![Stoprocentní vlastenec: historie patriotova [100%: The Story of a Patriot]. Upton Sinclair](/pictures/thumb/P6753_1.jpg?v=1580327116)
1921. Lidové romány, sv. 4. Prague: Vydalo Kommunistické knihkupectví a nakl. R. Rejman, 1921. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 271, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Very good. First Czechoslovak appearance of Sinclair's novel (first published 1920). An earlier translation, by Jan Jiří Kárník, also appeared..... More
121, (161) pp. text on funereal and tomb sculpture, with notes, bibliography, and 162 illus. on plates showing figures, reliefs, details, etc. 4to. Cloth, d.j. Warsaw (PIW) 1957. More
St. Petersburg: Izdanie "Kol'tso Poetov," 1922. 12mo (13.8 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. About very good; private inventory stamp to front wrapper verso; small Soviet bookstore stamps to rear wrapper. Third volume of poems by Boris Viktorovich Smirenskii (1900-1970), who would go on to become..... More
Second edition. Prague: Nakladatelstvi Šolc a Šimáček, 1928. 12mo (17 × 12 cm). Original illustrated wrappers in the constructivist style by Otakar Mrkvicka; 119, [9] pp. With twenty-four drawings by Mrkvicka in the text. Very good. Interesting introduction to the history and production of film by Smrž, an instructor at..... More
![Nauka v sovetskoii Rossii [The sciences in Soviet Russia]. Boris Sokolov](/pictures/thumb/P004249_1.jpg?v=1580925008)
Berlin: Russkoe universal’noe izdatel’stvo, 1921. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; scant underlining in pencil to text, still about very good. An overview of work in the Soviet natural sciences, published during the period of massive institutional reorganization and emigration of..... More
![Imazhinistika [Imaginistics]. Ippolit Sokolov](/pictures/thumb/P6569_1.jpg?v=1580327108)
1921. [Moscow]: Odrnas, 1921. Large octavo (26.5 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 14 pp. Old Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; else very good. First and only edition of this treatise about Russian "Imaginism" (Imazhinism), a leading avant-garde movement that succeeded both Symbolism and Futurism, written by a...... More
222 pp. study of the aesthetic, technique and history of inlaid parquet flooring in Russia, notes with bibliographic material, lists, 261 illustrations in the text and on plates showing photographs and measured drawings of elaborate and intricate examples, some with very complex patterns, in fine residences and public buildings. Large..... More
Soviet Union, 1944. Quarto (31 × 22 cm). Original gray buckram with gilt lettering to front board; 99 leaves of ink manuscript text and fifty-five watercolor images, all but three in full color, some full-page and behind translucent calque. Eighteen watercolor vignettes and initials, and five pencil portraits of the..... More
2 vols., VII, 338 pp. text, notes, bibliography, iconographical index, map of the region between present-day Cernauti, Iasi, and Galati in Romania, text illustrations from ornaments in the paintings, atlas of 96 plates. Large 4to. Text bound in new cloth, plates loose in original boards portfolio. Paris (Geuthner) 1928. (Orient..... More
Warsaw: Galereia Foksal PSP Books, 1976. Large octavo (29.5 × 20.5 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched self-wrappers; [8] pp. Illustrations throughout. Very good. An English-language catalog documenting four performances or “open projections” of the Polish performance art group “Druga Grupa,” active 1966-1976. The performances took place over a period of two..... More
1930. Kharkiv: "Proletaryi", 1930. Octavo (25 × 18.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers with a constructivist design by Adol'f Strakhov; [4], 47 pp. and [15] leaves of photogravures on better stock, of the one fold-out. Very light wear; else a very good copy, preserving the bright colors of the wrappers. Scarce..... More
Paris: Oliver de Serres, 1930. Octavo (24 × 16). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 36, [1] pp. Stamps of Union Des Jeunes Russes Bibliotheke to front wrapper and first page. Front wrapper detached; some light markings in pencil throughout, else about very good. The first publication (one of only two published..... More
![Նոր Կեանքի Երգեր, e.g. Nor keank'i erger [New Life’s Songs]. Grikor Mirzaian Suni](/pictures/thumb/50104_1.jpeg?v=1580326921)
New York: Erewan Tparan, 1934. Octavo (22 × 14.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 59 pp. A few small nicks to wrappers; else very good. Rare book of socialist and worker-themed songs in Armenian, with musical scores, published by this progressive Armenian publisher in New York. At head of title: Proletarner..... More
