1967-1971. Prague: Semaforklub, 1967-1971. Quartos (A4). Single leaves of differently colored stock, with mimeographed text to rectos and versos, stapled to upper left corner; most issues ca. 16-22 pp. About very good; a few first and last leaves detached from staple, but present. One of the issues features an original..... More

Nizhnii-Novgorod: Izd. Vserossiiskoi chrezvychainoi komissii po likvidatsii bezgramotnosti, 1921. Large octavo (single folded sheet); 32 pp. A fine copy. Early provincial edition, and a fine copy, of the first mass-produced Soviet primer for illiterate adults, published by the newly formed All-Russian Emergency Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1925. Small octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by M. Ushakov-Poskochin; 93, [2] pp. About very good. Russian translation of the first and only collection of poems by the German worker poet Gerrit Engelke (1890–1918), who had published a few poems in journals before his..... More

A. Budik: [Arnošt Budík], 1966. Octavos (19.8 × 15 cm). Original green cloth, gilt-embossed front boards and spines, thick photo paper. Spines lightly faded; else very good. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt Budík, a member of the Czech post-war surrealist group Lacoste, active in Brno, Moravia. The two volumes..... More

1966. Prague: SČSVU, 1966. Octavo (22 × 16.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [16] pp. Twenty black and white illustrations. Very good. Rare catalog devoted to an exhibition of French painters of the New Figuration (or "Narrative Figuration") movement of the early 1960s. Artists such as Francois Arnal, Eugenio Barbieri, Eduardo..... More

1935. 272 pp. compendium of many hundreds of illustrations after photographs, plans, elevations, drawings, models, etc., documenting work by Soviet architects during the early 1930's, index in French and Russian, captions in Russian. Minor browning and scattered losses to endpapers, spine slightly shaken. 4to. Embossed decorative cloth, some minor soiling..... More

[Prague]: Svobodné slovo, 1968-1969. Small octavos (15 × 11 cm). Contemporary blind card wrappers; 204 and 292 pp. The second text with nine reproductions of original drawings, signed M. Novák. Text probably slightly resized to binding; else about very good. First appearance of any work by Ian Fleming in Czech..... More

Prague: Galerie V. Hořejš, 1945. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original printed wrappers; [20] pp., with 5 pp. of text and 6 full-page black and white reproductions on better stock. Very good. Rare catalog. With an introductory essay by František Bárta and a poem by Vítězslav Nezval read at the..... More

[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954]. Single folded leaf, measuring 20.8 × 14.6 cm, printed to recto and verso, and when folded resembling a US airmail envelope. With one duplicate copy; laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags, with the text "The American people greet the..... More

Brno: Index, 1929. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlet; 70, [2] pp. Ownership stamp of Anna Netušilová's interior design firm, who apparently helped distribute the catalog. Lacks the striking wrapper by Zdeněk Rossmann; light wear; small tear to rear wrapper; still good or better. Scarce volume accompanying the Exhibition..... More

Mariánské Hory: Jaroslav Frič, 1971. Gray folder, blindstamped with the author's initials, containing thirty-eight leaves of A5 format, with typescript to rectos; one linocut and one aluminum etching, signed and numbered. Wrapper split, title page with crease to upper left corner, else very good. Apparently unrecorded Moravian poetic samizdat edition..... More

Moscow: Kino-izdatel’stvo SSSR, 1925. Small octavo (14.8 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (signed P. S. G.); 64 pp. Very light soil; overall very good. The growing Soviet film industry is mapped out and explained in this NEP-era (New Economic Policy) overview, intended for those interested in working in..... More

1986. Facsimile, in publisher's cloth case and slipcase. Sofia: Bulgarski pisatel, 1986. Quarto. Introductory text and the two supplements bound in cloth; 83, [5] pp. The facsimile issues are housed in an attached cloth case. With Milev's portrait pasted to the case cover. Some rust to staples of issues; boards..... More