Beschreibung
KALLINIKOV; Josif; TOYEN: Lev Tolstoj. Tragedie Sexuální. Cover design by Toyen. With nine full-paged photographies. (= Symposion, 56). Prague: Symposion (Československý Kompas) 1931. 8vo. 310, [2] p. Original publisher’s cloth.
First Czech edition of this study about Tolstoy’s privat life, published in Rudolf Škeříks »Symposion«, an book series dedicated to modern foreign literature and criticism in translation and designed by numerous protagonists of Czech avant-garde. The cover vignette for this volume is designed by Toyen (i. e. Marie Čermínová) and shows a constructivist composition of the initals L. N. and T. (für Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy). – Pictorial Exlibris signed „F. Rady“ on title leaf verso.
No dust wrapper, as published. End leaf verso with small trace of glue, otherwise very fine copy indeed.
