[CZECH SURREALISM]. Set of 5 volumes. - Lot 151

[CZECH SURREALISM]. Set of 5 volumes. TEIGE (Karel). Svět, který se směje. O humoru, clownech a dadaistech. [On the humor of clowns and dadaists]. Prague. Odeon, 1928. In-12 br. First cover illustrated with a collage by K. Teige. 6 off-text illustrations: F. Léger, G. Grosz, self-portrait of the clown Grock, etc. Booklet of 8 photographs at the end of the volume: Man Ray and portraits of Charlot, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, etc. and a reproduction of a painting by Theo van Doesburg. E.O. Also included: NEZVAL, Vitězslav. Romaneto Karneval Prague, Odeon, 1926. AS ISSUED FIRST EDITION. Small in-8 (197 x 135 mm). Typography by Karel Teige COLLATION: 103 pp. 1 p. n. ch. in original illustrated cover after J. Don, the pseudonym of Jindrich Styrsky. HOFFMEISTER Adolf. Nevesta. Prague, Odeon, 1927. In-12, paperback, illustrated cover printed in black and red, 56 pages illustrated by the author. First edition on dedition paper, after 50 Japon. Beautiful illustrated cover designed by the author. Slight angular loss at lower right corner of front cover. A fine copy. (Jindrich STYRSKY) Vitezslav NEZVAL Ulice Gît-le-coeur (Jindrich STYRSKY) Vitezslav NEZVAL Ulice Gît-le-coeur Praha, Borovy, 1936. One volume in sheets, 217 X 140 mm, cover illustrated with a collage by Jindrich Styrsky, who also signed the typography. Czech first edition of this ballad through Surrealist Paris of the 1930s. Photographs of Benjamin Péret, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Vitezslav Nezval and a work by Dali. Cover faded, interior good. APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume). Prsy Tiresiovy (The Mamelles of Tiresias) Prague. Odeon, 1926. In-8 br. Translated into Czech by Jaroslav Seifert (Nobel Prize in Literature 1984). Illustrations by Joseph Sima. Typography and cover design by Karel Teige. E.O. numbered copies on Japon Banzaï.