Ett r med min Trädgård [Zahradník v rok/The Gardener's Year].

apek (Karel)

Ett r med min Trädgård [Zahradník v rok/The Gardener's Year].

Med Teckningar av Josef apek. Bemynd Övers. från Tjeckiskan av Erik Frisk.

Description: FIRST SWEDISH EDITION, line drawings to the text, pp. 159, foolscap 8vo, contemporary quarter crimson morocco with marbled boards, the original front wrapper bound in, backstrip lettered in gilt between five raised bands, a trifle rubbed at extremities, minor knock to top edge of boards, bookplate of Folke Wennerberg to front pastedown, very good

Publication Details: Stockholm: Hugo Gebers, 1934

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the half-title, 'À Mme Wennerberg, un petit souvenir de Karel apek, 22. XII.34'. The recipient was Dagmar Wennerberg (née Schlasberg), wife of the Swedish diplomat Folke Wennerberg, whose bookplate adorns the pastedown – the couple married in the year of publication. Both have added their initials at the close of the text to record successive dates of completion in the first months of 1935. apek's travels around Scandinavia in the mid 1930s were recorded in 'Cesta na Sever' ('A Year in the North') – this presentation copy is a small testament of the warm rece...moreInscribed by the author on the half-title, 'À Mme Wennerberg, un petit souvenir de Karel apek, 22. XII.34'. The recipient was Dagmar Wennerberg (née Schlasberg), wife of the Swedish diplomat Folke Wennerberg, whose bookplate adorns the pastedown – the couple married in the year of publication. Both have added their initials at the close of the text to record successive dates of completion in the first months of 1935. apek's travels around Scandinavia in the mid 1930s were recorded in 'Cesta na Sever' ('A Year in the North') – this presentation copy is a small testament of the warm reception he received throughout the region. HIDE

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Price: £400

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1934

Stock Number: 66649

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