![Prazdnik [The holiday]. Olga Gur'ian, Kazimirovna Borovskaia, nna](/pictures/thumb/P6045_1.jpg?v=1580327096)
[1928]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, [1928]. Quarto (28.5 × 22 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. With seventeen large chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Light rust to staples, else very good or better. Second edition (first published in 1927). Striking illustrations and simple..... More
![Ժորժ Գրոսս, e. g. Zhorzh Gross [George Grosz]. Karo Halabian, George Grosz](/pictures/thumb/50102_1.jpeg?v=1580326920)
Moscow: ASSR "Pethrat,” 1924. Octavo (21.8 × 16.8 cm). Paper wrappers; tipped-in frontis plate, 11 pp. of text and [16] leaves of full-page illustrations with captions in Armenian. Signed and inscribed by the author in 1925. Good; spine rebacked; possibly later paper wrappers (with part of original front wrapper affixed..... More
![Dělnice [The working woman]. With a signed engraving by Václav Zykmund. František Halas,...](/pictures/thumb/P6774_1.jpg?v=1580327116)
1946. Brno: Vladimír Matula, 1946. Octavo (22.5 × 13.8 cm). Original tan printed wrappers; [16] pp. of old laid paper. With an original frontis engraving by Václav Zykmund, signed in pencil, and his overall design. Signed by Halas to first page. Wrappers somewhat discolored and worn to upper spine; contents..... More
![Marxistická filosofie a přírodní vědy [The Marxist philosophy and the natural sciences].;...](/images/noimage.png)
Prague: Práce, 1946. Octavo (20.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with design and typography by Karel Teige; 161 [2] pp. Unopened and uncut; in protective mylar; very good or better. A translation of the 1939 text by the British scientist and Marxist J. B. S. Haldane, with cover design..... More
84 pp. scholarly text on the flowering of Romanesque art and architecture in central Russia, notes, 13 text illustrations, map, 69 fine plates showing numerous examples of architecture and monumental sculpture of the region. Folio. Cloth. Berlin (Wasmuth) 1929. More
![Evropa v konkursu [Europe is bankrupt]. Václav Hlaváček, designer Otokar...](/pictures/thumb/P5725_1.jpg?v=1580406424)
Socialistické epištoly [Socialist epistles; series title], sv. 10. Prague: Družstevní nakladatelství “Kniha”, 1925. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Otakar Mrkvička; 34, [1] pp. Very good; uncut and unopened copy; in protective mylar. First and only edition of this socialist pamphlet, which combines information about the stock..... More
![Moderní ruské divadlo [Modern Russian theatre]. Jindřich Honzl, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/50545_1.jpg?v=1582060144)
Prague: Václav Petr, 1928, Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige. 93 pp. and [17] pp. of plates. Professionally restored spine and edges; still good or better, partly uncut and unopened, in protective mylar. First edition. Contains leaves of plates showcasing stage and costume designs by..... More
Pilsen and Most, Czechoslovakia. Various, mostly A4, some oblong octavos. Original mimeographed and printed wrappers, some side-stapled; ca. 4-24 pp. per issue. A number of issues with original photographic prints affixed to pages. About very good. Altogether fourteen issues, most mimeographed, of two jazz samizdat bulletins issued semi-illegally in Pilsen..... More
1947-1949. Brno: Blok výtvarných umělců země Moravskoslezské, 1947-1949. Quartos (28.6 × 20.7 cm). Original pictorial and photo-illustrated wrappers; 324, 352, and 364 pp. per volume (continuous pagination), and additional leaves of advertisement. The supplements, where applicable, are separately paginated, and between 16 and 24 pp. each, with additional illustrations and..... More
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennyi antireligioznyi muzei, byvshii Isaakievskii sobor, 1941. 12mo (14 × 10.3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 10, [2] and [5] pp. of announcements and ads. Possibly lacking the first leaf. The pamphlet is an example of Soviet anti-religious propaganda, issued by the "State Anti-Religious Museum" established at what had..... More
2 vols., 572, 661 pp. scholarly text on archaeology, cultural artifacts, church art and architecture, etc., of the Ukraine in the ancient and medieval eras, extensive notes, bibliography, hundreds of illustrations in the text and on 177 plates (some folding) showing objects, plans, photographs, line drawings, etc. 4to. Boards. Leningrad..... More
![Chernyi god dlia kommunizma [A black year for communism]. D. Karnovskii](/pictures/thumb/P6670.jpg?v=1580327113)
[Munich?]: self-published, 1957. Octavo (21 × 15). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp of mimeographed text to rectos and versos. Library of Congress "Surplus Duplicate" stamp to front wrapper. Very good. The violent anti-communist uprisings in Hungary and Poland as well as Tibet, Turkistan and Ukraine in 1956 are the..... More
