Prague: Odeon, 1929. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 103 pp. About very good; light overall wear to wrappers. Uncommon anthology gathering translations of poems by Conrad Aiken, T. E. Hulme, Langston Hughes, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale..... More

[Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1527]. Small quarto (19.2 × 15.5 cm). Modern half-vellum binding in the style of the period; [10] pp. First leaf expertly restored; leaves very slightly stained; small nick to final leaf; else about very good. Rare pamphlet describing the coronation celebrations of the first Habsburg on the..... More

Brno: Pásmo, [1924]. Folio (47.5 × 31.5 cm). Original decorative self-wrappers; [6] pp. folded accordion-style. With illustrations and reproductions. Vertical and horizontal crease; expertly restored at the folds with japan paper; occasional light foxing; else very good. This issue contains a series of programmatic texts of the European avant-gardes. It..... More

Ostrava: Český fond výtvarných umění v Ostravě, 1965. Octavo (20.3 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [20] pp. Twelve reproductions. Very good; a few underlined words on p. 18. Scarce catalog of an exhibition of Czech concrete poetry and narrative art held in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in May 1965. With an introductory..... More

Irkutsk: Nákladem Informačně-Osvětového Odboru Ministerstva Vojenství, 1919. Octavos (16.8 × 10 cm). Original printed self-wrappers on yellow, light green, and tan stock; 24, 23, and 22 pp. The first two issues very good, save for small private stamp (Bohuš Zavada), the third issue with light overall wear and stamp of..... More

Irkutsk: Tiskem Informačně-osvětového odbobu Ministerstva Vojenství, 1919. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Publisher's printed wrappers; 83 pp. With three folded lithographic plates, loosely inserted, one smaller on regular paper and two larger plates on card stock. Very good. Scarce training manual for the Russian-made "Maksim" machine gun, published by Czechoslovak..... More

Prague: Správní rada elektrických podniků hlavního města Prahy (printed by Melantrich), 1935. Quarto (30 × 21 cm). Original tan card wrappers, patterned and embossed; 102, [18] pp. With 156 plates of illustrations, mostly halftone reproductions of photographs, some full-page. Loosely inserted is an illustrated [8] pp. summary in German. In..... More

V Hlučíně: Slezské tisk., nakl. a knihk. družstvo, 1946. Octavo (21 × 15.3 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers by Zdeněk Rossmann; 43, [3] pp. About fine. Scarce undocumented regional, Silesian avant-garde publication with a striking, spare wrapper design by Zdeněk Rossmann, an important Czech architect and graphic designer who taught..... More

Prague: Dr. Ed. Grégr a syn, ca. 1925. Octavo (20 × 14.6 cm). Original card wrappers with publisher's mark to front wrapper; 108, 161–192 pp. of specimens to rectos and versos. Minor wear and discoloration to wrappers; spine title largely faded; internally with pen marks to two pages; else about..... More

Prague: SČSVU, 1965. Octavo (21.5 × 16.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [16] pp. Eight black-and-white reproductions. About very good. With a long introduction by literary and art critic Jindřich Chalupecký (1910–1990), a poem by Novák, artist biographies and lists of works exhibited. An important exhibition held at the Václav Špála..... More

London: Kruh priatel'ov československej knihy (printed by S. Sidders & Son, Ltd., Kilburn), 1944. Octavo (18 × 12.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 117, [2] pp. About very good; very light overall wear and soil to wrappers. Second of two volumes of poetry from the Slovak anti-Nazi resistance during World War..... More

[Prague and Olomouc, 1968]. Vintage prints, various sizes, from 9 × 14 to 18 × 23.8 cm. One image with pencil labeling to verso. Three of the larger images with some alteration of the emulsion layer; otherwise about very good. Group of fourteen original photographs, likely taken by an amateur..... More

Prague: Izdatel'stvo Plamia, 1928. Octavo (19.8 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Perforation to upper left corner of block, threaded through with string. Wrappers lightly toned; creased to lower corner; splitting to lower spine extremity; still about very good. Scarce catalog of the Prague-based émigré publishing house..... More