![Etiudy o russkoi poezii [Essays on Russian poetry]. Prof Bitsilli, etr](/pictures/thumb/P6645_1.jpg?v=1591525383)
Prague: Plamia, 1926. Octavo (18 x 12.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [4], 5-284, [4] pp. A very good, largely uncut and unopened copy, in dust-soiled wrappers and with light wear to overlapping wrapper extremities. An important work of Russian emigre literary criticism of the interwar period. Based in Sofia, Petr..... More
![Sborník Literární Skupiny [Anthology of the Literary Group]. Lev Blatný](/pictures/thumb/P6797_1.jpg?v=1595606448)
Výškov na Moravě: Nákladem F. Obziny, 1923. Quarto (26 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 110, [3] pp. Numerous plates, some full-page on coated stock, some tipped-in. Light wear and fraying to lower spine; very minor moisture stains to overlapping wrapper edges; overall still a very good copy. First and..... More
![Stikhotvoreniia. Kniga vtoraia (1904–1908) [Lyrics. Book Two (1904–1908)]. Aleksandr Blok](/pictures/thumb/P003482.jpg?v=1594201683)
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
![Dvanáct: revoluční epos [The Twelve: a revolutionary epic]. Aleksandr Blok, Bohumil Mathesius](/pictures/thumb/P5097_1.jpg?v=1590054963)
Prague: Plamja, 1925. Quarto (27 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 47, [7] pp. Cover and seven full-page reproductions of ink drawings by Václav Mašek. Very good; wrappers lightly worn, with some fraying to overlapping edges, as usual. This 1925 Czech translation of Russian poet Aleksandr Blok’s “The Twelve” (“Dvenadtsat’”)..... More
![Tormeti. Skvitebi [The Twelve. Poems]. Alexander Blok, Valerian Trans. Gaprindashvili](/pictures/thumb/50303_1.jpg?v=1585571823)
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
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Large octavo (26 × 21 cm). Original orange paper-covered boards, incorporating an illustration by Mikhail Larionov; 26 pp. With six illustrations by Larionov throughout. Recent professional repair to spine; moisture damage to boards; very light traces of moisture to plates; still good or better. First..... More
![Dvanáct: epos o revoluci [The Twelve: an epos about the revolution]. Alexander Blok, Iurii Annenkov](/pictures/thumb/P003442_1.jpg?v=1587752475)
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
![Pros'vita [Enlightenment], nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11. Board of Education of the Ukrainian National...](/pictures/thumb/50628_1.jpeg?v=1584399184)
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
1923. Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1923. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 197, [1] pp. About very good; uncut and unopened copy; light wear to overlapping edges. First edition of this avant-garde novel by Futurist and member of the Centrifuge group Sergei Bobrov (1899-1971), published by Abram Vishniak at..... 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
Petrograd: Izdanie Otdela Izobrazitel'nykh Iskusstv Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia (Printed by Khudozhestvenno-graficheskoe Atel'e i pechatnia M. Pivovarskogo), [1918]. Folio (34.8 × 25.8 cm). Original printed portfolio, printed in red and black with three flaps, housing title leaf and eighteen leaves of plates. Light wear, as often, to the portfolio, with small..... 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
![Komu zemlia dostanetsia? [Who will get the land?]. Bonch-Osmolovskii, natolii Iosifovich](/pictures/thumb/P5579_1.jpg?v=1580406423)
1919. Ekaterinburg: Tip. Vr. Tsentr. Voenno-Prom. Komit, 1919. Octavo (18 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. This land reform pamphlet was published during the Russian Civil War (1918–1922) by revolutionary narodnik Anatolii Bonch-Osmolovskii (1857–1930). The author’s political activity began in 1876 when..... More
Paris: Les Editeurs Reunis, 1939. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5 cm). Decorative wrappers; 120 pp. Very good; unread and uncut copy; top edge of front wrapper with foxing; some soil to top edge of text block. Contributions by S. Nikulin, N. Nikolaev, P. Boranetskii, K. Chernetskii, N. Barskii, P. Martin..... More
![Darbas: pirmoji rinktinė knyga [Labor: first book]. Kazys Boruta, artist Mečislovas Bulaka](/pictures/thumb/51778_1.jpg?v=1648647728)
Kaunas: 1932. Octavo (19 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 204, [4] pp. Frontis illustration, one additional print, and decorative initials by Bulaka. About very good; left margin of rear wrapper sun-tanned; old Soviet bookstore mark to rear wrapper. First and only volume of this anthology by a little-known Lithuanian..... More
![Barrandov, 1945-1970 [25 years of the Barrandov Film Studio]. Stanislav Brach](/pictures/thumb/P004089_1.jpg?v=1593528663)
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
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
![Iskusstvo kommuny [Art of the commune], nos. 7, 8, 9, 11, 14 (January 19–March 9, 1919). Osip...](/pictures/thumb/50376_001.jpg?v=1633715166)
Petrograd: Izdanie Otdela Izobrazitel’nykh Iskusstv Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia, 1919. Folios (64 × 45 cm). Original folded newsprint, printed to rectos and versos; 4–6 pp. Striking suprematist lettering in header. Leaves toned and somewhat brittle, as usual; old creases and nicks to folds, corners, and margins. Still good or better. Five..... More
![Autosexualismus a psycherotismus [Autosexualism and psycho-eroticism]. Bohuslav Brouk](/pictures/thumb/P5036_1.jpg?v=1591104663)
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
![Jazyková komika: estetická studie [Linguistic humor: an aesthetic study]. Bohuslav Brouk](/pictures/thumb/P5041_1.jpg?v=1591104663)
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
611, (3) pp. history of Russian architecture, by numerous noted scholars, from the earliest examples to the 20th century, notes, indices, bibliographical material, hundreds of illustrations throughout showing photographs, ground plans, line drawings, elevations, folding maps, etc. Some water-staining throughout. 4to. Boards, shaken. Moscow (Gos. Izd-vo Litry po Stroitel'stvu i...... More
![Rudolf Haus. Dům umění města Brna [House of Arts, Brno], 19.4.-9.5.1967. Arnošt...](/pictures/thumb/P5347_1.jpg?v=1591976708)
Brno: Dům umění města Brna, [1967]. Oblong octavo (17 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [12] pp. including wrappers. Five black-and-white reproductions. Very good. Scarce exhibition catalog for the little-known Polish-born surrealist painter Rudolf Haus (1879–1977), a member of C.I.A.F.M.A. With a list of 30 exhibited paintings, created 1961–1965..... More
[Brno]: self-published, 1968. Single leaf, oblong A5, printed to recto in blue. Very good. An apparently unrecorded New Year’s greeting card by the Lacoste group, a Brno-based association of post-war Czech surrealist artists, who also issued the samizdat art periodical Styx from 1966 to 1969. The leaf contains basic information..... More
![Zhyttia v pavutyni: poezii. Knyha tretia, 1930-1935 [Life in the cobwebs: verse. The third book]....](/pictures/thumb/P003620_1.jpg?v=1591357203)
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