Prague: Nakladatelství K. Synek, [1946]. Quarto (29.7 × 21 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 39 pp. One photographic insert (a black-and-white photograph by Miroslav Hák). Front wrapper with paper loss along upper margin; else about very good. Rare first and only issue of this curious post-war Czech almanach, which sought to..... More
Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards..... More
Unpaginated (23 pp.) catalogue for the group exhibition held at Artists Space from January 7 through 22, 1977, with an auction on January 22, directed by Helene Winer, coordinated by Patrick O'Connell, and auctioneered by David Reddon, with more than 60 artists participating including John Ahearn, Diane Bertolo, Charles Clough..... More
A fascinating and unique World War I German Red Cross hospital train photograph album, with an accordion-folded sheet the length of 10 pages, containing the title page, 8-leaf colored blueprint of the layout of the train, and 1-page description of the layout, followed by 11 original photographs, 9 of which..... More
Turn-of-the-century German Jugendstil tabletop game using elements of shuffleboard or billiards, the contents comprising two hinged pieces of wood which are connected to form the play area, a wooden cue with curved piece of wood for pushing at one end, and two sets of color-coded wooden disks with felt bottoms..... More
Verona: Edizioni Factotum-Art, 1977-1986. Quartos (most approximately 26.5 x 21 cm), various paginations. Some light soiling, minor edgewear, etc, overall very good. Isaia Mabellini, working under the name Sarenco, was a visual poet and member of the Gruppo 70 in Italy. Their most well-known creation was 'Lotta poetica', a leftist..... More
Photo album with approximately 94 mostly black-and-white photographs collected by a member of the Bay Area BDSM community in the late 1980s and early 1990s, pictures depict events including the Pride parade, a pageant with women in assorted bondage restraints, portraits, and candid shots, most with community members dressed in..... More
Collection of posters, broadsheets, and ephemera pertaining to the Latvian-Jewish community in Riga, Daugavpils and Jūrmala in the 1920s and 1930s. Please inquire for a detailed list of contents and further images. The vibrant cultural, political and religious life of the community is captured in theater posters, announcements of political..... More
A sizeable collection of supplements to Rouge and other associated serials and publications, dating primarily from the 1970s. - Supplements to Rouge: 40, 56, 63, 105, 132, 133, 140, 143, 154, 156, 177, 185, 188 (3 different), 189 (3 different), 190 (2 different), 192, 197, 204 (4 different 204s), 206..... More
A complete run in 14 issues of the Argentinian literary journal, issues approx. 26-30 pp. each, edited by Abelardo Castillo and Liliana Heker, containing prose, poetry, essays, interviews, and criticism, including contributions from Isidoro Blaistein, Cristina Piña, Liliana Heker, Guillermo Boido, Elia Parra, Luis Prieto, Juan Miguel García Fernandez, Joyce..... More
A complete series of 6 albums documenting the Spanish Civil War in great detail, each album with 30-50 pp. of text detailing the daily activities and events of the war followed by many pages in photoessay form depicting troops, civilians, forms of military transport, propaganda, and the destruction of war..... More
Exceptional album of 141 original photographs of World War I in France, including 44 photographs of tanks stamped "SECRET" to front and with official stamp from the "Section Photographique de l'Armée" to the reverse, views of demolished buildings around Vienne-la-Ville, battlefields, aerial views from the Somme region, mortars, and German..... More
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Nowoczesne, 1940. (Seria Warszawska.) Octavos. Original illustrated wrappers with striking covers. Each with scattered illustrations from drawings and/or photographs. About very good. A complete series of four propaganda titles in Polish, issued by the provisional government established in Poland during the German occupation to help justify the occupation..... More
Paris: 1945-1951. 8vo., sizes range from 19 x 12.7 to 21 x 14 cm. Original printed paper wrappers; 16, 16, 40, 46, 30 pp. Nos. 3 through 5 some pages uncut, light toning, overall very good condition. A rare complete collection in five fascicules of the Surrealist magazine under the..... More
Unpaginated (circa 208 pp.) reprint of the renowned Italian socialist journal, commenting on the political situation in Italy and around the world following WWI from a communist viewpoint. Lg. folio. 1/2 cloth and boards. Milan (Feltrinelli Reprint) 1966. During the course of its publication, Il Soviet was the official organ..... More
Montclar and Tourves, France: Brenta/Gutt, 1997-2002. 14.6 x 10.5 cm. Original printed wrappers; most issues consisting of a single sheet folded into 8 pp. Overall very fine condition. A presumably complete collection (complete according to our sources) of 372 fascicules of the irregularly published journal founded by Belgian painter, illustrator..... More
66 total issues bound in 7 volumes of the luxurious 1930s medical journal, "revue mensuelle réservée au corps médical". produced by the Debat pharmaceutical laboratories under the direction of Dr. François Debat, first called "La Revue du Médecin" before the title changed to "Art et Médecine", important particularly for its..... More
Paris: [n.p.], 1919. Small folio (31.75 x 24 cm). Newer leather-backed boards, gilt title to spine, original wrappers bound in. Each issue 16 pp., continuously paginated 256 pages total. Some slight toning and soiling, some small repairs, overall very good condition. A complete collection of 16 issues bound in one..... More
Brussels: 1972-1992. 16mo. (14 x 10.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; most issues 4-8 pp. Some light toning, overall very fine condition. A near complete collection of the Belgian magazine founded by writer and editor Tom Gutt in 1972. Most issues featured a contribution by a single writer or artist, from..... More
A complete run in 41 issues of the irreverent Australian counterculture journal, under the editorial direction of Richard Neville with Peter Grose, Dean Letcher, Martin Sharp, and Richard Walsh, containing stories related to topics including abortion, chastity, censorship, homosexuality, police brutality, organized crime, the Vietnam War, religion, domestic and international..... More
A complete run, bound in two volumes, of the serial from the Argentinian coastal province, published during the second World War and edited by R. E. Montes i Bradley, devoted to recent developments in art, literature, and general culture both domestic and international, with contributions by numerous noted cultural figures..... More
Extensive collection of 276 issues spanning 8 years of publication (out of a total of 11 years published) of the weekly Italian Fascist literary and cultural periodical, under the editorial direction of Telesio Interlandi with assistance from Luigi Chiarini, film critic and future director of the Venice Film Festival, and..... More
Leningrad: Gublit, ca. 1925-1928? Various formats. Three small posters, printed to rectos in blue and red. About very good; small nicks and tears to edges. In protective mylar sleeve. Contains the following slogans: "Kazhdoe novoe sel’sko-khoziaistvennoe tovarishchestvo – zalog uluchsheniia krest'ianskogo khoziaistva (Every new agricultural cooperative plays its part in..... More
A complete run of the Scandinavian avant-garde art and literature journal, housed together in continuously paginated 128 pp. volume, (each issue approx. 16 pp.), published in both Finnish and Swedish, under the editorial direction of Lauri Haarla, Haggar Olsson, and Raoul af Hällström, containing essays on literature, music, theater, and..... More
1915. A complete run of the first and second series of the Catalan art journal under the editorial direction of Santiago Segura i Burguess, bound in 7 volumes, including the two undated supplements "Biblioteca de Arte 'Vell i Nou'" Vol. III and IV, of the variously paginated (altogether over 2000..... More