Prague: Nakladatelství K. Synek, [1946]. Quarto (29.7 × 21 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 39 pp. One photographic insert (a black-and-white photograph by Miroslav Hák). Front wrapper with paper loss along upper margin; else about very good. Rare first and only issue of this curious post-war Czech almanach, which sought to..... More

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

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

Prague: František Trefný, 1934–1935. Octavos (20.5 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (with photographic reproduction on front and back covers); ca. 24–30 pp. per issue (consecutive pagination). Very good or better. Scarce complete run, in near fine condition, of this journal of "soft erotica" published, and probably largely authored..... More

Original gelatin prints, measuring 13.8 × 9.2 cm. Very good. A rare group of forty photographs by an unknown photographer, providing a visual history of the artistic and quasi-political group performance art movement Pomarańczowa Alternatywa [Orange Alternative], which arose in the early 1980s. The carnivalesque group reached its peak of..... More

[Warsaw]: CDN, [1982 or 1983]. White card portfolio measuring 19 × 14 cm, with three flaps, containing twenty numbered photographic prints, with a list and description of the images inside wrappers. Light overall wear; very good. Complete portfolio of original photographic prints showing the prisoners of Białołęka internment camp, and..... 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 run in 11 issues of the conceptual art journal, comprised mainly of photographs of artwork, containing contributions from a large number of important international artists including H.P. Adamski, Hans-Peter Feldman, Giulio Paolini, Klaus Richter, Robert Cumming, Martin Disler, Pieter Holstein, Alex Silber, Gerhard Theewen, David Askevold, Robert Barry, Antonius..... 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

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

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

Second edition. Prague: F. Svoboda, 1925, Octavo (21.2 × 13.5 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Vojtěch TIttelbach (signed); 66, [3] pp. Signed and inscribed by Biebl in 1928. Lower spine with light wear; else about very good. Second editon of this volume of poems by the Devětsil poet Konstantin Biebl..... More

Prague: Nakladatelství V. Šmidt, [1947]. Octavo (20.7 × 13.2 cm). Original cloth-backed card boards with vignette; photographic dust-wrappers by Karel Teige; 240, [2] pp. Very good or better; in protective mylar. First Czech edition of Bromfield's novel, translated by Hana Bílková and with a late photo-montage cover design by Karel..... More