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Beyond the Imaginable 240 Ways Of Looking At Czech

by Karen Von Kunes

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Opus Magnum

by Vladislav ; Antonn, Lubo Zadrobilek

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Czecho-Slovakian Embroidery

by Dmc

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Tschechoslowakische Stickerein

by Dmc

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P�Sne Petra Bezruce

by Petr, Jar E Sal�Ba-Vojan, and Vojtech Preissig Bezruc

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Jak Se Vlastn D L� Film

by Karel and Otakar Mrkvicka, Designer Smrž

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Ody a Variace

by Jiř� Kol�ř

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Historico-Philosophica Descriptio Picturae Novae Bibliothecae Fornici Inductae In Canonia Strahoviensi Canonicorum Praemonstratensium Pragae In Monte Sion Ab Antonio Maulbertsch, Academiae Artium Vindobonensis Et Berolinensis Sodali, Cura Et Impendiis Wen

by Franz Anton Maulbertsch

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Kresby Medijní

by Karel, Editor Sezemský

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[CZECH CONCRETE POETRY AND CONCEPTUAL ART] Jiří Valoch: Die Bedeutung der Worte. Bücher. 27. April - 6. Juli 1997

[CZECH CONCRETE POETRY AND CONCEPTUAL ART] Jiří Valoch: Die Bedeutung der Worte. Bücher. 27. April - 6. Juli 1997

by Schraenen, Guy and Jiří Valoch

A conceptual artist book-cum-catalog, conceived for an exhibit jointly curated by Jiří Valoch and Guy Schraenen, containing work by Valoch and H. J. Kocman, the Czech book artist. With an introductory essay by Schraenen and a biography and bibliography of works by Valoch. Published in a print run of 1000 copies. As of January 2024, KVK and OCLC show three copies in North America. A conceptual artist book-cum-catalog, conceived for an exhibit jointly curated by Jiří Valoch and Guy... Read more about this item
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€75.00
[CZECH POST-WAR SURREALISM - LACOSTE GROUP] Merlin ars - Ars Merlina - Merlin. Lacoste separat 5

[CZECH POST-WAR SURREALISM - LACOSTE GROUP] Merlin ars - Ars Merlina - Merlin. Lacoste separat 5

by Havlíček, Jiří and Milada Svozilova

Rare bibliophile edition of eight original etchings by Jiří Havlíček and Milada Svozilova. Evidently one of 48 copies, all prints numbered 3/48. "Ce tirage bibliophile concernant les metamorphoes de l'etre legendaire du magicien Merlin, edite par Jiří Havlíček avec Milada Svozilová en fevrier 1968 a Brno, presente prolegomena d'une serie preparee des revues thematiques "MERLIN ARS" dediees a l'art fantasque de Brno et destinees a quelques amis du Fantastique chez nous et a... Read more about this item
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€600.00
Výstava grafiky Skupiny 42. Z fondů Středočeské galerie. Catalog of a traveling exhibition of Skupina 42 organized by the Středočeská galerie (Central Bohemia Gallery) in Prague

Výstava grafiky Skupiny 42. Z fondů Středočeské galerie. Catalog of a traveling exhibition of Skupina 42 organized by the Středočeská galerie (Central Bohemia Gallery) in Prague

Exhibition catalog of Skupina 42, with an introduction by Jan Dvořák featuring biographical information on the artists and a list of works exhibited. The Czech post-war artist collective "Skupina 42" (Group 42) was formally founded in 1940, during the German Protectorate. The group was forbidden by the Communist government in 1948, but its members and artists continued to work and impact the Czech art scene well into the 1970s. "Skupina 42" was significantly shaped by the experience of war and the... Read more about this item
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€75.00
[A RADICAL JESUIT - FOUNDER OF CZECH 'BIBLIOGRAPHY'] Index bohemicorum librorum prohibitorum, et corrigendorum ordine alphabeti digestus, reverendissimi, celsissimi S.R.I. principis domini domini Antonii Petri dei Gratia, et sedis apostolicae archi-episcopi pragensis jussu collectus, atque editus. WITH: Broadsheet providing rules for distinguishing between good and unacceptable translations of the Old and New Testament: Facilis methodus agnoscendi: an Biblia seu Testamentum permitti, corrigi, vel tolli debeat, aut possit? ... (Cum Licentia Ordinarii. Vetero-Pragae impressum in Aula Regia, apud Franciscum Carolum Hladky, Archi-Episcopalem Typographum, 1747)

