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

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

[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

Berlin: Kino Arsenal, [1973]. Quarto (29.7 × 21 cm). Original side-stapled printed self-wrappers; 17 leaves printed to rectos with hectographed typescripts, notations, and sketches. Very good. Only edition of the compilation of typed and sketched essays as well as concepts, published in a small run. Takahiko Iimura is regarded as..... 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

Asnières-sur-Seine: Le Réveil Normand, 1971–1972 and Boulogne: Ripa, [ca. 1972]. Quartos (27.5 × 22 and 29.5 × 21 cm). Original pictorial staple-stitched self-wrappers; each issue 16 pp. and "Namospamous" 36 pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Complete run of the rare journal, published by the music producer Maxime Schmitt, who later..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1931. Octavo (18 × 12.7 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 62, [2] pp. With twenty-two illustrations from photographs. Very good; inconspicuous professional restoration to spine. First and only edition of this early work on animation films by the key figure in the development of Soviet..... More

Berlin: n.p., 1969. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Pictorial leaflet with inserted, folded transparent glassine sheet, printed with artist and work details of the reproduced works and video stills; [8] pp. Very good. Rare leaflet for the first "Television Exhibition" by Gerry Schum, through which he coined the term "Land..... More

[USSR; Italy; Sweden], 1962–1983. Original gelatin silver prints of various sizes, from 17.5 × 10.5 cm to 24 × 30 cm, loose in an archival cardboard box measuring 31 × 31 cm addressed to Propyläen Verlag Berlin. Handwritten notes in pencil and ink to verso of most prints, 25 of..... More

Łódź, [1975]. Single sheet measuring 29.8 × 21 cm with typescript and 12 small vintage gelatin silver prints (each ca. 2.8 × 4.3 cm) to recto. Signed in pencil to lower left corner. Lightly chipped to lower edges, discoloration due to stock. Still about very good. Original, unique documentation of..... More