Published by Macmillan Collector's Library, 2023
ISBN 10: 1529096243 ISBN 13: 9781529096248
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Condition: New. Capek, Josef (illustrator).
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Published by Macmillan Company, 1941
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Josef & Karel Capek (illustrator). no dust jacket. edge and corner wear, rubbing. corners are bumped. upper corners of pages are bumped. pages are age toned, but unmarked. price sticker inside back cover is blacked out. binding is cracking on bottom front hinge, but intact.
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 Bantam Classic, 1959
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First THUS. Publisher: Bantam Classic, New York, 1959. NEAR FINE+ Softcover in illustrated wraps, as issued. First Softcover Edition Thus, First Printing.
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 Dover Publications, 2017
ISBN 10: 0486817245 ISBN 13: 9780486817248
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: New. Capek, Josef (illustrator).
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Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
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 1939, 1939
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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First Edition
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Published by A.A. Wyn, 1948
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
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First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Front flap of dust jacket half torn up fold, darkened, chipped top edge front, spine and rear, 1" tear top left corner front, darkened spine, price unclipped. Orange cloth boards bright, head of spine darkened, some white on bottom edge, very lightly rubbed corners. Clean interior. First English edition 1948. Map on rear of dust jacket. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.
Published by The Macmillan Company, 1940
Seller: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. First American printing, very good orange cloth hardcover (no dust jacket) with black letter to cover and spine shows mild soiling and shelfwear to covers, ligth soil at page egdes, bit of bumping to corners and some other light trace wear. 277 pages. Solid copy of this first American edition of the novel featuring miners as protagonists from the noted Czech author.
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 Allen & Unwin London 1948, 1948
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo 469pp., Neat ownership signature & closed tear to front end paper o/w a nice copy.
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.
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Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1948, 1948
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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First Edition
First edition thus, octavo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front boards, 469pp, VG- (some fading to boards & spine, light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, slight foxing & soiling to eps & page edges, small nick to pages 229-244 upper edges).
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 G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1935
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover, titles decoratively stamped in silver on spine and front cover; 255pp. A fresh, Very Good or better copy, free of markings or excessive wear, lacking the dustwrapper. Second volume of a trilogy including Hordubal (1934) and An Ordinary Life (1936).
Published by New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941, 1941
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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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 AND UNWIN LTD, LONDON, 1933
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed and marked. ink inscription to front pastedown, light foxing to pages otherwise clean throughout. Good. Book.
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 George Allen and Unwin, 1941
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. First British Edition. Publisher: George Allen and Unwin, London, 1941. VERY GOOD+ hardcover, lacking the dust jacket. Two small stains at head of spine. First British Edition, First Printing.
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.
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First American Edition. Inscribed "December 30, 1943, Happy Thirty! Yours for the next fifty - Rolly," a present to science fiction author Alfred Bester. Partial dust jacket includes front, flaps and part of the spine - what remains is in poor condition, tanned and chipped - now in Brodart sleeve. Tan cloth boards are darkened around the edges and on the spine, small tears lower corners and head/tail of spine, lightly bumped all four corners. Brown stain upper right corner first three pages. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.
Published by George Allen and Unwin, 1936
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Publisher: George Allen & Unwin LTD; London, 1936.VERY GOOD+ hardcover book in VERY GOOD- mylar-protected dust-jacket. Chipping along the bottom of DJ's front panel, affecting the Author's Name. Minor chipping at spine ends. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped (7s. 6d. net). Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. First Edition in English, First Printing.