Kodíček, Josef, Miroslav Rutte, et al, editors.

[MODERN CZECH THEATRE] Nové české divadlo: sborník dramatického svazu [New Czech theatre: an anthology of the Drama Society] 1918–1926, 1927, 1928–1929, 1930–1932 (all published, in four volumes).

Prague: Aventinum, 1927–1932. Quartos (29.2 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by J. Vichnar and F. Muzika; 149, [7]; 123, [5]; 138, [6]; and 137, [7] pp. Each volume with color frontis and numerous leaves of plates on coated stock, as well as additional smaller reproductions of drawings and photographs throughout the text. Very good copies; only light wear and soil to wrappers; one issue with small owner inscription to title. Item #P6751

Complete series of these abundantly illustrated yearbooks, which cover fifteen years of modern theatre in Czechoslovakia. The illustrations from photographs and drawings depict stage sets, costumes, actors, as well as designs by leading avant-garde Czech artists such as the Cubo-Expressionist Vlastislav Hofman, Josef Čapek, Adolf Hofmeister, Josef Wenig, Bedřich Feuerstein, and others. The photographs show additional works by artists including Antonín Heythum, Josef Lada, Otokar Mrkvička, Zdeněk Rykr, V. H. Brunner and numerous others. With articles, essays, and reviews by, among many others, Jan Bartoš, Diktor Dyk, Vlastislav Hofman, František Langer, Milča Majerová, Voskovec and Werich, and Karel Čapek. With French summaries at rear of each issue. A rich compendium of the development of modernist and avant-garde theatre in interwar Czechoslovakia.

Wrappers by František Muzika and Jindra Vichnar, an authority in typography, graphic design, and advertising.

Published in runs ranging from 1000 to 1200 copies and edited by the Czechoslovak Drama Society.

Price: €600.00

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