Published by Northwestern University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 0810106639 ISBN 13: 9780810106635
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by The Macmillan Co., New York, 1941
Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Pictures Drawn By Josef & Karel Capek (illustrator). NF/G++. Bright and attractive green cloth hardcover copy. Dust jacket has darkening to spine and 3" tear on foot of spine. Price clipped with light soiling and rubbing. Scarce book.
Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, United Kingdom, 1945
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Green cloth hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 158 pages including cartoon drawings; light shelf wear and corner bumping, some sun fading of covers, but very gently used, tight in binding, very clean throughout; contemporaneous artistic bookplate inside front cover; DJ has numerous chips and tiny tears and is sadly torn in two along the back hinge.
Published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1940
ISBN 10: 0048910090 ISBN 13: 9780048910097
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Capek, Josef, and Capek, Karel (illustrator). First Published in 1940 [stated]. 160 p. From Wikipedia: "Karel Capek (January 9, 1890 December 25, 1938) was a Czech writer of the early 20th century best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts and the play R.U.R. that introduced the word robot. Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Male Svatonovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Capek was the youngest of three siblings. Capek would maintain a close relationship with his brother Josef, living and writing with him throughout his adult life. Capek became enamored with the visual arts in his teenage years, especially Cubism. He studied in Prague at Charles University and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Exempted from military service due to the spinal problems that would haunt him his whole life, Capek observed World War I from Prague. His political views were strongly affected by the war, and as a budding journalist he began to write on topics like nationalism, totalitarianism and consumerism. Through social circles, the young writer developed close relationships with many of the political leaders of the nascent Czechoslovak state. This included Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and his son Jan, who would later become foreign secretary. His early attempts at fiction were mostly plays written with brother Josef. Capek's first international success was Rossum's Universal Robots, a dystopian work about a bad day at a factory populated with sentient androids. The play was translated into English in 1922, and was being performed in the UK and America by 1923. Throughout the 1920s, Capek worked in many writing genres, producing both fiction and non-fiction, but worked primarily as a journalist. In the 1930s, Capek's work focused on the threat of brutal national socialist and fascist dictatorships; by the mid-1930s, Capek had become "an outspoken anti-fascist". His most productive years were during the The First Republic of Czechoslovakia (1918 1938). He wrote Talks with T. G. Masaryk Masaryk was a Czechoslovak patriot, the first President of Czechoslovakia, and a regular guest at Capek's "Friday Men" garden parties for leading Czech intellectuals. Capek was also a member of Masaryk's Hrad political network. This extraordinary relationship between the writer and the political leader may be unique. He also became a member of International PEN and established, and was first president of, the Czechoslovak Pen Club. Soon after 1938 it became clear that the Western allies (France, Great Britain) had failed to fulfill the agreements(Western betrayal), and failed to defend Czechoslovakia against Adolf Hitler. Karel Capek refused to leave his country despite the fact that the Nazi Gestapo had named him Czechoslovakia's "public enemy number two." Though he suffered all his life from the condition spondyloarthritis, Karel Capek died of double pneumonia on December 25, 1938 shortly after part of Czechoslovakia was annexed by Nazi Germany following the so-called Munich Agreement. apek is buried at the Vysehrad cemetery in Prague. His brother Josef Capek, a painter and writer, died in the Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Good. No dust jacket. Stamp inside rear cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine frayed.
Published by Penguin, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141192704 ISBN 13: 9780141192703
Seller: Wormhole Books, Kunyung, VIC, Australia
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 348 pp. Very light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Some scuffing to front cover, and corners are a little curled. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "A great writer of the past who speaks to the present in a voice brilliant, clear, honourable, blackly funny and prophetic." -- Kurt Vonnegut Size: 12mo.
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1940
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. pictures drawn by Josep & Karel Capek (illustrator). First UK Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards without a jacket, strong fading, mostly on the spine, some handling wear including a fraying tear at the base of the front hinge and a little wear at the top and base of the spine.
Published by George Allen & Unwin, London,, 1950, fourth impression,, 1950
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
hardback, 8vo, 160pp, illustrated, slight browning and foxing, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, Good condition in browning adn frayed dustwrapper.
Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1933
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Joseph Capek (illustrator). First UK Edition. First UK edition 8vo, in yellow with blue to front and spine, , rather dust-marked, bumps to extremities, small other marks, dulled spine, sound binding, an inscription to fep, occasional light fox spots else very good internal condition.
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1948
Seller: Wormhole Books, Kunyung, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. 469 pp. General and edgewear to unclipped dustwrapper: wrinkling and discolouration along edges; some extremely short tears to ends of backpanel, and a spot of nibbling to lower back panel. Note: dustwrapper is printed on the reverse of an old (1941) War Office Ordnance Survey colour map of part of Denmark. Orange cloth boards are rubbed and faded, with a little foxing/rubbed-in dirt to edges. Upper edge of text block has orange tinting (which has partially faded) and a little foxing; fore and lower edges are lightly foxed and a little yellowed. Bookseller's stamp (D.A. McLean, Belfast) to rear fep. Internally unmarked and solidly bound.
Published by Catbird Press, 1990,, 1990
ISBN 10: 0945774087 ISBN 13: 9780945774082
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
paperback, 8vo, 467pp, clean and tight. no inscriptions, a single crease on spine, Very Good condition . ISBN: 0945774087.
Published by George Allen & Unwin, 1944
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (Ref. ) Mustard colour cloth boards with brown spine titles. Slight fade to head and heel of spine. Tanned edges to endpapers, top edge and foredge. Contents otherwise good and unmarked. DJ is darkened at edges, spine Some rubbing and wear to edges, corners etc. and small piece missing from lower edge of spine.
Published by New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941, 1941
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green Cloth. Near Fine Book/Near Fine Dustjacket. First American Edition. 160 pp. Humorous stories. A bright clean copy, only slight traces of wear without chips or tears. Slight age-darkening to dust jacket spine. [568].
Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1945
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Karel Capek (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback in jacket 1945. 1st UK edition. 158 pages. Book Production War Economy Standard. Clean & tight book. Flat pages. Neat name at top corner of the front end paper. Jacket has a little edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: 7s 6d net. Jacket is now under clear removable protective covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 2089/26. How They Do It by Karel Capek; Translated by M. & R. Weatherall. Published by George Allen & Unwin, London.
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1941., 1941
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Hardback. Very Good condition book with slight beginnings of a crease to upper right corner of front cover but hardly carries over through the cover, some minor edge wear. Very Good condition, price-clipped dustjacket with 1.5 inch closed tear to top edge of front cover, some edge wear and minor chipping. light browning to spine and backcover Second Printing book, Third Printing dustjacket although this doesn't appear to be a marriage, but something from the publisher. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.
Published by New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1931
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Near fine, if not near fine plus hardback in near fine, if not near fine plus or fine dust jacket ($1.75). Book has three pin-head sized coffee-colored spots to fore-edge of block; signature of previous owner and "Sept 24, 1932' (1.25 inch by 3/8 inch) in upper fore-edge corner of front pastedown; and sun-toning to top edges. Dust jacket has a 1/2 inch closed tear and associated 5/16 inch hairline crease to top edge of front panel; a 5/8 inch closed tear and associated 3/8 inch hairline crease to upper edge of rear panel; a 1/2 inch closed tear and associated 5/16 inch hairline crease to lower edge of rear panel; a 3/16 inch by 3/16 inch chip to lower edge of rear panel at spine fold; and a slight, if not trivial fading to spine. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket, primarily to lower fore-edge corners of book and to rear panel, edges and corners of dust jacket.