Plot by Hostovsky Egon (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some damage to the spine, staining to the covers; pages toned but a good solid book overall. No jacket. Translated from the Czech by Alice Backer and Bernard Wolfe. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 211633.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1961. 376pp. 1st. Amer. ed. With dust jacket. Jacket lightly frayed at edges and along spine; ex-libris plate on inside cover; pages unmarked and gernally clean, with the occassional stain. Otherwise a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and inscribed by author on second leaf. A Very Good copy of the First English Edition (jacket has edge tears and nicks; book has some foxing and offsetting, light reading wear).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn. The endpapers are a bit marked and scarred. The title page is torn. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. Octavo. 76 Pages. Inscribed by the author to Robert von Berg. The author was a diplomat in Czechoslovakia who fled when the Nazi's took power. His deeply psychological novel deals with a diplomat who after fleeing to America become caught up in a New York world of power brokers who contrive and perhaps spy to create a nightmare for its victim. Graham Greene was the first to recognize his importance. Orville Prescott says they are excellent stories with flashes of sardonic pessimism of his key figure, Jan Bares, whose suspicions are accompanied with guilt while at a party with a priest whose faith is shaken with a Czech lawyer obsessed with a frustrated love along with a cast of troubled yet "so-called successful people". He includes a letter to Von Berg as well as a two page list of his published works with reviews laid in. Bound in a pale gray-green cloth, spine lettering black, toning and light wear to spine ends, light scattered foxing to end sheets. AA very good copy in in worn and chipped dust jacket.…