![Dějiny Spojených Států [Pocket history of the United States]. Allan Nevins, Henry Steel...](/images/noimage.png)
Prague: Meltantrich, 1947. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 376, [3] pp. Very good, in protective mylar. A late photomontage design by Karel Teige. Translated by St. Budin. A hardcover version was also published. See Karel Teige a typografie 5.2.1. More
![Tiché melodie: básně [Quiet melodies: poems].; Edice Skupiny literátů a výtvarníků "Slav"...](/pictures/thumb/P6432_1.jpg?v=1587490562)
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
![Monaco: román [Monaco: a novel]. Vítězslav Nezval, designer Jindrich...](/pictures/thumb/50540_1.jpg?v=1581695279)
Prague: Mánes, 1934. Octavo (19.2 × 13 cm). Original photomontage dust-wrapper over printed wrappers by Jindřich Štyrský; 147, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vlastimil Fiala. Very good. Nezval (1900-1958) was one of the most outstanding twentieth-century Czech poets, a leading light of Czech poetism and, later..... More
![Ulice Gît-le-coeur [Rue Gît-le-coeur]. Vítězslav Nezval, designer Jindřich...](/pictures/thumb/50552_1.jpg?v=1581508628)
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
![Karneval [Carneval]. Vitězslav Nezval, designer Jiri Kroha](/pictures/thumb/50555_1.jpg?v=1581695288)
Prague: Odeon, 1926. Octavo (21.3 × 13.4 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Jiri Kroha; 103 pp. Signed by Nezval to half title. Good or better; light wear to lower spine and foreedge of wrappers. High Poetism in verse and cover design, with a cover photomontage signed "J. Don", thought to..... More
![Zpáteční lístek [Return ticket: poems]. Vitězslav Nezval, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/50556_1.jpg?v=1581695290)
Prague: Fr. Borový, 1933. Octavo (21.3 × 13.4 cm). Original photomontage wrappers and title page designed by Karel Teige; 234, [1] pp. A fine copy. First edition of this volume of poems, with overall design by Karel Teige. Nezval (1900-1958) was one of the most outstanding twentieth-century Czech poets, a...... More
![Falešný mariáš [False poker]. Vitězslav Nezval, Štyrský, designers Toyen](/pictures/thumb/50554_1.jpg?v=1581695287)
Prague: Jan Fromek; Odeon, 1925. Octavo (19.6 × 13.8 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Jindrich Štyrský and Toyen (signed); 38, [3] pp. Signed by Nezval; very good. Nezval (1900-1958) was one of the most outstanding twentieth-century Czech poets, a leading light of Czech poetism and, later, surrealism, as well as..... More
![Most: básně [The bridge: verse] 1919-1921. Vítězslav Nezval](/pictures/thumb/P4528.jpg?v=1587488702)
Brno: Nakladatelství B. Kočí, 1927. Octavo (18.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 74, [4] pp. Frontis woodcut illustration by Arnošt Ráž. Spine faded; a few faint smudges throughout; a very good copy. First published book of poetry by Nezval (1900-1958), perhaps the most significant twentieth-century Czech poet. He was..... More
![Otvorené okná [Open windows]. Laco Novomeský, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/50539.jpg?v=1583943900)
Bratislava and Prague: L. Mazáč, 1935. Octavo (18 × 13.3 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige. 62, [1] pp. In Slovak. A very good copy, in protective mylar. Third volume of poems by the Slovak poet, journalist, and later commnist politician Laco Novomeský (1904-1976) Karel Teige a typografie 445..... More
![Nezávislá scéna [The independent stage], vol. I, nos. 1–10 (complete run). Ludvík...](/pictures/thumb/P6057_1.jpg?v=1587489183)
Kroměříž: Nezávislá scéna v Kroměříži, [1931-1932]. Small octavos (19.2 × 14 cm). Original typographically illustrated self-wrappers (single folded leaves); 128, [1] pp. (continuous pagination). Very good or better, uncut and unopened issues. Complete first year run (of two volumes published) of this independent Czech theatre journal from Kroměříž, allied with..... More
![Antologiia russkoi poezii XX stoletiia [An anthology of twentieth-century Russian poetry],...](/pictures/thumb/P6558_1.jpg?v=1580327106)
1920. Prague: Nacha rech', 1920. Octavos (19.5 ×14 cm). Original printed wrappers in red and blue, with translucent protective covers; 70, [1] pp. and 123, [1] pp. Owner signature of the Russian-born American painter and graphic artist Louis Lozowick. Text evenly toned due to stock; some light underlining in pencil..... More
![Josef Istler. [Cyklus "hlav" od Josef Istlera. The cycle of "heads" by Josef Istler]....](/pictures/thumb/P5192_1.jpg?v=1580761923)
Ústí n. Orlicí: JZK ROH Klub prátel výtvarného umění, 1965. Octavo (21.3 × 13.9 cm). Single folded leaf, printed to recto only and apparently conceived as a poster. With four full-page reproductions of Istler's work. Signed by Istler to the front page. Fine condition. Ephemeral exhibition catalog, printed as a...... More