[A RADICAL JESUIT - FOUNDER OF CZECH 'BIBLIOGRAPHY'] Index bohemicorum librorum prohibitorum, et corrigendorum ordine alphabeti digestus, reverendissimi, celsissimi S.R.I. principis domini domini Antonii Petri dei Gratia, et sedis apostolicae archi-episcopi pragensis jussu collectus, atque editus. WITH: Broadsheet providing rules for distinguishing between good and unacceptable translations of the Old and New Testament: Facilis methodus agnoscendi: an Biblia seu Testamentum permitti, corrigi, vel tolli debeat, aut possit? ... (Cum Licentia Ordinarii. Vetero-Pragae impressum in Aula Regia, apud Franciscum Carolum Hladky, Archi-Episcopalem Typographum, 1747)

by Koniáš, Antonín (1691-1760)

Second edition of this index of Protestant and anti-Catholic literature meant to be confiscated and burned. The book is a continuation of the radical Jesuit priest's earlier works, such as the famous "Clavis haeresim claudens et aperiens. Kljč Kacýřské Bľudy K rozeznánj otwjragicý | K wykořeněnj zamjtagicý..." [A key to identifying and eradicating heretical mistakes. Or Index of certain heretical, scandalous, suspicious or prohibited books...], first published in 1729. This... Read more about this item
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€1,200.00
Karel Teige a film. Úvodní studie Petra Krále [Karel Teige and film. With an introductory study by Petr Král]

Karel Teige a film. Úvodní studie Petra Krále [Karel Teige and film. With an introductory study by Petr Král]

by Karel Teige and Petr Král, editor

The first volume to gather Karel Teige's various articles on film, mostly published during the 1920s and 1930s, with a lengthy introductory essay by Petr Král (1941-2020), the surrealist-influenced writer and film scholar. Teige was a formative member of the avant- garde movement "Devětsil" and served as a key conduit for West European avant-garde and surrealist tendencies to the Czech Republic in the interwar period, in addition to his own prolific work as an editor, graphic designer, and... Read more about this item
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€250.00
[TEIGE DESIGN] Předpoklady slohu: úvahy, kritiky, polemiky [The premises of style: essays, criticism, polemics]

[TEIGE DESIGN] Předpoklady slohu: úvahy, kritiky, polemiky [The premises of style: essays, criticism, polemics]

by Kubišta, Bohumil and Karel Teige, designer

Late work by Karel Teige, who also edited this series (Orloj: mezinárodní knihovna theorie umění), of which this is volume 1. The book contains reprints of 27 articles by the painter and art critic written between 1909 and 1914, discussing stylistic trends of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With extensive notes, some text illustrations, and sixteen plates, including works by Kubišta, but also other Czech artists and foreign painters such as Léger. Bohmuil Kubišta... Read more about this item
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€200.00
[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] Prokletí básníci [The cursed poets]

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] Prokletí básníci [The cursed poets]

by Verlaine, Paul, Adolf Kroupa, and Karel Teige, designer

Karel Teige designed the cover and wrote a postscript to this translation of Verlaine's essays "Les Poètes maudits" (1883-1884), from a text published in Paris in 1900. Both the cover and the appendix contain erotic surrealist photomontage imagery by Teige, highlighting his continued artistic connection with Surrealism and the Western art world even as Czechoslovakia came firmly under the Soviet sphere of influence after WWII. Surrealism was seen as standing in opposition to Socialist Realism, the... Read more about this item
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€100.00
COLLECTION TEMPO,V Novy Zivotm Sokolsky pochod

COLLECTION TEMPO,V Novy Zivotm Sokolsky pochod

by SUK, JOSEPH

SUK, JOSEPH. COLLECTION TEMPO, V Novy Zivotm Sokolsky pochod. 1920 4to. Praha. V Novy Zivot. Fest-Marsch-Festival-March
Composition for Violino I, #2 of 10 Music sheets for 10 different compositions by various composers. March-Solennelle
Arrang. B. Leopold
Ladislav Sutnar, Design in Action 2003
Composition for Violino I, #2 of 10 Music sheets for 10 different compositions by various composers.
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€118.15
[CZECH CONCRETE POETRY] Lekce velkého A: konkrétní a vizuální poezie 1962-1993 [The lesson of the capital A: concrete and visual poetry 1962-1993]

