Helena Bochořáková’s 1930 wordless novel, Kindheit, is the German version of her Czech publication, Z Mého Detství. It has a new foreward by Anselm Weißenhofer.

Dust jacket of Bochorakova's 1930 wordless novel, Kindheit, the German version of Z Mého Detství.
Dust jacket of Bochorakova’s 1930 wordless novel,
Kindheit, the German version of Z Mého Detství.
  • Title: Kindheit: 95 Holzschnitte mit Einführung von Prof. A Weissenhofer (Childhood: 95 woodcuts with an introduction by Prof. A. Weissenhofer)
  • Author and Illustrator: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová
  • Introduction: Anselm Weißenhofer (about 1,260 words when translated into English)
  • Publication date: September 1930
  • Publisher: Adler-Verlag
  • Place of publication: Berlin
  • Printer: ?
  • Copyright: artist?
  • Binding: hard cover with a dust jacket
  • Language: German titles, etc
  • Unpaginated
  • Printed: recto
  • Editions:
    • 30 copies on hand-made paper, numbered and signed by the artist
    • 500 Trade copies printed on Antique paper (later trade publications by this author were typically done in runs of 300)

Kindheit Limited edition – 30 copies on handmade paper

  • Dimensions: ?
  • Dust jacket: Unlikely
  • numbered and signed

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Kindheit Trade edition – 300 copies

  • Dimensions: H 16 x W13 x 2cm (6 1/4 x 4 7/8 x 3/4 in)
  • Dust jacket: Designed by the artist. All four language versions of Z Mého Detství used the same wood engraving for the medallion featuring the baby. The rest of the dust jacket would have been engraved for each particular version.
Dust jacket of Helena Bochořáková’s 1930 wordless novel, Kindheit. The medallion of the baby in the centre was done by a separate engraving which was used in all four versions.
The medallion of the baby in the centre was done by a
separate engraving which was used in all four versions.
Dust jacket of Bochorakova’s 1930 wordless novel, Kindheit, laid open. The spine is missing.
Dust jacket of Bochorakova’s 1930 wordless
novel, Kindheit, laid open. The spine is missing.
Bochorakova’s 1930 Kindheit showing front, spine, and back.

Of the three known copies of Kindheit, all have detached or missing spines.

The limitation (colophon) page of Bochorakova's 1930 wordless novel, Kindheit, facing the title page. Photo credit: Antiquariat Löcker
The limitation (colophon) page of Bochorakova’s
1930 wordless novel, Kindheit, facing the title page.
Photo credit: Antiquariat Löcker

Note: while the title page of the Trade edition may be signed, the lack of a signature is not a deficiency. However, the 30 numbered copies should be signed.

The limitation (colophon) page of Bochorakova's 1930 wordless novel, Kindheit.
The limitation (colophon) page of Bochorakova’s
1930 wordless novel, Kindheit.

Translation of the limitation (colophon) page above:

This book was published in September 1930 by

Adler-Verlag, Berlin.

30 copies were printed on handmade paper,

numbered and signed by the author. 500 copies were printed on

Antique paper.

Front cover of Bochořáková’s 1930 novel, Kindheit, showing the medallion of a baby.
Front cover of Bochořáková’s 1930 novel
Kindheit, showing a baby medallion.

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