Jersey City: Nakladom tov. "Pros'vita" v Ameritsi, 1914-1915. Octavos (18 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on variously colored stock; ca. 60 pp. per issues. About very good. Six of eleven issues for the first year of this Ukrainian educational journal, with information on Ukrainian history, literature, and general knowledge..... More

Brno: [Grafický klub pro Moravu], 1925. Folio (44 × 32 cm). Recent gray portfolio with gilt-tooled title to front board; letterpress-printed title, introductory text, and seven plates of dry point etchings (one duplicate leaf!), some signed in the plate, and six prints signed in pencil by the artist (only duplicate..... More

Františkové Lázně: Městské muzeum Františkovy Lázně, 1973. Octavo (24.2 × 18.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Twelve black-and-white photographs, some full-page. Very good or better. Scarce catalog for an exhibition of the work of Bohdan Lacina (1912-1971), the Czech surrealist painter, illustrator, and graphic designer associated with..... More

Rostov-na-Donu: Rostov. Bol’shaia Sadovaia, [1991]. Octavo (20.8 × 15.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 16 pp. Illustrated and designed by Sergei Timofeev. About very good. Scarce example of regional samizdat produced during the last days of the Soviet Union and based on a collaboration between underground poet and illustrator. The..... More

Prague: Barrandov Film Studio, 1971. Oblong octavo (23 × 25.8 cm). Original printed dust wrappers over blind paper wrappers; [92] pp. Dust wrapper lightly discolored; else very good. Photo-illustrated album showcasing twenty-five years of work in the nationalized Barrandov Film Studios in Prague. Full-page black-and-white photographs are interspersed with text..... More

Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1936. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original pictorial embossed cloth; 197, [3] pp. Twelve full-page illustrations and thirteen vignettes by Evgenii Kogan, who has signed and inscribed this copy, most likely to the writer Lev Grigorevich Gel’man (1864–1951). Very good. Authorized Russian translation from the German manuscript..... More

80 pp. text on the newly opened slaughterhouse and cattle market of the industrial and commercial center, a river port in Silesia, numerous tables, 28 text illus., hundreds of illus. on 52 plates (some large foldouts) from architectural renderings of the complete facility and the various structures. Front flyleaf lacking..... More

Prague: self-published, 1941. Small octavo. Original illustrated card wrappers; 20, [1] pp. Some underlining in blue ink in text. Striking photo-illustrated design by Karel Černý. A fine copy. Bohuslav Brouk (1912–1978) was a Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer. He was one of the first promoters of Freud’s work..... More

Prague: Václav Petr, 1941. Octavo. Original decorative card wrappers, with the publisher’s original printed wrap-around band; 120, [2] pp. Very good. Wrappers by the painter Karel Černý. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer Bohuslav Brouk, one of the first promoters of Freud’s work..... More

Prague: [Architektura ČSR], 1946. Octavo (20.8 × 14.8 cm). Original card wrappers in photo-illustrated dust wrapper; 57, [2] pp. Unattributed photo-illustrated cover. Very good. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer Bohuslav Brouk, one of the first promoters of Freud’s work in Czechoslovakia. He..... More

Kiel: Buchdruckerei T. Omeltschenko & G. Tyschtchenko, 1949. Small octavo (14 × 9.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 72 pp. A very good copy. First edition of the third book of verse by the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Savchuk (1903-1969), writing using the pseudonym Bukovinets. Born in Western Ukraine, Savchuk fought in..... More

Paris: YMCA-Press, 1968. Octavo (30.2 × 22.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 219, [1] pp. With the author's portrait on page 15. Very good; spine sun-tanned. A near fine copy of the first edition in book form of Mikhail Bulgakov’s multi-layered satire of Soviet society, set in ancient Jerusalem and Moscow..... More

On half title: Akademiia Arkhitektury SSSR. Otdel Khudozhestvennoi Promyshlennosti i Interera). 18 pp. introductory text on 18th- and 19th-century Russian furniture, including seating, chests, desks, tables, armoires, etc., bibliographic notes, list of works, and 53 fine folding plates showing photographs and measured drawings of classic pieces. 4to. Text stapled wrpps...... More