Thanks to a Chinese book titled chatuxuan 插圖選 (1992) that I bought for $6.50 at a flea market decades ago, I came to know and appreciate illustrations by Czech illustrators like Adolf Hoffmeister, Mirko Hanak, Jiří Trnka, Květa Pacovská and few others, especially for picture books.
Been collecting some of their works ever since which were hard to come by. 20 years ago, most of them were bought and sold by Japanese collectors, with a few found on AbeBooks.com. Only around 10 years ago, secondhand and antiquarian bookstores in Prague started to go online. A blessing for buyers to easily find books but the prices have shot up since then. 😓
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