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A word about words / Václav Havel ; with illustrations by Jiří Kolář.
LIBRA - Special DB2241.H38 A5 1992x
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Havel, Václav
- Standardized Title:
- Slovo o slovu. English
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Havel, Václav--Illustrations.
- Havel, Václav.
- Language and languages.
- Semantics.
- Illustration of books--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Illustration of books.
- Book design--Exhibitions.
- Book design.
- Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1968-1989.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Pictures.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 62 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 45 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cooper Union, 1992.
- Notes:
- "In 1989 Havel was awarded the International Peace Prize of the German Booksellers Association. It was presented in absentia at the Frankfurt Bookfair on October 15, 1989. Havel's acceptance speech was read by Maximilian Schell. His words, published here in the original Czech and its English translation celebrate "Prague and the book," an exhibition at the Cooper Union, presented in cooperation with the Charter 77 Foundation and PEN American Center."
- Translation originally printed in The New York review of books, January 18, 1990. Reprinted from Open letters, New York : A.A. Knopf, 1991.
- Designed by George Sadek and Charles Nix, and printed in an edition of 500 copies.
- English and Czech on facing pages.
- Typographic illustrations by Jiri Kolar based on the 42-line Bible.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is number 226.
- OCLC:
- 27323101
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