[MAUPASSANT, Guy de] Přízraky – Deset provídek [Prague: 1948]

Přízraky: Czech translation of 10 short stories

Přízraky is a collection of 10 short stories by Guy de Maupassant, translated by O. Reindl. With wood engravings by Jaroslav Lukavský.

Prague: Pourova edice, 1948.
First edition of which 600 copies were printed. Typography by O. Menhart, set in Garamond.
Illustrated with wood engravings: frontispiece, 10 headpieces at the start of each story, and a vignette in the colophon.
The frontispiece and engraving in the colophon signed in pencil by the artist.
This copy bound in half leather with hand-marbled boards. Gilt lettering to the spine.

In very good condition. Light wear to the edges of the spine.