BEZRUC, Petr: STUZKONOSKA MODRA.
Graphic design O. Petr.
Brno, Novy lid, 1930.
8°, 26 pp. Sections sew in original publisher's cover with flaps.
First edition. Preferred copy number 80 from limited edition of 100 unsold copies on Holland handmade paper. 600 copies in total. Signature of Petr Bezruc on half-title. - Cover with signs of light use by normal manipulation and in very good condition. Sections sew intact. Collector's condition. - Language: Czech.
<ID:BIB21850> Price: 1200,- CZK

Petr Bezruc (September 15, 1867, Opava, Austria-Hungary - February 17, 1958, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia)
Czech poet and novelist.
After graduation at Brno grammar school he studied classical philology. During World War I he was arrested for alleged authorship of anti Austrian poem. After war he was appointed head of railway post office in Brno, but he resigned next day. In 1928 he retired. He lived in Brno, then in Kostelec na Hane and in Branka near Opava. In 1939 he settled in Kostelec na Hane and stayed there for rest of his life.
Selected bibliography:
Slezske cislo, 1903
Slezske pisne, 1909
Moravska zem a moravska rec, 1923
Republika pred svatym Petrem, 1923
Stuzkonoska modra, 1930
Lolo a druhove - 1937
Paralipomena I - 1937
Paralipomena II - 1938