![Iskusstvo kommuny [Art of the commune], nos. 7, 8, 9, 11, 14 (January 19–March 9, 1919). Osip...](/images/noimage.png)
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
![Bludnost jedné představy [The deviousness of one idea]. Bohuslav Brouk, designer Karel...](/pictures/thumb/P5043_1.jpeg?v=1580327087)
Prague: self-published, 1941. Small octavo. Original illustrated card wrappers; 20, [1] pp. Some underlining in blue ink in text. Striking photo-illustrated design by Karel Černý. A fine copy. Bohuslav Brouk (1912–1978) was a Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer. He was one of the first promoters of Freud’s work..... More
![Autosexualismus a psycherotismus [Autosexualism and psycho-eroticism]. Bohuslav Brouk](/pictures/thumb/P5036_1.jpg?v=1591104663)
Prague: Edice surrealismu, 1935. Octavo. Original printed wrappers; 177 pp. From the library of Karel Teige, with his pencil signature to title. Wrappers and typographic design by Karel Teige. Very good. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer Bohuslav Brouk, one of the first..... More
![Jazyková komika: estetická studie [Linguistic humor: an aesthetic study]. Bohuslav Brouk](/pictures/thumb/P5041_1.jpg?v=1591104663)
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
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
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
![Rudolf Haus. Dům umění města Brna [House of Arts, Brno], 19.4.-9.5.1967. Arnošt...](/pictures/thumb/P5347_1.jpg?v=1591976708)
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
![Zhyttia v pavutyni: poezii. Knyha tretia, 1930-1935 [Life in the cobwebs: verse. The third book]....](/pictures/thumb/P003620_1.jpg?v=1591357203)
Kiel: Buchdruckerei T. Omeltschenko & G. Tyschtchenko, 1949. Small octavo (14 × 9.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 72 pp. A very good copy. First edition of the third book of verse by the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Savchuk (1903-1969), writing using the pseudonym Bukovinets. Born in Western Ukraine, Savchuk fought in..... 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
![Osudná vejce [The Fateful Eggs].; Knihovna dobrých autorů [Library of good authors], vol. 186....](/pictures/thumb/P6502.jpg?v=1584466083)
Prague: Knihy dobrých autoru, 1929. Octavo (22.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 101, [1] pp. A very good copy; from the limited print run on better paper stock; with the usual light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; the gatherings are unstapled, as issued. Rare first Czech edition of this..... More
![Master i Margarita: roman [The Master and Margarita: a novel]. Mikhail Bulgakov](/pictures/thumb/50600_001.jpg?v=1594151644)
Paris: YMCA-Press, 1968. Octavo (30.2 × 22.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 219, [1] pp. With the author's portrait on page 15. Very good; spine sun-tanned. A near fine copy of the first edition in book form of Mikhail Bulgakov’s multi-layered satire of Soviet society, set in ancient Jerusalem and Moscow..... More
![Zhizn' Arsen'eva: iunost' [The Life of Arsen'ev: Youth]. First complete edition. Ivan Bunin](/pictures/thumb/P4417.jpg?v=1593528784)
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
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
![Rodina. Sbornik dlia detei i iunoshestva [The motherland. An anthology for children and youth].;...](/pictures/thumb/P002789_1.jpg?v=1591527302)
Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1926. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [4], 88 pp. 60 illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers lightly worn, with small nicks and creases; spine ends chipped, with some loss of spine strip; internally very good..... 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
![Istoriia kazachestva [History of the Cossacks], vol. 1 (all published). Isaak Fedorovich Bykadorov](/pictures/thumb/P002969_1.jpg?v=1591526283)
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1930. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched gray wrappers; 174, [1] pp. With two folding maps affixed to rear wrapper (showing Eastern Europe in the 13th-16th centuries). Uncut and unopened copy in very good condition. Isaak F. Bykadorov (1882-1957) was a Don..... More
On half title: Akademiia Arkhitektury SSSR. Otdel Khudozhestvennoi Promyshlennosti i Interera). 18 pp. introductory text on 18th- and 19th-century Russian furniture, including seating, chests, desks, tables, armoires, etc., bibliographic notes, list of works, and 53 fine folding plates showing photographs and measured drawings of classic pieces. 4to. Text stapled wrpps...... More
St. Petersburg: Senate, 1776. Single leaf of laid paper with watermark and woodcut printer's device (unresized, ca. 34 × 21 cm). Apparently disbound from a Sammelband, with crease and old sewing holes; large stain to upper right corner. A solemn ukase occasioned by the sudden death in childbirth of the..... More
![Mámení [Delusion].; Edice nakloněná rovina 1. Zdirad J. K. Čech, born 1949](/pictures/thumb/P002895_1.jpg?v=1587487563)
[Prague]: 1989; 2012. Sewn balsa wood boards (30.5 × 19 cm), with original linocut sheets mounted to front and back; six gatherings consisting of 2-3 folio sheets. Signed by the author on the colophon. Very good, soft wooden boards with a few light marks. A surreal poetic meditation on time..... 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
![Listy: čtvrtletník pro umění a filosofii [Pages: a quarterly of the arts and philosophy],...](/pictures/thumb/P6259_1.jpg?v=1587550562)
Prague: Melantrich, 1946. Large octavos (25 × 18 cm). Publisher's decorative wrappers; 633, [5] pp. of consecutive pagination. Numerous black-and-white reproductions on better stock. Wrappers lightly dust-soiled; else very good. Complete first year run of this important Czech postwar journal, edited by the literary and art critic Jindřich Chalupecký (1910-1990)..... More
![O Dada, surrealismu a českém umění [On Dada, surrealism and Czech art]. Jindřich...](/pictures/thumb/P5641_1.jpg?v=1588680306)
Prague: Jazzpetit, 1980. Octavo (21.8 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 67, [1] pp. Typewritten errata sheet laid in. A fine copy. Important early essay on Dada and surrealism in Czech art, by a key twentieth-century art critic and gallerist. Issued as nos. 2 of the Jazzpetit series and..... More
![Liudi – idioty. Budut li Liudi kak Bogi [L’Homme Stupide. Will Men Be Like Gods]? Owen...](/pictures/thumb/P003867.jpg?v=1591527183)
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
Moscow: Izd-vo "Imazhinisty", 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 48 pp. Unopened and uncut. Wrappers detached; light foxing to wrappers; text evenly toned to stock, internally very good. First Russian language publication of Charles Vildrac (1882-1971) and Georges Duhamel’s (1884-1966) 1910 “Notes sur la Technique poétique,” translated..... More