Small unpaginated (30 pp.) Nazi propaganda booklet aimed at Polish readers, from the time of the German occupation of Poland, describing how and why Germany will win the war and discussing the war from a global perspective, with brief essays or features on various topics including "The War in the..... More
![Samá láska [Nothing but love: poems]. Jaroslav Seifert, designer Otakar Mrkvi ka](/pictures/thumb/50543_1.jpg?v=1581508626)
Prague: Ve ernice, 1923, Octavo (19.3 × 14 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Otakar Mrkvi ka. 61, [1] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy, with very faint discoloration to wrappers. First editon of the second volume of poems by Nobel Prize winning Czech writer and poet Jaroslav Seifert..... More
![T lové povídky [Flesh-colored tales]. Vladimir Raffel, designer František Muzika](/pictures/thumb/50542_1.jpg?v=1581508625)
Prague: Aventinum, 1928, Octavo (19.8 × 12.3 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by František Muzika; 67, [2] pp. Light stain to lower left corner, crease to upper right corner; still about very good. First edition of these stories, written 1925-1926, by Vladimír Raffel (1898-1967), a writer and psychiatrist who is considered..... More
Second edition. Prague: Nakladatelstvi Šolc a Šimá ek, 1928. 12mo (17 × 12 cm). Original illustrated wrappers in the constructivist style by Otakar Mrkvicka; 119, [9] pp. With twenty-four drawings by Mrkvicka in the text. Very good. Interesting introduction to the history and production of film by Smrž, an instructor..... More
![Nova pantologija pelengirike [New Panthology of New Serbian Pelengyrics]. Stanislav Vinaver](/pictures/thumb/50538_1.jpg?v=1581453790)
Belgrade: Biblioteka "Misao"; Stamparija "Mirotocivi", 1922. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 176 pp. Stain to rear wrapper; else a very good copy. First edition of a volume of literary parodies by Vinaver, the translator, literary critic, and poet, who was the author of a "Manifesto of..... More
Prague: Knihy dobrých autoru, 1929. Octavo (22.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 101, [1] pp. A very good copy; from the limited print run on better paper stock; with the usual light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; the gatherings are unstapled, as issued. Rare first Czech edition of this..... More
Prague: Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion Prag, [1916 or 1917]. Large quarto (33 × 24 cm). Attractively bound in recent gray boards; [1], 198 leaves of text to rectos only. Pink rubber stamp “Vertraulich” (“Confidential”) to first leaf. Introductory text followed by German-language wanted briefs and photographs. Very good. This..... More
![Volné sebrání [Free gathering], vol. 3. Portfolio containing twenty-four works of art...](/pictures/thumb/P6249_1.jpg?v=1581453791)
[Kunstat, near Brno]: 1974. Black portfolio, gilt title to spine, measuring 32 × 22.2 cm, with contents printed on leaves A4-sized. Carbon copy typescript. Light wear and small tear to portfolio; contents very good. Unique compilation of twenty-four leaves featuring poetic texts or original artwork, all signed, limited, or entirely..... More
![Zast ený profil [Blurred profile]. Miloš Marten, Jindrich Štyrský](/pictures/thumb/P5528_1.jpg?v=1581508746)
Prague: self-published, 1940. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Zdenka Braunerová; text loosely inserted as issued; [6], 12, [4] pp. Woodcut title and vignette to p. 15 by Braunerová and with Jind ich Štyrský's "imaginary portrait" of Lautréamont on p. 5. A fine copy, signed by Štyrský..... More
Various sizes, mostly single folded leaves with [4] pp. of text, attractively set in a variety of decorative typefaces. Occasional tears; a few programs with larger nicks and losses to margins. This collection of thirty-six advertising programs for silent film theaters in St. Petersburg/Petrograd captures the vibrant and changing film..... More
![Biulleten' vremennogo glavnogo komiteta [Bulletin of the interim committee ], nos. 1-2 (all...](/pictures/thumb/P5022_1.jpg?v=1581352987)
Constantinople (Istanbul), 1921. Quartos (32 × 20 cm). Original sewn pamphlets with cloth spine strip; mimeographed or hectographed wrappers; mimeographed text to rectos; 56 and 152 leaves. Numerous charts, diagrams (affixed to leaves), and additional printed ephemera bound with the text. Worn; front wrapper and first page of one issue..... More
Sofia: Pridvornaia tipografiia, 1922. Octavo (25.5 × 18.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 146, 15, [2] pp. Wrappers detached and chipped to spine; two perforations through block; internally about very good. A comprehensive report of the activities of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Zemstvos Union, a humanitarian organization aiding Russian..... More
