John Berger - Paul Hogarth - First Edition

BERGER, John (1926-2017).

Paul Hogarth.

Prague: State Publishing House of Fine Literature, Music & Art, 1955.

FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.30; [90 of plates]; [4]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth lettered in red to spine and upper, dust-jacket. Introduction by John Berger followed by a biography of Paul Hogarth. Ninety-five illustrations in black and white. Text in Czech.

Some spotting to edges and endpapers, marks to cloth. Dust-jacket a little rubbed and worn, some surface loss to upper panel, some tears, some loss to spine ends and corners. Uncommon with only one copy held institutionally in the UK (Tate). Very good.