(xvi), 101 pp. text regarding the Basilica San Martino ai Monti, officially known as Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti, including the history of Pope Sylvester, information on the construction and restoration or reconstruction of the church over time, and some descriptions of the church interior, including inscriptions, ornament, and..... More
![Book ID: 51298 Svobodná Evropa [Free Europe]. Group of twenty-one issues: nos. 17, 18,...](/pictures/thumb/51298_1.jpeg?v=1620395287)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954-1956]. Single leaves, measuring ca. 14.5 × 57 cm, folded several times along the horizontal axis to create a pamphlet; later issues regular pamphlets with 8 pp. of text and images. A few issues and flybills with wear or tears, but overall about very good. Significant..... More
26 hand-colored lithographic plates, comprised of title leaf and plates. numbered 1-15, 15bis, 16-24, depicting captioned caricatures of leading French politicians and military figures at the end of the Second Empire and the beginning of the Third Republic, including Adolphe Thiers, Jules Favre, Ernest Picard, Joseph Vinoy, August-Alexandre Ducrot, Louis..... More
Two volumes ([iv], 315, appendix of [2], 174 pp.; and [viii], 427-524, [4], 395-728, [2] pp.) comprising three of the five reports issued in 1835 by the House of Lords to investigate the state of prisons in England and Wales, with the goal of researching the prospect of instituting a...... More
Istanbul: A. Halit Kitaphanesi, 1932. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 48 pp. Very good, save for very light wear to edges. Second edition of Hikmet’s first book of poetry, originally published in 1929, but issued with a striking cover designed by Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who Suavi..... More
![Book ID: 50665 Portreler [Portraits]. Nazim Hikmet, designer Ali Suavi, 1910 or Suavi Sonar](/pictures/thumb/50665_1peg.jpeg?v=1591722724)
Istanbul: Yeni Kitapçi 1935. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 62, [2] pp. Very good; only very faint wear and discoloration to wrappers. First edition of this volume of poems by Hikmet, with a restrained, but clearly avant-garde-influenced wrapper sign by Ali Suavi. In this cycle of poems Hikmet..... More
![Book ID: 50109 Fotografie di Fantasmi [Photographs of phantasms]. Enrico Imoda,...](/pictures/thumb/50109_001.jpg?v=1629139725)
Turin: Fratelli Bocca, 1912. Large octavo (25.7 × 17.8 cm). Original printed cream wrappers in translucent calque; recent cloth-backed card folder and slipcase by Devauchelle with printed title to spine. With 48 tipped-in gelatin silver prints and one halftone by G. Simoni of Rome, ranging in size from approx. 7.5..... More
Tokyo: Ars, 1927–1930. Small quartos (27.5 × 19.5 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers, in the original printed cardboard slipcases; ca. 100–150 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Some wear to wrappers and slipcases; one slipcase lacking; overall still very good. A remarkable compendium of international commercial and graphic art..... More
Berlin: Jüdischer Literarischer Verlag (Idishe literarisher farlag, printed by Lutze & Vogt), 1923. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Y. Tshaykov; 163, [3] pp. Light wear and traces of professional restoration to spine and hinges; else about very good; the best copy we have encountered in the..... More
226 pp. text, including a 56-page general introduction on landscape design, with descriptions in French, German, and English, notes, index, engraved half-title of a temple among trees, title with engraved vignette of the Porte de Coucy, and 92 engraved plates with 122 numbered views, together with three engraved maps, and..... More
Lyon: Imprimeries Réunies, August 1923. Square octavo (22.5 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically designed wrappers; pp. 49-76. With 2 full-page woodcut prints (included in pagination) by Jean Arp and additional illustrations. Wrappers and leaves somewhat toned and dust-soiled; fold barely noticeably damaged; else very good. Single issue of the..... More
Lyon: Imprimeries Réunies, December 1925. Square octavo (22.5 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically designed wrappers; pp. 125-140. With three woodcut prints by László Moholy-Nagy (1) and Jean Arp (2, one of them full page), as well as an anonymous full-page linocut print and some illustrations, for example by André..... More
