Prague: Orbis, 1953. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 47, [1] pp. With frontispiece and 6 plates of illustrations printed on both sides. Binding a little rubbed, else good. The cover shows the three gold medals won by Zátopek at the fifteenth Olympic Games in Helsinki. In the..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leningrad: Kubuch, 1925. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Nikolai Suetin; 76, [1] pp. Professional restoration to spine and corners of wrappers; else very good. First and only edition of this work about Henry Ford, inspired by the Russian translation of Ford's memoirs, "My Life and Work"..... More

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

Prague: Družstvo "Vlast", 1948. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched printed; [26] pp. of text. Fourteen black-and-white reproductions and a frontis portrait of the author. Signed by three of the four contributors: Lorenc, Kundera, and Tomeš. Very good. Scarce booklet accompanying what appears to be the first solo..... More