Prague: Družstevní práce, 1940. Octavo (20.4 × 13.4 cm). Original cloth with original pictorial dust jacket by Ladislav Sutnar; 139, [5] pp. With six leaves of plates, featuring photographs of animals to recto and verso, on somewhat thicker paper stock. Dust jacket dust-soiled, rubbed, and torn at fold; else good..... More

Tokyo: Ars, 1927–1930. Small quartos (27.5 × 19.5 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers, in the original printed cardboard slipcases; ca. 100–150 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Some wear to wrappers and slipcases; one slipcase lacking; overall still very good. A remarkable compendium of international commercial and graphic art..... More

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

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

Prague: Cin, 1927. Octavo (17.5 × 11.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Josef Čapek; 145, [2] pp. About very good; light overall wear to wrappers; in protective mylar. An interesting example of the prolific Czechoslovak book designer's work, unusual for the incorporation of photographic element. Josef Čapek (1887−1945) was a...... More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Kritiki-bibliograficheskogo instituta, 1935. Octavos (24.5 × 17 cm). Original decorative staple-stitched self-wrappers; 40 pp. per issue. Illustrations throughout. Very good. This illustrated review of Soviet visual culture offers a glimpse into the editorial criteria for Soviet poster art and Socialist Realist painting during the first five-year plan (1928–1932)..... 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

Brno: Edice Ra, 1947. Small octavo (18 × 12.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 14, [2] pp. of text on four folded leaves, loosely housed in wrappers as issued. Very good. Seventh publication of Skupina Ra (Ra Group), a Czech post-war surrealist formation. The volume contains a long poem by Kundera..... More

Berlin: Jüdischer Literarischer Verlag (Idishe literarisher farlag, printed by Lutze & Vogt), 1923. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Y. Tshaykov; 163, [3] pp. Light wear and traces of professional restoration to spine and hinges; else about very good; the best copy we have encountered in the..... More

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

[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