Sedm kantát [Seven cantatas]

Prague: Družstvo Dílo, 1945. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers over blind wraps; 22, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by Kolář on half title. A very good copy; very light nicks to outer wrappers. First edition of this book of poems by Kolář (1914-2002), the co-founder of the existentialist post-war group "Skupina 42" (Group 42), who ultimately became best known for his innovative collages. His period of visual experimentation began with an interest in concrete poetry in the 1960s, while part of the Kavárna Slavia group along with Václav Havel and Josef Hiršal. With a striking wrapper design also used as frontis illustration, by František Hudeček (1909-1990). Overall design by Jan Kotík. Outside the Czech Republic, KVK, OCLC show the copies at the British Library, Harvard, Pisa, Zürich and Sächsische Landesbibliothek. (Inventory #: P6491)