50 mimeographed pages total containing the stapled minutes of five meetings held by the Surrealists in Paris, the minutes taken variously by Yves Battistini, Édouard Jaguer, Lucien Justet, and Christian Dotremont, together with some single-page typed letters from the same time period. 4to., with original printed cover titled “Comptes rendus..... More
Prague and Kroměříž, 1966 and 1975. Oblong and square octavos (15 × 21.3 and 20 × 20.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [8] pp. and [12] pp. of black-and-white reproductions with [16] pp. text part. One volume lightly creased; else very good. Two publications exploring the creative output of the..... More
![Svobodná Evropa [Free Europe]. Group of twenty-one issues: nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,...](/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
Mostly West Berlin and Frankfurt am Main,: ca. 1936–1960. Please inquire for a complete list of contents with detailed descriptions. A collection of internal and propagandistic publications issued by a “revolutionary anti-communist” group of Russian émigrés called the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS). Founded in exile in Serbia in..... More
Berlin, A. Rogall, 1921. Original half-linen folder with cover illustration by Hermann Struck, with 1 title leaf and 11 leaves of plates measuring 40 × 29 cm. In German and Hebrew. The portfolio lightly soiled and rubbed; else about very good. A complete set of original etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts..... More
A run of 49 total issues in 46 fascicules (full list of issues below), approx. 24-32 pp. each, of the journal aimed at Italian youth, under the editorial direction of Achille Starace, featuring stories and cartoons praising the Fascist regime and promoting the tenets of Fascism, each issue with an..... More
A complete run of 33 issues in 29 fascicules of the Flemish-Dutch avant-garde journal published by the "Society for the Promotion of Avant-Garde Art" and founded by Flemish poets Gust Gils and Paul Snoek, no. 12 with the original "DADA" supplemental pamphlet in a layout imitating DADA publications, intended as..... More
1856. Carlsruhe : J. Veith, 12 parts in 1 volume containing 144 lithograph plates (12 in color) of city and country homes for the gentry and their retainers, schoolhouses, cottages, etc., with ground plans. Orig. blind-stamped cloth. Spine chipped. Carlsruhe (J. Veith) (1856). Some foxing. 2 pages repaired. Small obl..... More
A complete run in 63 issues of the rare and short-lived Spanish Civil War bulletin, printed during the Siege of Alcázar and distributed by the Museo Romero Ortiz, most issues from 1 to 4 pp., reporting on the news of the war at the Alcázar and throughout Spain, including radio..... More
Novi Sad, Serbia: [Russkaia tipografiia S. Filonova], 1936. Octavo (22.5 ×15cm). Original printed wrappers; 88 pp. Small chips to wrapper edges; spine with tape repair; internally very good. An émigré biography of the Orthodox mystic Sergei Nilus’ (1862-1930), the first Russian publisher of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”..... More
A complete series of four 20 pp. albums, the first three with a single page explanatory introduction followed by pages featuring colorful graphic images, the first album featuring simple everyday objects such as an ax, an iron, a teapot, sewing notions, a coffee mill, and a shaving set, the second..... More
Slovenia and Croatia: various, 1942-1945. Octavos (ca. 15.5 × 11.3 to 21.5 × 17.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed and mimeographed self-wrappers and wrappers; varying pagination, typically no more than 32 pp. Overall about very good; a few items with wear to wrappers or toning. Group of seventeen clandestine publications by..... More
![Pjesme partizanke (1943). II izdanje. [Partisan songs. 1943. Second edition]. Vladimir Nazor](/pictures/thumb/P6395_1.jpeg?v=1620240629)
[Šuma Javornica]: Izdao tsentralni odbor USAOJ-a, [1944]. 12mo (15.3 × 11.9 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47, [1] pp. Very good. Scarce second edition of the partisan poems of Vladimir Nazor, first published in January of the same year, and here re-issued in November 1944. Nazor (1876-1949) was a Croatian writer..... More