[CZECH CONCRETE POETRY] Lekce velkého A: konkrétní a vizuální poezie 1962-1993 [The lesson of the capital A: concrete and visual poetry 1962-1993]

by Ovčáček, Eduard, Jiří Valoch, and Arsén Pohribný

This volume represents the first publication of various concrete and visual poetry cycles created in the 1960-90s by Eduard Ovčáček (born 1933), which could not be published during the Czech Normalization-period of the 1970-80s. Along with such figures as Jiří Valoch, Jiří Kolář, Josef Hiršal and Bohumila Grögerová, Ovčáček was one of the foremost practitioners of concrete poetry and lettrism in Czechoslovakia. "Ovčárek endeavoured to achieve a... Read more about this item
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€125.00
[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] Levá fronta [The Left Front], nos. 6-10 (1932), 1-3 (1932-1933)

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] Levá fronta [The Left Front], nos. 6-10 (1932), 1-3 (1932-1933)

by Å toll, Ladislav, editor

Significant run of this scarce Czech leftist journal of art, literature, and politics, associated with the eponymous group. Levá fronta, or the Left Front, was founded in 1929, and replaced the avant-garde group Devětsil, which was based around such key figures as Karel Teige, Jaroslav Seifert and Adolf Hoffmeister. Under Teige, the group had increasingly shifted from allegiance to West European influences toward a greater orientation on Moscow and the Russian avant-garde, leading to discord. With... Read more about this item
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€600.00
[CZECH COMMUNIST MOVEMENT - BANNED BOOKS] Říjnová revoluce a československo-Sovětskě vztahy v československých tiscích 1918-1924; bibliograficko-dokumentární sborník k 50. výrocí Velké říjnové socialistichké revoluce připravila Státní knihovna ČSSR [The October Revolution and Czechoslovak-Soviet relations in Czechoslovak printing, 1918-1924]

[CZECH COMMUNIST MOVEMENT - BANNED BOOKS] Říjnová revoluce a československo-Sovětskě vztahy v československých tiscích 1918-1924; bibliograficko-dokumentární sborník k 50. výrocí Velké říjnové socialistichké revoluce připravila Státní knihovna ČSSR [The October Revolution and Czechoslovak-Soviet relations in Czechoslovak printing, 1918-1924]

by Vávra, Jaroslav, Karel Kozelek, and Bohumil Pelikán, editors

Uncommon bibliography and visual documentation issued on the fifty-year anniversary of the October Revolution. The work was compiled by the Czechoslovak State Library and issued as a not-for-sale special commemorative portfolio. An introduction in Czech and Russian is followed by extensive reproductions of front wrappers of communist literature and other books about Soviet Russia printed between 1918 and 1924, many of them in color. The are grouped by categories such as "Books about Vladimir Lenin,"... Read more about this item
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€400.00
[CZECH TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK] Vzorník písma odborného učilišťa štátnych pracovných záloh číslo 15 [A typographic specimen of the state vocational school no. 15]

[CZECH TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK] Vzorník písma odborného učilišťa štátnych pracovných záloh číslo 15 [A typographic specimen of the state vocational school no. 15]

Scarce and very appealing Slovak typographic specimen book, published by a state-run trade school in Bratislava, evidently after the February 1948 communist coup in Czechoslovakia. It includes an introductory essay on the history of typography, a guide for using the specimen for orders from the printer, and a table of contents. Among the included fonts are Script, Orchidea, Bernard medieval, Umbra, Ratio, Veneziana. Also included is a notably large section of "poster fonts" including large wooden type,... Read more about this item
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€250.00
František Gross. Ladislav Novák. Špálova galerie, listopad 1965

František Gross. Ladislav Novák. Špálova galerie, listopad 1965

With a long introduction by literary and art critic Jindřich Chalupecký (1910-1990), a poem by Novák, artist biographies and lists of works exhibited. An important exhibition held at the Václav Špála Gallery, a hugely influential gallery in the relatively liberal mid-1960s, where Chalupecký also created many international links in his programming (among others, Chalupecký arranged a Duchamp retrospective in 1969 and supported young Czech performance artists). The liberal period... Read more about this item
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€100.00
Básníci revolučního Ruska [The poets of revolutionary Russia].; Lidová knihovna Aventina [Aventinum popular library, series title], vol. 2

