Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2001
ISBN 10: 8086264173 ISBN 13: 9788086264172
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
softcover. Condizione: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2nd prt. edition. 8vo, 149 pp.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2006
ISBN 10: 8086264254 ISBN 13: 9788086264257
Da: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Otto Gutfreund (illustratore). [1st printing] 2007. Trade-sized; gate-fold covers.Creasing, corner wear.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2006
ISBN 10: 8086264270 ISBN 13: 9788086264271
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st edition. 8vo, 153 pp.
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Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2007
ISBN 10: 8086264297 ISBN 13: 9788086264295
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st edition. 8vo, 170 pp.
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Editore: Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1997, 1997
Da: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. A country doctor. Translated by Kevin Blahut. Illustrated by Zoulfiia Gazaeva. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1997, 93pp., very good dust-jacket, lightly scuffed on rear panel at bottom, original price $13.50, very good small blue hardcover. Second printing number line on rear copyright page, ending in a 2. 9788090217140 ISBN 8090217141.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2008
ISBN 10: 8086264289 ISBN 13: 9788086264288
Da: East Kent Academic, Bridge, Canterbury, KENT, Regno Unito
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. A novel comprising seven tales exploring the unfolding of an ideas coiled unevenly like a garden hose but a 'revolution' embracing Mexican rivers, peoples, places in every sense. 154 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £4.95.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2002
ISBN 10: 8086264130 ISBN 13: 9788086264134
Da: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Rut, Pavel (illustratore). [1st printing] 2002. Trade-sized; gate-fold covers.Creasing, corner wear.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2005
ISBN 10: 808626419X ISBN 13: 9788086264196
Da: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Card Wrappers. Condizione: Near Fine. Kamil Lhotak (illustratore). First Edition. 229pp. Tiny name at head of first page. Book.
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Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, Czech Republic, 1996
ISBN 10: 809012576X ISBN 13: 9788090125766
Da: ABOXABOOKS, Bristol, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket edges a bit worn. Four small dents on front. Otherwise like new.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 1998
ISBN 10: 809021715X ISBN 13: 9788090217157
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Fedele Spadafora (illustratore). Hardcover. Contemplation, Kafka's first published book (1913), was one of the few to appear in his lifetime. Composed of eighteen short prose poems, the book as a whole displays the full range of Kafka's compact metaphorical style. In this new translation, Blahut has been faithful to the original German while rendering it in a fresh, contemporary English. This edition is complimented by eighteen black & white illustrations, attesting to the lasting inspiration of Kafka's prose. The three volumes Twisted Spoon Press has published Contemplation, A Country Doctor, and A Hunger Artist represent the collections of stories that Kafka had published during his lifetime. Though each volume has its own distinctive character, they have most often appeared in English in collected editions. They are presented here in new translations, each with its own illustrator from the Prague community. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2017
ISBN 10: 8086264343 ISBN 13: 9788086264349
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. Illus. by Cristian Opris (illustratore). 1st edition. 8vo, 299 pp., Translated from the Polish by Soren A. Gauger & Marcin Piekoszewski.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 1990
ISBN 10: 8090217192 ISBN 13: 9788090217195
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than not, from the windows of his favorite pubs. In his palavering, stream-of-conscious style that has marked him as one of the major writers and innovators of postwar European literature, Hrabal gives a humorous and at times moving account of life in Prague under Nazi occupation, Communism, and the brief euphoria following the revolution of 1989 when anything seemed possible, even pink tanks. Interspersed are fragmented memories of trips taken to Britain - as he attempted to track down every location mentioned in Eliot's "The Waste Land" - and the United States, where he ends up in one of Dylan Thomas's haunts comparing the waitresses to ones he knew in Prague. The result is a masterful blend of personal history and fee association rendered in a prose as powerful as it is poetic. Fiction. Translation from the Czech by James Naughton. Bohumil Hrabal's TOTAL FEARS is a series of letters Hrabal wrote during the collapse of the Czech communist regime from 1989-1992. The letters were what Hrabal referred to as his "lyrical reportage" and were addressed to an American student who went by the alias Dubenka. The letters follow a free-associative logic and are sometimes imaginary, making the book a testament to memory with "quick, rambling, spoken but purposeful writing" —The TLS. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2023
ISBN 10: 8086264475 ISBN 13: 9788086264479
