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Czech Surrealism

Zizka, Otokar

Elegie. [Elegy.]

Vyskov: F. Obzina, 1932. Cover and frontispiece designed by Bohdan Lacina. First edition. Limited, numbered. One of 10 luxury copies out of total 225 copies. Signed by the author and the artist on page 13 in ink. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in blue and black. 55, (13) p. Unopened. In fine condition.

Limited, first edition of the poetry collection by the Czech writer and poet, Otokar Zizka (1907–1963), designed and illustrated by the Czech surrealist painter and graphic artist, Bohdan Lacina (1912–1971), a member of the leftist avant-garde group Levá fronta, later member of the RA Group.

Price: €1,300.00