![Book ID: P5517 Razgrom: roman [The Rout: a novel].; Nedra: biblioteka ot novi romani...](/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
Vintage silver gelatin prints on Agfa-Lupex paper, each measuring ca. 24 × 19 cm to 25 × 20.5 cm. One of the prints is signed, dated, and titled to verso in ink in Marcel Breuer's hand; all prints with pencil annotations to versos; five feature a printed label in English;..... 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
![Book ID: P6745 Listy pro umění a kritiku [Pages for the arts and criticism], vol. I,...](/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
![Book ID: P6744 Listy pro umění a kritiku [Pages for the arts and criticism], vols. I,...](/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
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 a...... More
![Book ID: 50343 Karo stovis (dušioj) [State of war (of the soul)]. Jonas...](/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
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
![Book ID: P6493 Sepie [Sepia]. František Halas](/pictures/thumb/P6493_1.jpg?v=1588746243)
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
Prague: Práce, 1946. Octavo (20.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with design and typography by Karel Teige; 161 [2] pp. Unopened and uncut; in protective mylar; very good or better. A translation of the 1939 text by the British scientist and Marxist J. B. S. Haldane, with cover design..... 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
Prague: Sfinx Janda, 1934. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jindřich Štyrský and Man Ray; 310, [4] pp. Gatherings uncut, unopened and partially unbound as issued; wrappers with tiny edge tear and somewhat dust-soiled; else good. Jindřich Štyrský together with Toyen founded the art movement of Artificialism..... More
![Book ID: P003960 Jumalaga Ene! [Farewell, Ene!]. Henrik Visnapuu](/pictures/thumb/P003960.jpg?v=1597925804)
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
![Book ID: 50545 Moderní ruské divadlo [Modern Russian theatre]. Jindřich Honzl,...](/pictures/thumb/50545_1.jpg?v=1582060144)
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
Tokyo: Kokusai Kenchiku Kyokai, 1939. Small quarto (25.5 x 19 cm). Original wrappers with metallic printing to front cover, unpaginated (20 pp). Some slight rubbing and toning to cover, minor area of loss to lower left corner of front cover near spine, overall very good condition. A small booklet illustrated..... 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
![Book ID: 52032 Gundymai [Temptations]. Antanas Jasiūnas, Vl. Fedotas-Sipavičius](/pictures/thumb/52032_1.jpeg?v=1652890031)
Kaunas: "Sakalo" b-ves leidinys, 1932. Octavo (19.8 × 14.1 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Vladas Fedotas-Sipavičius; 64 pp. Some creasing to text block and wear to overlapping wrapper edges; owner signature to first leaf; still about very good. First edition of this book of avant-garde-inflected verse by a Lithuanian poet..... 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
Brno: Blok výtvarných umělců země Moravskoslezské, [1946]. Oblong octavo (15 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 14 pp. Old vertical crease; else very good. Catalog of a regional exhibition in Brno, Moravia, held jointly by various associations, such as SVU Aleš Brno, SVUM Hodonín, SOV Olomouc, SUS Opava, and MSVU..... More
![Book ID: P6748 Štika: časopis satirický [The pike: a satirical journal], vol. I, no. 1....](/pictures/thumb/P6748_1.jpg?v=1592580761)
Prague: Karel Hašler, 1919. Octavo (23.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. About very good; wrappers lightly dust-soiled. First issue of this satirical journal published by the Czech songwriter, actor, film, and theatre director Karel Hašler (1879-1941). At the time of publishing, he was head of several Prague..... More
Prague: Filmový ústav, 1966. Octavo (20 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jaroslava Veselá; 220 pp. of reproduced typescript to rectos and versos. Very good; in protective mylar. The first volume to gather Karel Teige's various articles on film, mostly published during the 1920s and 1930s, with a lengthy..... More
Krakow: Naklad Towarzystwa Wydawnictw Ludowych, 1906. Octavo (21.5 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Henryk Uziembło; 160 pp. Light overall wear to wrappers; spine sun-tanned; discrete owner signature to title; overall very good. First edition thus. Polish translation of the famous Erfurt Program of 1891 of the SPD (Socialist..... More