Prague: Hydiko, dům moderní hygieny, 1932. Small octavo (14.7 × 9.8 cm). Original stapled pictorial wrappers; 46 pp. of text and 1 p. form, meant to be detached and used for orders. Illustrations from photographs throughout. About very good; small stain to rear wrapper. Rare Czech mail order catalog for..... More
![Nabráno z proudu: prozy [Gathered from the stream: prose works]. Karel Mlčoch, Helena...](/pictures/thumb/52117_1.jpeg?v=1656423847)
Brno: Družstvo Moravského kola spisovatelů v Brně, 1944. Octavo (20.5 × 13.6 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (front and back); 116, [4] pp. Illustrated with original color lithographs by Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, of which 3 two-page, 7 full page, and 21 partial (integrated with text). Very good. First and only edition of..... More
![Živly v nás [The elements in us]. Knižnice Lyra, vol. 6 (series title). Ludvík Kundera,...](/pictures/thumb/52106_1.jpeg?v=1656489996)
Prague: B. Stýblo, 1946. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 49, [3] pp. Illustrated with a drawing by Kamil Lhoták. About very good; wrappers lightly smudged; small chip to lower left corner; in protective mylar. First edition of a long poem composed by Kundera in September 1944. With..... More
![Skautybė Berniukams. Autorizuotas vertimas [Scouting for Boys: authorized translation]. Lordas...](/pictures/thumb/52082_1.jpeg?v=1656423846)
Kaunas: Skautų aidas, 1934. Octavo (17.4 × 12.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 328 pp. Wrappers somewhat worn and soiled; private inventory number to head of spine and first leaf; text toned due to stock; still about very good. First Lithuanian translation of Baden-Powell's "Scouting for Boys" (1908), the founding document..... More
![Į plačią zemę [Into the wide land]. Vytautas Montvila](/pictures/thumb/52081_1.jpeg?v=1656423846)
[Kaunas]: Spaudos fondas, 1940. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original typographically printed wrappers (not attributed); 118 pp. Old Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; still about very good. First edition of this volume of poems by US-born Lithuanian poet and translator Vytautas Montvila (1902–1941). After spending his first four years..... More
Poster printed on pink paper stock announcing the festival in Paris organized by Jean-Jacques Lebel, with a series of performance art, happenings, and other events taking place from May 17 through May 25, 1965, featuring contributions from important Fluxus figures such as Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik, Charlotte..... More
Unpaginated book consisting of a 37-pp. experimental fiction text by Nations, printed recto only, the typed pages interspersed with 14 full-page illustrations by Felipe Ehrenberg, all pages mimeographed. Oblong 8vo. Original wrpps., some very minor staining to front cover, extremely minor creasing, overall very good. Collumpton, Devon, England (Beau Geste..... More
Unpaginated (approx. 300 pages) two-ring looseleaf binder published as a sort of exhibition catalogue to accompany a five-day interdisciplinary workshop on the role of chance and coincidence in the arts, including artistic and scientific projects, performances, and concerts, the catalogue with workshop program and tabbed dividers labeling sections such as..... More
![Chto delat' [What is to be done]. In: Sovremennik [The Contemporary], nos. 3-5 (1863)....](/images/noimage.png)
[St. Petersburg, 1863]. Octavos (22.5 × 14.7 cm). Contemporary quarter calf with gilt title to spine; [2], 5–142, 373–526, 55–197 pp. Boards and corners rubbed; front hinge starting; former owner’s initials at base of spine: A. N. A.; private owner stamps of a contemporary lending library and later private collector;..... More
Stokholmo (Stockholm): 1936–1937. Quartos (31 × 22 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 4–8 pp. per issue. Light wear and minor chipping along top edge of issue no. 22, tear to last page of no. 27; else very good. 13 issues of the scarce Esperanto-language newsletter edited by Adrian Persson, dating to..... More
![Filosofiia fil’ma [The philosophy of film]. Rudolf Garms, S. S. Mokul’skii, Harms](/pictures/thumb/51819.jpg?v=1655989065)
Leningrad: "Academia", 1927. Octavo (18 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 187, [5] pp. Partially uncut. Book store stamp to inside of rear wrapper. Very good. First Russian translation of one of the earliest works on the philosophy of cinema by the writer, journalist, and film critic Rudolf Harms (1901–1984)..... More
![Rozhdenie Kino [The Birth of Cinema]. Léon Mussinak, S. Mokul’skii, T. I. Sorokin,...](/pictures/thumb/51818.jpg?v=1655988876)
Leningrad: "Academia", 1926. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 195, [5] pp. Illustrations. Partially uncut. Small chip to lower spine extremity. Still about very good. First Russian translation of Moussinac’s classic text on the history and theory of American, French, German, and Swedish cinema, originally published as “Naissance..... More
![A Paródia [The parody]. Vol. I, no. 1–vol. VIII, no. 192 (near complete run, bound in four...](/pictures/thumb/44563_b_001.jpg?v=1655826316)
