First graphic novel by a woman.- Bochořáková-Dittrichová (Helena) Childhood. A Cycle of Woodcuts, first English edition, one of 300 copies, A. Zwemmer, 1931

First graphic novel by a woman.- Bochořáková-Dittrichová (Helena) Childhood. A Cycle of Woodcuts, first English edition, one of 300 copies, woodcut illustrations by the author, light marginal toning, repairs to spine and first blank, very minor marginal chips and nicks to one or two pp., marginal tissue repair on p.3, original boards, upper cover repaired, corners slightly chipped, dust-jacket, neat and expert repairs to spine and joints, affecting text, short closed tear to upper panel head, 8vo, [printed by F. Obzina, Vyskov, Czechoslovakia] 1931.

*** The first graphic novel written by a woman, a pictorial account of the author's middleclass upbringing in Moravia. Rare in the dust-jacket.