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

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

A. Budik: [Arnošt Budík], 1966. Octavos (19.8 × 15 cm). Original green cloth, gilt-embossed front boards and spines, thick photo paper. Spines lightly faded; else very good. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt Budík, a member of the Czech post-war surrealist group Lacoste, active in Brno, Moravia. The two volumes..... More

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: 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

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

[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

Brno: Vladimír Matula, 1946. Octavo (22.5 × 13.8 cm). Original tan printed wrappers; [16] pp. of old laid paper. With an original frontis engraving by Václav Zykmund, signed in pencil, and his overall design. Signed by Halas to first page. Wrappers somewhat discolored and worn to upper spine; contents fine..... More

Prague: Fr. Borový, 1948. Octavo (21.2 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 65, [6] pp. Very good. Third, expanded edition of Halas’ collection of verse (first published in 1927, then in 1938), here with wrappers illustrated using a drawing by Jan Smetana (1918–1998). Outside the Czech Republic, KVK, OCLC show..... More

Slezská Ostrava: Tiskem a nákladem Aloise Šaška, [1923]. Oblong octavo (14.4 × 21.2 cm). Original decorative card portfolio, containing [8] pp. of introductory text and 60 numbered lithographed plates in black-and-white on card stock. The cards fine; the portfolio worn, with tape repairs and one flap detached. Portfolio of decorative..... More

Tartu: Odamees, 1918. Small octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Ado Vabbe; 78, [2] pp. Printed on regular paper (a variant on thick wove paper also exists), with five lithographs by Ado Vabbe on separate pages. A very good copy. Visnapuu was a notable Estonian writer and..... More

Prague: Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, 1985. Octavo (20.7 × 15 cm). Original yellow printed folder containing [6] + 38 leaves of Hoffmeister's humorous collages to rectos. Very good. Complete series of reproductions of humorous collages, or jokes in collage form, by Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973), an artist influenced by the Poetist style formulated..... More

Prague: Václav Petr, 1928, Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige. 93 pp. and [17] pp. of plates. Professionally restored spine and edges; still good or better, partly uncut and unopened, in protective mylar. First edition. Contains leaves of plates showcasing stage and costume designs by..... More