Neu-Ulm: Vydavnytstvo "Prometei", [1947]. Quarto (29.7 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 24 pp. Text printed in brown, with eleven full-page illustratrations by M. Mykhalevych, printed in three colors. Rust to staples; some color bleeding to front wrapper due to old dampness; text overall about very good. Profusely illustrated..... More
![Book ID: 52225 Den' 22. sichnia 1919. roku [The 22nd of January 1919]. Petro Oliinyk, M....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52225_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1686232264)
Prague: Nakladom V-vo "Probojem", 1941. Octavo (17.8 × 12.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 21, [1] pp. Private collector's monogram stamp to title; wrappers starting to split along spine; else about very good. Scarce pamphlet on the signing of the Act of Unification between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West..... More
Paris: Sidoratsky, Imprimeur-Editeur, ca. 1890–1900?. 12mo (11.4 × 7.1 cm). Original printed wrappers on gray stock; [32] pp. on gray stock. About very good. This volume contains the censored poems of Vasily Ivanovich Tumansky, an official of the Russian Empire and a poet of the Romantic era. Born into a...... More
Various formats, inquire for a complete list. Gurgen Grigor’evich Sevak (1904–1981) was a Georgian-born Soviet Armenian linguist and Esperantist. His enduring fascination with the constructed language began in 1921, when he was still based in Tbilisi and took a course with retired general A. P. Andreev. He embarked on giving..... More
![Book ID: 51321 Nachrichten für die Truppe [News for the troops], nos. 12, 20, 34, 36, 43,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51321_002.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682714404)
N.p. [London]: [Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force], 1944. First six issues in this collection single leaves, others folded sheets, quartos (measuring 33 x 23.2 cm). Original self-wrappers; 2-4 pp. of text and images. Some very light toning and chipping, overall about very good. Collection of..... More
![Book ID: 51062 Buldog: pražský román [The bulldog: a Prague novel]. Josef Lukavský](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51062.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1683556241)
Prague: Nakladatelství Borský a Šulc, 1926. Octavo (17.7 × 12.7 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards; gilt title to spine; preserving pictorial front wrapper; 258 pp. Text evenly toned; else very good. First and only edition of a popular novel about a love affair between a young entrepreneur and..... More
Hannover: self-published, 1967. Quarto (29.6 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched red printed wrappers; [32] leaves of mimeographed text to rectos. With several mounted original objects and additional printed ephemera, including small leaflets in a postal envelope. Front wrapper partially faded; else very good. This artist's book from the influential German..... More
Atlantic City, New Jersey/Washington, DC: Protetch-Rivkin, 1971. Quarto (27.5 x 21 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 20 pp., profusely illustrated throughout. Gentle toning, small area of staining along top edge of cover, overall very good. Exhibtion catalogue in the form of a newspaper, published in conjunction with the Spring Joint Computer..... More
Ghent: Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 1977. Square quarto (30.5 x 30.5 cm). White cardstock portfolio-style wrappers with loose leaves, as issued; 16 screenprints on white cardstock plus title leaf and edition leaf, 18 leaves total. Near mint condition. Hand-numbered, monogrammed, and dated 1/60 RB 77 in pencil..... More
N.p.: n.d. (circa 1966-1968). Various sizes (from 5 x 6.3 cm to 10.8 x 8.2 cm). Loose cream cardstock cards; three printed recto only, two printed recto and verso. Two cards with slight toning, overall very good. Provenance: Klaus Groh Archive. Albert M. Fine (1932-1987) was an American composer, artist..... More
Rome: Edoardo Tinto Editore; Edizioni della Casa d'Arte Bragaglia, 1923–1928. Various sizes, most ca. 19.0 × 13.5 cm. Original printed self-wrappers; between 16 and 24 pp. per issue. Most issues very good or better; occasional faint postal stamps or light spotting; issue no. 85 with pencil scribblings to cover and..... More
Nice: self-published, 1969. Quarto (31 x 21.5 cm). Original printed paper folder with black title to front cover, contents loose as issued; 58 unpaginated stenciled sheets housed within, many printed recto and verso, some printed recto only, some scattered illustrations, handwritten page numbers in pencil at upper right-hand corners of..... More
Kharkiv: Derzhavno vydavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1928–1932. Octavos (ca. 23 × 17 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Vadym Meller, printed in orange and red; ca. 120–220 pp. per issue. Most issues with several leaves of plates on coated stock. Good to very good, with some issues uncut and unopened; stamps of the..... More
