Second edition. Prague: F. Svoboda, 1925, Octavo (21.2 × 13.5 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Vojtěch TIttelbach (signed); 66, [3] pp. Signed and inscribed by Biebl in 1928. Lower spine with light wear; else about very good. Second editon of this volume of poems by the Devětsil poet Konstantin Biebl..... 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

[Moscow]: OGIZ – Gosudarstvennoe uchebno-pedagogicheskoe izdatel’stvo, 1931. Oblong octavo (17.2 × 26.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 70 pp. Fraying to lower spine; overall wear to wrappers; else still good or better copy of a book rarely encountered, as it was intended to be cut to pieces in the process of..... 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

Podebrady: Vydavnytstvo "Obrii", 1932. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original printed wrappers; 256 pp. One folding map in color. From the collection of A. A. Granovsky, with his ownership inscription to title and front wrapper and small bookplate inside front wrapper; else about very good. Scarce treatise on the sociology..... 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

Rimini, Italy: Vydavnytstvo "Zhyttia v tabori" (Life in the camp); Ukrains'kyi tabor polonenykh, 1946. Octavo (20.7 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; VII, [1], 97, [3] pp. With five decorative lithographed section dividers. Old stamps of a private diaspora library; else about very good. Rare second volume of poems by..... 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

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