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: NEW. Svankmajer, Jan (illustratore). Paperback. The novel Baradla Cave has lost none of the force of its social critique and trenchant humor since it originally appeared in samizdat in the 1980s and officially published in 1995 by Edice Analogon. A living organism, Baradla is both place (Prague) and person (a woman), an exploration of maternity and femininity as well as a satirical look at the overweening mother-state and consumer society. The language collage comprising pseudo-scientific jargon, the diction of interwar magazines for women and girls, the demotic, and metaphoric stream is complemented by Jan Svankmajer's erotic collages, as scenes of episodic sexual violence alternate with humorous reflections on various ingrained habits and customs. With a seemingly boundless sense of the absurd, Svankmajerova fingers here practically everything having to do with modern existence: substance abuse, violent sex crimes, rampant consumerism, pervasive corruption, and dysfunctional family relationships. A novel by the Czech Surrealist visual artist Eva Svankmajerova, Baradla is a living organism, both place (Prague) and person (a woman), and the novel explores maternity and femininity while offering a satirical look at the overweening mother-state and consumer society. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2024
ISBN 10: 8088628032 ISBN 13: 9788088628033
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Transparent Body & Other Texts brings together Blecher's entire output of poetry and short prose, from the earliest texts published during his lifetime to those appearing for the first time only recently. They range from stories in the vein of his fantastical, hallucinatory longer work to aphorisms, reportage, and notebook fragments. The volume also includes a selection of his correspondence with such major figures of Romanian interwar modernism as Geo Bogza, Ilarie Voronca, and Sasa Pana to give a fuller picture of Blecher's engagement with the avant-garde and literary life even as his health was progressively deteriorating over the course of the 1930s. The collection brings together Blecher's entire output of poetry and short prose, ranging from stories in the vein of his fantastical hallucinatory longer work to aphorisms, reportage, and notebook fragments, and includes a selection of his correspondence with other Romanian and French avant-garde artists. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2002
ISBN 10: 8086264165 ISBN 13: 9788086264165
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff black paperback cover with flaps, small octavo. 61 pages. Frontis photo of author, 12 color illustrations. Translated from the Czech by Jed Slast. Fine copy. All books shipped in boxes.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2024
ISBN 10: 8088628008 ISBN 13: 9788088628002
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. By spring 1938, Prague is a city increasingly on tenterhooks in expectation of an attack by Nazi Germany. Earlier that year the pressure of the situation produced a schism in the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia between Vtezslav Nezval, who wanted to continue to support the Soviet Union, and those who condemned Stalin's show trials, purges, and executions. Nezval chronicles this tumultuous period by embedding it in a paean to Prague, wondering if the city, and everything about the city he loves, will survive the horrors that are about to be visited upon her. With Apollinaire serving as his guide, he introduces us to the cafs and pubs he would frequent, many of which no longer exist, the various neighborhoods he lived in as a destitute student, the parks where he sought solace, and the people he would meet on the street, musing on some of the figures central to his poetics, such as Andr Breton and Lautramont. While at times lamenting the changing face of Prague and that Hitler might reduce it to rubble, Nezval takes us into the places that spontaneously spur him to reflect on the issues facing artists of the day and the precarious sociopolitical situation. This translation is of the rare unexpurgated first edition and includes Nezval's photographs and illustrations as well as an appendix that maps out the significant revisions made later, providing additional translations of the longer passages that were inserted as replacement for what was expunged from the original edition. With Apollinaire serving as his guide, Nezval introduces us to the cafes and pubs he would frequent, many of which no longer exist, the parks and various neighborhoods he lived in as a destitute student, the people he would meet on the street, musing on some of the figures central to his poetics, such as Andre Breton and Lautreamont. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2024
ISBN 10: 8088628016 ISBN 13: 9788088628019
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Kimball, Selena (illustratore). Paperback. Phoebe Hicks owes her unexpected career as a spiritualist to a photograph taken of her through her bedroom window after having eaten spoiled clams. What comes out of her mouth is taken to be ectoplasm, and word spreads that she is able to commune with the dead. As the prototype for the medium, she establishes the standard for how a sance should be conducted during the sessions held in her Providence, Rhode Island, home where a growing number of curious participants witness materializations of such figures as Ivan the Terrible, Harry Houdini, Catherine the Great, Hatshepsut, Elizabeth Bthory, and a host of others. Told as a compilation of episodes conjoined with Selena Kimball's haunting collages, The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks is a feminist surrealist exploration of the rise of Spiritualism and the role of the medium in 19th-century America alongside the expectations, and constraints, imposed on women. Told as a compilation of episodes conjoined with Selena Kimball's haunting collages, The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks is a feminist surrealist exploration of the role of the medium in 19th-century America and the expectations, and constraints, confronted by women. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2024
