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

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

At head of title: Akademiia Nauk SSSR: Archiv. 372 pp. study of the history and development of architectural ensembles, or arrangements of buildings and complexes in spatial contexts, in Russia with particular attention to those in St. Petersburg, detailed scholarly notes, ext. bibliography, 86 illustrations in the text and on..... More

Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1927. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 111, [1] pp. Publisher's ads for the emigre journal "Perezvony" inside rear wrapper. Numerous illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers very lightly creased from use; else very good..... More

Prague: Fr. Borový, 1940. Quarto (28 × 20.9 cm). Original pictorial half cloth with original pictorial dust jacket by Karel Teige; 93, [6] pp. With numerous illustrations and reproductions of photographs by Karel Ćapek, some of them full-page. Except for a few light foxing spots on the flaps of the..... More

Prague: Fr. Borový, 1945. Large octavos (24.2 × 16.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 264 pp. (continuous pagination). About very good, uncut and unopened copies, occasional small tears to wrappers. Complete sixth year of this literary and culture journal, the first to appear after the German protectorate period and following the..... More

Shanghai: 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 and..... More

Tbilisi: Tip. Gaz. “Zaria vostoka”, 1927. Octavo (22.8 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 30 pp. Cover illustration by Kirill Zdanevich. Very discrete repairs to wrappers, with professional paper restauration; text evenly toned due to stock; still about very good. First edition of the only collection of poems by Nikolai..... More

Paris: YMCA Press, 1929. Octavo (19 cm). Original printed wrappers, 39 pp. From the personal library of emigre poet Vladimir Smolenskii, with his owner inscription on the front fly leaf. A mostly uncut, unread copy; light wear to wrappers. Vladimir Smolenskii (1901-1961) was born into a Cossack military family and..... More

Melbourne-Adelaide: V-vo "Lastivka", 1954–1993. Octavos (19.8 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; and 127 and 239 pp. Illustrated from photographs. About very good; upper spine extremity of one volume with small tear; private owner signature to one volume and stamp of the "S. Radion Home Library" to the other. First..... More

1965. [Brno]: A. B., 1965. Oblong folio (13 × 21.5 cm). Blue embossed cloth; [14] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and [21] leaves of original photographic prints of Delvaux’s work, apparently taken from the original book publication. Very good; owner inscription to title. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt..... More

Prague: Alois Lapacek, 1922. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5). Original staple-stitched photographic wrappers; 1-22, [1] pp. With nineteen black-and-white photographs in the text. Wrappers lightly soiled; still a very good copy. Rare publication by the émigré instantiation of Zemgor, or United Committee of the Union of Zemstvos and the Union..... More