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

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

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

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

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