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Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Czech Poetry in Translation] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 194 [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the marbled dust-jacket, priced at £9.95. Gently toned to edges. Crisp jacket toned to spine. Very good.

Praha: Úst?ední d?lnické knihkupectví a nakladatelství (Ant. Sv?cený), 1935. Quarto (29.8 × 23 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 13, [3] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil and foxing to wrappers, else very good. A single issue of this May Day jubilee publication of the Social Democratic Workers Party of Czechoslovakia, illustrated with reproductions of woodcuts by Frans Masereel (1889-1972) and political caricatures by Franti?ek Bidlo (1895-1945). Published by the Central Workers' Publishing House founded by Antonin Sv?cený (1871-1941), the socialist activist and eventual Senator in the Czechoslovak General Assembly representing the Social Democratic Workers Party. Frans Masereel's famous 1922 cycle Ballad of a Worker's Life is presented in the issue alongside inspirational speeches by Vaclav Patzak, a leading figure of the interwar Social Democratic Worker's Party, and an organizer of International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. The communist journalist and poet Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986) edited the issue. Seifert was also the founder of the avant-garde journal Dev?tsil (1920), and later a Nobel Laureate (in 1984). As of October 2025, KVK, OCLC show no copies of this issue in North America.

Prague: Otto Girgal, 1929-1930. Small quartos (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; consecutive pagination, 135, [6] pp. Occasional illustrations. Small loss to lower right corner of first issue (not affecting text); the other issues in fine condition, in protective mylar. Complete run of this Czech avant-garde theatre journal, which arose as a polemical forum for a less conservative, more visually inventive and experimental theatre, and was edited by the poetist writer Jaroslav Seifert. As the surrealist poet Vít?zslav Nezval writes in his manifesto "The avant-garde stage" from the first issue: "Forget all theatres that don't implement the most furtive needs of your bodies and souls, forget them all" (p. 9). With theoretical essays and manifestos by F. X. ?alda, Jan Barto?, E. F. Burian, Arno?t Dvo?ák, Karel Teige, Ji?í Karásek ze Lvovic, Vít?zslav Nezval; poetry by Halas and Hora; excerpts of plays by Nezval, Barto?, Alfred Jarry, and others. Also contains shorter glosses about cultural events related to theatre. With drawings by Toyen, Jaroslav Král, Franti?ek Muzika, and Arch. Heythum and appealing, understated typographic design throughout, to both front and rear wrappers. KVK, OCLC show copies at the British Library, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cambridge, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Getty, Harvard, Herder-Institut, and Oxford.