From: hybl@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl (UMAB-BIOPHYS))
Subject:  Re: Need reference to Karel Capek's play R.U.R.
Summary:  Summary of gleaned information
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:15:41 GMT

TR answered my query in an email message:
>Catbird Press (44 North Sixth Avenue, Highland Park, New Jersey 08904,
>phone (201) 572-0816 has recently published a bunch of Capek books in
>English, including one titled Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek
>Reader (1990) which includes RUR.  The books lists a toll-free number
>800-888-4741 for calling their distributor to order copies.  
I now own a copy of this book and thank TR for the information.
Catbird press also publishes Capek's "Three Novels," and "War
with the Newts."  Eleven translators contributed to the Capek Reader.
Dr. Claudia Novack-Jones translated R.U.R.  Regrettably, references
to Czech versions of the translated works were not included.

AEP sent the following information:
>I performed this play in high school, in 1972.  At that time the 
>rights to the play were still owned by the Samuel French company
Many of the earlier versions of R.U.R. have been described as
"incomplete adaptations."  The following is included on
page 109 of the Capek Reader:  "All inquiries concerning
performances and production rights of any kind should be
addressed to Claudia Novack-Jones, c/o Catbird Press, 44 North
Sixth Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904."  AEP said: "The play is
very easy to stage."  He included the address for Samuel French
Company; send me email if you want it.

I received several messages saying: 'Try any bookstore with
a Books in Print catalog.'  The problem with this suggestion is
that it would never have located the version of R.U.R. printed
in "Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader."  I have
visited two book stores, both with computerized books in print
terminals.  They admit that if the name isn't in the title, they
will not find it--so you see, the readers of the soc.culture.czecho-
slovok newsgroup form a protrely(*) family.

I also searched the catalogs of JHU and the Library of Congress
without learning that R.U.R. was included in the Capek Reader.
For those of you who can telnet to DRA.COM, you will gain
access to the Library of Congress collection.  I have appended
the gleaned LC information (hate to waste it).

Nazdar,
Albert Hybl (hybl@umbc4.umbc.edu)
(*) tr. worldly-wise

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Enter Author:  Capek, Karel

 1  5 Capek, Karel.
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1.1 Pravni postaveni socialistickych podniku /
1.2 Predmet a system ceskoslovenskeho hospodar / 1984
1.3 Czechoslovakia.  Hospodarsky zakonik a predpisy souvisici / 1979
1.4 Czechoslovakia.  Hospodarsky zakonik a predpisy souvisici / 1984
1.5 Czechoslovakia.  Hospodarsky zakonnik a niektore vykonavaci / 1977
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 2 34 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
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2.01 Capek, Karel, Adam stvoritel : komedie o sedmi obrazech 1927
2.02 Capek, Karel, Anglicke listy, pro vetsi nazornost provaz 1925
2.03 Capek, Karel, Apokryfy / Karel Capek.  1932
2.04 Capek, Karel, Cestopisy / Karel Capek. 1980
2.05 Capek, Karel, Cesty Evropou. S doprovodem autorovych kre 1955
2.06 Capek, Karel, Ciste umeni : [uryvek z posledni romanove 1939
2.07 Capek, Karel, Fotografuje-- / Karel Capek.  1989
2.08 Capek, Karel, Hovory s T.G. Masarykem / Karel Capek. 1990
2.09 Capek, Karel, I had a dog and a cat; pictures drawn by J 1941
2.10 Capek, Karel, Krakatit, by Karel Capek; translated by La 1925
2.11 Capek, Karel, Kritika slov / Karel Capek.  1927
2.12 Capek, Karel, Kritika slov : o vecech obecnych, Cili, Zo 1991
2.13 Capek, Karel, Listy Anielce / Karel Capek ; il. Ludmila 1978
2.14 Capek, Karel, Money and other stories. [Translated from 1970
2.15 Capek, Karel, Na brehu dnu / K. C. ; [uspor. a vysvetl. 1978
2.16 Capek, Karel, Neuskutecneny dialog / Karel Capek, Erich 1978
2.17 Capek, Karel, O umeni a kulture / Karel Capek. 1984
2.18 Capek, Karel, Obycejny zivot / Karel Capek. 1934
2.19 Capek, Karel, Od cloveka k cloveku / Karel Capek. 1988
2.20 Capek, Karel, Posledni epos, cili, Roman pro sluzky / Ka 1927
2.21 Capek, Karel, Pragmatismus, cili, Filosofie praktickeho 1925
2.22 Capek, Karel, Sedm rozhlasku Karla Capka / [vybral a dos 1946
2.23 Capek, Karel, Tales from two pockets; translated from th 1967
2.24 Capek, Karel, Tovarna na absolutno. Puv. il. Josefa Capk 1969
2.25 Capek, Karel, Toward the radical center : a Karel Capek 1990
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(Record 2.25 of 34) Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Title: Toward the radical center : a Karel Capek reader / edited
and with an introduction by Peter Kussi ; foreword by

