Prague: Around 1980. Samizdat. Typescript. 74 p. Samizdat edition of Hrabal’s book, of which the first edition, published in 1970, was banned and destroyed. More

Prague: 1982. Samizdat edition. Xerox. In original cloth. 301 p. Hrabal’s story has been adapted to movie by Jiří Menzel in 2006. The two already worked together on the “Closely Observed Trains” (1965) that won the Oscar in 1968. Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) regarded as one of the best Czech..... More

Hannover: 1986. Xerox. In original half cloth. 142 p. An semi-autobiographical story that tracks Hrabal's life from 1963 until the 70s. Dealing with the times when his first book "Perlička na dně" (Pearl on the Bottom) has been published through the seventies when he was banned as an author. The..... More

Czech: 1971 october. period typescript. 36 p. The collection of Tři smutné grotesky 1944–1953 by Bohumil Hrabal was first published in 1978 as a samizdat edition by Edice Expedice in Prague. More

(Praha): (Jazz Petit, Jazzová Sekce.), (1982). First (semiofficial) edition. In original, illustrated paper. 301, (1) p. Hrabal finished this story already in 1971, but at that time he was under censorship, so the story could be spread only as samizdat. “Jazzová Sekce” that published first in 1982, was a civil..... More

Říjen - listopad - prosinec: 1986. Samizdat first edition. Signed. Dated on 1985 however the copyright (which is printed reversed beneath) is dated to 1986. In contemporary paper. (4), 4–285, (1) [p. Inscribed An semi-autobiographical story that tracks Hrabal’s life from 1963 until the 70s. Dealing with the times..... More

Ceskoslovensky Preoisovatel, 1989. In original printed wrappers. Samizdat edition. Limited edition, printed in only 10 copies. Text printed as a carbon copy, the cover and the illustrated title pages are handprinted. [2], 007–016, 016–40, 042–058, [2] leaves, and [2] hand printed title leaves. Limited, samizdat edition of Hrabal’s two short..... More