Russia, 1910–1916. Various sizes, both posters and single folded leaves with [4] pp. of text, attractively set in a variety of decorative typefaces and printed on different stock. A sizeable collection of 125 handbills, small posters, and advertising programs for silent film theaters across the Russian Empire, which captures the..... More

Kraków: Galeria Krzystofory, 1971. Poster measuring 43 × 30.5 cm, folded once along the horizontal axis, to create a [4] pp. pamphlet with text and image to recto and verso. About very good. A brochure and poster advertising the neo-dadaist trio “Druga Grupa” (Second Group), performing at the avant-garde Krzystofory..... More

Prague: Barrandov Film Studio, 1971. Oblong octavo (23 × 25.8 cm). Original printed dust wrappers over blind paper wrappers; [92] pp. Dust wrapper lightly discolored; else very good. Photo-illustrated album showcasing twenty-five years of work in the nationalized Barrandov Film Studios in Prague. Full-page black-and-white photographs are interspersed with text..... More

Leningrad: Nauchnoe knigoizdatel’stvo, 1925. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 154, [6] pp. With forty-nine smaller drawings in the text. Small nick to front wrapper; spine extremities very lightly frayed; text evenly toned; still about very good. First edition in Russian. This early film history, oriented toward industry..... More

Prague: Společnost pro hospodářské a kulturní sblížení s SSSR, 1934. Octavo (21.2 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Illustrated with a large isotype graphic on two facing pages, printed in red, and one chart printed in black. A very good, uncut and unopened copy in protective mylar. Single..... More

Berlin: Eden-Saloon, [1961–62]. Octavo (21 × 14.6 cm). Original staple-stitchd pictorial wrappers; 24 pp. Last leaf lightly stained and creased; else very good. An unrecorded memento of one of the most colorful chapters of post-war West Berlin, this privately published journal was distributed to guests of Rolf Eden's "Eden Saloon,"..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1926. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Numerous graphs, charts, and illustrations. Light wear and soil to corners; wrappers very lightly spotted; still about very good. Intended for political educators, this handbook is a practical guide for organizing cultural and educational events around..... More

[Prague], 1976. Quarto (29 × 20.5 cm). Original side-stapled mimeographed wrappers; [31] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos, with a few blank section dividers. About very good. A description, separated by year, of mandatory exercises for students of FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts..... More

Berlin: SFB, 1971. Two leaves for each film, in different sizes and stock, measuring 10 × 14.7 and 15 × 21.5 cm. respectively. Very good. Rare announcement cards for three artist films produced for Berlin television, directed by Berlin filmmaker Jan Franksen in close collaboration with the respective artists.The cards..... More

Prague: Filmový ústav, 1966. Octavo (20 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jaroslava Veselá; 220 pp. of reproduced typescript to rectos and versos. Very good; in protective mylar. The first volume to gather Karel Teige's various articles on film, mostly published during the 1920s and 1930s, with a lengthy..... More

Moscow: Tea-kino-pechat’, 1930. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 110, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; minor fraying to spine extremities; still about very good. First edition. A pioneering work of set design by a major artist of early Soviet cinema, Sergei Kozlovskii (1885–1962), with wrappers..... More

New York: Anna Canepa Video Distribution, Inc. and M.L. D'Arc Gallery, [1976]. Quarto (27.8 × 20.4 cm). Original pictorial staple-stitched wrappers (Video still from Lee Levine's "Landscape II"); 23, [1] pp. Very good. Catalog of Anna Canepa’s distribution company. Canepa was among the first and most influential mediators of video..... More

San José: San José State University, Union Gallery, 1979. Quarto (28 × 21.5 cm). Original printed boards; 31 one-sided leaves reproducing blanks with typescript or manuscript text as well as signatures, stamps, and occasional images. Wrappers somewhat toned; else very good. Catalog printed for the "Exhibition: Electronic Editions" presented from..... More