X všesokolských sletů v Praze: 1882, 1891, 1895, 1901, 1907, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1932, 1938. WITH: XI všesokolský slet v Praze [10 All-Sokol Slets in Prague. The eleventh All-Sokol Slet in Prague] by Ambrosi, Vilém, design

Prague: "Svět v obrazech", 1948. Quartos (30 × 22.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [44] and [31] pp, chiefly of black-and-white illustrations from photographs. Very good or better. Strikingly photo-illustrated and with overall design by Vilém Ambrosi (1898-1962), the graphic designer and typographer, these two volumes present the history of the first eleven All-Sokol Slets, with the second issue devoted entirely to the latest event. The Sokol movement was a gymnastics movement similar to Scouting, and with strong nationalist overtones, that was founded in 1862 by Miroslav Tyrš and Jindřich Fügner. Beginning in 1882, mass gymnatics gatherings known as "Slets" were held, and the popularity of Sokol culture played a key role in the development of the Czech state and self-awareness, as well as that of other Slavic nations. The eleventh slet in 1948 would be the final such gathering. Although it tried to appeal to the new communist regime, the Czech Communist Party permitted no further slets and sought to replace them with more properly Soviet forms such as the Spartakiad. Published by "Svět v obrazech," the publishing house of the Czech Ministry of Information. The first volume with a preface by Venceslav Havliček and edited by M. Milota and V. Ambrosi. As of June 2020, KVK and OCLC show three copies in North America of the first title, and only one of the second volume.