Czechoslovakia from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

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Quarto 24x17.5 cm., embossed cloth, 87pp. Karel Matej Capek-Chod (1850-1927) was a naturalistic writer and journalist. Born Karel Matej Capek, he added the Chod to his name, possibly to distinguish himself from the preeminent Karel Capek (1890-1938) of international renown, with whom he worked in publishing. Capek-Chod won several literary prizes for his work (State Prize for Literature, 1920,… Read more about this item

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Kveten 1945.

by Jiri Taufer

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Used - Near Fine

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First and only

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1960

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Quarto 30.5x26.5 cm., embossed canvas folio, (2), holding ten original albumen prints. 3400 copies. Book design by Stanislav Kohout, bibliophile printing by Josef Prošek. A retrospect after fifteen years ending WWII in Prague, when hostilities ceased in May 1945. Jiří Taufer provides a short essay, with a visual essay of original photos by Jaroslav Pacovský, Slava Štochi,Václav Chochola, Karel Ludwig,… Read more about this item

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Vanocni koleda prozou

by Charles Dickens (Josef Vachal woodcuts)

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Used - Near Fine

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First and only

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1945

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Octavo 21x13 cm., 1/2-calf, 123 (1) pp., with seven woodcuts by Josef Vachal. The first and only edition of this work with Vachal woodcuts. Josef Vachal (1884-1969) was a visionary artist and writer, a spiritualist whose works make him a parallel William Blake in Czech. His spooky ecotplasmic depictions fit well with the Dickens tale. OCLC locates three North American… Read more about this item

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Polibek smrti

by Nicolas Ségur

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Used

Edition

First in Czech

Published

1935

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Octavo 17x12 cm., decorated cloth 166 (2) pp. Maurice Ségur (Nikolaos Espikopopoulos, 1874-1944) Greek journalist, critic, and author, was published widely in his lifetime of historical novels and studies. This work is the first translation by G. Krasová of Baiser mortel, written in 1932. The dust wrapper is a photo of František Dritkol, and has become a famous one of… Read more about this item

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Obraz nahé ženy

by Maurice Leblanc

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Used

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Very Good-

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First in Czech

Published

1934

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Octavo 17x12 cm., decorated cloth, 280pp. Leblanc (1864-1941) was the renowned author of several detective stories featuring Arsene Lupin, a gentleman-detective providing a French counterpart to the central figure of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. The present work is a rather uncommon one, known in English as Wanton Venus. This was likely the first appearance in Czech language translated by Jan… Read more about this item

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Malíř na frontě. Soča a Italie, 1917-18 (A Painter at the Front, Soča and Italy, 1917-18).

by Josef Váchal

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Used - Fine

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First

Published

1929

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New wrappers

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Quarto 24x16.5 cm., new bound wrappers, 403 (6)pp. 42 woodcuts, 1 linocut, 4 photos, unnumbered copy in an edition of 457. This copy uncut, in newly bound wrappers preserving the original cover illustration. Hand printed by his partner Anna Macková at her expense in a private edition under Vachal's press name Politika. An autobiographical memoir of Vachal's participation in… Read more about this item

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Dve povidky

by Antonin Macek, Josef Vachal illus.

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Used - Near Fine

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Not issued.

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First

Published

1911

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Octavo, bound in half-calf with original wrappers

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Octavo, ½-calf from the era with original wrappers preserved, Octavo 21 x 15.5 cm, unpag.(50pp). Symbolist tales with a social twist (Albert D'abel, Prítel a milenec) with 4 woodcuts and title design by Josef Váchal. Author Antonin Macek (1873-1924) was a left wing journalist, novelist, playwright and Symbolist poet. A political activist, he founded the communist party in 1921, and… Read more about this item

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Satanu.Báseň.

by Josue Carducci; Josef Váchal

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Used - Near Fine

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First and only

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1936

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Unbound as issued, in a custom cloth folio

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Published in an edition of 17 copies, this is a highly dramatic work illustrating the eponymous poem by Carducci (1835-1907), noted poet, historian and politician. SATANU is a magnificent work in large format (59 x 34 cm) twenty-one folded leaves with 11 full-page hand-colored woodcuts and 3 smaller linocuts, also in color. Váchal made the paper by hand, created the… Read more about this item