ISBN 10: 8088628024 ISBN 13: 9788088628026
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Ruhm, Gerhard (illustratore). Paperback. An inveterate experimenter with image and text and music whose work bears the clear influences of Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, and absurdism, Gerhard Ruhm is truly one of the major figures of the postwar European avant-garde. Yet reprehensibly little of his work has appeared in English. This edition brings together a selection of his work spanning the past seven decades, displaying a wide thematic range (as he has remarked, "there is nothing that cannot become part of one's poetic universe") and ingenious combinations of motifs such as music, pornography, banality, humor, and mythology. The first section comprises "mini dramas," the text often combined with images and musical notation to create sensorial episodes, the expression of a singularly sensual aesthetic perception. The second section is a wry deconstruction of Grillparzer's play Hero and Leander that juxtaposes original passages with images from a swimming manual and a more contemporary erotic take on the mythological tale. The final section presents 24 short prose pieces: 12 from the early 1950s and 12 from the past few years. Inveterate experimenter with image, text, and music whose works bears the influences of Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, Gerhard Ruhm is truly one of the major figures of the postwar European avant-garde. This edition brings together a selection of his work spanning seven decades. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 1992
ISBN 10: 8090125719 ISBN 13: 9788090125711
Da: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Paperback. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.
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Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2008
ISBN 10: 8086264335 ISBN 13: 9788086264332
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st edition. 8vo, 244 pp., Translated from the Czech by Carleton Bulkin.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press: Prague, 2012
ISBN 10: 8090125727 ISBN 13: 9788090125728
Da: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Trade paperback original. Richard Teschner (illustratore). First edition thus (& 1st printing). 100-page story: first published in Germany in 1914, translated from the German by Kevin Blahut. Fine (as new) copy.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 1996
ISBN 10: 8090217117 ISBN 13: 9788090217119
Da: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_FINE. No Jacket. Helena Vlcnovska (illustratore). First Thus. A Hunger Artist, published in 1924. Kafka edited the proofs of these stories virtually on his deathbed. The four stories contained in this volume : "First Sorrow," "A Little Woman," "A Hunger Artist," and "Josephine, the Singer" mark his maturity as a writer. The story from which the volume takes its name is one of Kafkas most famous and enigmatic. English translation by Kevin Blahut. Illustrations by Helen Vlcnovska. 85p. illus. First edition of 2000 copies.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2015
Da: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. 12mo. 141 pp. Illustrations by Sascha Schneider. Hardcover, silver stamped boards, very good condition. (96412). Translated from the Czech by Kirsten Lodge.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2013
ISBN 10: 8090217141 ISBN 13: 9788090217140
Da: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Gazaeva, Zoulfiia (illustratore). Printed hard covers, cloth spine, in clean, bright condition Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2019
Da: The Bookstore, Belfast, Regno Unito
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Vladimír Boudník (illustratore). Very good condition, light wear & marks.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2021
Da: Saint Georges English Bookshop, Berlin, Germania
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Pavel Rut (illustratore). As new hardcover,1/2 page paper wraps. Ships from Berlin Bookshop bxn55.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2024
Da: Saint Georges English Bookshop, Berlin, Germania
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. As new hardcover,1/2 page paper wraps. Ships from Berlin Bookshop bxn55.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2016
ISBN 10: 8086264491 ISBN 13: 9788086264493
Da: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 214 p. 19 cm. Hardcover. White paper band around rear board. Inscribed by Delbos on title page.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 1998
Da: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Pp. 78(last blank), coloured frontispiece; cr. 8vo; pictorial maroon stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, the backstrip a trifle faded; Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 1998. First edition. *With printed publicity slip loosely inserted. Born in Sydney in 1972, Louis Armand has lived in Prague since 1994.
Editore: Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 1997
Da: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in dark blue textured paper covered boards, in a Fine yellow and dark blue dustwrapper. Translated by Kevin Blahut. Illustrated by Fedele Spadafora. Originally published in 1913, this was Kafka's first published work. Unpaginated. Q17703.