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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
[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...
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