Z mého dětství: dřevoryty (From My Childhood: Woodcuts)
Prague: Orbis, 1929.
First edition. Signed by Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova on the title page in pencil. Bound in publisher's cream-colored boards with black stamping to front board. Text in Czech with 52 woodcuts. Very Good+ with rebacked spine, resoration to joints with heavy foxing to top edge of text block. Fresh endsheets and even toning to contents. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with skillful restoration to spine and top edges of covers; panels lightly toned with light edge wear. The first wordless novel by a woman, an autobiographical tale of middle-class life in Moravia told in a series of striking woodcuts. A significant though obscure early graphic novel chronicling the day-to-day goings-on in rural life Czech Republic; signed editions in dust jackets are increasingly scarce.
Price: $8,000