![O Dada, surrealismu a českém umění [On Dada, surrealism and Czech art]. Jindřich...](/pictures/thumb/P5641_1.jpg?v=1588680306)
Prague: Jazzpetit, 1980. Octavo (21.8 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 67, [1] pp. Typewritten errata sheet laid in. A fine copy. Important early essay on Dada and surrealism in Czech art, by a key twentieth-century art critic and gallerist. Issued as nos. 2 of the Jazzpetit series and..... More
![Liudi – idioty. Budut li Liudi kak Bogi [L’Homme Stupide. Will Men Be Like Gods]? Owen...](/pictures/thumb/P003867.jpg?v=1591527183)
Shanghai: 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 and..... More
Moscow: Izd-vo "Imazhinisty", 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 48 pp. Unopened and uncut. Wrappers detached; light foxing to wrappers; text evenly toned to stock, internally very good. First Russian language publication of Charles Vildrac (1882-1971) and Georges Duhamel’s (1884-1966) 1910 “Notes sur la Technique poétique,” translated..... More
![Stikhi [Verse].; Stikhi [Verse]. Mikhail Chekhonin](/pictures/thumb/P001934.jpg?v=1593526955)
New York: Izdanie Kruzhka Russkikh Poetov v Amerike, 1946. Small octavo (17 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 5-95 pp. Printed on laid paper. Very light spotting to front wrapper; crease to upper right corner (and p. 1); else very good or better. Mikhail Chekhonin (1907-1962) was a Russian..... More
![Rasskazy [Short stories]. Zapiski okhotnika [Notes of a Hunter]. Babushka [Grandmother].;...](/pictures/thumb/P003374_1.jpg?v=1591526643)
Prague: Melantrich, 1946-47. Octavos (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Karel Teige; 208, [3]; 275, [I]; and 614, [6] pp. Light wear to wrappers, not affecting title text; one volume uncut and unopened; an attractive set. Complete set of these three Russian-language publications, featuring two Russian and one..... More
![Izbrannye rasskazy [Selected short stories, two volumes] and P'esy i shutki [Plays and farces]....](/pictures/thumb/P004170_1.jpg?v=1591528442)
New York: [1st Russian Publishing Corporation], ca. 1917. Octavos (20 × 13.5 cm). Original beige and blue printed wrappers, decorative border; 65-96, 97-128; and 129-192 pp. Very good copies; book store label of Jacques Povolozky (Povolotskii), the emigre bookseller, publisher, and gallerist in Paris, inside front wrappers. A very attractive..... More
![Pis’ma: Stikhi [Letters: Verse]. Kolau Cherniavskii](/pictures/thumb/P6183_001.jpg?v=1592580758)
Tbilisi: Tip. Gaz. “Zaria vostoka”, 1927. Octavo (22.8 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 30 pp. Cover illustration by Kirill Zdanevich. Very discrete repairs to wrappers, with professional paper restauration; text evenly toned due to stock; still about very good. First edition of the only collection of poems by Nikolai..... More
Paris: YMCA Press, 1929. Octavo (19 cm). Original printed wrappers, 39 pp. From the personal library of emigre poet Vladimir Smolenskii, with his owner inscription on the front fly leaf. A mostly uncut, unread copy; light wear to wrappers. Vladimir Smolenskii (1901-1961) was born into a Cossack military family and..... More
Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1929. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Later green clothl front wrapper preserved; 82 pp. Good or better; text toned due to stock; some traces of paper restoration; frequent light annotations in pencil. Scarce anthology on TRAM, an acronym for Teatr Rabochei Molodezhi, or Theatre of Working Youth, which..... More
Paris: Izd-vo "Mech", 1937. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 42 pp. Wrappers lightly creased and spotted; still about very good. First and only edition of this harsh polemic by a pro-Ukrainian member of the Russian diaspora, writing under the pseudonym A. Chigirin. The book critiques the..... More
Moscow: Vserossiiskii Proletkul’t, 1924. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 109, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; crease to front wrapper; text toned due to stock; occasional underlining in pencil; about good or better. First edition. This polemical pamphlet argues for tightening the political positions of the Russian..... More
![Průvodce Prahou [A guide to Prague]. Čeněk Chyský](/pictures/thumb/50906_1.jpg?v=1597073763)
Prague: Svaz československých dělnických turistů, [1934]. Octavo (18 × 12.1 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers by L. Šmíd; 145, [2] pp. About very good; light overall wear and nick to upper spine extremity. Scarce guidebook to Prague issued by the Czechoslovak Union of Proletarian Tourists, which sought to turn tourism, hiking..... More
![Cierpiąca Warszawa r. 1944 [Suffering Warsaw 1944]. Warszawa cierpi i walczy 1944 [Warsaw...](/images/noimage.png)
