Color-illustrated poster, printed by the newspaper Libre Parole towards the end of the Dreyfus Affair, depicting in four rows of four illustrations each the most essential scenes from the story of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, told with an anti-Semitic and anti-Freemason slant, each cartoon with a lengthy caption underneath. Some mild..... More
Chromolithographed board game on paper published during the time of the Dreyfus Affair, in the style of the Game of the Goose, printed by L'Antijuif, an anti-semitic weekly newspaper and the official organ of the Ligue antisémitique de France, edited by noted anti-Dreyfusard Jules Guérin and drawn by A. Lambot..... More
![Looming [Creation], I (all published). Richard Roht Barbarus Johannes, Henrik Visnapuu](/pictures/thumb/P6123_1.jpg?v=1585675869)
Tartu: Odamees, 1920. Octavo (21.8 × 17.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Natalie Mei; 69, [1] pp. Wrappers very lightly worn and discolored; very good. First and only volume of this important publication of Estonian modernist art and literature, which marked a radical break with the “Siuru” movement around Marie..... More
Tbilisi: Izd. Komiteta po restavratsii Mtskhetskago sobora (Tipografiia K. P. Kozlovskogo), 1900. Octavo (25 × 16 cm). Later cloth binding, part of original front wrapper affixed to front board; XII, 464, XX, II, [2] pp. With nine full-page original photographic prints by D. I. Ermakov and thirteen lithographed illustrations, some..... More
![Elegie [An elegy]. Otokar Žižka, Bohdan Lacina](/pictures/thumb/P5668_1.jpg?v=1585675803)
Vyškov na Moravě: F. Obzina, 1932. Quarto (28 × 19.2 cm). Original printed wrappers;55, [8] pp. Twenty caricatures by Karel Matějčik, most of them full-page. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Wrappers lightly creased; still about very good, in protective mylar. First edition of this..... More
![Slovenský nadrealizmus: anotovaná bibliografia [Slovak surrealism: an annotated bibliography]....](/pictures/thumb/P5345_1.jpg?v=1585674945)
Martin: Matica Slovenská, 1968. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 245 pp. Text reproduced from typescript, occasional illustrations and reproductions. Spine sun-tanned, with owner's hand-written label; corners very lightly scuffed; still about very good. First edition, published in 500 copies, of an important early bibliography of Slovak surrealist..... More
Tallinn and Tartu: Kirjanikkude Ühingu "Siuru" Kirjastus; "Odamehe" kirjastus, 1917-1919. Quartos (27 × 19.2 cm). Later buckram bindings, preserving original pictorial wrappers by Nikolai Triik and Ado Vabbe (front and back); 148, [2]; 115, [4]; and 134 pp. Three full-page illustrations by Triik (volume I), six full-page drawings, of which..... More
1971–1976. Brussels: Jacqueline Hondermarcq, 1971–1976. Octavos (20.8 × 13.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 48 pp. each (the double issue 132 pp.). Very good copies; the first issue contains the original wrap-around band. Substantial run of the uncommon Brussels-based journal of surrealist poetry, art, and theory, edited by Budík, Helena..... More
1970-1974. Paris: 1970-1974. Quartos (29 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 18 to 30 pp. each. Most copies very good, only four and five with light creasing to wrappers and upper spine of issue 4 lightly frayed. Substantial run, lacking only the final two issues, of this illustrated surrealist periodical..... More
1942. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mandragora, 1942. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed red glazed paper-covered card wrappers; 45 [42 sic!], [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Wrappers lightly sun-tanned; else about very good. First edition of the important Chilean’s book of poems, who has been called..... More
1961-1965. Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1961-1965. Quartos (23 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 73 to 128 pp. each. Very good; light wear to wrappers; spine head of issue 8 lightly frayed. Complete run of the last surrealist journal edited by Breton, published in Paris from 1961-1965. With reproductions of..... More
![1001 Izbrannyi Sovetskii Politicheskii Anekdot [1001 Selected Soviet Political Jokes]. Soviet...](/pictures/thumb/P003755_1.jpg?v=1585567562)
ca. 1986-1989. [Soviet Union]: ca. 1986-1989. Ca. 110 leaves of computer-printed text to rectos and versos, measuring 29 x 20 cm, loose in unlabeled paper folder. First page creased to lower margin, else very good. Samizdat edition of this famous collection of Soviet political anecdotes and jokes, published in 1986..... More
late 1970s or early 1980s. [Moscow]: late 1970s or early 1980s. Bound in hand-labeled paper folder (ink and pencil); [2], 3-42 leaves of easily legible carbon copy typescript to rectos, measuring ca. 29.7 x 21 cm). Folder chipped; text very good. Undated, but early samizdat edition (ca. 1980) of this..... More
