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Amatéřská kinematografie: časopis všech kinoamatérů [Amateur cinematography: a journal for...

Amatéřská kinematografie: časopis všech kinoamatérů [Amateur cinematography: a journal for all cinema amateurs]. Vol. I, nos. 1–12 (complete run).

Prague. Fr. Tichý, January–December, 1936. Quartos (26.8 × 21.4 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers by J. Bauer; ca. 20-24 pp. per issue (consecutive pagination totaling 252 pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout. About very good; occasional light discoloration or foxing. Complete first year run of this monthly journal for amateur cinematographers..... More

Price: $450.00

Civil War-era Letter from the Fight on Culp's Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg

Civil War-era Letter from the Fight on Culp's Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A first-hand account of the significant fight on Culp's Hill from the Battle of Gettysburg, unsigned but likely written by Captain C.P. Horton, Assistant Adjutant-General of the 149th New York Volunteers, being a 7-page handwritten letter in which Horton describes the events of the battle; sold together with a large..... More

Price: $4,500.00

Teoriia svobodnogo stikha: zametki o poeticheskoi tekhnike [Theory of verse libre: notes on...

Teoriia svobodnogo stikha: zametki o poeticheskoi tekhnike [Theory of verse libre: notes on poetic technique].

Charles Vildrac, Georges Duhamel, and Vadim Shershenevich, translator.

Moscow: Izd-vo "Imazhinisty", 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 48 pp. Unopened and uncut. Wrappers detached; light foxing to wrappers; text evenly toned to stock, internally very good. First Russian language publication of Charles Vildrac (1882-1971) and Georges Duhamel’s (1884-1966) 1910 “Notes sur la Technique poétique,” translated..... More

Price: $750.00

Za TRAM: vsesoiuznoe soveshchanie po khudozhestvennoi rabote sredi molodezhi [For TRAM: a...

Za TRAM: vsesoiuznoe soveshchanie po khudozhestvennoi rabote sredi molodezhi [For TRAM: a union-wide conference on creative work among children].

Chicherov, I. I., editor, and A. Lunacharsky (preface).

Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1929. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Later green clothl front wrapper preserved; 82 pp. Good or better; text toned due to stock; some traces of paper restoration; frequent light annotations in pencil. Scarce anthology on TRAM, an acronym for Teatr Rabochei Molodezhi, or Theatre of Working Youth, which..... More

Price: $650.00

Bandit ili pesnik [Outlaw or poet]. Rade Drainac, Mihailo Petrov

Bandit ili pesnik [Outlaw or poet].

Drainac, Rade and Mihailo Petrov, illustrator.

Belgrade: S. B. Cvijanović, 1928. Octavo (26 × 19 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Mihailo Petrov; 35, [1] pp. Front wrapper lightly toned to upper edge; else very good. Scarce work by Rade Drainac (real name Radojko Jovanović, 1899–1943), a founding member of the Yugoslav Surrealist group and editor of..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Zahrada hříchu: grotesky [The garden of sins: grotesques].; Knihovna Osvobození života v...

Zahrada hříchu: grotesky [The garden of sins: grotesques].; Knihovna Osvobození života v Pardubicích, řada 1, číslo 2/3.

Emmerich Alois Hruška

Pardubice: Osvobození života, 1927. Octavo (19 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 127 pp. With fourteen original linocut vignettes and full-page illustrations. About very good, uncut and unopened; spine strip lightly toned. A highly eclectic interpretation of Czech modernist art and literature by this relatively unknown Czech writer, publisher, and..... More

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Sovmestnye igry mal’chikov i devochek podrostkov: o sovmestnom fizicheskom vospitanii...

Sovmestnye igry mal’chikov i devochek podrostkov: o sovmestnom fizicheskom vospitanii podrostkov [Joint games for young boys and girls: about the joint physical education of young adults]. Biblioteka pionerrabotnika [Library of the pioneer leader, series title].

Gorinevskii, Prof. V. V.

Moscow-Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original typographically formatted printed wrappers; 136, [8] pp. Very good. A guidebook for guides of the Russian Pioneer movement, in charge of the physical and athletic development of children and young adults. While acknowledging biological differences between the two sexes, the..... More

Price: $650.00

Czech trade catalog for import foods and condiments. Ing. J. Bukovský, I. Kodžak

Czech trade catalog for import foods and condiments.

