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Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1939
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1939. 275 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.
Published by Read Books, 2012
ISBN 10: 1447459792ISBN 13: 9781447459798
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
Book Print on Demand
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by NY: The Macmillan Company, 1940
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NY: The Macmillan Company January 1940 Binding: Hardcover NO DUST JACKET OTHERWISE VERY GOOD $NRP.
Published by Film Polski, 1959
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. First Edition. 4 B/W 8 X 10 inch photographs. Karel Capek (1890-1938) was a Czech writer who first used the word robot. Otokar Vavra (1911-2011) was a Czech film director. Film stars Eduard Cupak. First edition (first printing). Fine copies. On photograph rear stamp in blue ink: 'Film Polsei / Centrala Wymajmu Filmo / Waresawa, Marszalkourska 56.' Captions pasted to rear of photographs. ?A Czech film released in Poland?.
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.
Publication Date: 1939
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Hardback. 277pp 1939. VG.
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First English Edition. Spine canted and darkened, covers scuffed.; Ex-Library; 8vo; 277 pages Good+ University club bookplate.
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1939
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. LIBRARY REBIND. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Published by Allen & Unwin, GB, 1939
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G++ DW. Fuzy Ludwig (DW) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean tight book BUT bit cocked and minor spotting to prelims. 7/6 dw ith 8/3 war costs sticker over. Dw has some loss mostly across top of spine (lettering unaffected) but does have some wear and tear wirth minor internal magic tape repair. Photos on request.
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.
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Second Printing. First published in English in 1939; this is a Near Fine copy of the Second Impression of the First Edition. Translation from the Czech by M. & R. Weatherall. Brick red cloth binding with black lettering. Clean text; 277 pages with two pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. The striking dustwrapper is Very Good, although clipped. It would get a "plus" for the brightness of the colours (a bit darker on the spine), but a "minus" for a small chip to the top of the front cover. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Fr. Borovy, Praha [Prague], 1937
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Early Czech language edition. 253pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Gray cloth printed in red and black on the spine and front cover. Light yellow top stain. Very good plus, with a very minor slant to the spine, and marginal rubbing and bumping at the spine ends and corners of the covers. The dust jacket is in good condition, with multiple small losses from the edges, which have been backed with tape. The jacket is also mildly rubbed and creased at the edges. In a gray thin card slipcase, in very good condition, with light soiling and rubbing, and several indented scrapes on the side panel. The longest scrape measures 3/4" long. A novel emphasizing the need for solidarity. Karel Capek is widely known as a science fiction author, who wrote long before science fiction became established as its own genre, and who helped popularize the term "robot" in his play, R.U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue.
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Second Impression. A psychological novel that revolves around a minimg disaster, by the modernist author of "War with the Newts." First publisheds in 1939; this is a very Good (Plus) to near Fine copy of the Second Impression. Orange cloth binding with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Clean text; 277 pages, with two pages of publisher adverts in the rear.Translation from the original Czech by M. & R. Weatherall. Very slightly cocked, and spotting on page edges; else a Fine copy. The dustwrapper is from the Third Impression. Very Good (Plus) condition; very slight edgewear but some chipping at the head and foot of the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Fr. Borovy, Praha [Prague], 1938
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Early Czech language edition. 253pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Black cloth covered boards with red ink stamped titles and designs on the spine and front cover. With a pictorial dust jacket and in a plain stiff card slipcase with a printed paper title label on the side panel. Very good. The top edge of the text block is a little darkened, and there are a few minor stains on the bottom edge of the text block. The spine is very subtly rolled. In a very good dust jacket. Subtly browned and rubbed. There are numerous small open tears in the edges. The slipcase is in very good condition, with subtle age-toning, and several small stains. The edges are very gently bumped. A novel emphasizing the need for solidarity. Karel Capek is widely known as a science fiction author, who wrote long before science fiction became established as its own genre, and who helped popularize the term "robot" in his play, R.U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue.
Published by Allen & Unwin, 1939
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. 1st UK edition, translated by M & R Weatherall. Front hinge a little tight (possibly re-glued at some time); a few spots of light foxing on fore-edge; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped, but slightly worn & chipped at edges, with short tear. DJ protected in removable clear film Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.
Published by MacMillan, NY, 1940
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Publisher's cloth, orange topstain. First American edition. Dampstain to cloth at heel and rear board edge, does not appear to enter margins. Endpages toned, slight foxing. The mildly soiled DJ in mylar is repaired to spine ends/edges with interior tape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages.
Published by Macmilllan Company, New York, 1940
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First U.S. edition. Translated from the Czech by M. & R. Weatherall. The novel describes the two or three days of rescue work in a mine after an explosion. Tiny string pull on spine and vertical offsets near hinges, otherwise fine in very good to near dust jacket with spine slightly tanned, a touch of spotting to one corner rear panel, few small rubbed chips and tears, and spine folds internally reinforced with archival tape.