Prague: Odeon, 1927. Octavo (19.8 × 13.7 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige and Otakar Mrkvicka (signed MaT); 88, [2] pp. Very good. Very scarce example of the ongoing collaboration on photomontage book design between Karel Teige and Otakar Mrkvička, here incorporating hand lettering and an image of a...... More

Prague: self-published (printed by Graf & Stricker), 1929. Octavo (20 × 13.8 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers (anonymous), printed in red and green; 125 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good; in protective mylar sleeve. Scarce book of prose, with a striking avant-gardistic wrapper design (unattributed). Little is..... More

L'viv: A.N.U.M., 1934. 12mo (14.2 × 11.8 cm). Original blind wrappers with printed title label; frontis portrait; 15 pp. of text, [12] leaves of original prints, with captions to versos. Very good, printed on better stock throughout. Short illustrated monograph on the exlibris designs of Helene Sachnowska, or Olena Sakhnovska..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1927-1928. Octavo (ca. 23 × 18 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards; decorative leather spine labels; preserving all front and rear wrappers; approx. 32–40 pp. per issue. Numerous photographs and illustrations. Wrappers resized with very slight loss to right and lower margin; else very good. “The most..... More

Brno: Nakladatel Joža Jícha, 1932. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers by J. Keprt; 46, [2] pp. About very good; light soil and foxing to wrappers. Sarce book of poems with avant-garde typography by an undocumented regional designer. Little is known about the author, Miroslav Tmé (1909-1998), a...... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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