Beschreibung
HORA, Josef; ČAPEK, Josef: Probuzení. Prozý [Wake up. Prose]. Linocut cover design and linocut publisher’s device (on title page) by Josef Čapek. (= Edice Aventinum, 106). Prague: Aventinum (Obzina) 1925. 8vo. 111, [5] p. in lose folios. Original publisher’s wrapper with linocut front cover and black title on spine, all on dark red stock.
First edition of this collection with prose writings by Czech leftist poet, translator of Russian literature (e.g. Jessenin and Pasternak) as well as literary critic Josef Hora (1891-1945), member of the eminent, Prague based »Devětsil« avant-garde group and also contributor to the magazine »Plán«. Hora’s books were designed by some of the most renown modernist book artists like Vít Obrtel, František Muzika, and in this case Josef Čapek, who created this distinctively strong and clear typographic linocut cover to underline Hora’s revolutionary message.
First title page with small owner’s label, bottom of spine with a small fault, top slightly bumped, inside little traces of use, otherwise fine copy of this edition, printed on stronger paper.
Vloemans: 2012, cat. no. 45 (2 coloured ill.)