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Básně (Poetry)

by Marcus Valerius Martialis

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First

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1930

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Splendid, erotic, quasi-surrealist Muzika drawings Small octavo 13.5 x 9.7 cm, custom ½-calf, 77pp., no. 157 in an edition of 350; Published by Stanislav K. Neumann. A fine little work with five exquisite drawings by František Muzika in a Czech translation with a foreword of the poetry of Martial by Josef Dietrich. Muzika's artwork of this time combines elements of classical… Read more about this item

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Dřevoryty k Mystikům a Visionařům.

by Josef Váchal

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Used - Fine+

Edition

second printing

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ca 1923

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Portfolio of original woodcuts by Josef Váchal Woodcuts to Mystics and Visionaries. A Cycle of Woodcuts from the Period of 1911-1913. Folio in wrappers (21-5/8 x 15-3/8 inches), prints are 8-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches. Five woodcuts saluting the life of mystics and seers: Strom Života (The Tree of Life), Cornelius Agrippa, Jakob Boehme, Angelus Silesius and Katařina Emmerichová, all loose as… Read more about this item

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Bohyne svetice zeny. Torso.

by Stanislav K. Neumann

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Used - Fine

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First

Published

1915

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Octavo 20.5x11.5 cm., full-calf, 85(6) pp. (The Divinity of Holy Woman. A Fragment) With a fine lithograph by Josef Capek for the frontispiece from his late cubist period. S.K. Neumann was an oversize literary figure and social activist from the early 1900s, first as an anarcho-communist and founder of the Communist party in the First Republic, soon after the October… Read more about this item

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DAV. Umenie, Kritika, Politika, Filozofia, Literatura.

by L’udo Obtulovic, V. Stolcz, J. Stekanina, Ladislav Szántó, Edo Urx, eds. inter alia

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Used - Fine

Edition

First complete

Published

1965

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The only full publication of this legendary journal of the Slovak avant-garde Large quarto 34.3 x 25 cm, cloth, 1496pp. The reprint* of the legendary, most radical journal of the Slovakian avant-garde which appeared from 1924-26 and 1931-37 (here all published). It began as an artistic venture by the Davisti group of artists, writers and intellectuals spearheading the latest Slovak arts… Read more about this item

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Dvanásti

by Alexander Alexandrovič Blok

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Used - Very Good+

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First

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1934

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Rare, DAV first translation of Blok's The Twelve into Slovak Quarto 23.5x15 cm., wrappers, 24pp. Issued as the third book of DAV. The first translation into Slovak by the poet Janko Jesenský of Blok's famous response to the 1917 revolution, with a preface by Laco Novomeský. Printed by Pallas in Prešov. Typo and cover design by Zdeněk Rossmann. Original… Read more about this item

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Ut'ate ruky

by Rudolf Fabry

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Used

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First

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1935

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Octavo 20x14 cm., wrappers, 61(4) pp. 512 copies. Fabry´s book debut. Cover design and typography by the author. Rudolf Fabry (1915-1982) was a poet and surrealist artist, the first to be acknowledged in Slovakia and one of the most significant in both fields. The present work was the first surrealist novel in Slovak and it also is rated the author's… Read more about this item

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KAMENY ZLOMU. Studenský almanach

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First

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1933

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Octavo 19x12,5 cm., original wrappers, 56(4) pp. 450 copies. Cover design, typograph and illustrations by Vladimir Hnizdo. Vladimír Jan Hnizdo (1914-1978) was a painter, graphic artist and theater set designer. This is an early work, before he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, and displays sophistication. After heading the production at the Theater of Cologne he was… Read more about this item

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Klaní a porubání.

by Jaroslav (Jaroslav Vojtěch)

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Used

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First

Published

1945

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12mo 15.6x12 cm., stiff wrappers, 48 [3] pp. (Jousting and Butchery. Loose thoughts in bound speech). Cover and illustrations by František Bidlo. Vojtěch (1922-2003) was an editor and translator, social and political critic. Published during the waning days of the German occupationi, most likely after the imprisonment of Bidlo, who had illustrated Vojtěch's other anti-Nazi epigrams published during the… Read more about this item

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Pošklebky satyrovy.

by Emmerich Al. Hruška

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Used - Fine

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First

Published

1921

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