Prague: Melantrich, 1948. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original cloth-backed decorative boards; pictorial dust-jacket; 116, [4] pp. Very good; dust jacket very lightly discolored and age-toned to verso; in protective mylar. Second printing (2000-3000), the hardcover version, of the Czech translation of "La grande épreuve des démocraties. Essai sur les..... More

Prague: Knihovna Levé Fronty (Jarmila Prokopová), 1935. Octavo (23 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 184 pp. Gatherings loose, as issued; very minor wear to lower overlapping edge and lower spine; faint sun-tanning near spine; still a very good copy. Scarce anthology issued as part of the famous series "Knihovna..... More

Prague: Filmový ústav, 1966. Octavo (20 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jaroslava Veselá; 220 pp. of reproduced typescript to rectos and versos. Very good; in protective mylar. The first volume to gather Karel Teige's various articles on film, mostly published during the 1920s and 1930s, with a lengthy..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1928. Octavo (19.8 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, printed in orange and brown on beige cover; 85, [2] pp. Very good. First edition of these war reflections by S. K. Neumann (1875–1947), the Czech poet, publisher, and journalist. Neumann was known for his anarchist leanings, and later..... More

Prague: Fr. Borový, 1933. Octavo (21.3 × 13.4 cm). Original photomontage wrappers and title page designed by Karel Teige; 234, [1] pp. A fine copy. First edition of this volume of poems, with overall design by Karel Teige. Nezval (1900-1958) was one of the most outstanding twentieth-century Czech poets, a...... More

Bratislava and Prague: L. Mazáč, 1935. Octavo (18 × 13.3 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige. 62, [1] pp. In Slovak. A very good copy, in protective mylar. Third volume of poems by the Slovak poet, journalist, and later communist politician Laco Novomeský (1904-1976). Karel Teige a typografie 445..... More

Prague: B. Šmeral (Odeon and Knihtiskárna "Orbis"), 1936. Octavo (23.7 × 16 cm). Original red paper wrappers over blind card boards, with gray printed label to upper left corner; 71, [4] pp. Five full-page illustrations by Toyen, Štyrský, Hoffmeister, Bidlo, and Pelc. In the original red paper-covered slipcase. Signed throughout..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1934–1935. Octavo (24.5 × 17 cm). Publisher's typographically designed self-wrappers; 34–47, [1] pp. (consecutive pagination). About very good. Single issue of this Czech journal of art, literature, and social thought, allied with the Czechoslovak Surrealist Group. All covers, title pages, and typo were designed by Karel Teige. The..... More

Prague: Olymp, 1926–1927. Large octavos (ca. 23 to 24.5 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Zdeněk Macek, Vít Obrtel, Karel Teige, and J. Hlaváček. Overall very good; vol. 1 with light wear and creasing to front wrapper; vol. 11 with trace of private signature to front wrapper. A complete..... More

Prague: Otto Girgal, 1946. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Original cloth boards with title to spine; pictorial dust wrappers by Karel Teige; 130, [2] pp. With many illustrations throughout the text and a sixteen-page appendix of plates reproducing the artworks of Desbordes-Valmore, Manet, Gauguin, Matisse, Renoir, and Teige among others..... More