Description

Mora Ferenc Könyvkiado, Budapest, 1963. Hard cover, 308 pp. Text in Hungarian. Illustrations by Reich Károly. Good in fair dust jacket. Pale green cloth covered boards with dark green lettering on front and spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading along edges. Binding tight. Previous owner's gift inscription (in Hungarian) on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are browned with age but clean and unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and creasing to edges. 2" of clear tape along bottom of spine. Moderate overall scuffing and soiling with the color scuffed off in several spots along edges and spine. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Originally published in 1920 and written by Hungary's greatest modern novelist, Legy Jo Mindhalalig [Be Faithful Unto Death] is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket