![Most: kulturní list [The bridge: a cultural journal]. Vol. I, nos. 1–12 (all published). Boh...](/pictures/thumb/50504_1.jpg?v=1602571217)
Prague: F. Svoboda, 1921–1922. Small quartos (28 × 18.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 144 pp (consecutive pagination). Numerous illustrations, some full-page. Overall very good; a few nicks to the fragile wrappers of issue one; only the special issue with some fraying and tears to wrappers. Rare Czech modernist and avant-garde..... More
![Limb a jiné básně [Limbo and other poems]. Jiří Kolář,...](/pictures/thumb/P6490_1.jpg?v=1588746242)
Prague: B. Štýblo, 1945. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 89, [6] pp. With three lithographs by František Gross. Signed and inscribed by Kolář on half title to the poet Vlastimil Fiala, in the year of publication. A very good copy; front wrapper very lightly discolored. First edition..... More
![Sedm kantát [Seven cantatas]. Jiří Kolář, František Hudeček](/pictures/thumb/P6491_1.jpg?v=1588746242)
Prague: Družstvo Dílo, 1945. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers over blind wraps; 22, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by Kolář on half title. A very good copy; very light nicks to outer wrappers. First edition of this book of poems by Kolář (1914–2002), the co-founder of the..... More
![Křestný list [Baptismal certificate]. Jiří Kolář](/pictures/thumb/50845.jpg?v=1599577683)
Prague: Václav Petr, 1941. Octavo (21 × 14.6 ). Original printed wrappers; 41, [3] pp. About very good; wrappers very lightly soiled; moisture stain to lower right corner of second half of text block. First and only edition, the first book publication by Kolář, a leading member of the Czech..... More
Prague: Československý spisovatel, [1968]. Quarto (29.5 × 18 cm). Original blind wrappers with typo-illustrated dust-wrappers; accordeon-bound leaves; [69] pp. With four full-page color lithographs ("graphic labyrints") by Zdeněk Sklenǎŕ and numerous pages of typographic compositions by Hlavsa. A very good copy. Bilingual edition, with text in Latin and Czech, of..... More
Prague: Krasoumná jednota pro Čechy, 1903. Second Edition. Octavo (18.3 × 13.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 92 pp. of text and [48] leaves of reproductions in black-and-white. Exhibition floor plan to rear wrapper. Light wear; occasional pencil annotations; else about very good, in protective calque. Second illustrated catalog for this..... More
L'viv: Naklad vydavnychoi spilky "Novi shliakhy", 1929-1932. Octavos (25.3 × 17 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Sviatoslav Hordyns'kyi; 208; 178-376, [4]; and 103, [1] pp. Occasional illustrations and caricatures. Extensive publisher's ads, for the journal "Novi shliakhy" as well as books published by the editors. Light wear to first two..... More
![Básníci revolučního Ruska [The poets of revolutionary Russia].; Lidová knihovna Aventina...](/pictures/thumb/P5519_1.jpg?v=1587488403)
Prague: Aventinum, 1924. Small octavo (16.7 × 11.5 cm). Original typographically illustrated wrappers by Karel Teige; 106, [4] pp. Fine, in protective mylar sleeve. First edition of this early systematic study of modern Russian (and Soviet) poetry, with chapters on the mysticism of the Revolution, Chaos and the mystery of..... More
V Břeclavi na Moravě: 1929-1930. Octavos (23.5 × 17.5 cm). Publisher's typographically designed self-wrappers; 160, [2] pp. (consecutive pagination). All issues very good, excepting the first issue, with wear to spine and some chipping and soil to rear wrapper. Scarce complete second year of this Czech journal of the arts..... More
Sofia: self-published (Pechatnitsa "Novo Iskustvo"), 1936. Small quartos (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original typographically illustrated wrappers; 32 pp. per issue (1-64 pp.). Numerous illustrations and vignettes throughout. About very good; light wear to spine extremities. Complete run of a short-lived avant-garde journal edited by Lamar (Laliu Marinov Ponchev, 1898-1974), considered..... More
Tartu: Odamees, 1918. Octavo (18 × 14.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Ado Vabbe; 213 pp. Good or better; wrappers lightly creased; spine extremities torn. First Estonian translation of Maeterlinck's 1908 play "The Blue Bird" ("L'oiseau bleu"), and one of the earliest appearances of the Belgian Symbolist writer in Estonian..... More
![Socialismus v Sovetskem svazu zvítězil [Socialism has triumphed in the Soviet Union]. D. S....](/pictures/thumb/50307.jpg?v=1597070714)
Prague: Fr. Nedvěd, 1935. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 46, [1] pp. Some color offsetting to first and last page; a few nicks to fragile spine; still good or better. Reproduces the text of a triumphalist speech about the successes of Soviet construction and industry, held at the seventh congress of..... More