Lisbon: Candido Chaves, 1900–1907. Quartos (33 × 23.5d cm). Somewhat later red half calf over patterned boards; titles to spine; preserving most outer wrappers; ca. 8 pp. per issue. Nearly each issue with a chromolithographed double-page caricature and two full-page illustrations or cartoons. Occasional minor tears; a few issues with..... More
![Aitvaras teisėjas: trijų veiksmų pjesė [The kite judge: a play in three acts]. Balys Sruoga](/pictures/thumb/52079_1.jpeg?v=1655380324)
Kaunas: Sakalas, 1935. Octavo (19 × 12.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 130, [1] pp. About very good; light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; review copy stamp of the publishing house. First edition of this play by Sruoga (1896–1947), the Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literary scholar. Having studied in St..... More
![Gatvės švinta: lyrika [Street lights: poems]. Antanas Venclova, designer Jonas J. Burba](/pictures/thumb/52078_1.jpeg?v=1655380323)
Kaunas: Žalia Vėtra, 1927. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jonas J. Burbos; 47, [1] pp. About very good; light toning to wrappers; small nick to base of spine. Second volume of poems by Venclova (1906–1971), the Lithuanian and Soviet poet, writer, and politician. Venclova was the..... More
![Perswazja wizualna i mentalna [Visual and mental persuasion]. Andrzej Lachowicz](/pictures/thumb/51537_001.jpg?v=1654798804)
Wroclaw: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Sztuk Plastycznychwe Wrocławiu, 1972. 8vo. (19.7 x 15.9 cm). Original decorative yellow wrappers with black abstract decoration. Unpaginated (7 pages of text, printed recto only, followed by approximately 75 leaves of primarily reproductions from photographs). Some slight browning and foxing to cover, small tears at top..... More
![Wszystkie ścieżki (wiersze wybrane) [All paths (selected poems)]. Erna Rosenstein](/pictures/thumb/52070_1.jpeg?v=1654190043)
Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1979. Octavo (16.5 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 167, [1] pp. Five full-page illustrations by Rosenstein. Light soil to wrappers. Very good. First edition. Third collection of poetry by the Polish-Jewish surrealist artist and poet Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004), illustrated with five black and white reproductions of..... More
Prague: self-published, August 27, 1968. Large broadside, single leaf measuring 51 × 70 cm printed to recto only. Light soil; vertical and horizon creases; still about very good. Disguised as an issue of Pravda, the main Soviet newspaper, this anti-invasion broadside (apparently intended to mimic a wall newspaper) was one..... More
Munich: Institut po izucheniiu istorii i kul’tury SSSR (Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR), 1954. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 304 pp. Light stain to top corner of front wrapper; lower corner creased; wrappers toned; still about very good. A comprehensive..... More
Warsaw: Remont Gallery, [1976]. 8vo. (20.3 x 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled thick paper wrappers. 8 pp.; some extremely light soiling and browning, very light wear along spine, overall good condition. A slim exhibition catalog from the Remont Gallery, the contemporary art gallery in Warsaw established and run by photographer Henryk..... More
Paris: 1945-1951. 8vo., sizes range from 19 x 12.7 to 21 x 14 cm. Original printed paper wrappers; 16, 16, 40, 46, 30 pp. Nos. 3 through 5 some pages uncut, light toning, overall very good condition. A rare complete collection in five fascicules of the Surrealist magazine under the..... More
![Atlas tsvetov [An atlas of color]. Rabkin, fim, orisovich](/pictures/thumb/51910_1.jpeg?v=1654188304)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo meditsinskoi literatury (Medgiz), 1956. Octavo (22.5 × 16.8 cm). Original dark blue buckram with lettering to spine and front board; 52, [3] pp. of text with 17 black-and-white figures and charts, followed by 37 plates of color charts hors text, with cut-out sections, with overlays with corresponding..... More
Kharkiv: Vydavnytstvo Derzhsil’hospvydav, 1932. Octavo (30 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 26 pp. Unopened and uncut. Light soil to rear wrapper, else very good. A single issue of the bi-weekly journal of agricultural and technical unions with Mayday photomontage wrappers (unattributed). The issue is dedicated to the completion of..... More
Munich-Toronto: Spilka Vyzvolennia Ukrainy, 1953. Octavo (20.6 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers on red stock; 112, [2], [28] leaves of plates, [1] pp. Very good. This volume discusses the Great Famine, or Holodomor, in the Krynychansky region in central Ukraine, based on original government documents saved and smuggled to..... More
![Linja: czasopismo awangardy literackiej [Line: a journal of the literary avant-garde], no. 1 (of...](/pictures/thumb/52062_1.jpeg?v=1654003685)
Kraków: Franciszek Kurek, 1931–1933. Octavo (22.9 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 47, [1] pp. About very good; small holes to text block from puncturation, not affecting text; else clean. First issue of the important, but somewhat later journal of the Krakow literary avant-garde, which emerged in 1922 around..... More