![Muž divokých krajů [L'homme de la pampa]. Jules Supervielle, Karel Teige, designers Otakar...](/pictures/thumb/50551_1.jpg?v=1581695285)
Prague: Odeon, 1927. Octavo (19.8 × 13.7 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige and Otakar Mrkvicka (signed MaT); 88, [2] pp. Very good. Very scarce example of the ongoing collaboration on photomontage book design between Karel Teige and Otakar Mrkvička, here incorporating hand lettering and an image of a...... More
![Porcelánový soubor Ladislava Sutnara [Porcelain set by Ladislav Sutnar]. Second, expanded...](/pictures/thumb/P5664_1.jpg?v=1580755445)
Prague: Krásná jizba Družstevní práce, [1933?]. Single leaf measuring 51 × 23.5 cm, folded twice to create a brochure; [6] unnumbered pages. Printed in black, gray, and blue. Near fine. Advertisement and order form for the 1932 porcelain tableware set, designed by Ladislav Sutnar for the state-run Družstevní Práce [Cooperative..... More
Prague: Grafická edice A. Chvála, 1933. Octavo (22.2 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 106, [3] pp. Thirty plates, including fourteen original woodcut plates and two linocuts. With a tipped-in photo-montage design by Sutnar. Very good, only light sun-tanning and wear to spine; in protective mylar. Attractive volume reproducing a...... More
![Vse o liubvi [All about love]. N. A. Teffi, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaia](/pictures/thumb/P6548.jpg?v=1580327104)
1946. Paris: La Presse Francaise et Etrangere O. Zeluck, [1946]. Octavo (18.5 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 270, [2] pp. Light soil to wrappers, else about very good. First edition. This collection of thirty short stories by the “queen of Russian humor,” Nadezhda Teffi (born Lokhvitskaia, 1872–1952) provides a...... More
Prague: Odeon, 1927-1931. Octavos (ca. 21.8 × 17.3 cm). Later full calf with titles to spines; in cloth-covered card slipcase; preserving all front and rear wrappers; approx. 32–40 pp. per issue. Numerous photographs and illustrations per issue. Wrappers resized with very slight loss to right and lower margin of wrappers..... More
Moscow: Izdanie Vsesoiuznogo Obshchestva Kul'turnoi Sviazi s za granitsei (VOKS), 1930. Octavo (17 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 45, [3] pp. With nine illustrations, most on separate leaves of plates. Wrappers somewhat discolored; repairs to spine; private library stamp to front wrapper verso and title; else good or better..... More
London (actually: Geneva): Izdanie zhurnala "Nabat", 1879. Octavo (14.3 × 10.8 cm). Later black boards with gilt-tooled leather spine label, the fragile front and rear wrappers preserved; 78 pp. A near fine copy. First and only edition of this collection of anarchist revolutionary essays by Petr Nikitich Tkachev, the Russian..... More
1921. Berlin: Slovo, 1921. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original cloth-backed printed boards; 181 pp. Frontis portrait of the author; five leaves of plates featuring black-and-white lithographs by Polina Khentova. Very light soil to upper edge of front board; else very good. Laid in is the original publisher's catalog of..... More
Constantinople: Tipografiia Izd. T-va “Pressa”, 1921. Octavo (19 × 14). Modern quarter-cloth with paper over boards (original wrappers preserved?); 310, [2] pp, with foldout map, and illustrations by Aleksandr Cosmin. Light moisture stain and foxing to title and first few pages; first page beginning to detach; text toned due to..... More
1980. [Zagreb]: Galerija studentskog centra, 1980. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset-printed to recto and verso; rubber-stamped opening date. Old crease; still very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Original poster announcing a collaborative work by Goran Trbuljak and Vlado Martek. Trbuljak (born 1948) is a Croatian conceptual artist and..... More
1986. [Zagreb]: Galerija proširenih medija, 1986. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset-printed to recto. Red pen mark below artist's name; else very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Original poster announcing an exhibition of two works by Trbuljak in May 1986, at Galerija proširenih medija in Zagreb. Trbuljak (born 1948)..... More
1981. [Zagreb]: Galerija studentskog centra, 1981. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset-printed to recto. Old creases; still very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Original poster announcing a work by Goran Trbuljak entitled "Umjetnik u krizi" (The artist in crisis), on October 16 to 31, 1981, at Galerija studentskog centra..... More