1856. Orig. blind-stamped cloth. Spine chipped. Carlsruhe (J. Veith) (1856). The collection is most interesting as proof of the considerable Victorian influence on the Continent, specifically in Germany. Among the designs, 28 are by Peter Frederick Robinson, others by Francis Goodwin, T. F. Hunt, S. H. Brooks (including one for..... More
A complete set in nine portfolio-type fascicules of the impressive assembled group of 231 species of hepatica, or liverworts, on 231 leaves, some contained within mounted paper envelopes, each dried specimen numbered and accompanied by a mounted and printed label containing the Latin name and classification of each species, where..... More
A complete run in 17 issues, each approx. 20 to 40 pp., of the free French-language experimental music fanzine, edited by Pierre Durr and devoted to international avant-garde music in the areas of jazz, improvisation, electronica, new wave, industrial, and progressive rock, the issues comprised of album reviews, concert information..... More
Moreton Paddox, England, 1940. Octavos (19.6 × 16.2 cm). Contemporary (publisher's?) cloth with drawn illustration to front board and special title leaf; 311, [1] pp. of mimeographed typescript and drawings to rectos and versos (continous pagination). Printed on variously colored stock. Each issue with numerous satirical drawings and cartoons. About..... More
The famous avant-garde picture book, unpaginated (14 leaves printed recto and verso), with 12 full-page Constructivist illustrations each comprising a whimsical image made up of colorful triangles of various sizes, each image with a facing page of text containing a short poem or verse. Some slight soiling throughout, stitching a...... More
![Oslinyi tormaz [The donkey brake]. A. M. Chernyi, artist Konstantin Kuznetsov, Sasha](/pictures/thumb/51281_001.jpg?v=1619014024)
Munich: Printed by Akademische Buchdruckerei F. Straub, [1946]. Octavo (20.7 × 14.4 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 36, [3] pp. Cover and three full-page illustrations by Konstantin Kuznetsov. About very good. Rare edition containing four short stories by the beloved Russian writer Sasha Chernyi, a Silver Age poet, children’s author..... More
![Maugli [Mowgli, e.g. selections from The Jungle Book]. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/51280_001.jpg?v=1619010554)
[Frankfurt a. M.]: Posev, 1946. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on light blue stock; 176 pp. Cover, one full-page and forty-two smaller illustrations by N. Niko. Small handwritten annotation to spine; else very good. Russian translation of selections from Kipling’s famous children’s book, published for children in..... More
Hamburg: [Ob"edinenie], 1952-1953. Quartos (29 × 21 cm). Original printed multi-colored staple-stitched wrappers; 32-38 pp of mimeographed typescript per issue. Fragile; a few wrappers detached; text toned due to stock. A complete set (in six volumes) of a little-known Russian language Displaced Persons (DP) journal published in Hamburg by the..... More
The first five of six total issues printed of the small-press poetry journal and review from the important 1970s Bay Area poetry scene, edited by J. Rutherford Williams, issues ranging from 93-163 pp., with written and artistic contributions from Clifford Burke, Beverly Dahlen, Eugene Ruggles, David Meltzer, David Gitin, Hale..... More
1931. 2 vols in one., 224, 191 pp., comprising the only two volumes published of the German avant-garde annual with text in German, French, and English, 1931 edited by René Cravel, Martel Schwichtenberg, and Curt Valentin, and 1932 edited by Schwichtenberg and Valentin, featuring the work of groundbreaking writers, artists..... More
4 pp. preface followed by 64 full-color plates showing 422 various Art Nouveau ornamental compositions and motifs, featuring botanical, geometric, figural, landscape, and animal styles of imagery, ranging from small accent and border images to full-page images which include advertisements for things such as jewelry, clothing, and confections. Some slight..... More
![Daisi: opera v 3 d. [Daisi: an opera in 3 acts]. Dekada gruzinskogo iskusstva v Moskve [A decade...](/pictures/thumb/50975_001.jpg?v=1619010547)
Tbilisi: tip. izd-va "Tekhnika da Shroma", 1936. Large octavo (26 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 23, [4] pp. One color plate showing a set design by Simon Virsaladze. Very good. Libretto for the romantic opera Daisi (Twilight), the first Georgian opera written entirely in the Soviet period. The opera..... More