NMLP P-045523 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal · Československý spisovatel, Prague · 1965

Later paperbacks and reissues retitled 'Closely Observed Trains' (adopting the film title) are not the 1968 firsts. The Cape 'Cape Editions 16' softcover and the Grove Press US hardcover are the two first printings of the Pargeter text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-045523 for "Closely Watched Trains" by Bohumil Hrabal (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045523, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).