Arizona: Román
by PAULIK, Jaroslav Jan; Frantisek Muzika, cover design
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Praha: Aventinum, 1928. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-montaged card wrappers printed in black and green; 159pp. Light shelf wear to wrapper extremities, tiny chip at bottom spine edge of upper cover, minor dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Designed by the prolific Surrealist Czech designer Frantisek Muzika (1900-1974), the art director of Aventinum from 1927 until the publisher's folding in 1934, during which period he would provide the designs for nearly one hundred titles (see Jindrich Toman, Foto-Montáž Tiskem / Photo-Montage in Print (2009), p. 196).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41970
- Title
- Arizona: Román
- Author
- PAULIK, Jaroslav Jan; Frantisek Muzika, cover design
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Aventinum
- Place of Publication
- Praha
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Photography; Eastern Europe / Soviet Bloc;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...