25782. Fink, Eugen, 1905-1975. Oáze stesti. Translation by Martin Cerny. Praha: Edice Vahy, 1992, 61pp., small PAPERBACK, very good with separate dust-jacket, $14 With afterword by Pavel Kouba.
15212. Hindus, Maurice, 1891-1969. To Sing with the Angels. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941, stated First Edition, 586pp., very good but light-faded around edges tan cloth, lightly stained on front pastedown with consequent slight staining to edges of inscription, INSCRIBED at length by Maurice Hindus to John Woodlam [?], dated Feb. 1941.. $45 .
3335. Medek, Rudolf, 1890-1940. O nasich legiich, detech a zviratkach v Sibiri. Praze: Vydal "Pamatnik Odboje", 1921, 157pp., faded blue 1/4 cloth, decorated white boards, hinges and binding wobbly, $20 .
23602. Polácek, Karel, 1892-1944. What ownership’s all about. Translated by Peter Kussi. [Highland Park, NJ] : Catbird Press, 1993, ix, 238pp., very good dust-jacket, very good tan half-cloth, $15 First published in Czech in 1928. The publisher rates Polacek among the great Czech writers. He was killed in a concentration camp in 1944. "Under the guise of a humble journalist Karel Polâcek was a great novelist; the best, I think, of the three remarkable pre-World War II Czech fiction writers, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Capek, and himself. A prisoner of a "small" language, of which he was a great master, he was known - and loved - only in the small country where he spent his life. Now - very belatedly - his caustic wit is made available to English-language readers. What Ownership's All About can be read with enjoyment as a masterpiece of black humor, but it may also be read as a metaphor of what happens to man if he gets drunk on vainglory, a story, indeed, for our century" (Josef Skvorecky). ISBN 0945774192
14389. Tomek, Wenzel Wladiwoj, 1818-1905. Geschichte der Stadt Prag. I. Band. Aus dem Böhmischen übersetzt vom Verfasser. Prag: J. G. Calve, 694pp., very good contemporary green half-cloth with decorative gold printed titles on spine, a pretty volume with slight wear to top of spine, $145 No more volumes published in German. Translation of Dejepis mesta Prahy.
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