A fascinating and unique World War I German Red Cross hospital train photograph album, with an accordion-folded sheet the length of 10 pages, containing the title page, 8-leaf colored blueprint of the layout of the train, and 1-page description of the layout, followed by 11 original photographs, 9 of which..... More
Prague: Bratří Šulcové, ca. 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Single folded leaf, [4] pp. With striking photo-montage compositions to first and last page, and advertising text to pp. 2 and 3. Lower right corner very lightly creased; else very good. Scarce leaflet announcing BSA motorcycles, with urban streetscapes evocatively..... More
St. Petersburg: Studio of Adolf Otsup, 1902. Original albumen print, 10.5 × 6.5 cm, mounted on card and inscribed to verso. [A Russian Bylina Singer on Tour]. Carte-de-visite photograph of Ivan Trofimovich Riabinin (1833–1910), a peasant from the Olonets Governorate in Russia’s North-West. Both Ivan Trofimovich and his father, Trofim..... More
Various locations, circa 1921. Photographs 8.5 x 14 cm, album 28 x 20 cm. Fifty black and white photographs housed in a navy blue binder with "First Day Covers" stamped in gold to title and spine, with corresponding blue cardboard slipcase. Some slight creasing and light staining, overall about very..... More
Prague: V[áclav] Klimánek, 1930–1933. Octavo (20.4 × 14.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 40, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs and drawings. Very good or better. Single issue of this early journal of nude photography and erotica in word and image, edited by the painter Václav Klimánek, who had already..... More
Prague: V[áclav] Klimánek, 1930–1933. Octavo (20.4 × 14.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 42 pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs and drawings. Very good or better. Single issue of this early journal of nude photography and erotica in word and image, edited by the painter Václav Klimánek, who had already co-edited..... More
Printed photograph album commemorating the visit of the Crown Prince to the Karafuto prefecture in the summer of 1925, with preface by Okishima Kamazo and edited by Fujii Shoji, consisting of 20 plates with 73 black and white photographs tracing the Crown Prince's trip including visits to schools, agricultural research..... More
Warsaw: Remont Gallery, [1976]. 8vo. (20.3 x 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled thick paper wrappers. 8 pp.; some extremely light soiling and browning, very light wear along spine, overall good condition. A slim exhibition catalog from the Remont Gallery, the contemporary art gallery in Warsaw established and run by photographer Henryk..... More
Kharkiv: Vydavnytstva "Ukrains'kyi robitnyk" (druk. DVOU), 1930-. Quartos (30.3 × 21.2 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial and photo-illustrated wrappers; 16 to 24 pp. per issue. Richly illustrated throughout with photo reproductions and caricatures. Overall about very good; light dust-soiling; a few issues with small Soviet-era library stamps “P.B-ka Sr. Az.” to..... More
Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja (Éditions surréalistes), 1930. Quarto (29.5 × 22 cm). Original printed wrappers; 140 pp. With sixty-one black-and-white reproductions. Laid in is a publisher's announcement for a surrealist bulletin. Wrappers with repair to spine; sewing removed and gatherings loosely inserted; else good or better, in protective mylar. The anthology..... More
Prague: VŽKG, 1954. Octavo (20.8 × 14.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Zdeněk Šták; 81, [3] pp. With numerous illustrations. Book block partially detached from wrappers; wrappers somewhat dust-soiled, else good. As of November, OCLC lists three copies in North America. More
Collection of original photographs and related ephemera chronicling the vaudeville and circus career of "The Darings" and, later, "Jim Daring's Chimps", comprised of 77 original photographs, 8 photo postcards, and 6 additional pieces of assorted ephemera including flyers for the RKO Palace in New York and the former Rocky Point..... More
A complete run of 6 issues bound in 5 (160, 160, 131, 120, 156 pp.) of the transatlantic literary and artistic journal, with text in English and German, edited by Carl Laszlo, René Matti, Michael Barfuss, and Michael Heitmann, discussing topics such as art, photography, pop culture, and underground political..... More