[Uzhhorod]: “Unio”, 1941. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers over blind wraps; 112 pp. and [16] pages of plates. Fifty-three photo-illustrations in the text. Text detached from wrappers; light chipping to wrapper edges; private inventory number; else about very good. A history of the professional theatre of the Ugro-Russian (Rusyn) people, an..... More
![Pesni Bor’by [Songs of struggle]. Pavel Arskii](/pictures/thumb/50619.jpg?v=1585251255)
St. Petersburg: Proletkul’t, 1919. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated, staple-stitched wrappers; 37, [2] pp. Wrappers very lightly chipped; paper restoration to spine extremities and wrapper edges. Still about very good. Fifth edition of the debut collection of poetry by one of the early members of Petrograd (St. Petersburg)..... More
![Kikosy: vipak [Kikos: a novel]. Mat'evos Karapeti Darbinyan](/pictures/thumb/50608_1.jpeg?v=1585252178)
Erevan: Pethrat, 1929. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed); 107 pp. Very good or better. First edition of this short novel by Mat'evos Darbinyan (1889-1937), an Armenian writer born in the Northeastern province of Tavush. Along with Hakob Hakobyan he was the co-founder of the Armenian..... More
Erevan: Pethrat, 1932. Octavo (18.5 × 13.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed; illegible initials to lower left corner); 135 pp. Very good or better. Translation of Lev Ovalov's novel "Boltovnia" (Talk, 1928) by Stepan Elias Zorian (1889-1967), who served as the editor-in-chief of the Armenian State Publishing House in..... More
Erevan: Committee of Armenia's Trade (Labor) Unions, 1925. Quarto (33 × 25.3 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 24 pp. About very good; a few small tears to margins. Single issue of the Armenian trade union journal allied with the Social Democrat Party, with a drawn cover design bhy Hakob Kojoyan (1883-1959)..... More
![Rrushani k'arap'y: epopea [The cliff of Rushan: an epopee]. Nairi Zarian, designer Ararat Gharibyan](/pictures/thumb/50591_1.jpeg?v=1585252384)
Erevan: Pethrat, 1930. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 92 pp. Tiny nick to base of spine; a few pencil annotations; still a very good copy. First edition of this long poem by Nairi Zarian (pseudonym of Hayastan Yeghiazarian, 1900-1969), which praises the socialist spirit of the residents..... More
Erevan: Pethrat, 1931. Octavo (17.8 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 153, [1] pp. Russian translation of title and publisher to rear wrappers. About very good; very minor wear to wrappers. First edition of this book of short stories by Arak's (real name Arak's Avetisyan, 1903-1978), a female journalist and..... More
Petrograd: “Segodnia,” [1918–1919]. Octavos (ca. 20.3 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched linocut-printed wrappers; [4] pp. (not including wrappers). Linocut-printed publisher’s device to rear wrappers. All with numerous vignettes and larger, sometimes full-page, illustrations throughout the text. Overall very good; a few volumes with light spotting or light wear to spine..... More
Venice: self-published, [ca. 1616]. Folio (37.3 × 25 cm). Contemporary full vellum; engraved title within architectural element; forty-nine large numbered copper engravings on facing pages, followed by letterpress-printed text in Italian, German, French, Spanish, and Latin, each with a vignette headpiece at the head of the section. Binding with repairs;..... More
![Sutemų skersgatviuos [I will die]. Antanas Venclova, designer Jonas J. Burbos](/pictures/thumb/50346_001.jpg?v=1585251243)
Kaunas: self-published (printed by S. Joselevičiaus), 1926. Octavo (18.7 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jonas J. Burbos; 31 pp. A fine copy, apparently unread. Debut publication of Venclova (1906-1971), the Lithuanian and Soviet poet, writer, and politician. Venclova was the founder and editor of the most important Lithuanian..... More
1967-1971. Prague: Semaforklub, 1967-1971. Quartos (A4). Single leaves of differently colored stock, with mimeographed text to rectos and versos, stapled to upper left corner; most issues ca. 16-22 pp. About very good; a few first and last leaves detached from staple, but present. One of the issues features an original..... More
![O Dada, surrealismu a českém umění [On Dada, surrealism and Czech art]. Jindřich...](/pictures/thumb/P5641_1.jpg?v=1585320364)
1980. Prague: Jazzpetit, 1980. Octavo. Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 67, [1] pp. Typewritten errata sheet laid in. A fine copy. [Illustrated Samizdat Essay on Czech Surrealism]. Important early essay on Dada and surrealism in Czech art, by a key twentieth-century art critic and gallerist. Issued as nos. 2 of the..... More