Frantisek Zelenka design for czech sheet music

Not really a book this time but sheet music. All these were designed by Frantisek Zelenka, most of them for Voskovec, Werich and Jaroslav Jezek. Voskovec and Werich Are best known for their work in "The liberated theather" and a few movies (if you get the chance you should see "svet patri nam" a really good film). I escpecially like the design for the Jezek & Nezval ones, these are the ones designed in yellow and red. All these designs were made between 1932 and 1938.
Frantisek Zelenka is not really well known here in the west. If you ever have some spare time use this to search the internet for some information on him. He made some stunning designs for the theatre, interior and (as you can see below) sheet music. I'm not sure but i've never seen any book designs by him.

Karel Teige's design for "dilo Marcela Prousta" and the prospectus

Praha, Odeon, 1929. In total 14 volumes were published (All the works by Marcel Proust translated into czech). All volumes have more or less the same design. Allthough i only have two volumes of the series, my aim isn't to get the whole series this will cost me a lot of money for books which all sort of look the same. What i do like is that i got the prospectus for the series also designed by Teige.
It seems like, over the last couple of years, czech avant-garde books are becoming cheaper. Except of course the really good stuff. I really can't explain this. Sometimes you can get something nice on ebay for under 20 dollars.

Josef Capek for Apollinaire's Kacir a spol.

Symposion, Praha, 1926. (19,5 x 14,6 cm).. 137 pp.. Book design, linocut title vignett, and 8 two-colour full-page linocuts by Josef Capek. Bound in red cloth alas the original cover is missing, sometimes you will finf the original frontcover bound in at the end of these clothbound books.
Original line cuts by one of my favorite czech artists. I especially like the 7th full page lino-cut.

V. Nezval. Akrobat. Design Vit Obrtel. 1927

Vitezslav Nezval. Akrobat. Praha, Plejada, 1927. 21 by 14 centimeters, 44 pages. Typography, wrappers and frontispiece by Vit Obrtel. Primus cat. 77 ill. 64.
The frontispiece is a striking design by Orbtel and in my opinion one of the highlights of the czech avant-garde movement. Published one year earlier than Teige's design for Biebl's "Zlom" and "S lodi". It took me quite a while in obtaining this book and i'm very, very  happy i got it.