by JÃÅ¡e, Karel, Dr. Karel Moudrý, Dr. Jan SlavÃk, editors
Prague: Jaroslav MotyÄka, 1930. Octavos (23.5 × 16 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 440 pp. of consecutive pagination. Occasional light ear to wrapper edges; overall very good. Substantial first year run of this Czech interwar journal, which was associated with the Czech National Labor Party (Národnà strana práce) and the Czech National-Socialist Party (Äeskoslovenská strana národnÄ socialistická). Laid into the first issue are two leaflets explaining the political aims of the new journal. The publication was continued until the Protectorate years, but only this first yearly run features the illustrated wrappers (on all but four issues), with political satires on topical subjects, expressing the pacifist, anti-clerical, and generally leftist orientation of the editors. Among the artists were noted caricaturists and artists such as AntonÃn Pelc, Vlastimil Rada, and FrantiÅ¡ek Bidlo. Contributors include Jan SlavÃk, Otakar Klapka, Karel Moudrý, JindÅich Plachta, Václav KlofáÄ, and others. Outside the Czech Republic, KVK, OCLC show copies at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, British Library, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and IISG.
(Inventory #: P6260)