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Z mého dětství: dřevoryty (From My Childhood: Woodcuts) by Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Helena; Arne Novák [Preface] - 1929

by Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Helena; Arne Novák [Preface]

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Z mého dětství: dřevoryty (From My Childhood: Woodcuts)

by Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Helena; Arne Novák [Preface]

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Prague: Orbis, 1929. First Edition. First edition. Bound in publisher's cream-colored boards with black stamping to front board. Text in Czech. Very Good+, edges a bit dust-soiled, head worn, pages toned, former owner's woodcut bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, small horizontal tear to one page's margin, in a Very Good dust jacket, worn at head, rubbed along folds, faint dampstain to front panel. Quite rare in dust jacket.

The first wordless novel by a woman, an autobiographical tale of middle-class life in Moravia (a rural region of The Czech Republic) told in a series of beautiful woodcuts. A significant though obscure early graphic novel.

  • Bookseller Burnside Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Orbis
  • Place of Publication Prague
  • Date Published 1929
  • Keywords Z meho detstvi, Helena Bochorakova Dittrichova, Czech, Czechia, woodcuts, illustrations, graphic novel, graphic novels

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Z meho detstvi: drevoryty (From My Childhood: Woodcuts)
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Z meho detstvi: drevoryty (From My Childhood: Woodcuts)

by Bochorakova-Dittrichova, Helena; Arne Novak [Preface]

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Prague: Orbis, 1929. First Edition. First edition, trade issue. 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. Very Good, chipped at head, worn along spine with a tiny stain droplet, a little foxing to top edge, contents toned with age. Housed in a plain slipcase with the author and title written in ink on the spine, foxed. Rare, especially signed.The first wordless novel by a woman, an autobiographical tale of middle-class life in Moravia (a rural region of The Czech Republic) told in a series of beautiful woodcuts. A significant though obscure early graphic novel.
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