Brussels: Les Lèvres Nues, 1968–1975. Quartos (30 × 23 cm). Issued in uncut loose sheets; approximately 8 to 32 pp. per issue (unnumbered). Illustrations throughout, mostly black-and-white, with some color reproductions tipped in. Most issues printed on laid paper, some on coated stock. Very good or better. A fine complete..... More
Prague: L. Mazáč, 1931. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by J. R. Vávra; 207, [2] pp. About very good; very light wear to lower edge of front wrapper and spine extremities. Jaroslav Raimund Vávra (1902-1990), though far less well-known than Sutnar and Teige, was a designer of numerous accomplished photomontage-illustrated books..... More
![Úvod do grafického průmyslu [Introduction to graphic arts printing]. Richard Martinčik](/pictures/thumb/50072_1.jpeg?v=1580326903)
Brno: Grafický klub, 1922. Octavo (25.6 × 17.4 cm). Original decorative paper-covered boards; 172, [1] pp. Ten full-page illustrations executed using various printing techniques and one folding plate showing a Vilém Ostwald's color circle. Very good. A near fine copy of this scarce introduction to the graphic arts, with numerous..... More
[Berlin?]: ca. 1930. Original woodcut print in red, on fine laid paper, 21.5 × 15.5 cm. With the estate stamp of Masiutin to lower left. Matted using adhesive tape in paper folder; very good. Original early woodcut print, mostly likely produced during Masiutin's life in exile in Berlin. Due to..... More
[Berlin?]: ca. 1930. Original woodcut print in red, on fine laid paper, 21 × 15 cm. With the estate stamp of Masiutin to lower right. Matted using adhesive tape in paper folder; very good. Original early woodcut print, mostly likely produced during Masiutin's life in exile in Berlin. Due to..... More
[Berlin?]: ca. 1930. Original woodcut print in dark brown, on fine wove paper, 22 × 17.6 cm. With the estate stamp of Masiutin to lower right. Matted using adhesive tape in paper folder; very good. Original early woodcut print, mostly likely produced during Masiutin's life in exile in Berlin. Due..... More
[Berlin?]: ca. 1930. Study of historical figures and faces, ink on paper, 26.5 × 19.5 cm, ca. 1930. With the estate stamp of Masiutin to lower right. Old horizontal crease; lower edge lightly worn; else about very good. Original study of various Russian historical figures and their faces, accompanied by..... More
[Riga?]: ca. 1920. Study of various figures and faces, ink on paper, 21 × 17 cm, ca. 1920 (paper with watermark of a Riga papermill). With the estate stamp of Masiutin to lower right. Light wear to edges; matted using adhesive tape; else about very good. Original ink sketch of..... More
![Plakalo dítě...: poesie [A child was crying...: poetry]. E. H. Meziřičský,...](/pictures/thumb/P6434_1.jpg?v=1587490563)
Letovice: self-published, 1931. Octavo (18.6 × 12.8 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers (anonymous); 18, [2] pp. Wrappers detached from text and lightly soiled; text lightly toned; still good or better. Scarce provincial book of poetry, with understated, but appealingly avant-gardistic wrapper design by Oldřich Elbl). We are unable to find..... More
![Das Tribunal: hessische radikale Blätter [The tribunal: Hessian radical leaves]. Vols. I, nos....](/pictures/thumb/50849_001.jpg?v=1600367344)
Darmstadt, 1919–1921. Quartos (29 × 24.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. per issue (with consecutive pagination: 136 and 68 pp. respectively for years one and two). Occasional old creases and light spotting to issues; overall about very good. Complete run of a scarce German late expressionist journal published..... More
![Avtomati: neveroiatni razkazi [Machines: incredible stories]. Svetoslav Minkov](/pictures/thumb/P6374_1.jpg?v=1593514683)
Sofia: Izdanie Kazanlushka Dolina, 1935. Second, expanded edition. Small octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak Skitnik; 133, [3] pp. Wrappers with light overall wear; front wrapper beginning to detach; some ink stains to upper edge and rear wrapper; bookstore stamps; still good or better. Second edition..... More
![Razkazi v taralezhova kozha [Stories in the hedgehog's skin]. Svetoslav Minkov](/pictures/thumb/P003026_1.jpg?v=1597926543)
Sofia: Khemus, 1936. Octavo (17.7 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak-Skitnik, and with a sketch of the author by Ilia Beshkov; 164, [12] pp. Signed and inscribed by Minkov in 1936. About very good; wrappers very lightly discolored and lightly worn to hinges. Collection of five short stories..... More
![Znamení na nebi: básně [The sign in the sky: poems]. Jan Neugebauer](/pictures/thumb/P004077.jpg?v=1587487803)
Prague: Edice Sad, 1932. First Edition. Large octavo (25 × 19.6 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 99, [3] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author, possibly to the poet Adolf Černý (Jan Rokyta) on the dedication leaf. A very good, uncut and unopened copy; small crease to rear wrapper. First, and..... More