![U-10. Malowanka dala niegrzecznych dzieci [A coloring book for naughty kids]. G. Griot](/pictures/thumb/51346_1.jpg?v=1622805376)
Kraków: Wyd. “Hutnik”, [1985]. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [12] pp. of illustrations. Very good. A samizdat collection of irreverent caricatures of Jerzy Urban (b. 1933), the press secretary of the Polish Council of Ministers during the period of Martial Law (1981–1983), subsequently dubbed the “Goebbels..... More
Small humorous and pseudo-erotic 48 pp. flipbook with drawings of a woman seated atop her husband's back while he lays face down on a bed, beating him with a slipper while he kicks and flails. 3.7 x 7.1 cm. Original paper wrpps., a small tear to front cover where it..... More
A complete run in 11 issues of the conceptual art journal, comprised mainly of photographs of artwork, containing contributions from a large number of important international artists including H.P. Adamski, Hans-Peter Feldman, Giulio Paolini, Klaus Richter, Robert Cumming, Martin Disler, Pieter Holstein, Alex Silber, Gerhard Theewen, David Askevold, Robert Barry..... More
![Poema kontsa. [Mayakovskomy] [The poem of the end. To Mayakovsky]. Samizdat edition. Marina...](/pictures/thumb/51338_1.jpeg?v=1622808977)
[Moscow, ca. early 1970s?]. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original stab-stapled cloth-backed folder, into which are stapled 28 leaves of typescript to rectos. Occasional corrections in ink. Wrappers worn; internally good or better. A curious artifact, this samizdat gathers two long poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. The first, “The poem of..... More
![Láska a ženy: sentence [Love and women: aphorisms]. Knihovna "Pan" svazek I [series title]....](/pictures/thumb/51336.jpeg?v=1622799722)
Prague: self-published, 1920. 12mo (12 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 32, [1] pp. Very good; very light wear to wrappers. Scarce anthology of aphorisms on the topic of love, marriage, women, and sex by the still relatively unknown Czech writer and cabaret artist, who was a student of the..... More
Czechoslovakia: Atelier “RE-VA”, [1945]. Oblong 12mo (5.5 × 10 cm). Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers; 52, [2] leaves. Light wear and fraying to spine extremities; rear wrapper torn; first leaves lightly worn; still good or better. Rare anti-nazi flipbook, produced shortly before or after World War II in Czechoslovakia. The pages..... More
![Sprache und Schrift [Language and Writing]. Fundamente der Organisation, ed. Richard K. Hinz...](/pictures/thumb/51333_001.jpg?v=1622821623)
Berlin: Verlag des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure, 1920. Quarto (29.5 × 23.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 108 pp. Laid in is a folded greeting card of Porstmann's firm, measuring 10.5 × 7.5 cm. About very good; light wear to title; a few pages with light spots. First and only edition of..... More
(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
Essegg (Osijek) and Hanau a.M.: self-published (C. Naumann's Druckerei and B. Dondorf in Frankfurt a.M.), [1871 or 1872]. Table of contents and 20 chromolithographed plates, loose as issued in the original publisher's pictorial wrappers. With a text booklet comprising 26 pp. and one wood-engraved plate, in the original publisher's printed..... More
![Kultura Zrzuty, 1981-1987 [Zrzuta culture, 1981-1987]. Marek Janiak, designer Piotr Rypson](/pictures/thumb/51311_1.jpeg?v=1622810875)
Warsaw: Akademia Ruchu, 1989. Quarto (29.6 × 20.6 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, perfect-bound; 190 pp. Front wrapper lightly creased; else very good. Important anthology of the Łódź-based "Kultura Zrzuty" (roughly equivalent to "Pitch-in culture" or "Culture of sharing"), an artistic phenomenon of the 1980s that gathered representatives of happening culture..... More
Wrocław: [self-published], 1973. Octavo (27.5 × 19.3 cm). Printed cover leaf followed by 6 leaves of photographs and text, side-stapled and with silver tape to spine. Author's rubber stamp and signature to first leaf. Stain to lower margin; else about very good. An early Conceptualist publication of the Polish Neo-Avant..... More
A presumably unique album collecting 47 examples of printing on very thin sheets of wood, including business cards, calling cards, advertising circulars, menus, Christmas and greeting cards, event programs, and woodcut prints, some folding or of multiple pages, with some business locations noted as in Washington, Montana, California, and Ohio..... More
[South Germany], 1945. Broadsheet newsprint; first and last issues each 2 pp. (single folded sheet), the others 4 pp. Old creases; one issue with small tear; else very good copies. Complete run of this photo-illustrated informational newspaper published from May to July 1945 and aimed at French citizens in Germany..... More
1884. 5 vols.: III, 63, 92, 108, 87, 239 pp. text, ext. notes, charts, indices, altogether 438 text illus. from plans and drawings, 20, 22, 19, 20, 22 plates incl. 2 maps and superb heliogravures (2 in color) from Dieulafoy's drawings and Madame Jeanne Dieulafoy's pioneering photographs. Minor foxing, generally..... More
Göttingen: Im Verlag der Wittwe Vandenhoek 1779. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Later full pebbled cloth (ca. 1860), with gilt title to spine; [12], 227 pp. A fine copy, partially uncut and unopened. Modestly billed here as the second edition, the present work is in fact a completely reworked telling..... More
Warsaw: Związek Polskich Artystów Grafików, 1930-1934, 1938-1939. Large quartos ( × cm). Contemporary or somewhat later green leather-backed boards with raised spines; all original wrappers preserved; ca. 52-58 pp. per issue. Profusely illustrated throughout from examples of commercial printing, photographs, reproductions of artwork, and original prints. The issues resized to..... More
6 pp. of text followed by 48 leaves of plates depicting the designs of library rooms within modern home interiors, including furnishings, rugs, drapery, and decor. 8vo. (19.4 x 16 cm). Scattered foxing throughout. Original spiral-bound pictorial wrpps. in cardboard slipcase, rear cover of wrpps. detached, some slight wear to..... More
Later print; 24.5 × 14 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when Hannes..... More
Later print; 14.5 × 10.5 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when Hannes..... More
Later print; 21.25 × 16 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when Hannes..... More
Later print; 7.5 × 10.5 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when Hannes..... More
Later print; 10.75 × 8 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when Hannes..... More
Later print; 11.5 × 8.5 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when Hannes..... More
1926. Later print; 4.5 × 6.75 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when..... More
1928. Later print; 11 × 8 cm. Very good. Photography was not offered as a course of study at the founding of Bauhaus and the school acquired its first camera only in 1925 to document important events. The first photography classes were taught at the school starting in 1929, when..... More