[Rarebooks] FS: Czech Edition of THE GRAPES OF WRATH Inscribed by Steinbeck to the Translator

[Charles Agvent]

STEINBECK, John. HROZNY HNĚVU [THE GRAPES OF WRATH]. Prague: Sfinx, 
1946. Second Czech Edition. Dustwrapper designed by Jaroslav Šváb. 
Uncommon edition of this winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by Steinbeck on the last page of text located at the foot of the 
translator's notes in which the translator, Vladimír Procházka, includes 
an excerpt from a positive review of the translation: "...in reading 
this translation we forget that it's a translation. How many 
translations can we say that about?" The inscription is under 
Procházka's printed name and is to him: "For Vladimir Prochazka/Thank 
you/John Steinbeck." Procházka, a lawyer and communist, was forced to 
withdraw from his political activities during the Nazi occupation and 
translated THE GRAPES OF WRATH, along with works by James Joyce and 
Bernard Shaw. In 1946, he was elected to parliament as a communist and 
helped draft the new Czechoslovak constitution. Steinbeck most likely 
inscribed this on one of his two trips to communist Czechoslovakia, or 
possibly in the U. S. when Procházka was serving as the Czechoslovak 
ambassador to the United States. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. 
(#020854)        $2,500

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