BOCHOŘÁKOVÁ-DITTRICHOVÁ, Helena.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Indiáni jindy a dnes. Kniha dřevorytů. (Indians Then and Now. A Book of Woodcuts.) Signed limited edition, number 48 of 100 copies signed by the artist. It is additionally inscribed by the publisher to the Slovakian gay rights campaigner Imrich Matyas on the limitation page, "Milemu priteli, Imrichu Matyasovi, srdecne, Jozka H. Vanoce 1934" ("To my dear friend, Imrich Matyas, warmly, Joseph Hladky, Christmas 1934").Based in Bratislava, Matyas (1896-1974) spent his life recording the experiences and promoting the rights of the homosexual community. He was a prolific contributor to the magazine Hlas sexual mensiny ("The Voice of a Sexual Minority"), a member of the World League for Sexual Reform, and the organizer of frequent public lectures on scientific theories of sexuality. He was also an associate of the German sexologist Magnus Hirschfield and served as Hirschfield's local guide on his 1932 lecture tour of Czechoslovakia.This "wordless novel" portrays a history of Native Americans and their clashes with European settlers. Bochorakova-Dittrichova (1894-1980) - the first female graphic novelist - was inspired by a 1931 trip to America, during which she visited Peche Island, the summer hunting grounds of Chief Pontiac, and Taos Pueblo, the oldest continuously inhabited indigenous American settlement. In the introduction, she describes "burning with anticipation to see my childhood dreams embodied here in this precinct of old romantic fables" and imagines observing the ghosts

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.