Moscow: DOOS, 1995. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [12] pp. Laid in is a xerox-printed advertising leaflet for the group's seven-part portfolio, of which this pamphlet constitutes one part. Very good. Scarce individual manifesto by three core members of DOOS, the “Voluntary association for the defense..... More
1928. Leningrad: Izdanie Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo Muzeia, 1928. Octavo (17.5 × 13.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers with a constructivist design by M. S. Brodsky; 72 pp. and 14 illustrations in the text, some full-page. Very light soil to wrappers; overall a very good copy. First and only edition of this work..... More
1919. Knižnica "Slovenských Hlasov," vol. 8. Irkutsk: Československá Tlačova Kancelárie, 1919. Small octavo. Original printed wrappers; 44 pp. Folding map tipped to title page. Very good. Scarce work in Slovak on the history, culture, and architecture of the Oravska, Liptovska, and Zvolenska regions in northern Slovakia. Published by the printing..... More
[Prague]: Pražský soukromý ústav pro vzdělání hluchoněmých, [ca. 1890]. Contemporary green card boards; 130 pp. of lithographed illustrations. Boards worn; hinges somewhat weak; internally very good. A very uncommon edition for deaf-mutes, which presents the Old and New Testament on 130 pages of black-and-white “stick figure” drawings and iconograms, with..... More
![Most: kulturní list [The bridge: a cultural journal]. Vol. I, nos. 1–12 (all published). Boh...](/pictures/thumb/50504_1.jpg?v=1580406423)
Prague: F. Svoboda, 1921–1922. Small quartos (28 × 18.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 144 pp (consecutive pagination). Numerous illustrations, some full-page. Overall very good; a few nicks to the fragile wrappers of issue one; only the special issue with some fraying and tears to wrappers. Rare Czech modernist and avant-garde..... More
Leningrad: Izdanie “Tea-kino-pechat’,” 1929. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative self-wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout and wrappers by Nikolai Kochergin. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Single issue of the popular Leningrad theater journal, which appeared from 1924 to 1937. The issue includes a full theater program..... More
216, VII pp. Cyrillic-language reference volume on iconography of the Virgin Mary in Greek and Russian church art and its connection to early Italian Renaissance painting, by the well-known Russian icon scholar. Scholarly notes with bibliographic information. Illustrated profusely throughout with close to 150 text illustrations, primarily reproductions from photographs..... More
Kiev: self-published (Kyiv-Druk), 1927. Large oblong octavo (17 × 26 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, not preserving original decorative wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light moisture stains to leaves; text evenly toned due to stock; good or better. Scarce commercially published album intended as a guide for lettering of..... More
Brno: Galerie mladých u dobrého pastýře, 1968. Small square octavo (14 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [12] pp. including wrappers. Eight black-and-white reproductions. Very good. Scarce catalog of two members of the Lacoste Group, with a preface by Budík. With short biographie and a text by V. Pajurek..... More
The French version of Nicholas II's coronation album, with 396 pp. of text, including a survey of the coronations of Nicholas's predecessors and a detailed description of the activities leading up to the coronation, illustrated throughout with portraits, facsimiles, reproductions of engravings, and decorative initials, followed by an unpag. supplement..... More
London: Izdanie Gruppy Russkikh Kommunistov-Anarkhistov, 1902. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over five raised bands; marbled boards and endpapers; gilt-tooled title to spine; 295 pp. Boards very lightly rubbed; wrappers not preserved; rear hinge barely starting; still very good. First Russian edition of the key work by Prince..... More
1919. Irkutsk: Izdanie Informatsionno-prosvietitel'nogo otdiela chekhovoisk (Tip. Bielogolovogo), 1919. Small octavo (16.5 × 10.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Frontis photograph of Masaryk. Also laid in is a folded chromolithographed map of Central Europe, measuring 16.8 × 19.6 cm. Very good. Rare publication in Russian about the Czechoslovak..... More
1932. Moscow: IZOGIZ (Agit-massovyi sektor), 1932. Octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [16] pp., of these, eight pages are divided horizontally and freely moveable. Light wear to wrappers; lower right corner creased; still about very good. Catalog issued on the occasion of the first exhibition of work by..... More