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

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

Tallinn: Teatrikirjastus Tavet Mutsu, [1924]. Octavo (19 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with a design by Peet Aren and executed by the studio of Ed. Taska; 103 pp. Boards lightly scuffed; small stain to lower front board; upper spine torn; internally very good. First Estonian edition of Hofmannsthal's..... More

Berlin: Izdatel'stvo Skify, 1920. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; [7], 8-80 pp. A very good, apparently unread copy; tiny stain to front free end paper and light soil to lower spine extremity. One of the first publications of this Socialist Revolutionary-allied publishing house, founded in 1920 by..... More

Prague: Jaroslav Motyčka, 1930. Octavos (23.5 × 16 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 440 pp. of consecutive pagination. Occasional light ear to wrapper edges; overall very good. Substantial first year run of this Czech interwar journal, which was associated with the Czech National Labor Party (Národní strana práce) and the Czech..... More

1947-1949. Brno: Blok výtvarných umělců země Moravskoslezské, 1947-1949. Quartos (28.6 × 20.7 cm). Original pictorial and photo-illustrated wrappers; 324, 352, and 364 pp. per volume (continuous pagination), and additional leaves of advertisement. The supplements, where applicable, are separately paginated, and between 16 and 24 pp. each, with additional illustrations and..... More