![Nákaza: prosy [Contamination: prose works]. Ladislav Třenecký, Bedřich Vrobel](/pictures/thumb/P5526_1.jpg?v=1587488343)
V Hrabyni: Iskra, 1931. Octavo (21.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 89, [2] pp. Very good; in protective mylar. This Czech work is a rare example of the Silesian avant-garde, published by the Silesian literary review "Iskra," which appeared in the small town of Hrabyně, near Ostrava. Its authors..... More
1927. Prague: Spolek Typografia v Praze; Orbis, 1927. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original printed card folder, with thirty-four bookplates mounted on black card stock and loosely inserted; string-bound text part (14 pp.) laid in. Signed and inscribed by the editor, Rudolf Hála. Folder lightly worn; largely lacking green tie..... More
![Pastorałki [Pastorals]. Drzeworyty Tadeusza Makowskiego [Woodcuts by Tadeusz Makowski]. Tytus...](/pictures/thumb/50136_1.jpg?v=1580326930)
Paris: Polskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Książki, 1925. Quarto (26 × 21 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a woodcut by Makowski; twelve woodcuts, of which six full- page; 34, [3] pp. Wrappers and first blank leaf with professional paper restoration; occasional foxing; else very good. Considered one of the most beautiful Polish..... More
Moscow: 1920. Quarto (24.7 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 52 pp., [23] leaves of plates. About very good; front wrapper lightly stained and with nick to the right edge; one leaf loosened. Attractively produced catalog of engravings by the Russian artist Vasilii N. Masiutin (1884-1955), whose work blended symbolism..... More
![Pekař Jan Marhoul: román [The baker Jan Marhoul: a novel]. Vladislav Vančura, Toyen, Marie...](/pictures/thumb/P003904.jpg?v=1587487803)
Prague: Odeon, 1929. Octavo (19.8 × 13.7 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Karel Teige; 134, [3] pp. This copy unnumbered, but signed and inscribed by the author and Toyen to Vitězslav Nezval. Very good or better; with very faint soil to wrappers. Third edition (but first illustrated) of the acclaimed..... More
![Sutemų skersgatviuos [I will die]. Antanas Venclova, designer Jonas J. Burbos](/pictures/thumb/50346_001.jpg?v=1585251243)
Kaunas: self-published (printed by S. Joselevičiaus), 1926. Octavo (18.7 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jonas J. Burbos; 31 pp. A fine copy, apparently unread. Debut publication of Venclova (1906-1971), the Lithuanian and Soviet poet, writer, and politician. Venclova was the founder and editor of the most important Lithuanian..... More
![Svítaní [Dawn]. Emile Verhaeren, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/50553_1.jpg?v=1581695286)
Second, corrected edition. Prague: Odeon, 1925. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige; 103 pp. A good copy; wrappers somewhat discolored and worn; trace of private label to ffep. Photomontage cover design by Teige incorporating photographs of a toppled monument, a large crowd, and a funeral..... More
![Prokletí básníci [The cursed poets]. Paul Verlaine, Adolf Kroupa, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/P5521_1.jpg?v=1587551523)
Prague: Otto Girgal, 1946. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Original cloth boards with title to spine; pictorial dust wrappers by Karel Teige; 130, [2] pp. With many illustrations throughout the text and a sixteen-page appendix of plates reproducing the artworks of Desbordes-Valmore, Manet, Gauguin, Matisse, Renoir, and Teige among others..... More
![Prokletí básníci [The cursed poets]. Paul Verlaine, Adolf Kroupa, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/P5522_1.jpg?v=1587551524)
Prague: Otto Girgal, 1946. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers in protective mylar, over blind wrappers designed by Karel Teige; 130, [2] pp. With many illustrations throughout the text and a sixteen-page appendix of plates reproducing the artworks of Desbordes-Valmore, Manet, Gauguin, Matisse, Renoir, and Teige among others..... More
![Průvodce Paříží a okolím [A guide to Paris and environs].; Malá edice Odeon, sv. 6....](/pictures/thumb/P5612_1.jpg?v=1587752476)
