TEIGE, Karel -- KREJCAR, Jaroslav (ed.). Zivot II [Life II. Collection of New Beauty]. Prague: Zivot, 1922. 4°. Illustrated throughout, with some tipped-in photolithographs. With red tissue guard leaf. Original wrappers illustrated with a fine photo-montage (spine supplied in facsimile, corners restored, light wear at extremities, red pigment lightly faded). FIRST EDITION of this important anthology. Birgus, Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, p.65.

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