Friendship Album of Jana Vasatova, containing four pages with color illustrations or decoration

London, 1951. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 19 by 16.5. Unpaginated. with only eight pages having content out of 50 leaves, but three of the color illustrations are delightful. One is of a brightly colored dog descending through the air with a parachute, the second, of a dog laden with all kinds of sporting equipment, and the third is an RAF winged emblem, or an adaptation of such. Since some of the textual entries are in Czech, in addition to Jana's Czech name, we have inferred that she was probably a Czech emigre living in London at the time -- her address is given, plus there are some entries in English. We imagine that as an emigre, she might have had memories, good or bad, of paratroopers. The artwork is done in color pencil and is possibly by a young adult but manifestly by someone with considerable artistic aptitude and facility. The album is of red cloth, with a relief of a three masted ship on the cover. The interior is clean throughout.