Helena Bochořáková Dittrichová (1894-1980)

Z MÉHO DĚTSTVÍ

1929
Book format 12°, 15.3 × 11.5 cm, 13 numbered pp., then unpaginated, in Czech. Hard binding. Title page printed in black. On the title page the author’s signature. The publication contains 96 full-page woodcut illustrations. Published by the printing house of F. Obzina in Vyškov for Orbis, Prague, in November 1929. 10 copies numbered and signed on genuine Japan, 50 numbered on Ullersdorf paper, and a popular edition. Graphic novel by Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, who is regarded as the first lady of this literary genre. The National Museum of Women in the Arts in New York described her work as the first graphic novel created by a woman. Slight fraying of the cover at the top of the spine, otherwise in excellent condition. Provenance: from the estate of PhDr. Antonín Dufek. Other copies held in collections, e.g.: Princeton University Library, call no.: Cotsen Children’s Library Eng 20 18173; Georgetown University – Booth Family Center for Special Collections, accession no.: 2009.21.1; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Betty Boyd Dettre Library & Research Center.