Krakow: Nakładca Fr. Dabioch, [1946]. Original red pictorial card portfolio, housing [3] pp. of text followed by twenty-one lithographic plates, measuring 36.5 × 25.5 cm. Light abrasions to spine; lower spine end beginning to split; private stamp to first leaf; contents very good. First and only edition. A collection of..... More
1965. [Brno]: A. B., 1965. Oblong folio (13 × 21.5 cm). Blue embossed cloth; [14] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and [21] leaves of original photographic prints of Delvaux’s work, apparently taken from the original book publication. Very good; owner inscription to title. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt..... More
![Fabiánský socialismus [Fabian socialism]. G. D. H. Cole, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/P6440_1.jpg?v=1587490564)
Prague: Klub socialistické kultury ("Práce"), 1947. Octavo (22.8 × 14.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Karel Teige; 156, [2] pp. Front wrapper with light dust soil; else very good, in protective mylar. First edition of this translation by M. Haluza, with an understated but effective late typographic wrapper design by..... More
Prague: Alois Lapacek, 1922. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5). Original staple-stitched photographic wrappers; 1-22, [1] pp. With nineteen black-and-white photographs in the text. Wrappers lightly soiled; still a very good copy. Rare publication by the émigré instantiation of Zemgor, or United Committee of the Union of Zemstvos and the Union..... More
N.p.: 1872. N.p., [1872], single folded leaves measuring 20.5 × 14 and 19 × 12.5 cm. Very good. Two holograph letters containing a polite request to be introduced to “Her Majesty the Queen” before Tolstoy’s return to St. Petersburg. “N’ayant pas eu le plaisir de vous trouver a à la..... More
Leningrad: Nauchnoe knigoizdatel’stvo, 1925. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 154, [6] pp. With forty-nine smaller drawings in the text. Small nick to front wrapper; spine extremities very lightly frayed; text evenly toned; still about very good. First edition in Russian. This early film history, oriented toward industry..... More
Moscow: Gramatizdevneeciba "Prometejs", 1931. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [2], 237 pp. Very good. Rare example of Latvian modernist publishing in Moscow, Russia. The design of the Latvian first edition resembles the Russian original (Fabrika Rable, 1928), which also features a vertical red rectangle abutted by two..... More
![Noc-dzien: mechaniczny instynkt elektryczny [Night-day: Mechanical electrical instinct]. Tytus...](/pictures/thumb/50134.jpeg?v=1584393964)
Krakow: Gebethner i Wolff (Drukarna "Czasu"), 1922. Octavo (22.3 × 15.2 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 3-41 pp. Very good or better. Fine copy of this volume of futurist poems by Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945), the Polish painter, Futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. In 1917, together with the brothers Zbigniew and..... More
London: 1902. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 16-48 pp. per issue. Good to very good, with one issue unopened and uncut. Five issues (of twelve published) of the political supplement to the literary and political journal “Zhizn’” (Life), founded in St. Petersburg in 1897. Literary works by..... More
[Geneva]: Tipografiia Russkikh Sotsialdemokratov, 1897. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original tan staple-stitched printed wrappers; 48 pp. Very good. A pamphlet discussing regulation of work hours in factories of the Russian Empire, with the new law of June 2nd 1897 limiting the work day to 11 hours for men and..... More
’s-Hertogenbosch: Museum Het Kruithuis, 1978. Octavos. Original saddle-stitched wrappers printed in black and white; 32 pp. each (consecutive pagination). Very good; light wear to covers and faint staining to rear wrapper of second volume. A complete set of these two exhibition catalogs focusing on concrete poetry from Eastern Europe. Issued..... More
![Filmová dramata [Drames de cinéma]. Louis Delluc, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/50549_1.jpg?v=1581695283)
Prague: Ladislav Kuncíř, 1925. Octavo (19.7 × 12.3 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige; 77, [3] pp. About very good. First and only edition of these works by the French film critic and director, with a striking photomontage cover by Teige. Jindřich Toman notes that "Cover designs made by..... More
Král. Vinohrady (Prague): self-published, 1912. Quarto (25 × 18 cm). Original woodcut-printed wrappers; 51 pp. With a front wrapper design, decorations, and eleven original color woodcuts by Váchal (frontispiece, title, nine plates with tissue guards, and the original woodcut illustration to front wrapper). Very good or better. First edition of..... More