Frantisek Drtikol

Sq. 8vo. White card wrappers with black lettering to spine. Creased to upper wrapper. In near fine black photographic dust jacket, creased to upper panel. *** Fifty pages of text, in Czech [only], followed by 89 full-page photographic plates, in more or less chronological order, from c. 1903 to 1934. Brief biographies at the end in Russian and English. *** Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) was a pioneering Czech photographer, active mainly in the period between the wars and best known for his portraits and nudes.