Z mého dětství: dřevoryty (From My Childhood: Woodcuts)
Prague: Orbis, 1929.
First edition. [14], unpaginated. Bound in publisher's cream-colored boards with black stamping to front board. Text in Czech followed by 95 woodcuts. Near Fine with just a touch of soiling to the tail, toning to contents, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minimal 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.
Price: $6,000