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

An interesting and uncommon group of publications documenting the evolution of Czechoslovak shop window and sales showcase design, including works on displaying books at bookshops. The earliest volume dates to 1937, the bulk are from the post-war period. As of December 2024, only one title is held in North America..... More

Prague: Volné vydání spolku českých bibliofilů (Society of Czech Bibliophiles), 1911. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original full brown pigskin binding by Ludvík Bradáč, embossed to spine, with marbled endpapers; in the original card slipcase; 350, [5] pp. With 160 reproductions of typographic designs. Signed by the author below the..... More

Leipzig: J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, [1902 or 1903]. Quarto (28.3 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on tan card stock, printed in blue and red; pp. 655–674, 653–654, 667–672 (new series), 651-652 [i.e. 30 pp.] of specimens on heavy stock of light orange, green, and blue color. Very light fading..... More

Prague: Československý spisovatel, [1968]. Quarto (29.5 × 18 cm). Original blind wrappers with typo-illustrated dust-wrappers; accordeon-bound leaves; [69] pp. With four full-page color lithographs ("graphic labyrints") by Zdeněk Sklenǎŕ and numerous pages of typographic compositions by Hlavsa. A very good copy. Bilingual edition, with text in Latin and Czech, of..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Wrappers very lightly smudged; else very good or better. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to September 1924. "Nowa kultura" was a continuation..... More

Berlin: Norddeutsche Schriftgießerei GmbH, Tilsiter Straße 22, [ca. 1931]. Large octavo (24.9 × 19 cm). Original staple-stitched gray wrappers printed in red and black; [16] pp. Minor toning and foxing to wrappers; still very good. Appealing promotional specimen by this Berlin type foundry, which was known primarily for its modernist..... More

[St. Petersburg: Akademiia nauk, 1841]. Octavo (23.2 × 14.5 cm). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; VII, [3], III, [1], 94, [2], IV, 79, [5], III, [1], 22 pp. including numerous folding leaves containing charts and tables (pagination of copies in Russian libraries usually given as [224] pp. which corresponds..... More