Prague: SČSVU, 1970. Octavo (20.8 × 14.5 cm). Staple-stitched printed wrappers; [16] pp. Eight reproductions. Very good. Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Nová síň in Prague in Spring 1970. With an introduction by Eva Petrová, including biographical information, and a resume in French. The Czech post-war artist collective..... More
![Smychka: zhurnal raboche-gorodskoi kooperatsii [Union: a journal of the city worker cooperative],...](/pictures/thumb/P6347_1.jpg?v=1580752040)
Moscow: Tsentrosoiuz, 1929. Octavo (24.5 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Light soil to wrappers; tears to spine extremities; else about very good. Single issue of this popular biweekly magazine of the Soviet urban cooperative movement, which flourished with strong support from Lenin during The New Economic..... More
St. Petersburg: Izdanie A. F. Marksa, 1893. Octavo (19.5 × 12.8 cm). Publisher's green embossed cloth; 448 pp. Frontis portrait engraved by I. F. Deininger, with protective calque. Front hinge a bit tender; smudge to front board; occasional light foxing; still a very good copy. This attractive volume gathers the..... More
České Budějovice: Dům umění, 1967. Octavo (23 × 9.9 cm). Original staple-stitched photographic self-wrappers; [16] pp. including wrappers. Eight photographs. Very good. Scarce exhibition catalog of surrealist collages, evidently based on a similar exhibit the previous year, which was organized and curated by members of the short-lived Brno-based “Lacoste” Group..... More
Geneva: Izdanie G.A. Kuklina, 1903. Octavo (16.75 × 11 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Wrappers lightly discolored; wrapper edges chipped, else about very good. Documenting one of many splinterings within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP), this brochure records..... More
Moscow: Izdanie vsesoiuznoi knizhnoi palaty, 1960–1961. Octavos (20 × 13 and 22 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers and boards; 135 and 459, [1] pp. Spine extremities of one volume very lightly chipped; light moisture stain to rear wrapper, else very good. Printed by the publishing house of the Ministry..... More
Leningrad: Gublit, ca. 1925-1928? Various formats. Three small posters, printed to rectos in blue and red. About very good; small nicks and tears to edges. In protective mylar sleeve. Contains the following slogans: "Kazhdoe novoe sel’sko-khoziaistvennoe tovarishchestvo – zalog uluchsheniia krest'ianskogo khoziaistva (Every new agricultural cooperative plays its part in..... More
Paris: Izdanie soiuza Russkikh dvorian, 1936. Octavo (24 × 16). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 47, [1]. Portraits of Czar Alexander II and six activists of the serfdom reform. Stamps of Gallipoli Veterans in Brno to front wrapper, title and last page. Some soiling and wear to wrappers; vertical crease to..... More
[Ostrava]: Tramp-MěV ČSM, 1966. Quartos (29.5 × 21 cm). Original duplicated (xeroxed?) typescript and illustrations to rectos and versos; 4-20 pp. each. Very good. Six early issues (including one larger issue spanning nos. 11-15) of this Czech journal of the “tramping” movement shortly before the Czechoslovak Prague Spring of 1968..... More
![Trn: Humoristický Občasník [The Thorn: A Humorous Periodical]. Vol. I, No. 1 (1966) through...](/pictures/thumb/48768_001.jpg?v=1580326727)
A complete run in 6 issues, each issue 32-48 pp., of the provocative satirical 60's Czech journal under the editorial direction of Jan Jirasek, published during the brief period of political liberalization leading up to the Prague Spring of 1968, with political satire, erotic and literary humor, and innovative typographic..... More
Moscow: 1920–1921. Large octavos (25.5 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 23, 36, 64 pp. First issue lacking wrappers; occasional tears and one issue with private inventory label; overall good or better. Complete run of this Proletkult literary journal issued in three fascicles. “We ourselves need to create!” declare the..... More
Berlin: [Ukrains'kyi soiuz monarkhistiv-derzhavnykiv], 1943. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 67, [1] pp. Four leaves of plates on better stock (portraits of Skoropads'kyi, Khmel'nytskyi and two maps of Ukraine). A very good, apparently unread copy. The second of two volumes (1942-43) of this anthology, issued by Ukrainian..... More
