Baku: Khayartun A. Miasnikova, 1925. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed) affixed to somewhat later cloth-backed boards; 178, [3] pp. With thirteen leaves of plates and two pp. of musical notation bound at the back. Boards worn and rubbed; first few and last leaves somewhat finger-soiled;..... More

[Germany], 1815. Small octavo (16.6 × 10.2 cm). Contemporary blue card boards pasted over with light pink paper wrapper; manuscript title to spine ("Der Gasthof"); 102 leaves of manuscript in brown ink to rectos and versos, in a neat Kurrent hand, with occasional corrections and one case of self-censorship in..... More

St. Petersburg: 15-ia gosudarstvennaia tipografiia, 1921. Quartos (29.5 × 21.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 83 [2] and 136 [2] pp. With numerous plates on better stock. Light foxing and soil to wrappers; wrappers chipped to edges and spine; spines repaired with clear tape; still good or better. Complete run of..... More

Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 17 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vladimir Petrovich in Almaty, Kazachstan in 1959. One page with author's ink correction. About very good; covers with light soil and a few nicks and tears;..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1967. Square octavo (17.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrapper over printed paper wraps; pictorial end-papers; 133, [3] pp. Very good. First Czech translation of Bense’s structuralist approach to texts, which became one of the first theoretical works of concrete poetry. The text was edited and expanded for..... More

Výškov na Moravě: Nákladem F. Obziny, 1923. Quarto (26 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 110, [3] pp. Numerous plates, some full-page on coated stock, some tipped-in. Light wear and fraying to lower spine; very minor moisture stains to overlapping wrapper edges; overall still about very good. First and only..... More

Moscow: V Universitetskoi Tipografii, 1826. Octavo (26 × 18.2 cm). Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; 184 pp. Binding somewhat rubbed; front hinge starting; wear to head of spine. The first volume this Russian-language textbook of Persian, published in two volumes, the first containing a selection of poems, tales, and historical..... More

Feldafing, Bavaria: Friedl Brehm, 1968–[1972]. Octavos (21 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 32 pp. per issue. With numerous illustrations. Neat private owner stamp to four of the front wrappers; else very good. Complete run of this journal, published in a small run, dedicated to the publication of young..... More

Belgrade: Vreme, 1923. Octavo (18.6 × 15.8 cm). Original reddish brown paper-covered boards, printed in black and with mounted color illustration; [4], 172 pp. With twenty-one mostly full-page black-and-white illustrations and [3] leaves of color plates on thicker stock. A few small, unobtrusive repairs to spine at front hinge; else..... More

İstanbul: Lâtif Dinçbaş Matbaasi, 1943 Octavo (19.6 × 14.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 159, [1] pp. Wrappers professionally rebacked and spine replaced; text toned; else about very good. Third volume of poems by Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914–2008), the prolific Turkish poet who published over sixty books of poems. Part of..... More

Milan: Multhipla edizioni (from 1981 publishing by Intrapresa), 1979–1988. Folios (43.5 × 32 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; between 16 and 48 pp.; mostly between 32 and 40 pp. with numerous reproduced photographs and illustrations. All issues with the customary horizontal trace of the fold; a few issues with a small..... More

Berlin: Galerie Zinke, March 1960–March 1961. Quarto and unfolded folio (ca. 30 × 21 cm, unfolded ca. 60 × 42 cm). Each issue a single sheet on red stock, folded into four sections, printed in black to recto and verso. Very good or better. Complete run of the mouthpiece for..... More

St.Petersburg: biblioteka proletkul’ta, 1919. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on orange stock; 46, [1] pp. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1918). An important work by the "proletarian bard of the machine age," which proved of great importance to Russian avant-garde and early Soviet writing..... More