Berlin: Parabola, 1932. Octavo (18.5 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappesr; 180, [4] pp. Front wrapper torn along upper and lower hinge; spine strip detaching at lower end; text block slightly resized, else internally very good. Berberova (1901-1993) was a Russian writer of poetry, prose, biographies, and literary criticism. She..... More

Moscow: Poligrafichesko-kartonazhnaia F-ka Frunzenskogo Raipromtresta, 1948. Octavo (20 × 16 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; a single leaf printed to rectos and versos, folded into 12 pp. and tipped into rear wrapper. Text and illustrations on each page. Very good. The first and only children’s book by Nikolai Sergeevich Berendgof..... More

Prague: Sfinx Bohumil Janda, 1931. Octavo. Original textured white paper wrappers; 26 pp. Light blue paper guards. Very minor soiling and toning. Biebl was a Czech poet and Communist Party memeber, closely associated with other Czech Communist writers and poets such as Jiří Wolker and Vítězslav Nezval. After being recruited..... More

Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", [1929]. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Mykola Bytyns'kyi; 274, [5] pp. With two folding maps and one folding chart. Very good; wrappers and last few pages a little dusty; else apparently unread. First and only issue of the émigré..... More

Prague: B. Stýblo, 1945. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 79, [3] pp. Illustrated with a drawing by Kamil Lhoták. A very good copy; stain to rear wrapper. First edition of these poems written by Blatný during and shortly after the war. With the appealing understated wrapper design..... More

Berlin: “Slovo,” 1922. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original quarter cloth with pictorial paper over boards; 345, [3] pp. Cover illustration by N.D. Millioti. Very good. An émigré publication of collected lyrics of the symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), published shortly after his death. The second volume of a three-volume..... More

Tbilisi: 1923. Octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 32 pp. A very good copy; light rust to staple and old bookstore stamp to rear wrapper. First translation into Georgian of Alexander Blok’s famous 1918 long poem “The Twelve,” a poetic response to the October Revolution. The item also..... More

Prague: Naše vojsko, 1949. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with an illustration by Iurii Annenkov; 66, [2] pp. Fourteen full-page and ten smaller illustrations in the text by Annenkov. Very good; inner front wrapper toned from laid-in newspaper clipping. Uncommon Czech edition of the Russian Symbolist poet..... More

VII, 578 pp. catalogue and description of treasures housed at the State Armory of the Moscow Kremlin, with detailed text on weapons, armor, helmets, and other military objects, textiles, silver, gold and other metalworks, many elaborately decorative, index of makers' marks, hundreds of illustrations in the text and on plates..... 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

L'viv: Vydavnycha Kooperatyva "Chervona Kalyna", 1932. Octavo (21.7 × 15 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers by Sviatoslav Hordyns'kyi; 206, [1] pp. Three leaves of plates. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; some overall soil; private owner signature; still about very good. Volume four in this series on French-Ukrainian cultural relations..... More

Geneva: Tipografiia gruppy starykh narodovol’tsev, 1899. Small octavo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Very good or better. Written by one of the first peasant organizations, “The brotherhood for protection of the people’s rights,” this brochure calls for peasants to organize themselves to fight for their..... More

Prague: Edice surrealismu, 1935. Octavo. Original printed wrappers; 177 pp. From the library of Karel Teige, with his pencil signature to title. Wrappers and typographic design by Karel Teige. Very good. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer Bohuslav Brouk, one of the first..... More