Paris: self-published, 1922. Octavo (24.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 132 pp. Light foxing to wrappers; tiny nick to spine; else very good. A report on the activities of the Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee (Zemgor), a humanitarian organization aiding Russian refugees during and after the Russian Civil War..... More
Prague: Izdanie ekonomicheskogo kabineta, 1926. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 26 pp. Very good. A five-year (1921–1926) account of the complex relationship between the League of Nations and the Russian refugee organizations during the period immediately following the Russian Civil War (1918–1922). The author advocates for..... More
Paris: self-published, 1921. Small octavos (11 × 7.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. each. Very good. Two versions of the “Zemgor” (Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee) charter, printed in French and Russian. The pamphlets lay out the purpose and bylaws of this humanitarian organization. Founded in Paris..... More
[Soviet Union]: ca. late 1970s or 1980s. Quartos (ca. 30 × 22 cm). Original paper-covered boards with hand-written labels to front boards; see below for pagination. Varying condition, but generally very good. Group of nine volumes of carbon copy and original typescript, reproducing a number of spiritual, esoteric, and occult..... More
![Biulleten’ [Bulletin], nos. 1–2 (all published). the All-Russian Zemstvo Union Central...](/pictures/thumb/P004253_1.jpg?v=1580925013)
Constantinople: Tipografiia T-va “Pressa”, 1921. Octavos (24.5 × 18.5 and 26 × 19 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 30 and 66 pp. Tables and graphs throughout. Light soil and foxing to wrappers, else very good. Two volumes of this scarce bulletin by three Russian charitable organizations, which provided relief to..... More
Paris: Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee, [1927]. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 30, [2] pp. Photo-illustrations throughout. Very good. Published as part of a fundraising effort, this brochure of the All-Russian Zemstvos and Towns Union is focused on the education of Russian refugee children who..... More
Prague: Izdanie Prazhskogo Zemgora, 1931 (printed in France). Octavo (24 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 135, [2] pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers, else very good. Jubilee publication marking ten years of the Prague “Zemgor” (Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee), a Czech branch of one of the..... More
![Nauka v sovetskoii Rossii [The sciences in Soviet Russia]. Boris Sokolov](/pictures/thumb/P004249_1.jpg?v=1580925008)
Berlin: Russkoe universal’noe izdatel’stvo, 1921. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; scant underlining in pencil to text, still about very good. An overview of work in the Soviet natural sciences, published during the period of massive institutional reorganization and emigration of..... More
![Smychka: zhurnal raboche-gorodskoi kooperatsii [Union: a journal of the city worker cooperative],...](/pictures/thumb/P6347_1.jpg?v=1580752040)
Moscow: Tsentrosoiuz, 1929. Octavo (24.5 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Light soil to wrappers; tears to spine extremities; else about very good. Single issue of this popular biweekly magazine of the Soviet urban cooperative movement, which flourished with strong support from Lenin during The New Economic..... More
Moscow: Vserabis, 1931. Octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 23, [3] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Single issue of this journal of the Art Workers’ Trade Union (RABotniki ISkusstva), which united workers of the theater, cinema, the circus, music, photography, and the..... More
Moscow: Vserabis, 1931. Octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 23, [3] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Single issue of this journal of the Art Workers’ Trade Union (RABotniki ISkusstva), which united workers of the theater, cinema, the circus, music, photography, and the..... More
Leningrad: Izdanie “Tea-kino-pechat’,” 1929. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative self-wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout and wrappers by Nikolai Kochergin. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Single issue of the popular Leningrad theater journal, which appeared from 1924 to 1937. The issue includes a full theater program..... More
Moscow: Vserabis, 1930. Octavo (26 × 17.5). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 19, [3] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Single issue of this journal of the Art Workers’ Trade Union (RABotniki ISkusstva), which united workers of the theater, cinema, the circus, music, photography, and the visual..... More