České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original linocut print on thin laid paper, measuring 22.4 × 15.5 cm, plate size ca. 10 × 7 cm. Signed in pencil and with Bartuška's stamp to lower left. Very good, save for smudge to upper right corner. Original signed linocut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963)..... More
České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original woodcut print on thin laid paper, measuring 20.8 × 16.5 cm, plate size ca. 8 × 6 cm. Signed in pencil and with Bartuška's stamp to lower left. Very good. Original signed woodcut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963), the leading figure of the Linie Group..... More
České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original woodcut print on thin laid paper, measuring 22 × 17 cm, plate size ca. 9.8 × 7.8 cm. Signed in pencil. Very good. Original signed woodcut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963), the leading figure of the Linie Group, an avant-garde movement active in České Budějovice..... More
![Čekání na Godota [Waiting for Godot]. Translated from the original French by Jiří Kolář....](/pictures/thumb/P4727.jpg?v=1589982963)
Prague: DILIA, 1964. Octavo (19.6 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 223, [1] pp. A very good copy. The first appearance of any work by Samuel Beckett in Czech was this translation of the absurdist and existentialist play, distributed for private use by literary and theatre professionals by DILIA, the..... More
![Satirické verše [Satirical verse]. Karel Bedrna](/pictures/thumb/50240_1.jpeg?v=1580326979)
Prague: Nakladatelství V. Vortel a R. Rejman, 1925. Octavo (19 × 12.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by the author; 48, [3] pp. Very good or better; in protective mylar. A fine copy of this volume of satirical poems, which make light of numerous publications and political tendencies of the period..... More
![Sdelai sam bumazhnyi zmei [Make a paper kite yourself]. From the series "Sdelai sam" [Make it...](/pictures/thumb/51091_002.jpg?v=1606316601)
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgii Echeistov; 7, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout. About very good. First and only edition of this delightful Soviet children's book, part of a series instructing young readers to create basic toys and everyday use items with simple materials..... More
![Tsel' smelykh: stikhotvoreniia, 1917-1918 [The goal of the brave: poems]. N. S. Berendgof](/pictures/thumb/50433_1.jpeg?v=1580327055)
Moscow: Tip. kn-va "Koshnitsa," 1918. Octavo (17.4 × 12.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 64 pp. Very good; very minor loss to upper wrapper edge, not affecting text; in protective mylar. First volume of poems by Nikolai Sergeevich Berendgof (1902-1963), the Russian expressionist poet and later member of the "Nichevoki"..... More
![Věrný hlas: básně [The faithful voice: poems]. Konstantin Biebl, designer Vojtěch...](/pictures/thumb/50546_1.jpg?v=1581695280)
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
![Sborník Literární Skupiny [Anthology of the Literary Group]. Lev Blatný](/pictures/thumb/P6797_1.jpg?v=1595606448)
Výškov na Moravě: Nákladem F. Obziny, 1923. Quarto (26 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 110, [3] pp. Numerous plates, some full-page on coated stock, some tipped-in. Light wear and fraying to lower spine; very minor moisture stains to overlapping wrapper edges; overall still a very good copy. First and..... More
1923. Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1923. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 197, [1] pp. About very good; uncut and unopened copy; light wear to overlapping edges. First edition of this avant-garde novel by Futurist and member of the Centrifuge group Sergei Bobrov (1899-1971), published by Abram Vishniak at..... More
[Prague]: Ministerstvo Školství a Kultury, 1957. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers over staple-stitched printed wrappers; [28] pp. With twelve full-page reproductions and two smaller plates. Very good. Catalog of a major exhibition of the works of Bohumír Dvorský (1902-1976), a Czech painter of the Academy who created..... More
![Maiakovskomu [To Mayakovsky]. Nikolai L. Braun, V. Saianov, Aleksandr A. Prokof'ev, designer...](/pictures/thumb/P6356_1.jpg?v=1589471241)
[Leningrad]: Izd-vo pisatelei v Leningrade, [1931]. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Publisher's black cloth, embossed in silver; 51, [4] pp. Cover, title and half-title designed by Mark Kirnarskii. Boards lightly worn and rubbed; still about very good. First edition. A collection of verse commemorating the death of Vladimir Maiakovsky (1893-1930)..... More
![Než se rozední [Until the Day Breaks]. Louis Bromfield, artist Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/P5527_1.jpg?v=1601650370)
Prague: Nakladatelství V. Šmidt, [1947]. Octavo (20.7 × 13.2 cm). Original cloth-backed card boards with vignette; photographic dust-wrappers by Karel Teige; 240, [2] pp. Very good or better; in protective mylar. First Czech edition of Bromfield's novel, translated by Hana Bílková and with a late photo-montage cover design by Karel..... 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
![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
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
![Pis’ma: Stikhi [Letters: Verse]. Kolau Cherniavskii](/pictures/thumb/P6183_001.jpg?v=1592580758)
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
Moscow: Gramatizdevneeciba "Prometejs", 1931. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [2], 237 pp. Very good. Rare example of Latvian modernist publishing in Moscow, Russia. The design of the Latvian first edition resembles the Russian original (Fabrika Rable, 1928), which also features a vertical red rectangle abutted by two..... More
![Filmová dramata [Drames de cinéma]. Louis Delluc, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/50549_1.jpg?v=1581695283)
Prague: Ladislav Kuncíř, 1925. Octavo (19.7 × 12.3 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige; 77, [3] pp. About very good. First and only edition of these works by the French film critic and director, with a striking photomontage cover by Teige. Jindřich Toman notes that "Cover designs made by..... More
Král. Vinohrady (Prague): self-published, 1912. Quarto (25 × 18 cm). Original woodcut-printed wrappers; 51 pp. With a front wrapper design, decorations, and eleven original color woodcuts by Váchal (frontispiece, title, nine plates with tissue guards, and the original woodcut illustration to front wrapper). Very good or better. First edition of..... More
![Jinošství [Adolescence: a novel]. Ribemont Dessaignes, designer Josef Hesoun](/pictures/thumb/50547_1.jpg?v=1581695281)
Prague: Česká grafická unie, 1930. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Josef Hesoun; 342, [1] pp. About very good; erased ownership signature to title and light wear to front wrapper. First edition of this translation from the French, with striking photomontage wrappers by Hesoun (1903-1965), a modernist..... More
Prague – Prešov: Ceskoslovenská grafická Unie, 1935. Octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 13 pp. of text, color frontis, 29 black-and-white and three more color plates. Very good. The first monograph on Ľudovít Fulla (1902–1980), the Slovak painter and graphic artist. Fulla's work was crucial to the development..... More
![Bandit ili pesnik [Outlaw or poet]. Rade Drainac, Mihailo Petrov](/pictures/thumb/P6171_1.jpg?v=1589982726)
Belgrade: S. B. Cvijanović, 1928. Octavo (26 × 19 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Mihailo Petrov; 35, [1] pp. Front wrapper lightly toned to upper edge; else very good. Scarce work by Rade Drainac (real name Radojko Jovanović, 1899–1943), a founding member of the Yugoslav Surrealist group and editor of..... More
![Muž doma [Man at home]. J. Eiselt, designer Otakar Mrkvicka](/pictures/thumb/50550_1.jpg?v=1581695284)
Prague: F. Topic, 1929. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Otakar Mrkvicka; 99, [2] pp. About very good; light wear to spine extremities. Striking photomontage cover signed by Otakar Mrkvicka, created independently of Karel Teige, with whom he often collaborated in the 1920s. Toman 3.3.24 (The "design..... More