San Francisco: n.p., May 15, 1942. Broadside (sheet size 56 x 35.5 cm). Mounted to foam board and matted. Minor toning, very small tear to right side margin of sheet, some soiling to mat, overall very good. Broadside notice from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control..... More
![Book ID: 52465 Evreiskaia poeziia: Antologiia [Jewish poetry: an anthology], vol. 1:...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52465.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1680181151)
New York: Futuro Press, Inc., [Izdanie Russkih Evreev v N'iu-Iorke], 1947. Octavo (23.4 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 240 pp. Signed by Grebnev. Slight discoloration to spine and boards; else good or better. This anthology showcases Jewish poetry written in the United States over the span of sixty years..... More
![Book ID: 52202 N. Rerikh [N. Roerich]. Mantel', leksandr](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52202_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1680080904)
Kazan': Izd-vo knig po iskusstvu, 1912. Quarto (27.5 × 21 cm). Original pictorial stiff boards designed by Dmitrii Mitrokhin; 68 pp. and 11 leaves of plates. Frontis by Ernest Lanceray. Additional tipped-in reproductions throughout. Boards with traces of water damage; a reproduction on page 11 is missing. In protective mylar..... More
Uherské Hradiště: Skupina moravských knihomilů, 1931. Octavos (24 × 16.3 cm). Original decorative printed wrappers; 247, [1] pp. (consecutive pagination). Twenty-two illustrations in the text and thirty leaves of supplements, including photo-reproductions, linocut and woodcut prints, and other ephemera. A few wrappers with light dust-soiling; one page with smudge; overall..... More
Katerynoslav-Leipzig: Ukrains'ke Vydavnytstvo v Katerynoslavi, 1922. Octavo (18.3 × 11.7 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on green stock; 22 pp. About very good. Early post-humous edition of this work of fictionalized biography about Ivan Sulyma, Hetman of the Cossacks, by Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), whose work was largely preoccupied with the..... More
Scranton, PA: Ukrainian Book Store, 1919. Duodecimo (14.8 × 11.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 30 pp. About very good; light dust-soiling. Contains various mostly humorous poems, anecdotes, and short stories about Sinti and Roma, which draw on a variety of mostly negative stereotypes. Published for the Ukrainian community in North..... More
Buenos Aires, 1957. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Stamp of the Union San Alejandro Newsky, a defunct private diaspora library, on title page, faint outline of a previously attached price sticker on the upper left-hand corner of the wrapper. Some light signs of wear; else..... More
Augsburg: “Žiburiai,” 1946. Folio (35 × 24.7 cm). Original printed boards, quarter cloth binding; [19] pp., 40 leaves of plates. Signed in pencil by Telesforas Valius. Good or better; trace of private library label to lower spine; some scuffing and rubbing to corners and spine extremities; stamps of a non-existing..... More
![Book ID: 51526 Literatura v obozie [Literature in the camp]. Michał Borwicz](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51526_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1678450869)
Kraków: Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy C.K. Żydów Polskich - Oddział w Krakówie, 1946. Octavo (15.5 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by cartoonist and satirist Karol Ferster; 76, [8] pp. Numerous illustrations and decorative initials throughout. Light chipping to spine; evenly discolored; still very good. This collection of essays..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie individual'noe (self-published), 1917. Octavo (25.4 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 91, [5] pp. Light fraying to spine extremities; Soviet bookstore stamp inside rear wrapper; else about very good. First book of poems by the author (with the added specification "book one", but all published), which is more..... More
[Moscow], 1920. Octavo (18 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [16] pp. Very good. First and only volume of poems by Boris S. Zemenkov (1902–1963), a Russian Expressionist writer and artist who later joined the "Nichevoki" group. In the Russian context, “expressionism” saw itself as a new synthesis of..... More
Single leaf, printed to recto, measuring 29.3 × 20 cm. Old crease marks; still very good. Soviet broadside in less-than-ideal Czech, issued during the days after the arrival of Russian troops on tanks on August 21, 1968, which heralded the onset of the so-called Normalization period, presided over by Gustáv..... More