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  • Publication: Vampires Ltd.Publication Record # 53156
  • Author: Josef Nesvadba
  • Date: 1964-00-00
  • Publisher: Artia
  • Pages: 225
  • Format:
    pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: Vampires Ltd. by
    Miloš Hrbas?Milos Hrbas
  • Webpages: knihobot.cz
  • Notes:
    • Subtitled (not on the cover) "Stories of Science and Fantasy"; no comma before "Ltd."
    • Czechoslovakia's foreign-language publishing house was named just Artia (see literary encyclopedia entry). "Vanous" added in some early bibliographies was a New York importer of Czech books.
    • "Jacket design by Miloš Vrbas" (with caron)
    • "From the Czech original Vynález proti sobě", i.e. Nesvadba's 1964 first retrospective/reprint coll of 16 stories (from 24 then extant, see there for details) stories; however Vampires has only 11, and of these "The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich" was NOT included in Vynález.
    • "English translation © 1964 by Iris Urwin" (also known as Lewitová, 1916–2008)
    • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in The Lost Face as well as In the Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman says "'The Lost Face', 'The Chemical Formula of Destiny', 'Inventor of His Own Undoing', 'Doctor Moreau's Other Island', 'Expedition in the Opposite Direction', and 'In the Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman' were published in Czech in Vynález proti sobě, and in the present translation in a volume entitled Vampires Ltd. published by Artia in 1964." The books also say "English translation Iris Urwin 1964, 1970" (for the 2 remaining of 8 stories, The Death of An Apeman and The Trial Nobody Ever Heard Of).
    • Contents' page numbers from Fantlab (written; no photo).
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page
Collection Title: Vampires Ltd. • collection by Josef Nesvadba

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Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years N/A Rtrace 2021-02-02 18:12:55
Bleiler Supernatural N/A Rtrace 2021-02-02 18:12:55
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Clute/Grant N/A Dirk P Broer 2011-05-27 06:58:21
Clute/Nicholls Verified Dirk P Broer 2011-05-27 06:58:21
Contento1 (anth/coll) Verified Dirk P Broer 2011-05-27 06:58:21
Currey N/A Rtrace 2021-02-02 18:12:55
Locus1 N/A Dirk P Broer 2011-05-27 06:58:21
Miller/Contento N/A Rtrace 2021-02-02 18:12:55
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Rtrace 2021-02-02 18:12:55
Reginald1 Verified Chris J 2016-09-24 17:25:14
Reginald3 N/A Dirk P Broer 2011-05-27 06:58:21
Tuck N/A Rtrace 2021-02-02 18:12:55
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