Beschreibung
RICTUS, Jehan; OBRTEL, Vít: Výbor z poesie [Selected poems]. Translated by Jindřich Hořejší. Postface by Josef Hora. Cover design by Vít Obrtel. Frontispiece after a woodcut of the author’s portrait by Antoine-Pierre Galliena. (= Prokletí Básníci [Course of Poets], 3). Prague: Škeřík (Průmyslová tiskárna) 1929. 8vo. 59, [5] p. Original publisher’s wrapper with flaps.
Elegant edition with poems by French naturalist Jehan Rictus (i.e. Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand, 1867-1933), with a splendid cover design reduced to function by Vít Obrtel, elegantly contrasting Galiena’s replete woodcut portrait of the author. – Pictorial Exlibris signed „F. Rady“ on title leaf verso.
Front cover and spine with barely seeable wear, top of spine with small fault. Otherwise very good copy of the normal edition on stronger machine mould paper titled »Antik«, after 50 copies on Holland Van Gelder (numbered I-L) and 400 on Japan Banzay (1-400).
Obrtel: 1992, p. 53, no. 25 (bibliography).
