Kraków: Instytut wydawniczy "Niezależnych," 1922. 12mo (14 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically illustrated peach-colored wrappers; [30] pp. Text printed in green. Fifteen drawings incorporating typographic elements. Light dust-soiling and fraying to overlapping wrapper edges; faint owner inscription to front wrapper verso; else about very good. First edition of this..... More

Paris; Warsaw: odbito w drukarni Leona Nowaka, 1927. Small quarto (27.5 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 43, [1] pp. Illustrations. Very good. First edition of this work of Futurist poetry by Tytus Czyżewski (1880–1945), the Polish painter, futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. The wrapper design and four illustrations in..... More

Munich: Vydavnytstvo "Suchasna Ukraina", 1952 and Paris: Vydannia Pershoi Ukrains'koi Drukarni u Frantsii, 1955. Octavos (18.2 × 12.3 and 18.3 × 13.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31 and 30, [2] pp. Very good. Two volumes of poems by Diamara Oleksiivna Khodymchuk, born 1925. Khodymchuk's parents were actors at the Berezil..... More

Berlin: Izdatel'stvo "Skify", 1922. Octavo (18.9 × 12.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 220, [3] pp. About very good; stamp of the "Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement" in New York; small chip to upper right corner; text toned and brittle due to stock; an uncut and unopened copy. First..... More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Krasnaia nov'", 1924. Octavo (19.4 × 13.3 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 150 pp. About very good; Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; text toned. Second (but only recorded) edition of this volume of proletarian poetry. Doronin was a member of the "Workers' Spring" [Rabochaia vesna] and "October" [Oktiabr']..... More

Prague – Prešov: Ceskoslovenská grafická Unie, 1935. Octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 13 pp. of text, color frontis, 29 black-and-white and three more color plates. Very good. The first monograph on Ľudovít Fulla (1902–1980), the Slovak painter and graphic artist. Fulla's work was crucial to the development..... More

Tbilisi: Gosizdat Gruzii, 1930. Octavo (19 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Irakli Gamrekeli; 79 pp. With photographs showing Gamrekeli's designs for the stage. Light overall wear to wrappers; front wrapper somewhat spotted; rust to staple; still about very good. First and only edition of this Russian-language monograph on..... More

Prague: Volné vydání spolku českých bibliofilů (Society of Czech Bibliophiles), 1911. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original full brown pigskin binding by Ludvík Bradáč, embossed to spine, with marbled endpapers; in the original card slipcase; 350, [5] pp. With 160 reproductions of typographic designs. Signed by the author below the..... More

Vladivostok: Tipo-litografiia Iosif Korot, 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-cloth over boards, with original wrappers not preserved; 70 pp. 21 photo-illustrations. Ownership stamp to title page. Slightly resized, about very good. First edition. Filled with rare photographs of the destruction brought on by the Russian Civil War in..... More

Nizhnii-Novgorod: Izd. Vserossiiskoi chrezvychainoi komissii po likvidatsii bezgramotnosti, 1921. Large octavo (single folded sheet); 32 pp. A fine copy. Early provincial edition, and a fine copy, of the first mass-produced Soviet primer for illiterate adults, published by the newly formed All-Russian Emergency Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1925. Small octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by M. Ushakov-Poskochin; 93, [2] pp. About very good. Russian translation of the first and only collection of poems by the German worker poet Gerrit Engelke (1890–1918), who had published a few poems in journals before his..... More

Berlin: Petropolis, 1929. Octavo (19.8 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 223, [1] pp. About very good; spine sun-tanned; owner inscription to ffep; light wear to wrapper edges. First edition of Erenburg's documentary novel about the development and peak of the age of the automobile (it was translated as "The..... More

Prague: Aventinum, 1926. First Czech Edition. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [6], 405, [2] pp. Signed by Erenburg, in pencil, on the front fly leaf, with the former owner's note in ink below indicating that this copy was signed after a lecture at the Umělecká beseda; a...... More