Básníci revolučního Ruska [The poets of revolutionary Russia].; Lidová knihovna Aventina [Aventinum popular library, series title], vol. 2

by Kubka, František and Karel Teige, design

First edition of this early systematic study of modern Russian (and Soviet) poetry, with chapters on the mysticism of the Revolution, Chaos and the mystery of matter, Proletarian poets, and others. Wrappers and title page designed by Karel Teige and Otakar Mrkvička. The series device was designed by Teige. Vloemans 30 (vol. 7 of the series, with similar wrapper design). First edition of this early systematic study of modern Russian (and Soviet) poetry, with chapters on the mysticism of the... Read more about this item
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€150.00
[CZECH PROLETKULT] Komunistický kalendář na rok 1926 [Communist calendar for the year 1926]

[CZECH PROLETKULT] Komunistický kalendář na rok 1926 [Communist calendar for the year 1926]

by Hora, Josef, editor

Single issue of this rare communist almanac, edited by the poet Josef Hora. It was associated with the Czech Proletkult organization, a group established shortly after the Communist Party itself was founded, in 1921, based on the Soviet proletarian culture organization by the same name. It was led by Stanislav K. Neumann (1875-1947), the former anarchist poet turned proletarian bard, an important Czech cultural and literary critic, who was also involved in the founding of the Czechoslovak Communist... Read more about this item
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€150.00
IVAN STEIGER BIBLE

IVAN STEIGER BIBLE

by Kresbach, V

Praha: Vsechna Prava Vyhrazena. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Edgeworn DJ. Text is in Czech. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages .
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€17.01
Sobota: týdeník pro politiku, hospodářství, sociální otázky a kulturu [Saturday: a weekly for politics, economics, social questions and culture], vol. I, nos. 1-22 (of 35)

Sobota: týdeník pro politiku, hospodářství, sociální otázky a kulturu [Saturday: a weekly for politics, economics, social questions and culture], vol. I, nos. 1-22 (of 35)

by Jíše, Karel, Dr. Karel Moudrý, Dr. Jan Slavík, editors

Substantial first year run of this Czech interwar journal, which was associated with the Czech National Labor Party (Národní strana práce) and the Czech National-Socialist Party (Československá strana národně socialistická). Laid into the first issue are two leaflets explaining the political aims of the new journal. The publication was continued until the Protectorate years, but only this first yearly run features the illustrated wrappers (on all but four issues), with political... Read more about this item
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€150.00
Karel Teige/1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde

Karel Teige/1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde

by Dluhosch (Ed.), Eric and Rostislav Svacha

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 420 pages, illustrated with mostly b&w plates, 8 color pages. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. "Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time."--from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s... Read more about this item
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€47.26
[SOCIALIST YOUTH JOURNAL] Mladé proudy: list národní mládeže socialistické [Saturday: a weekly for politics, economics, social questions and culture], vol. VI, nos. 1-12 (complete yearly run for 1906)

[SOCIALIST YOUTH JOURNAL] Mladé proudy: list národní mládeže socialistické [Saturday: a weekly for politics, economics, social questions and culture], vol. VI, nos. 1-12 (complete yearly run for 1906)

by Špatný, Emil, editor

Complete early run of this long-standing Czech journal for socialist youth, with articles on topics such as antireligiosity, liberalism, socialism, pacifist demonstrations, May Day celebrations, overviews of events in Silesia and Moravia, reports on various worker's and leftist youth clubs. With many censored passages blanked out; many issues are re-issues following confiscation by the censor. This appears to be the editor's copy (Emil Špatný), with copious annotations, often explaining which... Read more about this item
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€150.00
[PRAGUE SPRING ARTS AND CULTURE SERIAL] Sešity pro literaturu a diskusi [Journals for literature and debate], nos. 1-21, 23-33 (of 34 published; lacking only nos. 22 and 34)

[PRAGUE SPRING ARTS AND CULTURE SERIAL] Sešity pro literaturu a diskusi [Journals for literature and debate], nos. 1-21, 23-33 (of 34 published; lacking only nos. 22 and 34)

