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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

Vienna: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong octavo (14.7 × 17 cm). Original white leather with gold, red, and black armorial stamping; all edges gilt; [2] pp., title, 1 pp. poem by Harmann Hangoo, followed by 11 fine chromolithographic plates showing an illustrated score by Haydn and scenes commemorating events in Vienna..... More

Tbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1930. Small octavo (12.4 × 17.9 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Irakli Gamrekeli; 40 pp. About very good; faint trace of moisture stain to wrappers (somewhat more visible on the first few pages). Striking green and black angular design by the Georgian avant-garde artist and father of Georgian..... 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