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 about Celtne: žurnals literaturai, mākslai un zinatnei [Structure: a journal of proletarian history,...

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 about Dělnícký kalendář rodinný na rok 1929 [Worker's family calendar for the year 1929

[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 about Geo Milev: Vuspominatelen sbornik [Geo Milev: a commemorative almanach

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 about James Joyce Hunted for Espionage]. Betreffend: Hochverräterische Umtriebe von österr. Čechen...

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 about Plány 1/100 na stavbu domu v Praze II, Karlovo nám. Zm ny. Original architectural floor and...

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 about Seznam členů VI. mezinárodného kongresu pro kreslení a užitá umění v Praze 1928... List...

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 about Styl. Měsíčník pro architekturu, stavbu měst, umělecký průmysl, vydává společnost...

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 about XLV řádná jarní výstava jednoty umělců výtvarných v Praze, s kolekcí Vojtěcha Hynaise ...

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 about Zpěvy o Rusku [Songs about Russia]. From the Russian by Jaroslav Teichmann.; Van, edice krásné...

Moscow: Izd. [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet graphic artist... More about A. P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva

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 about Nahá krása [Naked beauty].; Edice Vzkříšení, sv. 13

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 about Trn: satirický časopis student [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 3, no. 11 (1926

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 about Spojité nádoby [Communicating Vessels, originally: Les Vases communicants