9781590178409 | New York Review of Books, June 30, 2015, cover price $16.95

9780679422259 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In rural Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, eccentric Maryska scandalizes her brewery town, but after the war, although the town remains undamaged, subtle changes start to appear

9780151457458 | Harcourt, March 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the experiences of Ditie, who rises from busboy to hotel owner in World War II Prague, and whose life is shaped by the fate of his country before, during, and after the conflict

9780811216876 | New Directions, May 1, 2007, cover price $15.95

9780099492894 | New edition (Vintage Uk, January 5, 2006), cover price $14.40 | About this edition: A story of how the unbelievable came true, this book is about Ditie, a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism.

9780679727866 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1990), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the experiences of Ditie, who rises from busboy to hotel owner in World War II Prague, and whose life is shaped by the fate of his country before, during, and after the conflict

9780151238101 | Harcourt, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A grandiose old shoemaker tells his story to a circle of young women basking in the sun, a tale of amorous conquests and drunken misadventures

9780156002325 | Harcourt, September 1, 1995, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: A grandiose old shoemaker tells his story to a circle of young women basking in the sun, a tale of amorous conquests and drunken misadventures

9780151904914 | Harcourt, October 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This parable of censorship and the modern state centers on Hanta, a trash collector whose habit of salvaging and reading discarded books has brought him both the richness of the classics and the ridicule of his boss

9780156904582 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: This parable of censorship and the modern state centers on Hanta, a trash collector whose habit of salvaging and reading discarded books has brought him both the richness of the classics and the ridicule of his boss

9780810112780 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, March 9, 1995), cover price $17.00

9780810108578 | Northwestern Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | also contains Closely Watched Trains