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

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

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

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

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

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

[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. 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

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

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

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

Olomouc: Slav, 1934. Octavo (19 × 14.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 74, [6] pp. Very good. In protective mylar sleeve. Scarce regional avant-garde book of poems, with spare but attractive typographic design to wrappers and throughout (on title, section titles, etc.). Nezbeda (1912-2004) was a teacher and poet from Moravia..... More

Prague: Fr. Borový, 1936. Octavo (21.3 × 13.4 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Jindrich Štyrský; 120, [3] pp. A fine copy. Photomontage cover designed by Jindrich Styrsky. Illustrated with eight photographs by Nezval, Jindřich Štyrský, and Jindřich Honzl. Poetic essays by Nezval on his stay in Paris and his companionship..... More