Alexandr Sergejevič Puškin (1799-1837)

Vasilij Masjutin (1884-1955)

POLTAVA

1932
Format 4°, 23.4x15.5 cm, 92 numbered pp., in Czech. Translated by Jindřich Najman. Soft binding with paper wrapper, card slipcase. Title page printed in black. Three full-page and several smaller original woodcuts by Vasily Masyutin. Published in 1932 by Alois Dyk in Prague-Smíchov as volume IX of the "Vinice" library. Edition of 120 copies, all on Dutch handmade paper Van Gelder Zonen. The publisher`s blind-stamped device in the colophon. This copy bears no. 19. Faded card slipcase with minor wear, faded wrapper spine, otherwise in good condition. Provenance: the estate of Josef Hladký - the Jiří Kačer collection