Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe uchebno-pedagogicheskoe izd-vo, 1931. Octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers 38, [2] pp. with 41-47, [1] pp. With an 8-pp. dictionary supplement folded and laid in as issued. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; some chipping to corners of wrappers; still about very good. Intended for the..... More

Prague: “Orbis”, 1937. Octavo (29.5 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; ca. 30 pp per issue. Illustrations throughout from technical drawings and photographs. Very good. Twelve issues (complete set for the year) of a popular journal for amateur radio engineers and operators. The first issue of the journal was published..... 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

Moscow: Trud i Kniga, 1924–1930. Quartos (31.5 × 23.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16–36 pp. per issue, with continuous annual pagination. Issues for 1924–1925 housed in original card portfolio. Issues for 1926–1927 bound in contemporary half-cloth album, with original wrappers preserved, trimmed to measure 30 × 21.7 cm. Wear..... More

Moscow: OGIZ–Moskovskii Rabochii, 1932–1938. Octavos (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers in various colors; ca. 80 pp. per issue (continuous annual pagination). Illustrations throughout from photographs, drawings, and technical plans. About very good; a few issues with light fraying and nicks to wrappers; occasional wear to spine strip;..... More

Uherské Hradiště: Skupina moravských knihomilů, 1931. Octavos (24 × 16.3 cm). Original decorative printed wrappers; 247, [1] pp. (consecutive pagination). Twenty-two illustrations in the text and thirty leaves of supplements, including photo-reproductions, linocut and woodcut prints, and other ephemera. A few wrappers with light dust-soiling; one page with smudge; overall..... More

Kraków: ASP, 1981. Small octavo (17.3 × 12.2cm). Original decorative card wrappers; [18] pp. Small tear to rear wrapper, not affecting text; else very good. First edition. An experimental publication designed in the concretist manner by the graphic artist and painter Janusz Benedyktowicz (1918–2001), of an equally experimental work by..... More

Paris: self-published, 1966. Square quarto (27 × 26 cm). Thread-stitched sections in original printed folder; [72] pp. With numerous mounted and separately laid-in multiples and graphics: one original graphic, two folded graphically designed plates, four enclosed plates of concrete poetry, eight enclosed typographically designed pages (unopened section), two mounted envelopes..... More

Berlin: Club der Kulturschaffenden "Johannes R. Becher", 1988. Slim octavo (22 × 13 cm). Original printed four-panel folder, printed to recto and verso; fourfold leporello [8 pp.], 30 loose leaves printed to both sides, 1 folded gathering of [4] pp., all printed on coated paper, with numerous reproductions of visual..... More

Prague: Nakladatelství Svoboda, 1969. Slim octavo (24 × 10 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers designed by Milan Grygar, over blind wrappers; 78, [1] pp. Light wear and toning to edges of dust-wrappers, else about very good. First editon of these translations into Czech by Jiří Gruša of poems by Erich Fried..... More

Brno: self-published, 1935. Oblong quarto (21.5 × 30 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 100, [1] pp. With fifty illustrations, mostly maps printed in blue, black, and red, a few reproductions from photographs. Additional graphs and charts throughout. Signed and inscribed by the author to Adolf Benš. Very good. A striking work..... More

Minsk: Dziarzhaunae Vydavetstva Belarusi (State Publisher of Belarus), 1925. Octavo (22.7 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 54, [2] pp. Last page and rear wrapper in facsimile; restorations throughout, with paper repairs and some retouching of text to front wrapper; some creasing to margins and small repaired tears throughout; still..... More

Prague: Nákladem Volné myšlenky, 1938. Octavo (19.3 × 13.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by František Ketzek; 469, [7] pp. Very good; small repair inside front wrapper; tiny contemporary owner stamp (Dr. J. V. Kotas); uncut and unopened copy. Stanislav Jandík (1902-1970) was a Czech writer and journalist who was affiliated..... More