Prague: L. Mazáč, 1938. Octavo (20.3 × 14 cm). Original cloth with original pictorial dust jacket by František Muzika; 385, [7] pp. Front endpaper and title with stamp of a a private library ("d. Mikysky"); else very good. Although less well-known than Teige, Štyrský, and Sutnar, Muzika (1900–1974) was a...... More

Prague: Družstevní práce, 1936. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ladislav Sutnar; 203, [1] pp. About very good. First edition of the scarce paperback version with Sutnar's photomontage-illustrated wrapper. One of 900 copies printed. A hardcover edition with the bound-in cover was also published and is encountered more frequently. Translated by..... More

St. Petersburg: Izdanie "Kol'tso Poetov," 1922. 12mo (13.8 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. About very good; private inventory stamp to front wrapper verso; small Soviet bookstore stamps to rear wrapper. Third volume of poems by Boris Viktorovich Smirenskii (1900-1970), who would go on to become..... More

Prague: Práce, 1950. Octavo (21.4 × 15.2 cm). Original staple-stitchrd pictorial wrappers; 69, [3] pp. Wrappers with small creases; leaves somewhat toned, else good. As of November, OCLC lists four copies in North America. More

Prague: Levá fronta, 1930-1933. Octavos (22.2 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16–32 pp. each (consecutive pagination). Two issues with small nicks to wrappers; occasional underlining; overall about very good issues. Significant run of this scarce Czech leftist journal of art, literature, and politics, associated with the eponymous group..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1927. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm. Publisher's typographic wrappers, designed by Karel Teige; 123 pp. with 43 reproductions on 32 leaves of plates, on better stock. Signed by Teige to half title. Very good. First and only edition of Teige's reflections on his trip to the Soviet Union..... More

Berlin: Franz Schneider Verlag, [1924]. Small quarto (26.5 × 18.5 cm). Original gilt-ruled half calf; marbled paper-covered boards; top edge gilt; 123, [1] pp. Printed on thick wove paper, with six full-page original etchings and three vignettes, the former signed in pencil by the artist. With Masjutin's additional signature on..... More

Petrograd: Izdanie individual'noe (self-published), 1917. Octavo (25.4 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 91, [5] pp. Light fraying to spine extremities; Soviet bookstore stamp inside rear wrapper; else about very good. First book of poems by the author (with the added specification "book one", but all published), which is more..... 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, 1925. Octavo (19.6 × 13.9 cm). Original decorative card boards by Karel Teige and Otakar Mrkvička; 136, [4] pp. Wrappers dust-soiled and rubbed; else good. Second edition (and first edition in this design) of the acclaimed novel by Vančura (1891-1942), an early member of the Devětsil avant-garde group..... More

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

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

Unpaginated volume consisting of 6 pages (three leaves printed recto and verso) of musical notation by Malipiero, written presumably for the piano in standard treble and bass clefs, in 14 brief sections, followed by 14 plates depicting three-color abstract line and geometric drawings by Veronesi, in which one can see..... More