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Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Helena (1894-1980) Z Mého Detství Drevoryty.
Prague: Obzina, 1929.
First trade edition, signed by the artist in pencil on the title page, with a preface written by Arne Novák, the text consisting of ninety-four original woodcuts, the first graphic novel ever published by a woman; bound in publisher's cream paper over boards, small vignette to front board; in the original dust jacket, 6 x 4 1/2 in.
[Together with] Autograph letter signed, Brno, 1930, thanking the recipient for books and sending out an order of her own work, on her letterhead, 11 1/2 x 9 in.; [and] a copy of Zemek's Z Asie do Europy, with cover by Bochoráková-Dittrichová. (3)
