1933 or 1934. Prague: 1933 or 1934. Small octavo (17 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, 50, [17] pp. Numerous photographs, adverts. Very good. [Catalog of an Important Czech Glass Exhibition]. Scarce catalog of an exhibit of modern glassware, including architectural uses of glass, which was curated and designed by..... More

1926. Kiev: VUFKU, 1926. Small quarto (26 × 17.5 cm). Original beige pictorial wrappers; 51 pp. Wrappers somewhat worn; chip to rear wrapper; water stain to lower right corner of text. Scarce promotional album of the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration (VUFKU), the state-run film industry administration active from 1922 to..... More

1965. [Brno]: A. B., 1965. Oblong folio (13 × 21.5 cm). Blue embossed cloth; [14] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and [21] leaves of original photographic prints of Delvaux’s work, apparently taken from the original book publication. Very good; owner inscription to title. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt..... More

1927. Prague: R. Rejman, 1927. Small octavo (16 × 11.4 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [40] leaves. A very good copy. Scarce collection of good-natured, but witty parodies of contemporary Czech political life, including the communists, fascists, republicans, workers and bourgeois, as well as leading figures of the Czech avant-garde, such..... More

1927. Prague: Spolek Typografia v Praze; Orbis, 1927. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original printed card folder, with thirty-four bookplates mounted on black card stock and loosely inserted; string-bound text part (14 pp.) laid in. Signed and inscribed by the editor, Rudolf Hála. Folder lightly worn; largely lacking green tie..... More

1966. Prague: SČSVU, 1966. Octavo (22 × 16.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [16] pp. Twenty black and white illustrations. Very good. Rare catalog devoted to an exhibition of French painters of the New Figuration (or "Narrative Figuration") movement of the early 1960s. Artists such as Francois Arnal, Eugenio Barbieri, Eduardo..... More

1905. Jochem. 5 volumes, each with a brief textual introduction (6, 3, 4, 4, 4 pp., respectively) prefacing a presentation of 54 total plates across the five booklets showing designs for five different private residences, each of which are excellent examples of the architectural applications of the Jugendstil style, including..... More

Small cardboard box containing an introductory booklet folded accordion-style and printed recto only, and a group of 329 printed cards and 4 blank cards, the printed cards mostly each bearing a single word to each side of the card, some printed instead with an image (one example being a clip..... More

(36) pp. Swedish arts journal, reproducing orig. and previously published texts on the visual and literary arts with an emphasis on surrealism, incl. essays in trans. by Picasso [from "Formes" (1930)] and J. Frois-Wittmann [from "Minotaure" (1933)], and those by Swedish authors Adolph Törneros, Arne Häggqvist, Åkesson, and Nils Afzelius..... More

An anti-Dreyfus articulated caricature printed on thin cardboard, depicting a soldier in red pants and cap plunging the writer Émile Zola into a barrel bearing the word "Vidange", with a brad fastener used to move the soldier's arm (and thereby the figure of Zola) up and down into the barrel..... More

Folio containing engraved title page, dedication, and ad lectorem leaves followed by fine 19 engraved plates, comprising 11 full page and 8 double-page, depicting expansive views of the Villa Aldobrandini, various façades, fountains and garden grottos, and a number of scenes from Classical mythology, with a particular focus on the..... More

Prague, 1935. Octavo (21.3 × 15.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Styrsky; 12 pp. A fine copy. First and only edition of this catalog-cum-manifesto of the first official surrealist group to be established outside of France. “The core members were Nezval, Honzl, Štyrský, Toyen, Makovský, the poet Konstantin Biebl..... More

Wien und Leipzig: Gerlach & Co., [1900–1902]. Quarto (25.5 × 30 cm). Oblong portfolio housing thirty chromolithographed plates, including title, with monochrome design to versos. The portfolio (often damaged or lacking entirely) only with the most minor wear and scratches; the plates very good or better. One of the most..... More