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
![Item #P6777 [CZECH AVANT-GARDE – MOCKING "TEIGEISM"] Kaleidoskop: epigramy, satiry a smutky z...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6777_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710775388)
Prague: R. Rejman, 1927. Small octavo (16 × 11.4 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [40] leaves. A very good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author to P. Kohout. Scarce collection of good-natured, but witty parodies of contemporary Czech political life, including the communists, fascists, republicans, workers and bourgeois, as well..... More
Itzehoe: self-published, 1962. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Original calligraphically designed self-wrappers; [36] calligraphically designed pp. with numerous illustrations, montages, typo-image constellations etc. Very good. Single issue from the series of the unusually designed underground journal, which was one of the first periodicals to print the American literature of the..... More
![Item #P5771 [IMPORTANT WORK ON CZECH TYPOGRAPHY – BRADÁČ BINDING] Typograf o knihách [The...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5771_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706612521)
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
![Item #55312 [TYPE SPECIMEN – SPECIMEN BOOKS AS CULTURAL HISTORY] Erste Folge der...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55312_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769854084)
Leipzig, [ca. 1890] (printed in Stuttgart by Kast & Ehinger). Octavo (25.5 × 18.2 cm). Original blue cloth, blind-ruled and gilt-stamped to front board; [2], 361–376, 376a–376b, 377–382, 382a–382b, 383–394, 394a–394b, 408, 408a–408b, 409–486, 486a–486b, 489–526 pp., [1] folded leaf of plates on translucent tan stock. Title with added printed..... More
![Item #P4745 [CZECH TYPOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC ARTS] Typographeum vivum. Žívá tiskárna aneb lis...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P4745_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710271387)
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
![Item #P004072 Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 12 (27). Franciszka...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P004072_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706211201)
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 creased; tear to upper edge of two leaves not affecting text; overall very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary..... More
![Item #P5811 Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 14 (29). Franciszka...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5811_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706211201)
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
![Item #P5812 Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 18 (33). Franciszka...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5812_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706211201)
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 by the avant-garde artist Mieczysław..... More
![Item #P5813 Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 21 (36). Franciszka...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5813_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706211201)
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
![Item #55674 [READING FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED – A BRAILLE ALTERNATIVE] Two volumes issued by...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55674_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779290402)
Moon Christmas Annual 1938 (title taken from spine label): London: Moon Society (a Branch of the National Institute for the Blind), 1938. Large oblong folio (28.5 × 34.5 cm). Original blind brown stiff card boards with printed spine label; 85 pp. In lieu of a title page, a leaf with..... More
![Item #55675 [READING FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED – A BRAILLE ALTERNATIVE] [The Gospel According...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55675_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779290342)
Brighton: [The Moon Society], [after 1920, before 1953]. Oblong folio (28.5 × 34.5 cm). Contemporary half-cloth over marbled boards; 57 leaves of embossed text in Moon type. In lieu of a title page, a leaf with transcribed raised alphabet is included: “A Simplified System of Embossed Reading for the Use..... More
![Item #P6863 [CZECH AVANT-GARDE – KAREL TEIGE] Sklěnený havelok [A havelock of glass]. Signed...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6863_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709131865)
Prague: Fr. Borový, 1932. Octavo (19.4 × 11.7 cm). Original decorative beige cloth, printed in red and blue, by Karel Teige; 210, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by Nezval in the year of publication. Lacking pictorial wrappers; boards lightly soiled and worn; internally very good. First edition. Nezval (1900–1958) was..... More
![Item #55671 [GERMAN MODERNIST TYPOGRAPHY – SANS SERIF TYPEFACES] Groteskschriften der...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55671_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775565422)
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
![Item #P003085 [BULGARIAN AVANT-GARDE] Glad i libido: prinos kum psikhoanalitichnoto uchenie za...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P003085_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706721670)
Sofia: Pechatnitsa "Doverie", 1932. Octavo (20 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (by the author?); 132 pp. Largely uncut and unopened copy; text toned; small repair to lower right corner; a few nicks to rear wrapper; overall about very good. First work by Rusev (1902-?), a Bulgarian psychologist who was..... 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
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