Kharkiv: Vydavnytstvo Derzhsil’hospvydav, 1932. Octavo (30 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 26 pp. Unopened and uncut. Light soil to rear wrapper, else very good. A single issue of the bi-weekly journal of agricultural and technical unions with Mayday photomontage wrappers (unattributed). The issue is dedicated to the completion of..... More
[Moscow]: A. Rerikh, ca. 1900-1903. Oblong folio (25.5 × 35 cm). Original embossed green cloth with gilt title to front board and 25 leaves of photographic plates. Inscription to marbled boards reads: “Presented to F. Lambert by acting Abbot of Solovetsky Monatery, Sept. 20, 1918.” Boards and corners lightly scuffed;..... More
![Book ID: 52758 Výstava "Zločiny nacismu” [“Crimes of nazism”: exhibition]...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52758_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695812224)
Prague: Litera X [Francouzské velvyslanectví], 1946. Octavo (21 × 13.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated pictorial wrappers; [28] pp. Illustrated with photographs and photo-montages, some printed in black and red. Very good or better, in protective mylar. Rare catalog for an exhibition on the crimes and atrocities committed by the Nazis throughout..... More
Torun: self-published, 1969. Octavo (17.8 × 12.3 cm). Original staple-stitched blind card wrappers; [14] leaves of light pink stock, printed to rectos and versos with one page of text and one enlarged photographic reproduction each. Signed and inscribed by Józef Robakowski, with an additional illegible signature to final leaf. Stain..... More
Prague: Správní rada elektr. podniků hl. m. Prahy, 1933. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 16 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs (not attributed). About very good; old vertical crease from mailing; protective mylar cover. Single issue of the striking photo-illustrated periodical issued by Prague’s electricity works, as..... More
![Book ID: 52926 Zhyttia i revoliutsiia: misiachnyk [Life and revolution: a monthly]. Vol....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52926_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686154383)
Kyiv: Derzhavne Vydavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1925–1934. Octavos (ca. 23.8 × 15.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; ca. 175 to 210 pp. per issue. Generally very good; two issues with tears to wrappers and fraying to spine strip; occasional old bookstore stamps and mailing labels to rear wrappers. Ten issues (one double issue)..... More
![Book ID: P5539 Zpěvy o Rusku [Songs about Russia]. From the Russian by Jaroslav...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5539_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585253403)
1946. V Hlučíně: Slezské tisk., nakl. a knihk. družstvo, 1946. Octavo (21 × 15.3 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers by Zdeněk Rossmann; 43, [3] pp. About fine. Scarce undocumented regional, Silesian avant-garde publication with a striking, spare wrapper design by Zdeněk Rossmann, an important Czech architect and graphic designer who..... More
![Book ID: P5542 Nahá krása [Naked beauty].; Edice Vzkříšení, sv. 13. Alois Vojkůvka](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5542_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666212480)
Moravská Ostrava: Lidová knihtiskárna O. Štěpanek a spol., 1934. Octavo (21.3 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 20, [1] pp. Title page printed in red and black. Signed and inscribed by the author About very good; light soil and foxing to wrappers; in protective mylar. Scarce undocumented regional avant-garde design..... 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
Two postcards, each an original photographic print, measuring ca. 8.8 × 13.6 cm. Overall very good; one with text in pencil to verso, but not sent. In mylar sleeves. Two striking Czechoslovak postcards, each using photo-montage to depict a different theme, including the Báťa Hotel in Zlín and another Báťa-themed..... 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
Unpaginated photobook dedicated "allen noch lebenden Widerstandskämpfern des Dritten Reiches", comprised of approximately 29 black-and-white images from the funeral of three members of the RAF, each accompanied by a short explanatory text on the opposite page, with some pages of just text taken from contemporary newspaper reports, the images depicting..... More