Prague: Svoboda, 1948. 94, 128, [12]pp; b&w plates. 4to. Blind-embossed blue paper over boards; dust jacket. Hinges cracked, as usual, but holding. Else very good in a rubbed jacket with dampstain at base of rear panel and light spotting to panel fore-edges.
A photobook ode to Prague, featuring 128 lovely gravure photographs of the city by Czech photographer Josef Sudek (1896-1976). With a prefatory quote by Ilja [Ilya] Ehrenburg, an introduction by Arnošt Klíma, and 26 poems by various authors, selected by Vítězslav Nezval. Text in Czech, but with summaries in Cyrillic, English, and French. N.B. Copies of this volume most commonly enocuntered with detached boards, owing to poor manufacturing quality. This copy with similar defect, though the boards remain intact, albeit gingerly.
