Various authors

COLLECTION OF 6 RARE BOOKS

1977-1991
Fráňa Šrámek: Strhali jí květy a ulámali halůzky [They Tore Off Her Flowers and Broke Her Twigs]. Format 8°, 21x15 cm. 21 numbered pp., in Czech. Adorned with three original combined techniques by Ladislav Kuklík. Soft sewn binding in the original wrapper. Published by Supraphon in Prague in 1977 as the 8th volume of the bibliophile series Polyhymnia and the 33rd publication in the Lyry Pragensis series, in an edition of 400 numbered copies on handmade paper from Velké Losiny; this copy is marked as an author`s copy. Ladislav Stehlík: Břehy a vody [Banks and Waters]. Format 8°, 20.5x15 cm. 37 numbered pp., in Czech. Adorned with three etchings by Jitka Walterová. Soft sewn binding in the original wrapper. Published by Supraphon in Prague in 1978 as the 12th vol. of the bibliophile series Polyhymnia and the 47th publication in the Lyry Pragensis series, in an edition of 200 numbered copies on handmade paper from Velké Losiny, this copy bears no. 48/200. Jan Pilař: Zázrak dorozumění [The Miracle of Understanding]. Format 8°, 21x15 cm. 52 numbered pp., in Czech. Adorned with four colour combined techniques by Daniela Havlíčková. Soft sewn binding in the original wrapper. Published by Supraphon in Prague in 1981 as the 17th vol. of the bibliophile series Polyhymnia and the 70th publication in the Lyry Pragensis series, in an edition of 200 numbered copies on handmade paper from Velké Losiny, this copy bears no. 168/200. Olga Čechová: Pražské procházky [Prague Walks]. Format 8°, 21.5x15 cm. 58 numbered pp., in Czech. The author`s own poems adorned with 14 drypoints by the author. Loose sheets of handmade paper in the original wrapper. Published in Prague in 1977. Edition size not stated, this copy bears no. 30 and is signed and dated by the author in the colophon ("Olga Čechová 79"). Bohuslav Knobloch: Jadran [Adriatic]. Format 8°, 21x15 cm. Fourteen bookplates, colour lithographs, of similar dimensions ca. 13x12 cm, all signed in pencil at the bottom centre below the image. Loose sheets of heavier handmade paper in the original wrapper. Published in Prague in 1989. Věra Sedláková: Mozartova Bertramka [Mozart`s Bertramka]. A set of 6 etchings. Format 2°, 35.5x25 cm. Loose sheets of Hollar handmade paper with the original wrapper and in cardboard boards with gilt initials "WAM". Published in the Edice 90 series by the publisher of bibliophile texts and prints Bonaventura in Prague in 1991, in an edition of 90 numbered sets, this copy bears no. 25/90. Original wrapper faded, otherwise good condition.