London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Large octavo (26 × 21 cm). Original orange paper-covered boards, incorporating an illustration by Mikhail Larionov; 26 pp. With six illustrations by Larionov throughout. Recent professional repair to spine; moisture damage to boards; very light traces of moisture to plates; still good or better. First..... 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
[Paris]: Jacques Damase, January 20, 1950. Octavo (24 × 18.5 cm). Original pictorial gray paper wrappers over blind wraps; unnumbered leaves of text in English and French and [22] leaves of plates. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare edition of a bilingual volume of poems (in French and English) by Joë..... 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
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
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
Beograd: Nezavisno autorsko izdanje, 1970. Quarto (26 × 26 cm). Original string-bound decorative wrappers; 104 pp. Illustrations throughout. Very good; in protective mylar. An influential neo-avant-garde pro-Fluxus volume of writing and collages by the Serbo-Croatian and Yugoslav writer, translator and dissident Bora Ćosić (b.1932). Starting with his translation of the..... 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
Paris; Warsaw: odbito w drukarni Leona Nowaka, 1927. Small quarto (27.5 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 43, [1] pp. Illustrations. Very good. First edition of this work of Futurist poetry by Tytus Czyżewski (1880–1945), the Polish painter, futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. The wrapper design and four illustrations in..... 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
ca. 1910. Original woodcut print, plate size 12 × 12 cm, with the artist's initials in pencil. Leaf size 24.5 × 18.7 cm. Matted using adhesive tape; lightly creased; good or better. Original early woodcut print by the Russian painter, graphic artist and printmaker Elizaveta Kruglikova (1865-1941). Alongside Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva..... More
![Láska a ženy: sentence [Love and women: aphorisms]. Knihovna "Pan" svazek I [series title]....](/pictures/thumb/51336.jpeg?v=1622799722)
Prague: self-published, 1920. 12mo (12 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 32, [1] pp. Very good; very light wear to wrappers. Scarce anthology of aphorisms on the topic of love, marriage, women, and sex by the still relatively unknown Czech writer and cabaret artist, who was a student of the..... More
![Zolotoe serdtse: misteriia. Veter: tragediia [The golden heart: a mystery. The wind: a tragedy]....](/pictures/thumb/P4774.jpg?v=1593515523)
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1922. Octavo (19.3 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 194, [1] pp. Stamp of a private Russian library in Athens, Greece to ffep and title; text toned due to stock; else a very good copy. First edition of Erenburg's only two published plays. A Soviet writer, journalist..... More
![Razgrom: roman [The Rout: a novel].; Nedra: biblioteka ot novi romani (series title). Aleksandr...](/pictures/thumb/P5517_1.jpg?v=1589982903)
Sofia: Musala, 1932. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgi Atanasov; 143, [1] pp. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; chip to rear wrapper; still about very good. Bulgarian translation of Soviet writer Aleksandr Fadeev's (1901-1956) important early novel about the Civil War, which chronicles the decimation..... More
Prague: Galerie V. Hořejš, 1945. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original printed wrappers; [20] pp., with 5 pp. of text and 6 full-page black and white reproductions on better stock. Very good. Rare catalog. With an introductory essay by František Bárta and a poem by Vítězslav Nezval read at the..... More
![Listy pro umění a kritiku [Pages for the arts and criticism], vol. I, nos. 1-20 (complete run)....](/images/noimage.png)
Prague: Melantrich a.s., 1933-1934. Small quartos (26 × 20 cm). Original printed wrappers; 640 pp. (continuous pagination). Overall very good; occasional light wear to wrappers. Complete first year, comprising twenty issues, in the original printed wrappers, of this Czechoslovak journal for the arts, literature, and criticism. The first two years..... More
![Listy pro umění a kritiku [Pages for the arts and criticism], vols. I, II, V (three complete...](/pictures/thumb/P6744_1.jpeg?v=1618423636)
Prague: Melantrich a.s., 1933-1937. Large octavos and small quartos (ca. 25.7 × 18 to 26 × 20 cm). Original printed wrappers; 640, 456, and 490, [2] pp. (continuous pagination). Overall very good copies; occasional light wear to wrappers. Three complete years, comprising twenty issues each, in the original printed wrappers..... More
Tbilisi: 1925. Quarto (30.5 × 22.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers with a cubist-inspired portrait by Iraklii Gamrekeli; 23, [1] pp. Numerous photographs. Disbound from volume, with small nicks to spine and some resizing; else about very good. Issue 22 of the second iteration of the most influential and well-respected Georgian..... More
1986. Facsimile, in publisher's cloth case and slipcase. Sofia: Bulgarski pisatel, 1986. Quarto. Introductory text and the two supplements bound in cloth; 83, [5] pp. The facsimile issues are housed in an attached cloth case. With Milev's portrait pasted to the case cover. Some rust to staples of issues; boards..... More
![Karo stovis (dušioj) [State of war (of the soul)]. Jonas Graičiūnas, designer Algirdas...](/pictures/thumb/50343_001.jpg?v=1589314084)
Kaunas: self-published (Spausdino kooperatinė “Raidės” spaustuvė), 1928. Octavo (18.7 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Algirdas Jakševičius; 80 pp. Very good. First publication by Graičiūnas (1903-1994), a Lithuanian poet, publisher and translator. Born into a military family in Tbilisi, Georgia Graičiūnas returned to Lithuania in his early years and..... More
[Moscow]: SAAV, [1921]. Octavo (24.7 × 18 cm). Original printed wrappers; 46 pp. Light wear and staining to wrappers; else good or better. This polemical work offers a scathing critique of Imaginism, a movement in avant-garde Russian poetry that polemicized with Futurism (especially with Mayakovsky), and saw the creation of..... More