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
Moscow: Kinopechat‘, 1927. Quarto (18 × 27 cm). Original photo-illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 6 pp. Light overall wear and creasing; still about very good. The harsh realities of the lives of Kurdish women are emphasized in this promotional pamphlet for the Soviet silent drama “Zare” which premiered in Yerevan, in Soviet..... 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
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
[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
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Nowoczesne, 1940. (Seria Warszawska.) Octavos. Original illustrated wrappers with striking covers. Each with scattered illustrations from drawings and/or photographs. About very good. 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..... More
Sverkh pamiat‘. Matematicheskaia igra [Super memory. Mathematical game]. Moscow, ca. 1930. Fifteen leaves of mathematical puzzles measuring 7.5 × 5 cm in original pictorial card case. Very good. Kristalinskii, V. with A. Bulatova (illustrator). Veselyi sputnik: zagadoch. kartinki, rebusy, zagadki [The Fun Companion: mysterious pictures, puzzles, riddles]. [Moscow]: Tsentrali`nyi dom detei..... 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
[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
Frankfurt am Main: Izdanie Leopol'd Kassella i Ko., 1913. Small octavo (16.5 × 11 cm). Original brown cloth; XVIII, 428, [8] pp. Five photographs; illustrated from technical drawings and schemes throughout. Edges red. Very good; boards age-toned; private stamp of the Russian Commission of German Dye Producers in Berlin. First..... 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
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
Sofia: [Headquarters of the Don Cossack Corps], 1931. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original illustrated self-wrappers; 48, [2] pp. Gift inscription, apparently to General A. P. Arkhangel’skii (1872–1959). Slightly resized; else about very good. The final special issue of the annual White émigré publication “Kazaki zagranitsei”, dedicated to the newly..... More
[Regensburg]: Vydavnytstvo “ukrains’ke slovo", 1946. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with vignette to rear wrapper; [4], 192 pp. illustrations and portraits. Wrappers lightly worn; text toned due to paper stock; front and rear wrappers beginning to detach along crease. [Hemingway’s “Killers” in Ukrainian]. A literary anthology of..... More
Hamburg: [Ob"edinenie], 1952-1953. Quartos (29 × 21 cm). Original printed multi-colored staple-stitched wrappers; 32-38 pp of mimeographed typescript per issue. Fragile; a few wrappers detached; text toned due to stock. A complete set (in six volumes) of a little-known Russian language Displaced Persons (DP) journal published in Hamburg by the..... More
Rome, ca. 1970–1981. Oblong card measuring 10.5 × 22.5 cm. Very good. Handbill announcing the exhibition of Polish neo-avant-garde group PERMAFO, held in Rome sometime in the 1970s. PERMAFO was founded in 1970, by the Polish conceptual artists Natalia LL, Andrej Lachowicz, Zbigniew Dłubak, and the art critic Antoni Dzieduszycki..... More
Unpaginated (circa 220 pp.) text documenting the life of the Soviet leader, including images of numerous letters and articles written by the leader accompanied by translations into English, the work is a remarkable example of political hagiography, featuring images from the moment of his birth through to his death, heavily..... More