Masaryk's Path and Legacy. Funeral Oration at the burial of the President-Liberator. 21 September 1937.
BENEŠ Dr. Edvard (1937.)
£45.00 [First Edition]
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Reproduction wood-engraved portrait, decorated title page, limitation page, and initial letter by Karel Svolinský. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. 4to., original pictorial wrappers, edges untrimmed. Prague, Orbis Works.
A presentation copy, inscribed by Masaryk's daughter to the son of Masaryk's friend the diplomat and Czech scholar Robert Fitzgibbon Young 'Master Tony Young - To Tony - that he might remember, when he grows up his friend and teacher. 25. 11. 38. Alice G. Masaryk'. Bookplates to the front pastedown of Anthony Young, and the dancer Ludi Horenstein, also known as Rosemary Young, Anthony's sister and god-daughter of Masaryk.
Clumsily opened, title page loose, covers grubby and rubbed on the extremities, spine worn at head and tail.
Stock Code: 220277
