Warsaw: Alma Press, 1985. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original illustrated wrappers by M. Zalejski; 248 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; small chip to lower spine extremity, still about very good. One double issue (of eight published) of a literary-critical quarterly fanzine published by the Polish Society of..... More
Prague: Universita Karlova, 1973. Octavo (21 × 11 cm). Original gilt-embossed white cloth; violet endpapers; 39, [1] pp. Boards very lightly discolored; else very good. Scarce celebratory volume published on the occasion of Fidel Castro’s 1972 visit to Prague, where he was received with great pomp and awarded an honorary..... More
Prague: SČSVU, 1965. Octavo (21.5 × 16.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [16] pp. Eight black-and-white reproductions. About very good. With a long introduction by literary and art critic Jindřich Chalupecký (1910–1990), a poem by Novák, artist biographies and lists of works exhibited. An important exhibition held at the Václav Špála..... More
Tbilisi: Izd. OPP Gruz. Otd. Khudfonda SRRR, 1942. Oblong 12mo (9.5 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 12 pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page drawings accompanying rhymed couplets. Very good. Rare anti-Nazi children's book published in the Georgian Soviet Republic, which depicts a hapless German soldier stealing honey from a...... More
Altogether 63 issues of 97 total published. [Moscow?], 1941–1944. Various sizes. Original photo-illustrated self-wrappers; most 4 pp. each. Paper size varied, some trimmed, most offset in various color halftones with red highlights, some scattered toning and creasing as expected, slight rubbing, minor scattered pencil and red pencil marks to a...... More
Warsaw: Galeria Repassage, 1974. Quarto (A4). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; [24] pp. Numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. Small stains to front wrapper; else very good. Catalog documenting a series of performances and action art events in 1974 as part of the project “Municipal Passage I,” which sought to “[import] artistic activities into..... More
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Warsaw: Galeria Repassage, 1974. Quarto (A4). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [24] pp. Numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. Very good. Catalog documenting the exhibitions held 1974–1975 at Galeria Repassage (Repassage Gallery), one of the most important sites of the Polish neo-avantgarde and counterculture of the 1970s. It saw numerous exhibitions devoted to..... More
[Sofia]: "Narodna kniga", 1936. Octavo (18.5 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Pencho Georgiev; 128 pp. Two photographs on better stock. An uncut and unopened copy; wrappers lightly dust-soiled; tiny nick to upper right corner of front wrapper. This rare commemorative volume was published by the writer's friends on..... More
Harbin: Izdatel’stvo M. V. Zaitseva, [1936?]. Octavo (21.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial card boards; 11 pp. Numerous illustrations, including two full-page color plates. Card wrappers and pages somewhat creased, but still about very good. Rare illustrated children's book about the adventures of three dogs who go hunting, published for..... More
Moscow: ca. 1958–1961. Oblong folio (21 × 31 cm). Light blue buckram photo-album, with illustration of Leningrad to front board; twenty unnumbered card leaves with handwritten text to rectos and versos in blue ink, with painted red and blue headings and collaged images, newspaper text, and original photographs. Some browning..... More
Soviet Union, 1980s. 12mos (9 × 6 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlets printed on photographic paper; each 6 leaves of photo-reproduced images and text to rectos. Very good. A group of five illustrated samizdat brochures containing recipes for homeopathic remedies, dream interpretation charts, and desert recipes. Mementos of the underground economy of..... More
A complete series of four propaganda titles in Polish, issued by the provisional government established in Poland during the German occupation to help justify the occupation and legitimize Nazi rule, with titles such as "Sold Out and Sold: How the Polish Nation was Deceived", "Heroes or Traitors: The Memoirs of..... More
Sterns, M (Marshall Stearns). Istoriia dzhaza (The Story of Jazz, originally published 1956). Voronezh: GID, 1968. I. E. Berend (Joachim-Ernst Berendt). Variatsii na temu dzhaza. Perevod s nemetskogo (The Jazz Book. Translated from the German; originally published?). Rostov on Don, 1965. Cherters, S (Samuel Charters). Istoriia dzhaza na stsene N'iu-Iorka (Jazz..... More