Nearly complete run of this important Czech Prague Spring periodical about avant-garde literature, performance, and visual arts, very scarce complete, as numerous individual issues were prosecuted by the censors. Thirty-three regular issues were published; issue no. 34 was issued in a blind wrapper, without number, in only 120 copies, before the journal was forced to shutter. A reprint of selected contents was published in 2009 to great acclaim. Each issue features numerous reproductions and... Read more about this item
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€3,500.00
[CZECH SURREALISM] Vodnář v blížencích [Aquarius in Gemini]

[CZECH SURREALISM] Vodnář v blížencích [Aquarius in Gemini]

by Zdeněk Lorenc and Josef Istler

Scarce early publication of the Czech post-war surrealist group Skupina Ra (Group Ra), containing poems by Zdeněk Lorenc and a frontispiece illustration by Josef Istler. Lorenc (1919-1999) was a noted Czech surrealist writer and a co-founder of Skupina Ra. The group's roots go back to the 1930s, but given the Nazi occupants' view of surrealism as a "degenerate art" its members were unable to publish during World War II. Unsurprisingly, the years immediately following the war saw a burst of activity,... Read more about this item
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€400.00
[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] Zně na Jalně [Whiteoaks of Jalna]

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] Zně na Jalně [Whiteoaks of Jalna]

by Roche, Mazo de la (author) and František Muzika (artist)

Third Czech edition of the novel by the Canadian writer. Although less well-known than Teige, Štyrský, and Sutnar, Muzika (1900-1974) was a key representative of the Czech avant-garde and a founding member of Devětsil. Active in a wide range of media and other endeavors, including painting, graphic design, set design, illustration, directing, and teaching, Muzika also created a range of experimental book covers beginning in the late 1920s. He served as art director of the publishing house... Read more about this item
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€150.00
[CZECH SURREALISM] Bohdan Lacina 1948. Title from colophon: Texty Františka Halase, Zdenka Lorence, Ludvíka Kundery, Jana Tomeše k výstavě Bohdana Laciny v Praze, Brně, Bratislavě roku 1948 [Texts by ... for the exhibition of Bohdan Lacina in Prague, Brno, Bratislava in 1948]

[CZECH SURREALISM] Bohdan Lacina 1948. Title from colophon: Texty Františka Halase, Zdenka Lorence, Ludvíka Kundery, Jana Tomeše k výstavě Bohdana Laciny v Praze, Brně, Bratislavě roku 1948 [Texts by ... for the exhibition of Bohdan Lacina in Prague, Brno, Bratislava in 1948]

by Halas, František, Zdeněk Lorenc, Ludvík Kundera, and Jan Tomeš

Scarce booklet accompanying what appears to be the first solo exhibit of works by Lacina, following just one year after the first legal exhibition of the Skupina Ra group, an important Czech post-war surrealist group which sharply distinguished itself from pre-war Czech surrealism. Accompanied by short essays by three founding members of the Skupina Ra, as well as the noted modernist poet František Halas. With fourteen reproductions of Lacina's surrealist paintings, a list of previous exhibitions,... Read more about this item
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€125.00
[CZECH PHOTOGRAPHY JOURNAL] Fotografický obzor: obrazový měsíčník přátel fotografie, vydává svaz čs. klubů fotografů amatéřů [Photographic revue: an illustrated monthly of photography enthusiasts, published by the Union of Czechoslovak Clubs of Amateur Photographers], vol. XLVIII, nos. 1-12 (complete year)

[CZECH PHOTOGRAPHY JOURNAL] Fotografický obzor: obrazový měsíčník přátel fotografie, vydává svaz čs. klubů fotografů amatéřů [Photographic revue: an illustrated monthly of photography enthusiasts, published by the Union of Czechoslovak Clubs of Amateur Photographers], vol. XLVIII, nos. 1-12 (complete year)

by Svaz čs. klubů fotografů amatéřů [Union of Czechoslovak Clubs of Amateur Photographers]

Complete yearly run of the longest-running Czech journal of amateur photography, which was published under various titles from 1893 to 1944 (an earlier title was 'Rozhledy fotografa amatéra'). The issues of this year are illustrated with numerous photographs by Josef Sudek, František Drtikol, Jaromír Funke, Josef Ehm, Evžen Wiškovský, Jiří Jeníček and others. Issue three (March) focuses on portraits and includes samples by masters of the genre, such as Sudek, Drtikol,... Read more about this item
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€150.00
Prague : Traveler's Literary Companion

Prague : Traveler's Literary Companion

by Paul Wilson

Whereabouts Press, 1995. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€6.46
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