BEZRUC, Petr: SLEZSKE PISNE.
Wood engrawings Bohdan Lacina, graphic design Oldrich Menhart.
Praha, SNKLHU, 1954.
16°, 194 str. Original publisher's full-leather binding. Blind stamping, gilding.
Skvosty, vol. 4. - Signed manuscript by Petr Bezruc, dated July 12, 1954: "Byt cely svet se v udel dostal tobe, jdi bez radosti dal - to pouhe nic. Byt cely zivot minul v strasti, v zlobe, jdi bez zalosti dal - to pouhé nic. I zal i radost stejne zajdou k tobe, min klidne svet - on pouhe nic, ..." - Binding nearly intact. Book block intact. Collector's condition. - Language: Czech.
<ID:PC61561> Price: 1400,- CZK

Petr Bezruc (September 15, 1867, Opava, Austria-Hungary - February 17, 1958, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia)
Czech poet and novelist.
After graduation at the Brno grammar school he studied classical philology. During World War I he was arrested for alleged authorship of an anti-Austrian poem. After the war he was appointed head of the railway post office in Brno, but he resigned the next day. In 1928 he retired. He lived in Brno, then in Kostelec na Hane and in Brance near Opava. In 1939 he settled in Kostelec na Hane and stayed there for the rest of his life.
Selected bibliography:
Slezske cislo, 1903
Slezske pisne, 1909
Moravska zem a moravska rec, 1923
Republika pred svatym Petrem, 1923
Stuzkonoska modra, 1930
Lolo a druhove - 1937
Paralipomena I - 1937
Paralipomena II - 1938