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
![Dělník: kalendář na rok 1929 [The worker: calendar for the year 1929]. S Redakčním...](/pictures/medium/6904_1.jpg?v=1559141819)
New York: Nákladem tiskového výboru časopisu “Obrana”, Dělnická družstevní tiskarna, 1929. Large octavo (25.5 × 19.0 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Gustav Pikal; 208 pp. Closed tear to margin of first few pages; else very good. Rare leftist anthology of art and literature (both original texts and works in translation)..... 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
![Iskra: slezský literární měsíčník [The spark: an independent Silesian monthly], vol. I,...](/pictures/medium/6105.jpg?v=1541185148)
Hrabyně: Iskra, 1932. Octavos (25 × 19 cm). Original typographically illustrated wrappers on differently colored paper; 151 pp. (continuous pagination). Very good or better copies. All published (ten issues) of this Silesian literary review, published in Hrabyně, near Ostrava. In prose and poetry, as well as countless reviews, book discussions..... More
![James Joyce Hunted for Espionage]. Betreffend: Hochverräterische Umtriebe von österr. Čechen...](/pictures/medium/6257_1.jpg?v=1553094967)
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
Prague: Šolc a Šimáček, 1926. Quartos (29 × 20 cm). Original printed wrappers with decorative header; 142, [2] pp. (approximately 16 pp. per issue). The first issue lightly worn and with vertical crease; else very good or better. A complete run of an early Czech cinematography trade journal, aimed at..... More
![Odisseia: zarubezhnyi sbornik. Kniga pervaia [The Odyssey: an anthology of exile. Book 1] (all...](/pictures/medium/3564_1.jpg?v=1563100760)
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: [1928]. Large quarto (34.5 × 24 cm). Original quarter-cloth with hand-written label to front board; fourteen bound-in folding maps, hand-colored, with official stamps, hand-written notes, and signatures, various sizes, approximately 49 × 85 cm. each. Boards rubbed and lightly distended; three of the maps have been removed from the..... 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
Prague: Grafia, 1928. Octavo (23 × 15.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 85 pp. With a striking unattributed wrapper design. Very good. Scarce list of participants at a 1928 art education congress held in Prague, containing over two thousand names, addresses, and occupations of the delegates and visitors. Among the famous..... 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: Společnost architektů v Praze, 1921-26. Quartos (ca. 32 × 24 cm. each). Original decorative wrappers; 118, 172, 161 and 202 pp. each. With numerous plates on coated paper stock and illustrations in the text. One detached front wrapper; occasional light dust soiling; overall very good or better. Set of..... 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: Obecní dům, 1926. 12mo (15.6 × 11.7 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [56] pp. of text and [26] leaves of black-and-white reproductions. Laid in price sheet. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; else very good. Illustrated catalog for the 45th exhibition of works by František Naske, Jan Pašek, Ota Bubeníček..... 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
![Zpěvy o Rusku [Songs about Russia]. From the Russian by Jaroslav Teichmann.; Van, edice krásné...](/pictures/medium/5539_1.jpg?v=1526745142)
V Hlučíně: Slezské tisk., nakl. a knihk. družstvo, 1946. Octavo (21 × 15.3 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers by Zden k Rossmann; 43, [3] pp. About fine. Scarce undocumented regional, Silesian avant-garde publication with a striking, spare wrapper design by Zdeněk Rossmann, an important Czech architect and graphic designer who..... 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
Prague: Reklamný klub československý, 1936. Octavo (18.5 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 42, [3] pp. Twenty caricatures by Karel Matějíček, most of them full-page. About fine, in protective mylar. A charming book of satirical verses and caricatures about leading figures of the pre-war Czechoslovak advertising world. In 1927, the..... More
![Nahá krása [Naked beauty].; Edice Vzkříšení, sv. 13. Alois Vojkůvka](/pictures/medium/5543_1.jpg?v=1526749302)
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
![Trn: satirický časopis student [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 3, no. 12...](/pictures/medium/6255_1.jpg?v=1546628065)
Prague: 1924-1932. Large octavo (26.2 × 17.5 cm). Publisher's typographically illustrated self-wrappers; [16] pp. including wrappers. Very good; stamp of the famous architect Václav Roštlapil; very faint vertical crease. Single early issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of the Czech avant-garde..... More
![Trn: satirický časopis student [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 3, no. 11...](/pictures/medium/6256_1.jpg?v=1546628066)
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
![Trn: satirický časopis studentů [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 3, no. 1...](/pictures/medium/6445_1.jpg?v=1550252187)
Prague: 1924-1932. Large octavo (25.4 × 17.7 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. as well as text to wrappers. Very good or better. Single early issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of the Czech avant-garde period, which features uncredited typographic layout..... More
![Spojité nádoby [Communicating Vessels, originally: Les Vases communicants]. André...](/pictures/medium/5616_1.jpg?v=1559129664)
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
![Písně ostravského Kamelota [The songs of the Ostrava Camelot].; Edice Gemini, svazek 2. Ant....](/pictures/medium/5538.jpg?v=1561120814)
Moravská Ostrava: Kroužek přátel vědy, literatury a umění, 1930. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 25, [6] pp. About very good; text block loosened; light wear to wrappers and spine fold. Scarce undocumented regional avant-garde design (unattributed), incorporating angular typography on a newpaper background. First edition of the..... More
St. Petersburg: Tip. 1905-06. Quartos (ca. 33 × 23 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 8-16 pp. each. Each issue with numerous black-and-white, and some color, cartoons and drawings and a color title illustration. About very good to very good issues, with the occasional light wear, dust-soiling, and light stamps; only one..... More
