A compendium of original works by Finkelstein including one 8-minute video cassette, one photo screened canvas (27 cm x 27 cm), nine black and white photographic prints 30 cm x 40 cm each, one b&w print 15 cm x 22 cm, and a photo-grid consisting of ten identical photographic prints..... More

Title page, 4 pp. of text including table of contents, and 12 plates, including two in full color, depicting floor plans, elevations, and details from the establishment of a working-class public bath on rue des Tanneurs in Brussels and projects for future buildings. Some light scattered foxing and edgewear. Folio..... More

[Kunstat, near Brno]: 1974. Black portfolio, gilt title to spine, measuring 32 × 22.2 cm, with contents printed on leaves A4-sized. Carbon copy typescript. Light wear and small tear to portfolio; contents very good. Unique compilation of twenty-four leaves featuring poetic texts or original artwork, all signed, limited, or entirely..... More

Moscow: Fizkultura i Sport, 1928. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed boards with decorative covers affixed to front and back; [86] leaves of texts and photo-montage to rectos and versos. Album published in conjunction with the first Winter and Summer Spartakiads held in Oslo and Moscow in February and August, 1928, with..... More

Moscow, [1933]. Oblong octavo (11 × 14 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers with four flaps; twenty-three pictorial postcards loosely inserted, as issued. Very good or better. Rare complete set of Soviet postcards reproducing German Communist Party (K.P.D.) posters spanning the years 1919–1932, published by the Soviet Museum of the Revolution..... More

[Warsaw]: Rekontra, [1985]. Small quarto (27 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with a large drawing, printed in green and black; 44 pp. Offset-reproduced drawn comics to rectos and versos. One page supplied by the artist, Maciek Bialy in original ink. Text detached from lower staple; else about very..... More

[Mogilev]: V Polevoi Tipografii Glavnogo Shtaba 1-i Armii, 1819. Octavo (17.7 × 11.1 cm). Contemporary patterned calf; all edges gilt; [3], 75, [2], XII pp. Three charts and forms on two folded leaves. Binding rubbed; small private owner labels to front pastedown; else about very good. Second edition of a...... More

Tokyo: Tensei Shuppan, 1968-1969. The only four issues published (each approx. 200 pp.) of a periodical (mostly in Japanese, with some French translations) devoted to stretching the boundaries of human sexuality and gender identity, exploring sexual customs, mores, and deviance cross-culturally, including analysis of Shunga and other Ukiyo-e prints, Marquis..... More

5 volume study and presentation (in English) of the history of Ukiyoye painting and woodblock printmaking, defined in the preface as genre pictures and popular works depicting manners and customs of the time as opposed to classical works, including an altogether 211 pp. text distributed throughout the volumes, 156 fine..... More

Rare volume documenting the principal architectural works executed in Russia and present-day Ukraine between the years 1802 and 1805 by the French architect J.F. Thomas de Thomon, including the Imperial (Bolshoi) Theatre in St. Petersburg, a neo-classical stock exchange building also in St. Petersburg, a theatre in Odessa, a triumphal..... More

London (actually: Geneva): Izdanie zhurnala "Nabat", 1879. Octavo (14.3 × 10.8 cm). Later black boards with gilt-tooled leather spine label, the fragile front and rear wrappers preserved; 78 pp. A near fine copy. First and only edition of this collection of anarchist revolutionary essays by Petr Nikitich Tkachev, the Russian..... More

Original multiple pertaining to a conceptual art piece by the noted avant-garde German artist, comprised of a cardboard box housing 319 printed 3" x 5" note cards, including 310 sequentially numbered "Idea Cards" with measured readings of physical elements such as temperature or barometric pressure; two cards comprising the title..... More

2 continuously paginated vols., 359 pp., providing an annotated scholarly account of the political career of John III, "the Pitiless," bishop of Liège from 1389 to 1418 and duke of Bavaria-Straubing and count of Holland and Hainaut from 1418 until his assassination by poisoning in 1425, including bibliographic notes, an..... More