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

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

Buenos Aires, 1957. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Stamp of the Union San Alejandro Newsky, a defunct private diaspora library, on title page, faint outline of a previously attached price sticker on the upper left-hand corner of the wrapper. Some light signs of wear; else..... More

New York: Izdatel’stvo imeni Chekhova, 1952. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 388 pp. Light soil to wrappers; tiny loss to lower corner of rear wrapper; still about very good. First appearance of the complete text of Ivan Bunin's famous novel, published during the writer's lifetime (1870-1953). "The..... 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

Warsaw: Gebethner i Wolff, 1924–1931. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photo-montage design in orange and purple by Choynowski; 86, [2] pp. About very good; light soil and foxing; wear and some fraying, especially to lower spine extremity. Single issue of the Polish illustrated monthly, published..... More

Moscow: Vserossiiskii Proletkul’t, 1924. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 109, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; crease to front wrapper; text toned due to stock; occasional underlining in pencil; about good or better. First edition. This polemical pamphlet argues for tightening the political positions of the Russian..... More