Ing. J. Bukovský & I. Kodžak.

Prague: Ing. J. Bukovský & I. Kodžak, ca. 1920. Small folio (22.5 × 16 cm). Original decorative card boards; eight numbered thick leaves of product illustrations, each with glassine guard. Very good. Very attractively printed catalog showcasing a variety of imported condiments, preserved meats, fish, caviar, and fruits, Admiral sardines..... More

Price: $275.00

Kniga o Evreinove [A book about Evreinov]. Vasilii Kamenskii

Kniga o Evreinove [A book about Evreinov].

Kamenskii, Vasilii.

Petrograd: Izd. “Sovremennoe iskusstvo” , 1917. Octavo (23 × 17 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 110, [1] pp. Cover illustration, frontis portrait, and typographic design by A. K. Shervashidze. Spine discretely rebacked; small tear to lower fold of front wrapper, still about very good. First edition. The first monograph on Nikolai..... More

Price: $750.00

Al’bom parternoi zeleni: tsvetochno-dekorativnye kompozitsii i ikh elementy [An album of ground...

Al’bom parternoi zeleni: tsvetochno-dekorativnye kompozitsii i ikh elementy [An album of ground greenery: decorative floral compositions and their elements].

Lypa, A. L., I. A. Kosarevskii, and A. K. Salatich.

Kiev: Izdatel’stvo Akademii Arkhitektury Ukrains’koi SSR, 1952. Oblong quarto (23 × 30 cm). Original green card boards, embossed title to front board; 108 pp. and [10] leaves of plates, as well as numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text, some in color. Boards lightly discolored and scuffed to..... More

Price: $950.00

Falešný mariáš [False poker]. Vitězslav Nezval, Štyrský, designers Toyen

Falešný mariáš [False poker].

Nezval, Vitězslav and Štyrský and Toyen, designers.

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

Price: $650.00

Biblioteka-chital’nia kooperativa [Reading rooms for co-operative societies]. N. A. Orlov

Biblioteka-chital’nia kooperativa [Reading rooms for co-operative societies].

Orlov, N. A.

Petrograd: Knigoizdatel’stvo kooperativnoi literatury Mysl’, 1918. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 64 pp. Wrappers lightly stained; still a very good copy. Scarce guide on establishing and maintaining smaller libraries as part of local co-operative societies, which were popular through the Soviet Union in the 1910s and 1920s..... More

Price: $150.00

Pushkin i ego vremia. Al'bom avtotipii s soprovoditel'nym tekstom [Pushkin and his era: an album...

Pushkin i ego vremia. Al'bom avtotipii s soprovoditel'nym tekstom [Pushkin and his era: an album of halftone illustrations with explanatory texts].

Prof. K. I. Zaitsev, P. A. Kazakov, and P. I. Savost'ianov, editors.

Harbin: Tsentral'nyi Pushkinskii Komitet, 1938. Large octavo (26.6 × 19.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 216 pp. Very good; wrappers lightly worn and just beginning to detach from text. Published by the Central Pushkin Committee in Kharbin (modern day China), this collection of reproductions illustrating Pushkin’s life is a kind of..... More

Price: $750.00

Novye zametki na drevniia istorii Kavkaza i ego obitatelei [New notes on the ancient history of...

Novye zametki na drevniia istorii Kavkaza i ego obitatelei [New notes on the ancient history of the Caucasus and its inhabitants].

Shopen, Ivan, Mowsēs Horenaçi, von Choren; Moses Kagkantovathsi; King Vakhtang of Kartli.

St. Petersburg: Tipografiia N. Tiblena i komp., 1866. Octavo (22.5 × 15.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards with gilt tooling and title to spine; 501, [1] pp. Title page lightly toned; boards rubbed, still about very good. First edition. An early ethnographic, linguistic and historical study of the Caucasus..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Słońce na szynach: poezje [Sun on the tracks: poems]. Edward Szymanski, designer...

Słońce na szynach: poezje [Sun on the tracks: poems].

Szymanski, Edward and Mieczysław Jurgielewicz, designer.

Warsaw: nakł. Związku Zawodowego Pracowników Kolejowych Rzplitej Polsk., 1937. Octavo (20.5 × 14.7 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. First and only edition of this volume of poems based on the life of Polish railwaymen, by the Polish proletarian socialist writer and political activist Edward Szymanski (1907–1943)..... More

Price: $450.00

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