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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Title page.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Front cover board.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Interior page.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Interior page.

Pablo Neruda; Zdenek Chotenovsky (illus.)

Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair), 1964
Prague: Státní nakladatelství krásne literatury a umení
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Pablo Neruda; Zdenek Chotenovsky (illus.), Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair), 1964
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Pablo Neruda; Zdenek Chotenovsky (illus.), Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair), 1964
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Title page.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Front cover board.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Interior page.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Dvacet Básní o Lásce a Jedna Písen ze Zoufalství (20 Love Poems and One Song of Despair) by Pablo Neruda, illustrated by Zdenek Chotenovský. Interior page.
Five illustrations by Zdenek Chotenovský depict a Matisse-like woman in various positions of repose. Her placidity underscores Neruda's twenty love poems, and put into starker light the volume's twenty-first poem,...
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Five illustrations by Zdenek Chotenovský depict a Matisse-like woman in various positions of repose. Her placidity underscores Neruda's twenty love poems, and put into starker light the volume's twenty-first poem, which eulogizes the grief and pain of loving.

76, (4)pp. Bound in full gray-green calf with illustrated woman blind-embossed across both covers and gilt titling to spine. Housed in paper slipcase. Mild toning to ribbon bookmark, slipcase slightly toned, otherwise near fine. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. (3 by 3; 77x77mm).
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