Vampires Ltd.
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Overview:
- Title: Vampires Ltd.
- Author: Josef Nesvadba
- Year: 1964
- Publisher: Artia
- Pages: 225
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Vampires Ltd.
- 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).