Konstantinopol’ (Istanbul): self-published (printed by Brat’ia Zellich), 1920. Octavo (19.8 × 13.9 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 12 pp. Cancelled library stamp of the Russian State Lenin Library; else very good. A scarce and highly interesting manifesto by the “Ukrainian National Committee” in exile in Constantinople, which envisions Ukraine as..... More
Jíru, Václav. Unpaginated (circa 5 pp.) preface to a presentation of twelve 5" x 7" original photographic postcards showing works by the Czech photographer best known for his magazine work, including landscapes and streetscapes. 8vo. Postcards loose as issued in wrpps. portfolio. Prague (Edice Profily) 1963. More
[Prague]: self-published, 1926. Octavos (ca. 24 × 15.5 cm each). Original staple-stitched printed and mimeographed red wrappers; 15-24 pp. of mimeographed text to rectos and versos each. About very good; wrappers of one issue creased; faint library stamp with duplicate marks. The first three mimeographed bulletins published by the student..... More
Prague: Nakladatelství Pavel Prokop, [1935]. Small octavo (17 × 10.6 cm). Original printed wrappers on yellow stock; 74 pp. Wrappers and first leaf dust-soiled; else very good. An interesting memento of the pro-Soviet sympathies in the Czech interwar Republic, the present volume contains five short satirical plays, by Grigorii Gradov..... More
[Moscow]: A. Rerikh, ca. 1900-1903. Oblong folio (25.5 × 35 cm). Original embossed green cloth with gilt title to front board and 25 leaves of photographic plates. Inscription to marbled boards reads: “Presented to F. Lambert by acting Abbot of Solovetsky Monatery, Sept. 20, 1918.” Boards and corners lightly scuffed;..... More
Czechoslovakia: Středočeská galerie, 1968. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Staple-stitched green printed wrappers; [16] pp. Six full-page reproductions. Very good. Exhibition catalog of Skupina 42, with an introduction by Jan Dvořák featuring biographical information on the artists and a list of works exhibited. The Czech post-war artist collective “Skupina 42”..... More
[Prague: Umělecko-Průmyslové Museum, OZKP, 1934]. Quarto (30.3 × 21.6 cm). Original tan portfolio with printed label affixed to front wrapper; inserted text part (12 pp) and 33 plates, including photo reproductions, original color and black and white lithographs, woodcuts, and heliographs by notable figures in the Polish art and avant-garde..... More
Opava: Galerie Zámek Hradec u Opavy, [1967]. Octavo (23.5 × 17 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Nine black-and-white reproductions. Very good. Scarce exhibition catalog of the Fantasmagie group around Aubin Pasque and the C.I.A.F.M.A. (Centrale International de l’Actualité Fantastique et Magique). Held May-August 1967. Contains poems by..... More
Prague: Prague: Grafia dělnická knihtiskárna, 1928. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 115, [40] pages of reproductions in black-and-white. Spine extremities frayed; wrappers lightly toned; still about very good. Divided into four sections on Czechoslovak art: painting, art on paper, sculpture and architecture. With an added German preface..... More
Bratislava: Odborné učilišťe štátnych pracovných záloh číslo 15, 1955. Large octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original embossed beige cloth; ca. 200 leaves of text to rectos. Title beginning to detach; else very good. Scarce and very appealing Slovak typographic specimen book, published by a state-run trade school in Bratislava, evidently..... More
Warsaw: K.O.P.R. [Komisja Propagandy Biura Informacji i Propagandy KG AK, 1943. Original pictorial self-wrappers; 8 pp. The last leaf slightly stained and with tears to edges; else about very good. Second issue of this series of independence-minded poetic volumes, published clandestinely by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the..... More
Frankfurt am Main-Sossenheim: Possev-Verlag, ca. 1955. 12mo (13.5 × 10 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. Rare brochure advertising the clandestine radio station “Svobodnaia Rossiia” (Free Russia), published by the NTS (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists), an anti-communist organization of Russian émigrés. Small enough to fit into..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie khudozhestvenno-graficheskogo zavedeniia "Union", [1916]. Octavo (23 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 60 pp. Light moisture damage, affecting margins of first and last few leaves; some wear to spine extremities; still good or better. Catalog of the forty-fourth exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, known as..... More