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Egon Hostovský – Ztracený stín (1933). Inscribed to Jaroslav Seifert
Hostovský, Egon. Ztracený stín [The Lost Shadow]. Prague: Melantrich, 1933. Fourth edition. 8vo, 157 pp. Original softcover with removable photomontage wrappers generally attributed to Toyen. Gatherings unopened. VG condition. 1-cm closed tear at lower border; 0.5-cm closed tear at upper border of wrappers.
Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Egon Hostovský to the Czech poet and future Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert: “Milému Jar. Seifertovi jeho Egon Hostovský” [To dear Jar. Seifert, from his Egon Hostovský], dated 7 April 1933.
Inv. BX 12
