Nezval at night
Nov 30th, 2012 by houghtonmodern
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.
Books in the Santo Domingo collection are predominantly in English and French, per the collecting habits of Julio Mario Santo Domingo himself. Today we have an exception to this rule: Sexuální nocturno, by the avant-garde Czech author Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958). Printed in a limited run of 137 copies, this edition is illustrated with a series of psychosexual black and white collages by surrealist artist Jindřich Štyrský (1899-1942), who also typeset and published the book.
Sexuální nocturno. Prague: J. Štyrský, 1931. PG5038.N47S49 1931.
Thanks to rare book cataloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.