November 7, 2009

Slovakian Expose III

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12 comments:

  1. Luis de Camoes, book #1 (1942) is a Portuguese renaissance poet. I'm really glad to see it here for I'm Portuguese :)

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  2. Thanks for all your effort at posting these, they are so inspiring and I like to while away looking at them all. Very nice.
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  3. Half of the books are really the czech ones.

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  4. It would be interesting for someone to invent stories/poems to go with these covers (with minimal knowledge of the actual contents of the books, of course).

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  5. I agree with @loulou... I love poring over the covers in your posts. Even better if I have a mug of hot chocolate. :)

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  6. it is a mix of books - Czechoslovak :)

    It goes like this:

    Slovak books:
    1970, Andrej Guľaški, Dobrodružstvo daždivej jesene
    1961, Alexandrovič Michail Šolochov, Rozoraná celina II
    1962, Jozef Horák, Lukavická škola
    1962, Jannis Ritsos, Neboĺa to hra
    1962, Karlludwig Opitz, ...v torbe maršalskú palicu
    1962, Thomas Wolfe, Domov sa vrátiť nemôžeš
    1963, František Hečko, Svätá tma
    1963, K. H. Poppe, Banánová vojna
    1964, Jacek Wolowski, Kryptonym bodliak
    1965, Stendhal, Abatiša z Castra
    1964, Juhan Smuul, Dobrodružstvo v Japonskom mori
    1966, Alexander Ivanovič Kuprin, Jama
    1966, Juan Garcia Hortelano, Letná búrka
    1966, Katarína Lazarová, Trpaslíci
    1967, Vladimír Germanovič Lidin, Odpadlík
    1967, Heinrich Mann, Vážny život
    1972, Arkadij a Georgij Vajnerovci, Razia na pravé poludnie
    1972, Günter de Bruyn, Buridanov osol
    1973, Joseph Conrad, Vyvrheľ z ostrovov
    1974, Angel María de Lera, Stratili sme slnko
    1974, Jerzy Broszkiewicz, Dlho a šťastne

    Czech books:
    1942, Luis de Camoes, Portugalské lásky
    1954, Adolf Hoffmeister, illus. for Mark Twain, Yankee na dvoře krále Artuše
    1956, Ludvík Aškenazy, Ukradený měsíc, illus. Helena Zmatlíková
    1956, Pravoslav Sovák, illus., for Otakar Černoch, Španělská aréna
    1959, Vladimír Neff, Třináctá komnata
    1957, Josef Čapek, Umění přírodních národů
    1960, Karel Čapek, Jak se co dělá - O lidech
    1960, Liljana Alexandrovová, Jen takové štěstí
    1961, Břetislav Truhlář, cover for Jilemnický Petr, O dvou bratřích z nichž první druhého vůbec neznal
    1962, Ludmila Romportlová, Papoušek zmizel
    1964, Adolf Hoffmeister, cover for Karlludwig Opitz, Můj generál
    1964, Josef Škvorecký, Zbabělci
    1966, Miroslav Hanuš, Slunce toho rána
    1968, Sébastien Japrisot, Past na Popelku
    1972, Svetoslav Slavčev, Ve znamení štíra
    1973, Alojzy Twardecki, Hranice

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  7. I just noticed you also wonder about the book by Josef Čapek - it is book he wrote "Umění přírodních národů" literally "The Art of Natural Nations" which is an etnographic analysis about roots and rituals connected to tribal (natural) art and how the primitivism influence the modern art.

    The "primitive art" mainly from Africa and Oceania is a subject he first encountered during his studies in Trocadéro in Paris and which deeply influenced him and he followed it his whole life.

    It is not bad book - although niether it is great not talking about the fact that it is outdated.
    I have had it in my hands years back but do not recall much about the illustrations. But according to info available it is supposed to have 32 photograph pages + many illustrations in the text.

    I believe the typo and cover of this book was done by Zdenek Seydl.

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  8. I meant typo on the cover...

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  9. thanks for all your kind comments.

    tigre, eternal thanks for supplying this info, which I'll add to the post. if you have a scanner and want to do some posts from your collection, please get in touch!

    Do you know anything about the designer for the 1970 book by Andrej Guľaški (top image)? Quite a few of the binding illustrations -- in this series of three posts -- seem to be the work of one designer.

    Will

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  10. Hello Will and thank you for the offer - unfortunatelly I do not have a scanner (and my book collection is rather humble anyway). However if I will get one I will scan some - recently about the book covers I felt in love with one beautiful book I bought (a really lucky bargain) a christmas issue of L'Illustration from 1930 which has one of the finest examples of (not only) art deco book cover art inside.

    The designer of the Gulaški's book is slovak painter Naďa Rappensbergerová it should also has a soft cover with an illustration that is missing.

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  11. Thanks tigre. Email me any time -- the offer is always open.

    I will need to investigate Rappensbergerova!

    Will

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  12. Will, these are stunning. Thanks so much for posting them.

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