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AXE

By Vaculik, Ludvik

ISBN 10: 0060144866
ISBN 13: 9780060144869

Book Description

Translated from Czech by Marian Sling. Hardcover. Condition: very good, with very good dust jacket (short tear). -- Novel. Author Czech novelist, 1968 activist for liberalization, born 1926. ISBN 0060144866... Read More

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BILDER AUS DER HEIMAT

By Capek, Karel

Book Description

First Edition: translated from Czech into GERMAN by Peter Pont (original language publication was 1953). Description of and travel in Czechoslovakia, with line drawings by the author. Hardcover. Condition: very good (owner note on title page) with bright but edgeworn dust jacket.... Read More

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BITTER AND THE SWEET

By Olbracht, Ivan

Book Description

First Edition. Translated by Iris Urwin. Very good in like DJ (short tear). -- Three stories of Orthodox Jews in "a remote mountain valley of Eastern Europe." -- Author (1882-1952)was Czech novelist, "analytical" to "epic grandeur," jailed for political views.... Read More

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BRIDE OF TEXAS

By Skvorecky, Josef

ISBN 10: 0571172814
ISBN 13: 9780571172818

Book Description

First U.K. Edition. Translated from Czech by Kaca Polackova Henley. Hardcover, near fine in like DJ. Striking dust jacket art by Irene von Treskow for this U.K. edition. ISBN 0571172814... Read More

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CATAPULT. A Timetable of Rail, Sea, and Air Ways to Paradise

By Paral, Vladimir

ISBN 10: 0945774044
ISBN 13: 9780945774044

Book Description

Translated from Czech by William Harkins. Hardcover. Condition: Near-new in near new dust jacket. ISBN 0945774044... Read More

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DESCENT OF THE IDOL

By Durych, J. [Jaroslav]

Book Description

First Edition in the U.S. Translated from Czech by Lynton A. Hudson. -- Nice bright hardcover, very good condition (corners bumped and text block bumped) in fair dust jacket (interesting art by Spanner, but large chip at spine crown affecting title). -- "Outstanding representative of the Catholic movement in modern Czech literature" ... "monumental historical novel" of the Thirty Years War and Wallenstein. -- Original language publication was 1929-1930. ... Read More

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DVORAK IN LOVE. A light-hearted dream

By Skvorecky, Josef

ISBN 10: 0886190592
ISBN 13: 9780886190590

Book Description

First Edition. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson. Hardcover. Condition: Near-fine with near-fine dust jacket. ISBN 0886190592... Read More

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END OF LIEUTENANT BORUVKA

By Skvorecky, Josef

ISBN 10: 0393027856
ISBN 13: 9780393027853

Book Description

First U.S. Edition. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson. Hardcover. Condition: Near-fine in near-fine dust jacket. ISBN 0393027856... Read More

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FOUR SONYAS

By Paral, Vladimir

Book Description

Translated from Czech by William Harkins. Hardcover. Condition: Near-new in near-new dust jacket.... Read More

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HIDEOUT

By Hostovsky, Egon

Book Description

Translated from Czech by Fern Long. 112 pages. Hardcover. Condition: very good, with very good dust jacket (price-clipped, soiled). -- Author (1908-73) Czech novelist, short story writer, Jewish intellectural, emigre after Communism. This is "a short novel that gives a vivid but restrained picture of the feelings of a refugee who hides from the Nazis." [W. Harkins]... Read More

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I AM SNOWING

By Kohout, Pavel

ISBN 10: 0374174008
ISBN 13: 9780374174002

Book Description

Second printing. Translated from Czech by Neil Bermel. Hardcover. Condition: near new, with near new dust jacket. ISBN 0374174008... Read More

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JEWS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Historical Studies and Surveys. Volume I

By Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews

Book Description

Includes chapter "Literature, The Press, and Publishing Houses" with bibliography. 583 pages. Hardcover. Condition: very good, with very good dust jacket (lightly rubbed).... Read More

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JOZEF MAK

By Ciger-Hronsky, Jozef

ISBN 10: 0893571296
ISBN 13: 9780893571290

Book Description

This novel "an allegory of the passive side of the Slovak character" [Pynsent]. Translated from Slovak by Andrew Cincura. Hardcover, near new with near new dust jacket. -- Signed, inscribed by the general editor Norma Rudinsky and the illustrator Alexander Rudinsky. ISBN 0893571296... Read More

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LIFE WITH A STAR

By Weil, Jiri. Philip Roth

ISBN 10: 0374187371
ISBN 13: 9780374187378

Book Description

2nd printing. Preface by Philip Roth. Translated from Czech by Ruzena Kovarikova with Roslyn Schloss. Hardcover. Condition: Near-new with near-new dust jacket. [Novel, Prague, World War II] -- ISBN 0374187371... Read More

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LIVING AND PARTLY LIVING

By Mucha, Jiri

Book Description

Translated from Czech by Ewald Osers. Hardcover. Condition: Very good with very good dust jacket (short tears). [Prison diary]... Read More

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MIRACLE GAME

By Skvorecky, Josef

ISBN 10: 0394572203
ISBN 13: 9780394572208

Book Description

2nd printing. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson. Hardcover. Condition: Near-new with near-new dust jacket. ISBN 0394572203... Read More

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MIRACLE GAME

By Skvorecky, Josef

ISBN 10: 0571152678
ISBN 13: 9780571152674

Book Description

First Edition in U.K. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson. Hardcover. Condition: very good (page margins tanned; marker line bottom-edge) with very good dust jacket. ISBN 0571152678... Read More

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MR. THEODORE MUNDSTOCK

By Fuks, Ladislav

Book Description

Second printing. Translated from Czech by Iris Urwin. Hardcover. Condition: Very good in good-only dust jacket (spine tanned and scuffed; price-clipped). [Novel, Holocaust, Prague 1942]... Read More

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MY COMPANIONS IN THE BLEAK HOUSE

By Kanturkova, Eva

ISBN 10: 087951289X
ISBN 13: 9780879512897

Book Description

Foreword by Vaclav Havel. Translated from Czech. Hardcover, near new in near new, price-clipped dust jacket. [Stories] ISBN 087951289X... Read More

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ON THE SKY'S CLAYEY BOTTOM

By Urbanek, Zdenek

ISBN 10: 094142376x
ISBN 13: 9780941423762

Book Description

Translated from Czech by William Harkins. Hardcover. Condition: Near-new with near-new dust jacket. [Stories] ISBN 094142376x... Read More

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