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Condition: Near Fine. 8vo. 102, [2] p. Original publisher's thread stiched pictorial wrapper. First Czech edition of this naturalist novel by French novelist Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909), originally published posthumous in 1910 under the title "Dans la petite ville". Appearing in Rudolf Skerík's »Symposion«, a book series dedicated to modern foreign literature and criticism in translation, this edition is particularly strong because of the striking expressionist woodcuts and also the surrealist inspired front cover illustration by Jan Rambourek (1895-1976), a Prague based modernist painter, illustrator, graphic artist and writer, disciple of Max Svabinský. - Spine with some minor spots, cover with some wear, printed on machine mould paper »Antik«, after a preceding 500 copies on Japan-paper. - Vollmer 4, 198 (Rambousek).…