[Kočevski Rog]: Agitprop pri Izvršnem odboru Osvobodilne fronte [Slovenije], 1944. Small octavo (16.7 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. Scarce Slovenian-language overview of the development and feats of the Soviet Red Army during World War II, with chapters on Soviet artillery, airforce, navy, young partisans..... More
Ljubljana: Milan Vrtovec, 1940. Octavo (24.5 × 16.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Wrappers toned and lightly discolored; else about very good. Scarce anti-communist pamphlet published in Slovenia, issued as part of the periodical "Za resnico" (For the truth), this being vol. 7 in the series. With an..... More
[Croatia, ca. 1944-1945]. Octavo (20.6 × 15.2 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; [15] pp. Two pages of text followed by twelve full-page illustrations in color, in addition to the front wrapper. Wrappers with foxing and discoloration; still about very good. Anonymously published anti-Bolshevik and anti-Partisan pamphlet intending to expose the..... More
[Ljubljana, ca. 1944]. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Single folded leaf with full-page drawing to first page; 7, [1] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy. Anonymously published pamphlet on the dangers of Bolshevism, with a striking cover drawing showing a Red Army Commisar enslaving a group of farmers..... More
A complete run in five issues (each issue 58 pp.) of the short-lived French radical second-wave feminist magazine, edited by Nicole Canto, containing essays, interviews, and event calendars covering topics within France and abroad such as prostitution, domestic workers, labor groups, protests, family planning and children, contraception, menopause, film, and..... More
117 pp. text comprising the comprehensive report regarding "the rectification of the present plan and the development and extension of the city of Hartford on comprehensive lines of order and harmony with recommendations", prepared by the important New York City-based Beaux-Arts architectural firm of Carrére & Hastings, including discussions of..... More
1969. Unpaginated (circa 120 pp.) catalogue, with text in English and German, for a film festival organized by Kurt Kren, featuring the work of filmmakers such as Marc Adrian, Stan Brakhage, W & B Hein, Hans Peter Kochenrath, Kurt Kren, Malcolm LeGrice, Gregory J. Markopoulous, Otto Muehl, Hans Helmut Klaus..... More
Eglin Field, Florida, 1945. Quarto (26.7 × 20.5 cm). Original side-stapled mimeographed pamphlet; 27 pp. of mimeographed typescript and illustrations. Final leaf detached; light overall wear; else about very good. Single issue of this German-language periodical published by POWs in the camp at Eglin Field, Florida, which was a sub-camp..... More
![Werble wolności [Drums of freedom], no. 4 (of six published in total](/pictures/thumb/51313_1.jpeg?v=1625665383)
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo KOPR [Komisja Propagandy Biura Informacji i Propagandy KG AK], October 1943. Octavo. Original printed self-wrappers; 7, [1] pp. Hole-punched to margin; else about very good. Fourth issue of this series of independence-minded poetic volumes, published clandestinely by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Polish Home Army..... More
A sizable sequential run of 55 issues in 51 fascicules (three double issues, and lacking Year I nos. 19 and 24, and Year II no. 5), approx. 24-32 pp. each, of the journal aimed at Italian youth, under the editorial direction of Carlo Scorza and Achille Starace, featuring stories and..... More
![Mixothek: der Schlüssel zum Drink [Mixotheque: the key to the right drink]. Manfred Herpel](/pictures/thumb/51247_001.jpg?v=1624903683)
[Germany, ca. 1969]. A curious "computer"-like device comprising 111 recipes printed to the blue sheets (measuring 10 × 14.5 cm, with punch-holes along all sides), a U-shaped stylus, and an index card. Also included are four blank cards with punch-holes still fresh, which can be used for additional recipes, to..... More
![U-10. Malowanka dala niegrzecznych dzieci [A coloring book for naughty kids]. G. Griot](/pictures/thumb/51346_1.jpg?v=1622805376)
Kraków: Wyd. “Hutnik”, [1985]. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [12] pp. of illustrations. Very good. A samizdat collection of irreverent caricatures of Jerzy Urban (b. 1933), the press secretary of the Polish Council of Ministers during the period of Martial Law (1981–1983), subsequently dubbed the “Goebbels..... More
Small humorous and pseudo-erotic 48 pp. flipbook with drawings of a woman seated atop her husband's back while he lays face down on a bed, beating him with a slipper while he kicks and flails. 3.7 x 7.1 cm. Original paper wrpps., a small tear to front cover where it..... More
