1938 Motiv z Beethovena

BŘEZINA, Otokar. Motiv z Beethovena (Tajemné dálky) / Ein Motiv aus Beethoven [A Motif from Beethoven]. German translation by O. F. Babler. Nový Jičín: Karel Kryl; published by Jan Konůpek, Josef Černý, Dr. Ludvík Páleníček, and O. F. Babler, 1938. Large 4to (ca. 31 × 22 cm). 10 pp. Original blue string-bound wrappers as issued. Printed on handmade paper. Illustrated with 2 original full-page illustrations by Jan Konůpek. Very good condition, sunning to borders of wrappers. Inscribed by the translator O. F. Babler on the front endpaper.A beautifully produced Czech bibliophile edition of Otokar Březina's visionary prose poem Motiv z Beethovena, presented here in Czech with O. F. Babler's parallel German translation, first made in 1921. The volume was printed by Karel Kryl in Nový Jičín and issued in 1938 by a group of Březina devotees—Jan Konůpek, Josef Černý, Dr. Ludvík Páleníček, and Babler himself—to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the poet's birth.
Inv.  BX3