GOOD NEWS: DJ is intact & bright & mainly clean. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.)
CONDITION of BOOK: VERY GOOD.
Boards are clean w/ light discoloring at top edges. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight with fine tips. Text-block edges have smudges & light scuffs. Endpapers are fine. A light smudge appears at the edge of the top margin on page 312—otherwise we did not detect any interior flaws & pages are clean & bright. Were it not for the smudged text-block edges, this book would be VERY GOOD PLUS.
•• SHIPPING NEWS: This KUNDERA will be wrapped with care before being placed in a cushioned & sturdy container. THANK YOU!
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4. PACKING & SHIPPING. We know from experience that items, when not thoughtfully packed, can be damaged during shipment. To avoid that real danger, FLAPPINCAT wraps & cushions your purchase(s) mindfully—and sometimes zealously—in a sturdy package.
WARNING: In our zeal, we sometimes over-tape containers and you may need a penknife to unseal our shipments.
NOTE: Though we often recycle shipping materials, we do NOT stint on protection.
5. OUR PRICES. We try to offer the lowest prices on eBay for items we sell. Even our most expensive offerings tend to be lower than what others are asking.
“You could look it up!” —to quote baseball immortal JACK KEEFE.
SUMMARY: We know you have many buying options on eBay. FLAPPINCAT tries to be distinctive by being accurate, mindful, and friendly. ***********
How We
GRADECONDITION
***********DETAILS. The condition of every item we sell will be described in detail.FLAWS. All discernible flaws will be noted, if not emphasized.
Of course, the grading of condition can be subjective. And since no grader is perfect, it is possible that we may at times miss a flaw.
It is also possible that we may miss some perfections!
Should we make a mistake, you will find FLAPPINCAT eager to fix things with you. Just send us a note and we’ll get on it.GRADING SYSTEM. For books and magazines (and even other items), we use these terms (in order of desirability):
VERY FINE or LIKE NEW
FINE (or EXCELLENT)
NEAR FINE (or NF)
VERY GOOD PLUS (or VG+)
VERY GOOD (or VG)
GOOD
FAIR
ACCEPTABLE
POOR
“POOR.” Except in rare cases, for rare items, we tend to avoid selling items that are in utterly “POOR” condition. It is more likely that on a rare item, only one part of an item (out of numerous parts) will be described as “POOR.”RETURNS. We accept that you may wish to return a purchase because you genuinely think we haven't described and graded its condition properly. We accept that we our* imperfect. We also accept that people can see things differently—and still be civil!
(*Get it?)POP QUIZ. Please feel free to ask questions at any time about condition (or anything else, except math).
EXTRA VISUALS. Although we include multiple photographs in our listings, we usually have others we could share with you. (These extra photos also help to establish a paper-trail in the rare case that an item is damaged en route to you.)***********
SHIPPING
***********Every item is individually priced for postage. That price can be found in the listing, not here.
UNITED STATES: In the USA, we ship books via MEDIA MAIL.
Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item. ***********
HOW TO PAY
***********PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action.
NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!***********
LASTLY
***********What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can.
Thanks for trusting
FLAPPINCAT!
***********
P.S.
COMINGSOON
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of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS
Featuring the best from a long-running collection
of psych, garage, folk, private press,
blues, gospel, world, xian, & oddities.
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• A First Edition, First Printing in Hardcover:
• “THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: A NOVEL”
(HARPER & ROW, 1984)
• BY MILAN KUNDERA
• “KUNDERA is a virtuoso…. A work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness.”—ELIZABETH HARDWICK, VANITY FAIR • “Brilliant…. A work of high modernist playfulness and deep pathos.”
—JANET MALCOLM, NEW YORK... REVIEW OF BOOKS
• “KUNDERA has raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity."
—JIM MILLER, NEWSWEEK • “The mind MR. KUNDERA puts on display is truly formidable…. He has a first-rate mind and, like BERNARD SHAW, the capacity to argue both sides of a question.”
—E.L. DOCTOROW, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “I can’t remember precisely when I read my first KUNDERA or which it was, because once I had started I couldn’t stop until I emptied them all. Fresh from the English classics at Oxford…. I was drawn into a restless world of ideas and characters in which nothing is how we first perceive it, and meaning and motive are bent like light refracting through a prism. It was heady stuff, original and subversive…. This [THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING] is a shamelessly clever book – at times a little cold – but exhilaratingly subversive and funny. KUNDERA takes you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you pitilessly: ‘Is that what you really believe? Is that what you are like?” Can you ask more of a novel?”—ANDREW WILLIAMS, THE INDEPENDENT (UK) • “KUNDERA’s ability to interweave philosophy, history, dreams and romance into his stories, whilst also keeping them incredibly readable is a testament to his originality and extraordinary talent.”—CLAIRE HAYWARD, THE CULTURE TRIP (WEBSITE) • “If one of the overriding characteristics of the experimental point of view (usually white and male) fiction writer who peaked sometime between the 1970s and 1990s tends to be a lack of reverence for intricate character development in favor of feats of language and form, KUNDERA does not fit in, quite, on this playground…. Rather, it is fascinating that KUNDERA [in THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING] should develop Tomas—as well as his wife Teresa and lover Sabina—in such profound and loving depth only to constantly remind us that they are novelistic creations he came up with while looking across a courtyard.”—GINA FRANGELLO, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “The narrative concerns a young Czech physician and his relationship with two women—the one he loves, and the one he loves to bed…. All the characters are well-drawn and complex. They move and behave with a rational sense of self. It is 1960s Czechoslovakia, and all are suffering under the terror of the KGB-styled National Front and the Soviet-inspired Federal Assembly…. But KUNDERA’s work is no political treatise; nor is it some cold and fact-based accounting of past sexual conquests. It is one of the warmest novels I have ever read, and it proves MILAN KUNDERA a genuine master of the printed word, equal to JOHN UPDIKE or TOM WOLFE…perhaps a blending of ARTHUR KOESTLER and HENRY MILLER (but so much more spirit than MILLER could ever imagine.)…. THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING is a masterpiece of contemporary fiction.”