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038.C3 A25 1990
Arthur Miller ; translated by Norma Comrada ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication Info: Highland Park, NJ : Catbird Press, c1990.
Phys. Description: 407 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: "A Garrigue book."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938--Translations into English.
Other Names: Kussi, Peter.
LC Card Number:    89039708
ISBN: 0-945774-06-0 (cloth : alk. paper) : $23.95
ISBN: 0-945774-07-9 (paper : alk. paper) : $13.95
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2.26 Capek, Karel, Ukradeny spis 139/VII, odd. C. Vybor z pro 1968
2.27 Capek, Karel, Univerzitni studie / Karel Capek ; [sestav 1987
2.28 Capek, Karel, Valka s mloky / Karel Capek. 1981
2.29 Capek, Karel, Ze spolecne tvorby / Karel Capek, Josef Ca 1982
2.30 Karel Capek : sbornik prispevku z narodni 1990
2.31 Masaryk, T. G. (Tomas President Masaryk tells his story [by] Kar 1971
2.32 Masaryk, T. G. (Tomas Hovory s T.G. Masarykem / K.C. 1936
2.33 Masaryk, Thomas Garrig Masaryk on thought and life; conversations 1971
2.34 Masaryk, Tomas Garrigu Masaryk on thought and life [conversations 1971
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 3  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Adam stvoritel. English.
 4  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Bila nemoc. English.
 5  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Bozi muka.
 6  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Zivot a dilo
 7  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Correspondence.
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(Record 7.1 of 1) Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Generic Title: Correspondence
Title: Karel Capek Vere Hruzove : dopisy ze zasuvky / [k vyd.
  pripravil a doslov napsal Jiri Opelik].

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038.C3 Z485 1980
Publication Info: V Praze : Melantrich, 1980.
Phys. Description: 1 portfolio (97 p. : facsim.) ; 20 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938--Correspondence.
Subjects: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938--Relations with women.
Subjects: Hruzova, Vera, 1901-1979.
Subjects: Authors, Czech,--20th century--Correspondence.
Other Names: Hruzova, Vera, 1901-1979.
Other Names: Opelik, Jiri.
LC Card Number:    82462666 //r90
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 8  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Dasenka cili zivot stenete. English.
 9  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Devatero pohadek a jeste jedna. Englis
10  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Jak se co dela. 1984.
11  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Jak vznika divadelni hra. German.
12  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Kniha apokryfu. English.
13  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Krakatit. 1982.
14  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Krakatit. English.
15  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Marsyas.
16  2 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Muz ktery dovedl letat.
17  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. O nejblizsich vecech. English.
18  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. O nejblizsich vecech. English.
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(Record 18.1 of 1) Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Generic Title: O nejblizsich vecech. English
Title: Intimate things. Translated by Dora Round.

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038.C3 O1713 1968
Publication Info: Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968]
Phys. Description: 176 p. 22 cm.
Series Name: Essay index reprint series
Notes: Essays.
Notes: Reprint of the 1936 ed.
Notes: Translation of O nejblizsich vecech.
Other Names: Round, Dora, tr.
LC Card Number:    68054337 //r83
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19  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. O proutkarstvi. 1938.
20  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Ochrana autoru.
21  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. R.U.R. English.
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(Record 21.1 of 1) Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Generic Title: R.U.R. English
Title: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) : a fantastic melodrama
  by Karel Capek ; translated by Paul Selver.

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038.C3 R213 1923
Edition: Theatre Guild version, with four illustrations from
  photographs of the Theatre Guild production.
Publication Info: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1923.
Phys. Description: xii, 187 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series Name: The Theatre Guild library
Notes: "First edition"-P. [iv]
Other Names: Selver, Paul, 1888-
Other Names: R.U.R.
Other Names: Rossum's Universal Robots.
LC Card Number:    23026130 //r84
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22  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Selections. 1983.
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(Record 22.1 of 1) Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Generic Title: Selections. 1983
Title: Zahradnikuv rok ; Mel jsem psa a kocku ; Kalendar / Karel
  Capek.

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038 .C3 1981 vol. 12
Publication Info: Praha : Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, 1983.
Phys. Description: 386 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series Name: Spisy / Karel Capek ; 12
Other Names: Zahradnikuv rok.
Other Names: Mel jsem psa a kocku.
Other Names: Kalendar.
Other Series Names: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Works. 1981 ; 12.
LC Card Number:    84145219
ISBN: Kcs25.00
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23  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Selections. English. 1990.
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(Record 23.1 of 1) Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Generic Title: Selections. English. 1990

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038.C3 A28 1990
Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Generic Title: Selections. English. 1990
Title: Three novels : Hordubal ; Meteor ; An ordinary life / by
Karel Capek ; translated from the Czech by M. and R.
Weatherall ; introduction by William Harkins.
Publication Info: Highland Park, NJ : Catbird Press ; [Chicago, IL] :
Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, c1990.
Phys. Description: 464 p. ; 22 cm.
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24  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Tovarna na absolutno.
25  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Tovarna na absolutno. English.
26  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Tovarna na absolutno. English.
27  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Trapne povidky. 1981.
28  5 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Valka s mloky. English.
29  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Vec Makropulos. English.
30  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Works. 1981.
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(Record 30.1 of 1 ) Author: Capek, Karel, 1890-1938.
Generic Title: Works. 1981
Title: Spisy / Karel Capek.

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038 .C3 1981
Edition: Vyd. 20., v Cs. vyd. 6.
Publication Info: Praha : Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, 1981-<1991   >
Phys. Description: v. <1-3, 9, 12-15, 17-18, 21   > ; 20 cm.
LC Card Number:    82196060
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31  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Zahradnikuv rok. English.
32  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1938. Zivot a dilo skladatele Foltyna. 1974.
33  1 Capek, Karel, 1890-1939. 
34  1 Capek, Karel, 1930-
35  1 Capek, Karel Matej, 1860-1927.
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(Record 35.1 of 1) Author: Capek, Karel Matej, 1860-1927.
Title: Jindrove / K. M. Capek-Chod ; [k vyd. pripravil a edicni
  pozn. naps. Rudolf Skrecek ; Dusan Jerabek doslov ; barev.

Type of Material: Book
LC Call Number: PG5038.C32 J5 1978
il. Rastislav Michal].
Edition: 10 vyd., v Odeonu 1. vyd.
Publication Info: Praha : Odeon, 1978.
Phys. Description: 356, [3] p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Series Name: Klub ctenaru ; sv. 421
LC Card Number:    79350932
ISBN: Kcs30.00