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

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 the..... 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

Prague: Orbis, 1953. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 47, [1] pp. With frontispiece and 6 plates of illustrations printed on both sides. Binding a little rubbed, else good. The cover shows the three gold medals won by Zátopek at the fifteenth Olympic Games in Helsinki. In the..... More

Prague: Nakladatel Fr. Borový, 1916. Octavo (22 × 13.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Hofman; 122, [6] pp. With fourteen smaller and three full-page drawings by Hofman. Very good; in protective mylar. The first book publication by the Čapek brothers (Karel and Josef Čapek), this collection of experimental prose works..... More

Riga: Daile un Darbs, ca. 1930. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers in the constructivist style (not attributed); 118 pp. About very good; slight wear to lower wrapper extremity. Striking yet understated constructivist wrapper design for this pamphlet about the October Revolution in Russia. We are unable to..... More

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

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

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

[Brno]: 1968. Broadside, 30 × 21.5 cm, with mimeographed (?) text and illustration to recto, text in Czech and French. With horizontal fold, else very good. An apparently unrecorded broadside by the Lacoste group, a Brno-based association of post-war Czech surrealist artists, who also issued a samizdat art periodical entitled..... More

Kościan: Powiatowy Wydział Informacji i Propagandy, 1945. Quartos (30 × 21.5 cm). Original folded leaves, some single leaves, printed to rectos and versos; [2-4] pp. per issue. Printed on stock of varying color. Very good. Eight issues of this daily publication by the Red Army, distributed in the last two..... More

Soviet Union, ca. late 1960s or early 1970s. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original dark green buckram binding with an amateur illustration to front board and lettering to spine; 217 leaves of xeroxed text. Small trace of private owner stamp and inventory number to first leaf; traces of moistures to..... More