—DAVE AVENDER, GOODREADS REVIEW
•
• For details about this title, please see below.
•
TITLE: “THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: A Novel”
AUTHOR: MILAN KUNDERA
TRANSLATOR: MICHAEL HENRY HEIM
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: HARPER & ROW (New York), 1984
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 314
EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING*
*RE: The statement “First Edition” on the Copyright Page & this Year/Number Row:
“84 85 86 87 88 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN: 0-06-015258-3 EDITION EMPHASIS: Not ex-library. Not a book club edition.
CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD MINUS.
Price ($15.95) is unclipped. There’s a long crease at the top on front & a ¼-inch tear at top of spine (front)—and two (paper-exposing scuffs (both tiny) on the back side of the top of the spine. Three of the four corners are chipped. Shelf-wear, mainly crumpling, at edges. Light scratching & smudging on both sides. GOOD NEWS: DJ is intact & bright & mainly clean. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.)
CONDITION of BOOK: VERY GOOD.
Boards are clean w/ light discoloring at top edges. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight with fine tips. Text-block edges have smudges & light scuffs. Endpapers are fine. A light smudge appears at the edge of the top margin on page 312—otherwise we did not detect any interior flaws & pages are clean & bright. Were it not for the smudged text-block edges, this book would be VERY GOOD PLUS.
•• SHIPPING NEWS: This KUNDERA will be wrapped with care before being placed in a cushioned & sturdy container. THANK YOU!
**********************
/\___/\=•ᆺ•=
“We believe it’s good business
to be good to our customers.”
***********
FLAPPINCAT’s
HOUSE RULES
***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative.
4. PACKING & SHIPPING. We know from experience that items, when not thoughtfully packed, can be damaged during shipment. To avoid that real danger, FLAPPINCAT wraps & cushions your purchase(s) mindfully—and sometimes zealously—in a sturdy package.
WARNING: In our zeal, we sometimes over-tape containers and you may need a penknife to unseal our shipments.
NOTE: Though we often recycle shipping materials, we do NOT stint on protection.
5. OUR PRICES. We try to offer the lowest prices on eBay for items we sell. Even our most expensive offerings tend to be lower than what others are asking.
“You could look it up!” —to quote baseball immortal JACK KEEFE.
SUMMARY: We know you have many buying options on eBay. FLAPPINCAT tries to be distinctive by being accurate, mindful, and friendly. ***********
How We
GRADECONDITION
***********DETAILS. The condition of every item we sell will be described in detail.FLAWS. All discernible flaws will be noted, if not emphasized.
Of course, the grading of condition can be subjective. And since no grader is perfect, it is possible that we may at times miss a flaw.
It is also possible that we may miss some perfections!
Should we make a mistake, you will find FLAPPINCAT eager to fix things with you. Just send us a note and we’ll get on it.GRADING SYSTEM. For books and magazines (and even other items), we use these terms (in order of desirability):
VERY FINE or LIKE NEW
FINE (or EXCELLENT)
NEAR FINE (or NF)
VERY GOOD PLUS (or VG+)
VERY GOOD (or VG)
GOOD
FAIR
ACCEPTABLE
POOR
“POOR.” Except in rare cases, for rare items, we tend to avoid selling items that are in utterly “POOR” condition. It is more likely that on a rare item, only one part of an item (out of numerous parts) will be described as “POOR.”RETURNS. We accept that you may wish to return a purchase because you genuinely think we haven't described and graded its condition properly. We accept that we our* imperfect. We also accept that people can see things differently—and still be civil!
(*Get it?)POP QUIZ. Please feel free to ask questions at any time about condition (or anything else, except math).
EXTRA VISUALS. Although we include multiple photographs in our listings, we usually have others we could share with you. (These extra photos also help to establish a paper-trail in the rare case that an item is damaged en route to you.)***********
SHIPPING
***********Every item is individually priced for postage. That price can be found in the listing, not here.
UNITED STATES: In the USA, we ship books via MEDIA MAIL.
Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item. ***********
HOW TO PAY
***********PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action.
NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!***********
LASTLY
***********What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can.
Thanks for trusting
FLAPPINCAT!
***********
P.S.
COMINGSOON
***********
/\___/\=•ᆺ•=
FLAPPINCAT’s
BIG BARN SALE
of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS
Featuring the best from a long-running collection
of psych, garage, folk, private press,
blues, gospel, world, xian, & oddities.
***********
***********