Unpaginated (approx. 123 pp.) typescript document comprising Moreno's theoretical essay on the OCI [Organización Comunista Internacionalista (unificada)] and Pierre Lambert and the French Trotskyists, first published publicly in Panorama Internacional, Año VI, No. 19, January 1982, divided into eleven chapters with titles such as "La teorìa de los campos burgueses..... More
![Book ID: 51200 På Kanaanexpressen [On the Canaan Express Train]. Hagar Olsson, artist...](/pictures/thumb/51200_1.jpg?v=1643826251)
Stockholm: Holger Schildt, 1929 (printed in Helsinki by F. Tilgmann). Octavo (19.5 × 16.5 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 231, [1] pp. Twelve black-and-white photographs, a few full-page. Old creases to spine; front wrapper lightly creased and sun-tanned along spine; else about very good. First edition of this key work of..... More
Bucuresţi (Bucharest): self-published (Studio grafic "Steaua Artei"), 1932. Quarto (32 × 23.8 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; [8] pp. Old horizontal crease; light overall wear; trace of (mailing?) label to first leaf; some tearing to fold; still good to very good. Published from 1928 to 1932, first at Dorohoi and beginning..... More
![Book ID: 50533 Reizreime [Irritant rhymes]. Nonnendose 3 [Nun can 3]. Peer Brax, pseudoym...](/pictures/thumb/50533_001.jpg?v=1643826246)
[Hamburg: Quer-Verlag], 1966. Single broadsheet, printed to recto, measuring 68 × 13.5 cm, rolled and housed in red paper-covered tube, measuring 15.2 × 4 cm, tan printed label affixed. Minor wear; very good. Very rare book object from the debut publication by Uwe Wandrey (born 1939), a series of "nun..... More
Vienna: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong octavo (14.7 × 17 cm). Original white leather with gold, red, and black armorial stamping; all edges gilt; [2] pp., title, 1 pp. poem by Harmann Hangoo, followed by 11 fine chromolithographic plates showing an illustrated score by Haydn and scenes commemorating events in Vienna..... More
12-page whimsical avant-garde piano composition dating to very early in the career of the accomplished Egyptian-born Italian composer, one of a few of his works from the early 1920s dating to his days as a Futurist, comprised of three movements: I. Marcia funebre per un uccellino, II. Marcia nuziale per..... More
Unpaginated collection (61 pp.) of 27 love poems by Simoni, each poem accompanied by a bright and colorful Futurist-inspired illustration by Futurist artist Bruno Munari, the volume as a whole published as a promotional book for the liqueur and aperitif producer, Campari. 4to. Original illustrated cardstock wrrps., metal spiral binding..... 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
![Book ID: P6009 Sovětská kultura [Soviet culture]. Signed copy.; Edice Odeon, sv. 31...](/pictures/thumb/P6009_1.jpg?v=1587489242)
Prague: Odeon, 1927. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm. Publisher's typographic wrappers, designed by Karel Teige; 123 pp. with 43 reproductions on 32 leaves of plates, on better stock. Signed by Teige to half title. Very good. First and only edition of Teige's reflections on his trip to the Soviet Union..... More
Kaluga: Tipografiia S. A. Semenova (self-published), 1914. Octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Original tan printed wrappers; 16 pp. Two pp. of illustrations. Complete list of the author's publications on pp. 2-3 of wrappers. Light wear to wrappers; trace of moisture stains to wrapper edges, paper label remnant to upper left..... More
Other titles: Narrhalla. Mainzer Carnevalszeitung, and: Narrhalla. Mainzer Carnevals-Zeitung. Ein Organ für die Mainzer Karnevalsbestrebungen [Mainz carnival paper: an organ for the Mainz carneval effort]. Vols. I–VI (of VII published), bound in two volumes. Mainz: Wirth, 1841–1846. Octavos (22.5 × 16 cm). Later brown calf over four raised bands; spine..... 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
Tbilisi: Sakhelmts’ipo st’amg [State publishing house], 1920. Small octavo (16.8 × 13 cm). Original side-stapled printed self-wrappers; [49] pp. Light wear to wrappers and spine fold; text evenly toned; some mild ink staining along top edge of front cover; still about very good. Catalog of the third exhibition of paintings..... More