[Czech Republic]: [2004]. Single leaf, printed recto and verso, thrice folded. Fine. Documentation of an exhibit of the Czech "parasurrealist group Stir Up" founded in 1995 by younger artists as well as members of the Skupina Lacoste. With a text by Budík on the "far borders of the relationship between..... More
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Hrabyně: Iskra, 1932. Octavos (25 × 19 cm). Original typographically illustrated wrappers on differently colored paper; 151 pp. (continuous pagination). Very good or better copies. All published (ten issues) of this Silesian literary review, published in Hrabyně, near Ostrava. In prose and poetry, as well as countless reviews, book discussions..... More
Tbilisi: tipografiia Tarumova, 1919–1920. Quarto (29.5 × 21.8 cm). Original photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 16 pp. Several illustrations throughout. About very good. Single issue of this scarce Russian-language journal on theatre and related performing arts, published in Tbilisi. Altogether, six issues appeared in 1919 and another 9 in 1920. With an article..... More
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Moscow: Kinopechat’, [1927]. 12mo (13.5 × 8.8 cm). Staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [7] pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; text browned to lower corners; stamp of Uzbekgoskino to rear wrapper. A scarce, fragile survival: this promotional prospectus was sold along with the newspaper "Kino" and the journal "Sovetskii ekran." It introduces and explains..... More
[Soviet Union]: self-published, ca. 1965–1975. Single sheet of paper with typescript to recto, measuring 29 × 21.5 cm. Folded twice along the vertical and horizontal axis. Additional light creases to corners; edges lightly frayed; small tear along the vertical fold; one correction to the text in blue ink and two..... More
336, X pp. presentation of the prolific outpouring of Neo-Classical architecture and art, particularly in and around Saint Petersburg, scholarly text with extensive bibliographic notes, index, hundreds of illustrations on plates (some folding) showing facades, plans, interiors, engravings, decorative works, paintings and other art works, with captions in Russian and..... More
[1907]. St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo “Shipovnik”; tip. “Delo”, [1907]. Octavo (22.6 × 15.9 cm). Contemporary half-calf binding with gilt tooling and title to spine, original wrappers not preserved; 382, [1] pp. Twelve leaves of illustrations. Lacking the index (XXVIII pp.); binding rubbed at spine extremities; old Latvian bookstore stamp; still good..... More
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Tbilisi, 1931. Large octavo (25.6 × 17.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 66 pp. Text block somewhat curved; still very good. Single issue of the scarce Armenian communist children's journal, published in Tbilisi, Georgia from 1923 to 1941. A bibliography of the journal, as well as the books published by the..... More
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Tbilisi, 1931. Large octavo (25.6 × 17.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 34 pp. Text block somewhat curved; still very good. Single issue of the scarce Armenian communist children's journal, published in Tbilisi, Georgia from 1923 to 1941. A bibliography of the journal, as well as the books published by the..... More
Moscow: Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 1928. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 13, [1] pp. Trace of rust to staple; title with owner signature; faint trace of moisture to lower edges; still about very good. One of the last exhibitions of “Bytie” (Being), a society of “fellow traveler” artists..... More
Moscow: self-published, 1929. Octavo (15.5 × 11.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; XIII, 3–31 pp. [40] leaves of plates. Rust to staple; light wear to wrappers and spine; ink stains to front wrapper and two first leaves; still about very good. Catalog of the second and last exhibition of OMKh (Society..... More
Petrograd: Tip. Fleitmana, 1915. Octavo (16.2 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 28 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; tiny Soviet bookstore mark to rear wrapper; still a very good copy. Scarce exhibition catalog of the Russian Imperial Society of Watercolor Painters, held in wartime Petrograd. The exhibition included a wide range..... More