Original gelatin prints, measuring 13.8 × 9.2 cm. Very good. A rare group of forty photographs by an unknown photographer, providing a visual history of the artistic and quasi-political group performance art movement Pomarańczowa Alternatywa [Orange Alternative], which arose in the early 1980s. The carnivalesque group reached its peak of..... More

Czechoslovakia, ca. 1987?. String-bound booklet comprising 62 works on papers of varying stock, housed in Soennecken plastic sleeves. Bound with twine and decorative strands of woven yarn. Various media, including xeroxed sheets (usually partially colored or annotated by hand), hand-drawn illustrations, thirty-four mounted original photographic prints (both black-and-white and color)..... More

Moscow: self-published (Tipografiia Kluba imenia Ia. M. Sverdlova pri V. Ts. I. K. Sovetov, v Kremle), 1922. Octavos (22.5 × 17 and 24 × 17.8 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 31 and 31 pp. Good or better; light overall wear to the fragile wrappers; the first volume with light fraying to..... More

Tokyo: Hakubisha, 1933-34. Octavos (19.7 × 13 cm). Original blue cloth publisher's folding case with clasp and printed label to front board, housing a text booklet in printed wrappers (29 pp), two loose folded leaves with a total of four color plates, and six volumes of plates bound accordion-style in..... More

Two leaves of photocopied photographs and typescript, measuring 28.5 × 19 cm, both dated November 1971 and intended as a kind of promotional leaflet. Marcolla's sheet is titled "Oferta" and reproduces eight photographs by the artist. Sosnowski's sheet shows twelve photographs mostly showing the artist shaving and is captioned (in..... More

Moscow: Glaviskusstvo N.K.P., 1929. Small octavo (16.8 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by K. Kozkova; 30, [1] pp. Two full-page reproductions. Very good or better. Rare catalog accompanying an exhibition of contemporary Soviet art in various media on the topic of children at play, school, and work, organized by..... More

Prague: Tiskem "Tribuny", [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, largely uncut and unopened..... More

Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza „Pokolenie”, 1985. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 54 leaves of text mimeographed to rectos and versos. Illustrations. Very good. First edition printed in Poland. Written by historian, journalist and activist Bohdan Cywiński (b. 1939), who was one of the founders of Solidarnośc (Solidarity)..... More

Wrocław: Studencka Drukarnia Strajkowa im. Jana Palacha, 1981–1982. Quartos (30 × 21 cm). Single leaves, mimeographed and xeroxed types cript to rectos and versos; decorative header and several illustrations throughout. Old horizontal creases; else very good. Five issues of altogether fifteen published of the surrealist newspaper issued irregularly in 1981..... More

Carr, Roy and Mike Naumenko (translator). Istoriia Rolling Stounz v plastinkakh [The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record, originally published 1976]. Leningrad: self-published, [1978–1985?]. Quarto (30 × 21 cm). Blue and red cloth over boards, multicolored lettering to spine and front wrapper. With 132 hand-numbered leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos..... More

Moscow: Tvorcheskoe ob"edinenie "Koda", 1992. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 143 pp. Light wear to wrappers; small loss to lower spine; still about very good. A curious volume purporting to be the first attempt at an encyclopedia of heavy, death, and trash metal compiled via computer analysis..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskoe izdatel’stvo, 1931. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers in the constructivist style; 239, [1] pp. Tables, graphs, and illustrations throughout. Very good. An early comprehensive study of the occupational safety poster, including detailed formal and psychological analysis, illustrated with numerous reproductions of occupational safety posters..... More

Leningrad, 1945. 14 leaves of typescript to rectos measuring 29.5 × 20 cm; several pages with hand-written additions in dark blue ink. Very good; light rust to first and final leaf from old paper clip; tiny tear to lower left corner of title leaf. An unrecorded early typescript variant of..... More