CAPEK, KAREL. Krakatit. Title printed in red and black. Half-title. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 plum cloth over patterned boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; hinges repaired, lower corner torn on pp. 239-240, edges toned. Rare true first edition; the first such example to appear at auction according to ABPC and Rare Book Hub. The first English edition would appear a year later. "[A] rich and wildly imagined work, unusual in its almost orgiastic baroque exploration of power, sexuality, and guilt" (Bleiler, Science-Fiction 360). Praha: Aventinum, 1924