![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
![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
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
![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
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
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
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
![Teatr im. Rustaveli. Georgian title: Rustavelis teatri [The Rustaveli Theatre]. A. Duduchava,...](/pictures/thumb/51148_001.jpg?v=1612451762)
Tbilisi: Gosizdat Gruzii, 1930. Octavo (19 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Irakli Gamrekeli; 79 pp. With photographs showing Gamrekeli's designs for the stage. Light overall wear to wrappers; front wrapper somewhat spotted; rust to staple; still about very good. First and only edition of this Russian-language monograph on..... More
![Karogu nemeers: dzejas [The flag of anxiety: poems]. Karlis Dzelzs, artist Niklavs Strunke](/pictures/thumb/51157.jpg?v=1612292906)
Riga: Vaiņaga izdevums, 1922. Small octavo (17.8 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Niklāvs Strunke; 111 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Viktor Eglītis. Light soil to rear wrapper; occasional underlining and annotations in pencil; still overall very good. First edition of this first book of poems..... 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
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoe Izdatel'stvo, 1931. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 48 pp. About very good; light wear to wrappers. Single issue of the scarce art education periodical allied with the "Iskusstvo v massy" group, which saw its task as acquainting readers with "political questions in the..... 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