Kerouc Czech samizdat pre-1989

Kerouac, Jack. Bible zlaté věčnosti [The Scripture of the Golden Eternity]. [Czechoslovakia: Vydavatelství Free?, Edice Beat Generation, samizdat, ca. 1980s]. Small 8vo (19 × 14.5 cm). 31 pp. Carbon-copy or mimeograph from typescript, text in Czech, with English title line “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. New York 1960.” Original plain cream card wrappers, side-stapled with green cloth tape along spine, reminiscent of Edice Petlice bindings. Wrappers lightly toned, faint corner creases, otherwise well preserved. Staple indents to open border. A scarce underground Czech translation of Kerouac’s Buddhist prose poems, circulated privately before 1989. Often attributed to the Vydavatelství Free samizdat imprint in the “Edice Beat Generation” series (stamp sometimes present on final leaf, not always retained).OCLC locates only a handful of institutional copies. Inv. H6ob