Prague: Skupina surrealistů v ČSR, April 9, 1935. Quarto (29.7 × 21 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 12 pp. With reproductions of works by Makovský, Štyrský, and Toyen. Some light browning, minor chipping along bottom edge of first few pages and foreedge of first leaf; small loss to lower right corner..... More

Santiago de Chile: self-published (printed by Herrera y Aldana), 1941. Octavo (19 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers with reproduced collage by Braulio Arenas and a drawing by Cáceres reproduced on rear wrapper; [8] pp. Very good. Sole printed edition of this catalog for the first exhibition of the Chilean..... More

Františkové Lázně: Městské muzeum Františkovy Lázně, 1973. Octavo (24.2 × 18.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Twelve black-and-white photographs, some full-page. Very good or better. Scarce catalog for an exhibition of the work of Bohdan Lacina (1912-1971), the Czech surrealist painter, illustrator, and graphic designer associated with..... More

Prague: Edice surrealismu, 1935. Octavo (21.2 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 177 pp. Wrappers and typographic design by Karel Teige. Spine cocked; very minor nick to lower spine extremity; else a very good or better copy. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer..... 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

Paris: Éditions des Réverbères, 1941. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original printed transparent glassine dust jacket and pictorial laid paper self-wrapper; [16] pp. lithographed facsimile of a manuscript. Large-margined copy; glassine slightly toned, with a few short tears and minute losses along the edges; one leaf with the extreme edges..... More

[Brno]: self-published, [1968]. Octavo (21.8 × 14.2 cm). Letter-press printed black wrappers (in gold); eight leaves of original etchings, with calques; each signed, numbered, and labeled by the artists in pencil. With a typewritten introductory text in French and Czech. Signed and inscribed to a co-founder of the Lacoste Group..... More

Cairo: La Part du Sable, 1953. Small octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 18, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author: "à Georges Bataille, avec la vive sympathie et l'admiration d'Edmond Jabès, Fev. 1953." Very good, uncut and unopened copy in original translucent calque; discoloration to first..... More

Prague: Aventinská mansarda (printed by J. Rokyta), 1930. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Bifolium, printed to recto and verso, [4] pp. First and second page with reproductions of a painting by Toyen and a watercolor by Štyrský. Old horizontal crease; else about very good. Rare catalog for an early exhibition..... More

Prague: V komisi Ustř. studentského knihkupectví a nakladatelství, 1925. Octavo (19.5 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [5] pp., [10] leaves of black-and-white reproductions, [3] pp. of text. Very good. With a three-page introduction by artist and writer Josef Čapek, followed by ten reproductions of work by Matoušek (1901–1961), one..... More

Rome: Le Edizioni d'Argo, 1950. Quarto (25.5 × 22 cm). Contemporary red half-calf over laid paper with original wrappers bound at the back; frontispiece illustration by Josef Istler; 111 pp. Numerous photo-illustrations throughout. Gilt title to spine. A very good copy. First edition of this illustrated monograph on Czech poetry..... More

Paris: self-published (Imprimerie des 2 Artisans), April 1938 to March 1939. Quartos (33 × 25.2 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 8 pp. each, and every issue with a full-page graphic print as well as four issues with a second print version (by Michel Tapié, Roger Sby, Pierre Minne, Aline Gagnaire, Ulrich..... More

Kladno: Nakladatelství mladých, 1946. Octavo (21.3 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, printed in blue and light green, with an illustration by Istler; 73, [2] pp. Frontis illustration by Istler. Very good. Scarce early publication of the Czech post-war surrealist group Skupina Ra (Group Ra), containing poems by Zdeněk Lorenc..... More