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216 - Nezval, Vitezslav. – *Abeceda*.
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Estimate €180 - €250
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Description
Nezval, Vitezslav. – *Abeceda*. Prague, J. Otto, 1926. Quarto, blue cloth binding with title in red lettering on the front cover, cover intact – 57 pp., [3 pp., including 1 blank page]. Illustrated with 25 black-and-white photomontages (the letters J and Q are combined on the same page). Photographs by Karel Paspy, based on a choreography by Milei Mayerová, designed and arranged by Karla Teigeho. Each photograph is accompanied by a rhyming quatrain by Nezval. Print run of 2,000 unnumbered copies. First edition A work highly representative of the Czech artistic collective Devetsil, one of whose founders was Karla Teigeho (Karel Teige) and of which Nezval was a member. A rare record of a surrealist movement ahead of its time. The volume is enhanced by an E.A.S. by the choreographer (dated 1930).
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