[Prague, ca. 1945?]. Square quarto (23 × 25 cm). Original side-stapled wrappers printed red and black on yellow stock; 82 pp. Illustrations, plans, portraits, printed in red and black. Final leaf detached from staples; else very good. Unattributed work displaying designs for architectural projects by Czech architects including Zdeněk Blažek..... More

Bratislava: Odborné učilišťe štátnych pracovných záloh číslo 15, 1955. Large octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original embossed beige cloth; ca. 200 leaves of text to rectos. Title beginning to detach; else very good. Scarce and very appealing Slovak typographic specimen book, published by a state-run trade school in Bratislava, evidently..... More

Prague: S.V.U. Mánes, 1934. Octavo (20 × 13.8 cm). Original printed light pink wrappers, pictorial dust jacket illustrated with a drawing by Toyen; 180, [2] pp. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper; the wrapper with dust-soiling and small nicks to upper edges and spine extremities. First Czech..... More

Prague: Nakladatelství Dr. Eduard Grégr a syn pro Reklamní klub v Praze, 1942. Quarto (29.2 × 21.3 cm). Original printed boards; 120 pp. of text with numerous photographs and drawings, followed by [33] pp. of plates, with two images per page, printed to rectos and versos. Lacking the dust jacket;..... More

Warsaw: Wydawnictwo "Prasa Wojskowa", 1949. Large octavo (26.4 × 18.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated staple-stitched self-wrappers; 31, [1] pp. First leaf with recent tape repair to upper corner; a few nicks; still about very good. Surprisingly scarce account of the Battle of Stalingrad, photo-illustrated and with numerous striking photomontages by Mieczysław..... More

Prague: [Architektura ČSR], 1946. Octavo (20.8 × 14.8 cm). Original card wrappers in photo-illustrated dust wrapper; 57, [2] pp. Unattributed photo-illustrated cover. Very good. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer Bohuslav Brouk, one of the first promoters of Freud’s work in Czechoslovakia. He..... More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Krasnaia nov'", 1924. Octavo (19.4 × 13.3 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 150 pp. About very good; Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; text toned. Second (but only recorded) edition of this volume of proletarian poetry. Doronin was a member of the "Workers' Spring" [Rabochaia vesna] and "October" [Oktiabr']..... More

Revel' (Tallinn): Knigoizdatel'stvo "Bibliofil", 1921. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original illustrated wrappers by A. Vabbe; 108, [4] pp. Publisher's ads. A fine copy; uncut and unopened. First edition of this play by Symbolist director and playwright Nikolai Evreinov, which was staged all throughout Europe during the 1920s and translated..... More

Slezská Ostrava: Tiskem a nákladem Aloise Šaška, [1923]. Oblong octavo (14.4 × 21.2 cm). Original decorative card portfolio, containing [8] pp. of introductory text and 60 numbered lithographed plates in black-and-white on card stock. The cards fine; the portfolio worn, with tape repairs and one flap detached. Portfolio of decorative..... More

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

Moscow-Leningrad: Snabtekhizdat, 1932. Quartos (30 × 21.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (the design is repeated in different colors); 182 pp. (consecutive pagination). Light soil and foxing to wrappers; three issues with detached wrappers and chipping to edges; internally very good. Scarce series of instructional brochures, intended as an introductory..... More

Warsaw: Impr. de W. Lazarski, [1923]. Octavo (23 × 18 cm). Original letterpress limp wrappers with protective paper cover; 79, [1] pp. printed on special-made Holland paper by the Mirkow Paper Mill. Twenty-seven illustra- tions, most full-page some color. Very good. Issued on the occasion of the congress of librarians..... More

Moscow: Fizkul'tura i turizm, 1931. Octavo (19 x 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 207, [1] pp. followed by unnumbered leaves of plates. 55 illustrations throughout. Wrappers somewhat toned; minor staining to lower right corner, affecting several pages; still about very good. A history of the “social function of the motif..... More