Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CAPEK, KAREL. Krakatit. Title printed in red and black. 8vo, contemporary full tan linen, morocco lettering piece; ownership inscription to half-title. First edition, with the original linocut front wrapper designed by Josef Capek bound in at end. "[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