A complete run in 11 issues of the conceptual art journal, comprised mainly of photographs of artwork, containing contributions from a large number of important international artists including H.P. Adamski, Hans-Peter Feldman, Giulio Paolini, Klaus Richter, Robert Cumming, Martin Disler, Pieter Holstein, Alex Silber, Gerhard Theewen, David Askevold, Robert Barry..... More
![Poema kontsa. [Mayakovskomy] [The poem of the end. To Mayakovsky]. Samizdat edition. Marina...](/pictures/thumb/51338_1.jpeg?v=1622808977)
[Moscow, ca. early 1970s?]. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original stab-stapled cloth-backed folder, into which are stapled 28 leaves of typescript to rectos. Occasional corrections in ink. Wrappers worn; internally good or better. A curious artifact, this samizdat gathers two long poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. The first, “The poem of..... More
![Láska a ženy: sentence [Love and women: aphorisms]. Knihovna "Pan" svazek I [series title]....](/pictures/thumb/51336.jpeg?v=1622799722)
Prague: self-published, 1920. 12mo (12 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 32, [1] pp. Very good; very light wear to wrappers. Scarce anthology of aphorisms on the topic of love, marriage, women, and sex by the still relatively unknown Czech writer and cabaret artist, who was a student of the..... More
![Sprache und Schrift [Language and Writing]. Fundamente der Organisation, ed. Richard K. Hinz...](/pictures/thumb/51333_001.jpg?v=1623784803)
Berlin: Verlag des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure, 1920. Quarto (29.5 × 23.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 108 pp. Laid in is a folded greeting card of Porstmann's firm, measuring 10.5 × 7.5 cm. About very good; light wear to title; a few pages with light spots. First and only edition of..... More
(xvi), 101 pp. text regarding the Basilica San Martino ai Monti, officially known as Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti, including the history of Pope Sylvester, information on the construction and restoration or reconstruction of the church over time, and some descriptions of the church interior, including inscriptions, ornament, and..... More
Wrocław: [self-published], 1973. Octavo (27.5 × 19.3 cm). Printed cover leaf followed by 6 leaves of photographs and text, side-stapled and with silver tape to spine. Author's rubber stamp and signature to first leaf. Stain to lower margin; else about very good. An early Conceptualist publication of the Polish Neo-Avant..... More
[South Germany], 1945. Broadsheet newsprint; first and last issues each 2 pp. (single folded sheet), the others 4 pp. Old creases; one issue with small tear; else very good copies. Complete run of this photo-illustrated informational newspaper published from May to July 1945 and aimed at French citizens in Germany..... More
1884. 5 vols.: III, 63, 92, 108, 87, 239 pp. text, ext. notes, charts, indices, altogether 438 text illus. from plans and drawings, 20, 22, 19, 20, 22 plates incl. 2 maps and superb heliogravures (2 in color) from Dieulafoy's drawings and Madame Jeanne Dieulafoy's pioneering photographs. Minor foxing, generally..... More
Göttingen: Im Verlag der Wittwe Vandenhoek 1779. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Later full pebbled cloth (ca. 1860), with gilt title to spine; [12], 227 pp. A fine copy, partially uncut and unopened. Modestly billed here as the second edition, the present work is in fact a completely reworked telling..... More
6 pp. of text followed by 48 leaves of plates depicting the designs of library rooms within modern home interiors, including furnishings, rugs, drapery, and decor. 8vo. (19.4 x 16 cm). Scattered foxing throughout. Original spiral-bound pictorial wrpps. in cardboard slipcase, rear cover of wrpps. detached, some slight wear to..... More
16 pp. sales brochure printed by the American Type Founders Company on the exposition floor at the 1922 Boston Graphic Arts Exposition, to promote its line of printing and typesetting equipment, including the Liberty Quick Chane Folders with Kelly Automatic Feeder, Boston Wire Stitchers, Chandler & Price Presses and Paper..... More
Collection of American home building trade catalogs from the first half of the twentieth century, including examples of catalogs focused on kit and readi-cut houses, stucco house plans, California Colonial house plans, small or modestly priced homes, wood and steel portable garages and other buildings, complete garage sets, lock-joint columns..... More