1954. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1954. Quarto (29 × 22 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 100 pp. Small chip to upper corner of front wrapper, else very good. First edition. An excerpt from the ballet “Cinderella,” considered by many (including Galina Ulanova, who danced the part of Cinderella) to be the..... More
Stara Zagora: Knigoizdatelstvo Vezni, [1919]. Octavo (15 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak Skitnik; [3] pp., [8] leaves of plates, of which three in color. Very good. Rare album of eight reproductions of work by Stoian Rainov (or Raynov), one of the founders of the Bulgarian school of..... More
Rome: Le Edizioni d'Argo, 1950. Quarto (25.5 × 22 cm). Contemporary half-calf over laid paper with original wrappers bound at the back; frontispiece illustration by Josef Istler; 111 pp. Numerous photo-illustrations throughout. Gilt title to spine. A very good copy. First edition of this illustrated monograph on Czech poetry and..... More
Brno: Rolnická tiskárna, 1928. Small octavos (17.3 × 12.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Rossmann; 11, [1] and 13, [1] pp. each. About fine. Two scarce booklets introducing the famous 1928 Exhibition of Contemporary Culture, an important display of progress made in all the arts in ten years of..... More
Prague: Linie, 1928. Octavo (19.2 × 14.2 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers (anonymous); 28, [1] pp. Spine extremities lightly chipped; text toned; still about very good. Scarce first publication of Edice Linie, with a striking avant-gardistic wrapper design (unattributed). Rozner (1905-1991) was a Czech poet, writer, and journalist from Liberec..... More
![Sarkastický smích [Sarcastic laughter].; Edice "Linie", svazek 3 [Linie Series, vol. 3]....](/pictures/thumb/P5850_1.jpg?v=1587489285)
Prague: Linie, 1930. Octavo (19.6 × 14.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 102, [8] pp. Fine, uncut and unopened copy. Scarce third volume published by Edice Linie (Linie Series), with a striking, unattributed avant-gardistic wrapper design. Rozner (1905-1991) was a Czech poet, writer, and journalist from Liberec, who published numerous books..... More
Prague: Reklamný klub československý, 1936. Octavo (18.5 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 42, [3] pp. Twenty caricatures by Karel Matějčik, most of them full-page. About fine, in protective mylar. A charming book of satirical verses and caricatures about leading figures of the pre-war Czechoslovak advertising world. In 1927, the..... More
Tbilisi, 1923. Quarto (29.5 × 22.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Kirill Zdanevich, a lithograph printed in black and red; 32 pp. Numerous illustrations throughout. About very good; tiny hole to upper right edge; rust to staples. Final issue of this rare and important Georgian avant-garde journal of literature and..... More
![Ocel a dým [Smoke and steel]. Carl Sandburg, František Gross](/pictures/thumb/P6492_1.jpg?v=1588746243)
Prague: Družstvo Dílo, 1946. Octavo (23 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers over blind wraps; 61, [2] pp. Three drawings in the text. Pages bound folded Chinese-style. Wrappers very lightly dust-soiled; still a very good copy. First edition of these Czech translations of Sandburg, an urban poet of great importance..... More
![Devětsil: revoluční sborník [The nine powers: a revolutionary anthology]. Jaroslav Seifert,...](/pictures/thumb/P5531_1.jpg?v=1580761623)
Prague: Večernice, 1922. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers on dark green paper stock; 202, [6] pp. Numerous leaves of plates and reproductions in the text. A very good, entirely unrestored copy; light fading to left edge and tiny chip to lower right corner. A particularly handsome..... More
![Samá láska [Nothing but love: poems]. Jaroslav Seifert, designer Otakar Mrkvička](/pictures/thumb/50543_1.jpg?v=1581508626)
Prague: Večernice, 1923, Octavo (19.3 × 14 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Otakar Mrkvička. 61, [1] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy, with very faint discoloration to wrappers. First editon of the second volume of poems by Nobel Prize winning Czech writer and poet Jaroslav Seifert. In 1922..... More
Prague: Otto Girgal, 1929–1930. Small quartos (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; consecutive pagination, 135, [6] pp. Occasional illustrations. Small loss to lower right corner of first issue (not affecting text); the other issues in fine condition, in protective mylar. Complete run of this Czech avant-garde theatre journal, which..... More
![Pallas: Almanach estnischer Dichtung und Kunst [Pallas: an almanach of Estonian poetry and art]....](/pictures/thumb/P5183_001.jpg?v=1580327088)
1927. Tartu: Pallas-Verlag, 1927. Octavo (21.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (front and back), and one title vignette, by Jaan Vahtra; 120, [2] pp. Numerous reproductions, many full-page, and smaller vignettes. Light abrasions to overlapping wrapper edges; front wrapper with light creases and profesionally repaired tear; still about very..... More