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AN INEXPLICABLE STORY, or the narrative of Qustus Firmus Siculus. Translated from the Czech by Kaca Polackova Henley
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Key Porter, 2002. Orange boards. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 53095More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BATA: shoemaker to the world
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Stoddart, 1990. Octavo, blue boards. pp (x), 341 + plates. Index. Small bump to upper outer corners of covers, else fine in jacket. "In 1932, when young Tom Bata watched his father's coffin being lowered into his grave, he silently promised to abide by the wishes expressed in his father's 'moral testament': that the Bata Shoe Company was to be treated not as a source of private wealth, but as a public trust, a means of improving living standards within the community and providing customers with good value for their money." Bata immigrated to Canada after the war and established a shoemaking empire that now employs 70000 people worldwide.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 45586More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF SLAVIC LITERATURES. Translated by Richard Noel Porter and Martin P. Price. Edited, with a Foreword, by George A. Zenkovsky.
Edition: First American edition
Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. Octavo, pale green printed cloth without dust jacket, as issued. (xii), 225, [3] pp. Bookplate and small ink date to front pastedown, else a fine copy, no marks in text.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 14987More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
DVORAK IN LOVE: a light-hearted dream. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. (Signed)
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. Black boards. Fine in fine jacket. Signed by the author (simple ink signature). A novel about Anton Dvorak's love affair with America by this Czech-Canadian author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45008More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
DVORAK IN LOVE: a light-hearted dream. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. (Signed)
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. Black boards. Page edges lightly yellowed, else fine in fine jacket. A novel about Anton Dvorak's love affair with America by this Czech-Canadian author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48885More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Osudy legionára / Jozef Hais-Týnecký ; pre slovenskú mládez prelozil Ján Kvietok
Edition: First Slovakian edition
Trnava: Fr. Urbánek, 1923. Small octavo, pp (131). Rebound in plain navy cloth. Text paper yellowed and brittle. VG clean, tight and unworn copy. First published in Czech in Prague in 1919. I believe this is a World War I novel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41872More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
PRAGUE TALES. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. Introduction by Ivan Klima
Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999. Later printing of this edition. Card covers with flaps. Ink notes on half-title leaf, text paper a little yellowed, VG otherwise. A Czech classic, stories from the 1860s and 70s.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53154More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
SINS FOR FATHER KNOX. Translated from the Czech by Kaca Polackova Henley
Edition: First US printing
New York: Norton, c1988 [1989]. Cloth & boards. Fine in fine jacket. Ten detective stories, the second of the Lieutenant Boruvka books (but he appears in only two of the stories). First published in Czech in Toronto in 1973, the first edition in English was published in Toronto in 1988 (in paper only).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48886More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
SINS FOR FATHER KNOX. Translated from the Czech by Kaca Polackova Henley
Edition: First printing in English
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988. Card covers (not issued in hardcover). Text paper a bit yellowed, light foxing to page edges, upper outer corner of some leaves near middle splayed, VG+ clean and unworn copy otherwise. Ten detective stories, the second of the Lieutenant Boruvka books (but he appears in only two of the stories). First published in Czech in Toronto in 1973.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 49444More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
SMETANA
Edition: First US edition
New York: Praeger, 1970. Tall octavo, tan cloth. pp (xx), 473 + plates. Music in text, list of works, idex. Small bump to lower outer corners, VG clean copy, no owner marks, in VG jacket. Definitive biography in English of the great Czech composer.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 46306More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
THE AXE. Translated for the Czech by Marian Sling.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Deutsch, 1973. Red boards. Light soiling to top page edges, faint tanning to inner margins of free endpapers, some quite faint damp stains to covers, else fine. Red jacket has light damp stain to top edge of rear panel, internal damp stains, else fine, unfaded, unclipped. His first book in the UK, a novel. Vaculik was one of the chief architects of the "2000 Words" manifesto which lead up to the Prague Spring of 1968.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 5857More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE TASTE OF POWER. Translated from the Slovak by Paul Stevenson. Foreword by Max Hayward.
Edition: First US edition
New York: Praeger, 1967. Black cloth. Fine copy. White jacket is near fine, with a few tiny chips, edge nicks. "Ladislav Mnacko, whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called 'the Red Hemingway', is the most famous contemporary Slovak writer...Most recent ly, he covered the war in North Vietnam as an official Czech reporter." - from the jacket. His first book in the US, a novel critical of the Communist hierarchy in Czechoslovakia.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 4393More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE UPROOTED
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Longmans Canada, 1962. Red boards. Page edges yellowed, else fine. Dust jacket rubbing and small chip at spine ends, minor rubbing elsewhere, VG. First novel in English, about refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, written by a much-decorated Czech anti-Nazi fighter and opponent of communism who eventually emigrated to Canada and became a noted journalist and ardent Cold Warrior who slipped very deeply into a reactionary, paranoid well. He opposed liberals, Trudeau (a "crypto-Communist'), and federal social welfare programs including medicare.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48991More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ZPEVY Z MODRYCH HOR
Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America, 1964. 73 leaves, printed rectos only. Soil spots to covers, VG copy otherwise, and inscribed by the author Toronto, 7 March, 1964. Poetry by this Czech-Canadian author. The title translates as SONGS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
Condition: Binding: Softcover.
Book ID: 10265More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46