Čech, Eduard. Point Sets. Translated from the Czech by Aleš Pultr. Prague, 1969. First English edition.

Čech, Eduard. Point Sets / translated from the Czech ("Bodové množiny", 2nd ed., 1966) by Aleš Pultr ; scientific editor Doc. Věra Trnková, CSc. ; preface by M. Katětov.
Prague : Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ; New York : Academic Press, 1969. 271 pp. Enlarged format.
Hardcover with original dust jacket. First English edition.
Boards very good: clean white linen-textured cloth with blind-stamped "(EČ)" monogram to upper cover, faint mark at head of spine. Text block very good: clean and tight throughout, complete with index. Dust jacket fair: significant chipping and short tears along the spine ends and edges, scattered foxing and staining to both panels, corner wear.

A landmark English-language edition of the collected topological treatise of Eduard Čech (1893-1960), one of the twentieth century's foundational figures in general and algebraic topology, whose name is permanently attached to the Stone-Čech compactification, Čech cohomology, and the Čech closure operator, and who was the first to publish a proof of Tychonoff's theorem. The original "Bodové množiny I" of 1936 profoundly shaped the development of Czechoslovak mathematics; after Čech's death in 1960, the complete manuscript of a planned second volume was found among his papers, and this discovery prompted the 1966 Czech edition - translated here into English by Aleš Pultr - that unites those four further chapters with the original three into a single systematic progression from the elements of set theory and the general properties of metric spaces through connectedness, local connectedness, and the topology of the plane. As Miroslav Katětov's preface notes, the book was conceived as a university textbook demanding but elementary in style, whose scope nonetheless substantially exceeds a standard topology course, making it equally useful as a first introduction to modern topology for researchers in other mathematical disciplines. Co-published by Academia in Prague and Academic Press in New York for international distribution, this English edition brought Čech's systematic treatment of point-set topology to a global readership for the first time and remains a standard reference cited in the history of the discipline.