Michael Mucha (14 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Harvey [Jacket design] (illustrator). First Edition in English. First impression of the first edition in English. Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. ***Very good in mauve cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Top edge of text-block slightly darkened. Internally also very good with a previous owner's name in black ink to the top of the front free endpaper. Please note that a previous owner has marked out a paragraph in ink and the mark extends to the fore-edge of the page block [please see scans]. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of 25s net. The dustwrapper is complete without any chips or tears - just the top corner of the front flap is creased. A few sporadic foxing spots, and a small ink mark to the front panel. Orange titles to the spine of the dustwrapper are slightly faded. ***204mm x 138mm. 224 pages. ***'During the wave of arbitrary mass arrests that afflicted the Communist countries of Eastern Europe under Stalin a few years after the Second World War, Jiri Mucha, one of Czechoslovakia's best known writers, suddenly found himself in prison. After months of solitary confinement, during which the authorities did their best to break his nerve, he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. This book is the diary he kept during the first year of his sentence, served in a coal mine. It was written at intervals in small notebooks kept hidden down the pit and smuggled out piecemeal by a friendly miner. ***It is a shocking but nonetheless humorous record of the world in which he found himself, which he shared with men of all backgrounds and every type of political and non-political offence. The picture he gives us is of humanity reduced to its elements through deprivation and suffering. A stubborn belief that, in spite of everything, life can be a source of joy and inextinguishable interest, and a sense of what is ephemeral and what enduring, saved Mucha from bitterness and self-pity and helped to preserve his human dignity in a nightmare world. ***Jiri Mucha was born in Prague, the son of Alphonse Mucha, the Art Nouveau artist. he was brought up in Prague, Paris and New York, and studied literature and medicine in Prague and Pars. When the Second World War broke out, he joined the Czech division of the French Army, was evacuated to Britain in 1940 and enlisted in the R.A.F. Later he served as B.B.C. war correspondent in North Africa, the Middle East, Burma, China, Italy and north-western Europe. ***In London, he joined the group of writers contributing to John Lehmann's New Writing and helped to launch Daylight. His collected short stories, The Problems of Liuetenant Knap, were published by the Hogarth Press, and translated into many languages. After the war he returned to Czechoslovakia and published several novels and his war diary, Fire Braves Fire, before his arrest for alleged espionage in 1951. Since his release in 1954,he has published Black and White New York, the novel Probable Face, a volume of short stories, and two books on the Art Nouveau.'' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***First impression of the first edition in English, complete in its original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Harvey [Jacket design] (illustrator). First Edition in English. First impression of the first edition in English. Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. ***Near fine in mauve cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Top corner-tip of rear board slightly creased. Sporadic light foxing to top edge and fore-edge of text-block. Internally also near fine with a small owner's name in black ink to the top of the front free endpaper. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of 25s net. With a one-inch closed tear to thee top of the front panel of the dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the dustwrapper. Titles to the spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. ***204mm x 138mm. 224 pages. ***'During the wave of arbitrary mass arrests that afflicted the Communist countries of Eastern Europe under Stalin a few years after the Second World War, Jiri Mucha, one of Czechoslovakia's best known writers, suddenly found himself in prison. After months of solitary confinement, during which the authorities did their best to break his nerve, he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. This book is the diary he kept during the first year of his sentence, served in a coal mine. It was written at intervals in small notebooks kept hidden down the pit and smuggled out piecemeal by a friendly miner. ***It is a shocking but nonetheless humorous record of the world in which he found himself, which he shared with men of all backgrounds and every type of political and non-political offence. The picture he gives us is of humanity reduced to its elements through deprivation and suffering. A stubborn belief that, in spite of everything, life can be a source of joy and inextinguishable interest, and a sense of what is ephemeral and what enduring, saved Mucha from bitterness and self-pity and helped to preserve his human dignity in a nightmare world. ***Jiri Mucha was born in Prague, the son of Alphonse Mucha, the Art Nouveau artist. he was brought up in Prague, Paris and New York, and studied literature and medicine in Prague and Pars. When the Second World War broke out, he joined the Czech division of the French Army, was evacuated to Britain in 1940 and enlisted in the R.A.F. Later he served as B.B.C. war correspondent in North Africa, the Middle East, Burma, China, Italy and north-western Europe. ***In London, he joined the group of writers contributing to John Lehmann's New Writing and helped to launch Daylight. His collected short stories, The Problems of Liuetenant Knap, were published by the Hogarth Press, and translated into many languages. After the war he returned to Czechoslovakia and published several novels and his war diary, Fire Braves Fire, before his arrest for alleged espionage in 1951. Since his release in 1954,he has published Black and White New York, the novel Probable Face, a volume of short stories, and two books on the Art Nouveau.'' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***First impression of the first edition in English, complete in its original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Gebunden. Condition: wie neu. Gänsehautgeschichten Ein Schauer läuft Tom über den Rücken, als er im Dunkeln in seinem Bett liegt. Hat er da etwa ein Schaben und Klirren gehört? Tom nimmt all seinen Mut zusammen und schaltet das Licht an. Doch das Gespenst, das er dann erblickt, ist alles andere als Furcht erregend. Ganz anders ergeht es Elli und ihrem Bruder. Die neuen Nachbarn der beiden entpuppen sich als seltsame lichtscheue Wesen, die ein dunkles Geheimnis haben. mit kleiner Kratzspur am Buchdeckel, wie neu! In deutscher Sprache. 128 pages. 200x151 mm.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 142. 8vo., [7"x9"]. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white portrait fontispiece of the subject, accompanied with additional black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Striking ex-libris booklate affixed to verso of front cover, contents without blemish; fine. Errata leaf, and list of contributors (donations) laid-in. Fine. Unrecorded in OCLC. Preface in English, otherwise, text in Ukrainian. Memorial book published upon the occasion of the death of the noted Ukrainian religious figure.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. very clean hardcover with jacket no marks. clean text. solid binding. very light wear. ISBN matches listing Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.