![Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 12 (27). Franciszka Kwiatkowska,...](/pictures/medium/4072_1.jpg?v=1535047615)
Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczys aw Szczuka; 24 pp. Wrappers very lightly creased; tear to upper edge of two leaves not affecting text; overall very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde... More about Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 12 (27
![Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 14 (29). Franciszka Kwiatkowska,...](/pictures/medium/5811_1.jpg?v=1535047617)
Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczys aw Szczuka; 24 pp. Wrappers very lightly smudged; else very good or better. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923... More about Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 14 (29
![Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 18 (33). Franciszka Kwiatkowska,...](/pictures/medium/5812_1.jpg?v=1535047618)
Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczys aw Szczuka; 24 pp. Very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to September 1924 by the avant-garde artist... More about Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 18 (33
![Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 21 (36). Franciszka Kwiatkowska,...](/pictures/medium/5813_1.jpg?v=1535047618)
Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczys aw Szczuka; 24 pp. Very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to September 1924 by the avant-garde artist... More about Nowa kultura: tygodnik [New Culture: a weekly], vol. II, no. 21 (36
![Imazhinistika [Imaginistics]. Ippolit Sokolov](/pictures/medium/6569_1.jpg?v=1558541792)
[Moscow]: Odrnas, 1921. Large octavo (26.5 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 14 pp. Old Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; else very good. First and only edition of this treatise about Russian "Imaginism" (Imazhinism), a leading avant-garde movement that succeeded both Symbolism and Futurism, written by a one-time... More about Imazhinistika [Imaginistics
Moscow: self-published, 1919. 16mo (12.3 × 9 cm). Original staple-stitched pink printed wrappers; [15] pp. Unobtrusive Soviet bookstore stamp inside rear wrapper; very good. Collection of verse by the Russian leader of the “expressionist” poets, Ippolit Sokolov (1902-1974). This curious phenomenon has less to do with German Expressionism, than with... More about Polnoe sobranie sochenenii. Izdanie ne posmertnoe. Tom I. Ne stikhi [The complete works. A...
![Poezija [Poetry]. Signed and inscribed. Juozas Tysliava](/pictures/medium/4750_1.jpg?v=1508345576)
New York: Lithuanian Press Corporation, 1935. Quarto (25.8 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 60, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good or better. Signed and inscribed copy of the first book published in American exile by Juozas Tysliava (1902-1961), who left Paris for the United States... More about Poezija [Poetry]. Signed and inscribed
Prague: Tiskem, [1920-1921]. Octavos (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 84 pp. (consecutive pagination). Folded leaf of contents with woodcut title by Slavoboj Tusar, loosely inserted as issued. Numerous illustrations. The first issue very lightly worn; text toned due to stock; else very good. Complete first run (apparently all... More about Aktuality a kuriosity: sborník literární, umělecký a politický [The actual and the curious:...
![Tam-tam: hudební leták; gazette musicale [Tam-tam: a musical bulletin], nos. 3, 4, 5, 6 (of six...](/pictures/medium/4852_1.jpg?v=1510547098)
Prague: self-published, 1925-1926. Octavos (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched typo- illustrated self-wrappers (most likely by Karel Teige); 32 pp. each. Illustrations and typo-design throughout. Very light wear to spine folds; still very good, with the last three issues uncut and unopened. A substantial run of this short-lived avant-garde journal... More about Tam-tam: hudební leták; gazette musicale [Tam-tam: a musical bulletin], nos. 3, 4, 5, 6 (of six...
![Srublennyi potselui s gub vselennoi [A kiss chopped off the lips of the universe]. Vadim Baian,...](/pictures/medium/6545.jpg?v=1555686748)
[Sebastopol]: Taran, [1922]. Octavo (22 × 17.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 12 pp. Rust to staples; light soil to wrapper; old Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; still about very good. ["Crimean Avant-Garde"]. Rare Russian futurist anthology published in Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula; at least three other short anthologies... More about Srublennyi potselui s gub vselennoi [A kiss chopped off the lips of the universe
![Կեանքի Ջութակը: Keank'i jut'ak [The violin of life]. Kara-Darvish, Ziga...](/pictures/medium/5802_1.jpg?v=1535383713)
Tbilisi: 1917. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original light green pictorial wrappers illustrated with a drawing by Ziga Valishevskii; 62 pp. Boldly signed and inscribed by the author, "to the sharp and truthful (?) Vrtanes Papazian, with love, Kara-Darvish." Front wrapper lighly worn and discolored (with small abbrasion); internally very... More about Կեանքի Ջութակը: Keank'i jut'ak [The violin of life
Moscow: self-published, 1927. Small octavo (17.2 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 29, [3] pp. Wrappers lightly worn and faded; else very good. Iosif S. Izrailevich (pseudonyms Al'vek, 1895-1943?) was a Russian poet who was close to Khlebnikov toward the end of the Russian Futurist's life and considered himself to... More about Vsem: nochnoi bal. Nakhlebniki Khlebnikova: Maiakovskii -- Aseev [For everyone. The night ball....
![1926 - 1928 - 1923. Kniha 3 [Book 3]. Vasyl’ Khmeliuk, Iuryi Vovk](/pictures/medium/4696_1.jpg?v=1511876116)
Prague: self-published, 1928. Quarto (28 × 19.5 cm). Original staple-stitched gray pictorial wrappers; 26 leaves of lithographed or stencil-copied text and images, with 6 full-page drawings by Vovk. Spine extremities beginning to split; still a very good copy. Third and last book of poems by Khmeliuk (sometimes spelled Khmeluk, 1903–1986)... More about 1926 - 1928 - 1923. Kniha 3 [Book 3
![Futurizm [Futurism; Le Futurisme]. Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, M. Engel'gardt](/pictures/medium/3789.jpg?v=1540835321)
St. Petersburg: Kn-vo, 1914. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 241 pp. and [15] pp. of publisher's ads. Frontis portrait of Marinetti. Front wrapper discolored; spine expertly renewed and light paper restoration to edges; internally very good. First translation into Russian of Marinetti's "Le Futurisme" (Paris: E. Sansot... More about Futurizm [Futurism; Le Futurisme
![Sistema trudovoi gimnastiki [A method of labor gymnastics]. Ippolit Sokolov](/pictures/medium/6349_1.jpg?v=1549035306)
[Moscow]: self-published, 1922. Octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pink printed wrappers; 19, [1] pp. Unobtrusive Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; very good. This brochure on labor gymnastics, typical of the modernist and especially futurist preoccupation with “anthropomechanics,” or the study of the mechanical nature of human motion... More about Sistema trudovoi gimnastiki [A method of labor gymnastics
![Ot mamy na piat' minut [Away from mommy for five minutes]. Boris Zemenkov, Aleksandr Kraevskii,...](/pictures/medium/6549_1.jpg?v=1555686748)
Kholodno [e.g. Moscow]: [1920]. Octavo (22 × 17.8 cm). Original staple-stitched stiff dark maroon wrappers; 32 pp. With two original linocut prints by Boris Zemenkov, as well as another, but faded design to rear wrapper. Owner inscription of Ippolit Sokolov (struck through). The glossy wrappers faded; spine rubbed; else still... More about Ot mamy na piat' minut [Away from mommy for five minutes
