Moscow: Izdanie Gruppy Lefovtsev, 1929. Oblong octavo (17 × 21.5 cm). [18] leaves of hectographed holograph text to rectos. Lacking front wrapper; occasional light stains and small tears; some professional restoration. Copy number 9 from an edition of 150 copies. With Igor Terent’ev’s portrait of Aleksei Kruchenykh on page 6..... More

623 pp. expansive volume on American typefaces produced by the San Francisco outpost of the noted Keystone type foundry, together with a catalogue of printing equipment including type case stands, make-up tables, galley racks, presses, newspaper presses, paper cutters, binding machines, and stitchers. Profusely illustrated throughout with woodcut borders, text..... More

Unpaginated (12 pp. and five laid in plates, four with original tissue paper overlay) volume from the Belgian printer containing a brief essay on his thoughts on the printing of art, followed examples of various types of reproductions, or "Spécimens de Différents Procédés de Reproduction", including an etching after Bruegel..... More

Unpaginated (circa 36 pp.) promotional history of the French paper manufacturer who specialized in producing cigarette papers, with text in French, English, and Spanish, walking through the entire paper production process ,from the raw materials to pulp, all the way through to the finished product, with four-page double-fold at the..... More

Booklet of twelve numbered and colored lithographs, printed recto only, depicting Art Deco designs for various types of stamped or embossed metal objects such as a cigarette case, a cake plate, a hair clip, and a candy tray, each image signed within the plate. Some very minor toning, some rust..... More

Riga: Drukatava “Dzintars”, [1933]. Small square octavo (14 × 14.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Vilis Ciesnieks; [36] pp. Six black-and-white reproductions. Wrappers lightly soiled and toned; small chip to corner of rear wrapper; still about very good. Rare catalog for the “Green Crow” Art Association’s fifteenth exhibition, held..... More

Unpaginated 1938 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

Prague: Československé filmové nakladatelství. 1947. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Zdeněk Rossmann over blind wrapper; 207, [8] pp. Frequent underlining and a few annotations in pencil; else about very good. A curious later work by Zdeněk Rossmann, the Bauhaus-trained Czech graphic designer, photographer, and art teacher..... 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, [ca. 1962–1969?]. Octavo (28.5 × 20 cm). Original side-stapled hand-inscribed wrappers; 42 pp. of typescript with occasional handwritten corrections to margins. Very good. An early samizdat collection of poems by the poet, novelist, and essayist Vadim Fadin (b. 1936). Born in Moscow, Fadin graduated from the Moscow Aviation..... More

Geneva: Izdanie soiuza russkikh sotsial’demokratov, 1901. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 24 pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Light soil to rear wrappers; else very good. An early May Day brochure, which captures the development of the May 1st holiday in pre-revolutionary Russia..... More