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(SURREALISM.) Heisler, Heinrich. Nur die Turmfalken brunzen ruhig auf die 10 Gebote. Gedichte. 5 black-and-white illustrations by Toyen (Marie Cerminova); typography and design by Jindrích Styrský. Oblong 8vo, original pictorial wrappers by Styrsky, browned, edges chipped, last 2 inches of backstrip missing, front cover loose; contents shaken and with scattered light creasing and faint soiling images and text still bright and complete. Ex-collection book collector and -seller Burt Britton. (Prague): Surrealistische Edition, (1940)
scarce first limited edition. signed by toyen and inscribed and signed by heisler to poet and champion of surrealism, david gascoyne in 1945. Hand-written colophon by Heisler, in German, on verso of final leaf stating that the complete edition consisted of only 45 copies. It has been recorded that 40 were printed in German and 20 in Czech so either Heindrich mis-wrote the number or 45 was the correct number of German printings or the total edition. This important work was printed clandestinely in the first year of the Nazi occupation. As all activity deemed modern or liberal was declared illegal and suppressed, all copies had to be circulated privately. Bydžovská & Karel Srp, 352; Chadwick. Women Artists of the Surrealist Movement, NY 1985; Štyrský -Toyen-Heisler. Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, 1982.