Prague: Jan Fromek, 1927. Octavo (17.5 × 11 cm). Original blind orange wrappers with photo-illustrated dust-jacket by Štyrský and Toyen; 802 pp. With fourteen plans and twenty-two black-and-white photos. Dust-wrappers slightly discolored and with foxing; still good or better. Scarce guidebook to Paris of the 1920s which, aside from practical..... More
Tartu: Odamees, 1920. First edition. Octavo (17.8 × 13.0 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Natalie Mei (or Mey); 102 pp. Printed on thick wove paper; with a small frontis illustration printed in the flesh color used on the front wrapper, and nine small black and white illustrations in the text..... More
Prague: Umělecká beseda v Praze, 1937. Quarto (30 × 21.2 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers over blind card wrappers; 71, [1] pp. Illustrations thoughout, some full-page, some in color, many tipped-in. About very good; a few nicks to the wrappers; a few pages with stain to lower corner, barely affecting text..... More
![V západu slunce: básně [In the sunset: verse]. Miloš Votík](/pictures/thumb/P5423_1.jpg?v=1587488465)
Plzeň: Nákladem Slovanského knihkupectví, 1929. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, 47, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to title. Hand-written title to spine; small tear to left edge of front wrapper; else about very good. Scarce book of Czech verse published in the Western..... More
![Litíce: povídky o vojně [The Furies: stories about the war]. Signed and inscribed by the...](/pictures/thumb/P5011.jpg?v=1587488643)
Prague: Aventinum, 1928. Octavo (19.3 × 12.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 159, [5] pp. Signed and inscribed by Weiner on the half title. Wrappers very lightly sun-toned and creased; still a highly attractive copy, very good or better. Second edition of Weiner's first book of prose, considered to be the..... More
Krakow: Antykwariat Artystyczny Franciszka Studzinskiego, 1929. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 8 pp. With three photo-reproductions and a price list laid in. Light soil to wrappers; crease to lower corner of front wrapper. Still about very good. With three photo-reproductions and a list of 43 paintings in..... More
![Ogni sviatogo Dominika: p'esa [The Fires of St. Dominic]. Evgenii Zamiatin, Zamjatin Zamyatin](/pictures/thumb/P4777.jpg?v=1591525743)
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Slovo", 1922. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Aleksandr Arnshtam; 58, [2] pp. About very good; occasional light soil to corners; rear wrapper somewhat creased. First edition of Russian modernist and dystopian writer Evgenii Zamyatin's play, which is set in sixteenth-century Spain during the Inquisition..... More
![Zrazená zeme [Betrayed earth: poems]. Jaroslav Zatloukal, designer Jaroslav Rossmann](/pictures/thumb/50249_1.jpg?v=1580326983)
Bratislava: Podkarpatoruské nakladatelství, 1938. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 73, [3] pp. With publisher's announcement laid in. Fine. One of only four titles we can trace by this publishing house based in Bratislava and focused on the literature and culture of Carpathian Ruthenia. It was led by..... More
![Elegie [An elegy]. Otokar Žižka, Bohdan Lacina](/pictures/thumb/P5668_1.jpg?v=1585675803)
Vyškov na Moravě: F. Obzina, 1932. Quarto (28 × 19.2 cm). Original printed wrappers;55, [8] pp. Twenty caricatures by Karel Matějčik, most of them full-page. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Wrappers lightly creased; still about very good, in protective mylar. First edition of this..... More
![Zimostráz: básně [The boxwood tree: poems].; Edice Gemini, svazek 2. Jaroslav Zrotal](/pictures/thumb/P5537_1.jpg?v=1587488284)
České Budějovice: Gemini, 1932. Octavo (19.7 × 11.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 37, [2] pp. About very good; light soil and foxing to wrappers. In protective mylar sleeve. Scarce undocumented regional avant-garde design from České Budějovice, Linie group. With typography by Stanislav V. Kocmoud and a two-color woodcut frontis illustration..... More