Between the Covers

Softcover. .First edition, samizdat edition. Octavo. Ten folded carbon-typed leaves separated with tissue, with engraved frontispiece by Jan Bauch mounted on first page, bound into original unprinted self-wrappers. Title and date on cover in pencil. Fine. A samizdat edition of a collection of poems and prose and an engraving for Jaroslav Seifert’s eightieth birthday. Seifert (1901–1986) was a Nobel Prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist, the chief figure of the Czech avant-garde movement. Founder of “Dev tsil”, the association of the Czech avant-garde artists, together with Vít zslav Nezval and Karel Teige.

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