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Styrsky. Biebl, Konstantin

Prague. Sfinx (Bohumil Janda). 1931
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First edition of this privately printed prose work by the foremost Czech Constructivist poet. Pictorial frontispiece by Styrsky.
pp. 26, (3). 8vo. Frontispiece by Jindrich Styrsky. Original plain cream wrappers with '1931' to front and rear inside flaps, sky blue endpapers.
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