Unpaginated 1939 yearbook from L'École Municipale Estienne in Paris, the school of the graphic arts and printing industries, the whole work assembled by students at the school and showcasing a variety of works printed on different paper stocks and in varying graphic formats, together with some separately paginated prose sections..... More

Group of approximately 100 assorted original early to mid-20th century color-printed and embossed labels for a variety of French chocolate manufacturers and shops, most or all printed by the St. Etienne, France firm of A. Mulcey, a firm which specialized in commercial printing, especially producing labels for food and wine..... More

Two large binders of A4 documents, each ca. 6 cm. of documents, including ALS, signed typescript, xerox copies, handwritten letter drafts, various ephemera and newspaper clippings. Overall very good. Two large binders of letters, receipts, newspaper clippings and legal documents connected with the legacy of Hannes Meyer (1889-1954), the second..... More

Brno: Zář, 1946. Octavo (20.7 × 14.7 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers by Antonín Jero; 307, [5] pp. of text, [13] pp. of photographic reproductions on coated stock; [8] pp. of end matter. Very good, in protective mylar. Curious photomontage cover by Antonín Jero (1907-1981), the Brno-born art educator, typographer, graphic..... More

Prague: Nakladatelstvi Šolc a Šimáček, 1927. Large octavo (24 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photo-montage possibly by Smrž; 79, [1] pp. With sixty-two illustrations. About very good; light wear and soil to wrappers, in protective mylar. An early Czech introduction to the technology and creation of motion..... More

Collection of posters, broadsheets, and ephemera pertaining to the Latvian-Jewish community in Riga, Daugavpils and Jūrmala in the 1920s and 1930s. Please inquire for a detailed list of contents and further images. The vibrant cultural, political and religious life of the community is captured in theater posters, announcements of political..... More

[Moscow]: Self-published, [1989]. Octavo ( × cm). Original side-stapled and hand-labeled wrappers; [?] pp. of typescript. Very good. A self-published collection of caustic, anti-Soviet poems by Aleksandr Trubin (b. 1961), apparently connected with the Arbat, a Moscow neighborhood known for its bohemian scene in the late Soviet period. The poems..... More

[Moscow]: Molodaia gvardia, 1941. 12mo (12.5 × 9.5 cm). Original card wrappers; 266, [1] pp., with 183 figures of illustrations. Owner inscription to title. Wrappers lightly worn; spine extremities frayed; internally very good. First edition. Addressed to the “young partisan,” this handbook was published in winter of 1941, just six months after..... More

Small circular chromolithographed cardboard snuffbox dating to the time of the campaign for the defense of the Charter after the assassination of the Duke of Berry on February 13, 1820, at the hands of a Bonapartist with colored engraved decoration to lid of King Louis XVIII and the members of..... More

Darmstadt, 1919–1921. Quartos (29 × 24.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. per issue (with consecutive pagination: 136 and 68 pp. respectively for years one and two). Occasional old creases and light spotting to issues; overall about very good. Complete run of a scarce German late expressionist journal published..... More

Petrograd: [Suvorin], 1915. Octavo (20.7 × 13.6 cm). Original printed wrappers on orange stock; 56 pp. Very good. Second edition; first published in 1914, of a rare report on atrocities against Russian soldiers and civilians committed by German soldiers during WWI, and based on oral reports by victims and witnesses..... More

Letterpress poster (38" x 25"), designed by Duchamp, printed in black and orange on white ground, acting as both notice for and as a catalogue of works shown at the landmark DADA exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, April 15 to May 9, 1953, with the texts..... More

[St. Petersburg]: self-published, 1976. Octavo (31 × 24 cm). Original decorative wrappers with collage incorporating beer labels and other ephemera; 33 leaves of typescript to rectos, with two original watercolor drawings. Very good. A postmodernist samizdat publication with a mélange of literary references, typical of the Leningrad underground literary scene..... More