Moscow: Prometei (Prometejs), 1931. Large octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with lino-cut cover; 63, [1] pp. With numerous photographs throughout. Light wear to lower spine extremity; occasional underlining in pencil; else about very good. Single issue of this Latvian leftist literary, arts, and politics journal, published in... More

Prague-Karlín: Komunistické nakladatelství a knihkupectví, [1928]. Large octavo (25 × 18.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, most likely by Václav Mašek; 103, [9], 16 pp. Numerous full-page illustrations and smaller photo-montages. Nick to lower spine extremity (ca. 2 cm), else very good. Rare socialist anthology of art and literature (both original..... More

[Sofia]: 1936. Octavo (18.5 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Pencho Georgiev; 128 pp. Two photographs on better stock. An uncut and unopened copy; wrappers lightly dust-soiled; tiny nick to upper right corner of front wrapper. This rare commemorative volume was published by the writer's friends on the eleventh... More

Prague: Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion Prag, [1916 or 1917]. Large quarto (33 × 24 cm). Attractively bound in recent gray boards; [1], 198 leaves of text to rectos only. Pink rubber stamp “Vertraulich” (“Confidential”) to first leaf. Introductory text followed by German-language wanted briefs and photographs. Very good. [Austria... More

Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo pisatelei v Berline, [1922]. Octavo. Original decorative wrappers by Ivan Mozalevskii; 133, [1] pp. Fifteen titles and end decorations by S. Segal'. About very good; spine neatly repaired; hand-written label to spine strip; small stain to front wrapper. Contains prose by Gleb Alekseev, Aleksei Tolstoi, Vladimir Lidin, Savvatii... More

Prague: S.V.U. Mánes, 1946. Octavo (20 × 12 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers over blind wraps; [26] pp. and twelve unnumbered leaves of reproductions. Occasional underlining to last few pages; else very good. Catalog of the 361. exhibition of S.V.U. Mánes, held January 30 through February 23, 1946, and showing the... More

Tallinn and Tartu: Kirjanikkude Ühingu, 1917-1919. Quartos (27 × 19.2 cm). Later buckram bindings, preserving original pictorial wrappers by Nikolai Triik and Ado Vabbe (front and back); 148, [2]; 115, [4]; and 134 pp. Three full-page illustrations by Triik (volume I), six full-page drawings, of which one in red and... More

Prague: Prague: Grafia dělnická knihtiskárna, 1928. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 115, [40] pages of reproductions in black-and-white. Spine extremities frayed; wrappers lightly toned; still about very good. Divided into four sections on Czechoslovak art: painting, art on paper, sculpture and architecture. With an added German preface... More

Prague: Hynek Paul, ca. 1920. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original printed orange wrappers; [20] pp. Trace of rust to staples, else very good. Apparently undocumented catalog by a Prague manufacturer of furniture and other fittings for hair salons and barber shops. The offers include everything from seats to mirrors... More

Moscow: 1920. Quarto (24.7 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 52 pp., [23] leaves of plates. About very good; front wrapper lightly stained and with nick to the right edge; one leaf loosened. Attractively produced catalog of engravings by the Russian artist Vasilii N. Masiutin (1884-1955), whose work blended symbolism... More

Moravská Ostrava: Lidová knihtiskárna O. Štěpanek a spol. 1934. Octavo (21.3 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 20, [1] pp. Very good. In protective mylar sleeve. Scarce undocumented regional avant-garde design, with a striking title page and appealing typographic design throughout (continued on front and rear wrapper flaps). Signed by..... More

Prague: 1924-1932. Large octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Publisher's typographically illustrated self-wrappers; [16] pp. including wrappers. Very good; spine fold somewhat rubbed; very faint old vertical crease. Single early issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of the Czech avant-garde period, which... More

Prague: S.V.U. Mánes, 1934. Octavo (20 × 13.8 cm). Original printed light pink wrappers, pictorial dust jacket illustrated with a drawing by Toyen; 180, [2] pp. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. First Czech edition of Breton's essay, originally published in 1932, and largely concerned with the surprising... More