Title: War with the Newts
Title Record # 894
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Date: 1937-00-00
Variant Title of: Válka s mloky [Czech] (1936) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: science fiction (1), amphibians (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
Author:
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek
Karel Chapek
Karel Chapek
Date: 1937-00-00
Variant Title of: Válka s mloky [Czech] (1936) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: The Czech original, Valka s mloky, published by Fr. Borovy, Prague, 1936.
Translated by M. & R. Weatherall. (Some of the more difficult names in the original translation have been simplified).
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
War with the Newts | 1937-00-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
George Allen & Unwin | 7/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
348 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
War with the Newts | 1939-00-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
G. P. Putnam's Sons | $3.00?$: US dollar |
348 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
War with the Newts | 1963-00-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Bantam Books | FC46 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
xii+ 241 |
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. |
novel | Paul Klee | |
War with the Newts | 1964-05-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Bantam Books | QC250 | $1.25?$: US dollar |
xii+ 241 |
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. |
novel | Paul Klee | |
War with the Newts | 1967-05-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Berkley Medallion | S1404 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
241 | 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. |
novel | Jerome Podwil | |
War with the Newts | 1971-09-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Berkley Medallion | S1404 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
241 | 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. |
novel | Jerome Podwil | |
War with the Newts | 1975-06-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Gregg Press (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) | 0-8398-2301-0 | $15.00?$: US dollar |
xviii+ 348 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
War with the Newts | 1976-07-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Berkley Medallion | 0-425-03168-3 / D3168 | $1.50?$: US dollar |
xii+ 241 |
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. |
novel | ||
War with the Newts | 1985-05-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Northwestern University Press | 0-8101-0663-9 | $8.95?$: US dollar |
xxi+ 348 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Jean Dubuffet | |
War with the Newts | 1998-08-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Penguin Books (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) | 0-14-118095-1 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
xxi+ 348 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
War with the Newts | 2010-00-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Penguin Books (Penguin Central European Classics) | 978-0-14-119270-3 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
348 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | gray318 | |
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) and War with the Newts | 2011-10-13 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II)) | 978-0-575-09945-6 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
ix+ 349 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
omni | Arthur Haas | |
War with the Newts | 2014-01-30 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Gateway / Orion | 978-1-4732-0804-9 | £1.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by George D. Martindale (1955) in Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser, May 1955
- Review by Anthony Boucher (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1955
- Review by Damon Knight (1955) in Science Fiction Stories, July 1955, (1955) , reprinted in:
- In Search of Wonder (1956)
- In Search of Wonder (1960)
- In Search of Wonder (1960)
- In Search of Wonder (1960)
- In Search of Wonder (1971)
- In Search of Wonder (1974)
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1968) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, February 1968
- Review by Tony Sudbery (1969) in Vector 54 Autumn 1969
- Review by Allan Danzig (1976) in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, January 1976
- Review by uncredited (1976) in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, September 1976
- Review by Don D'Ammassa (1977) in Delap's F & SF Review, June 1977
- Review by Brian Stableford (1986) in Fantasy Review, February 1986
- Review by Denise Gorse (1986) in Paperback Inferno, #60
- Review by Chris Morgan (1986) in Vector 132
- Review by Baird Searles (1991) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1991
- Review by Rhys Hughes (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2