1945 Marie Prušáková - Josef Leisler presentation copy inscribed by author to artist

Marie Prušáková – Stráň [The Slope] (Czech) Prague: Václav Petr, 1945. 8vo, 248 pp. Original illustrated wrappers; cover and numerous illustrations by Josef Leisler. Uncut. Very good. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the book’s illustrator and cover designer, Josef Leisler. Prušáková was first married to Adolf Hoffmeister and later to architect, theoretician, and novelist Karel Honzík. She contributed to leftist interwar publications including Tvorba and Dělnická osvěta, and, as in this novel, sought to develop nuanced psychological portraits of female protagonists. Inv i3