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
Photo album with approximately 94 mostly black-and-white photographs collected by a member of the Bay Area BDSM community in the late 1980s and early 1990s, pictures depict events including the Pride parade, a pageant with women in assorted bondage restraints, portraits, and candid shots, most with community members dressed in..... More
A complete run in 64 issues (lacking issue no. 9 of Year 3 and issue no. 9 of Year 4), bound in six volumes, of the German nude culture journal, under the editorial direction of Magnus Weidemann, a pastor, photographer, and nudist, each issue containing essays on nudity and the..... More
Exceptional album of 141 original photographs of World War I in France, including 44 photographs of tanks stamped "SECRET" to front and with official stamp from the "Section Photographique de l'Armée" to the reverse, views of demolished buildings around Vienne-la-Ville, battlefields, aerial views from the Somme region, mortars, and German..... More
Altogether 63 issues of 97 total published. [Moscow?], 1941–1944. Various sizes. Original photo-illustrated self-wrappers; most 4 pp. each. Paper size varied, some trimmed, most offset in various color halftones with red highlights, some scattered toning and creasing as expected, slight rubbing, minor scattered pencil and red pencil marks to a...... 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
66 total issues bound in 7 volumes of the luxurious 1930s medical journal, "revue mensuelle réservée au corps médical". produced by the Debat pharmaceutical laboratories under the direction of Dr. François Debat, first called "La Revue du Médecin" before the title changed to "Art et Médecine", important particularly for its..... More
Group of contact sheets and 35 mm film negatives totaling 264 unique black-and-white images, together with 25 modern 8x10" photographic prints from the negatives, from the August 26, 1971 Women's March for Equality held in New York City, including images of feminist leaders and founders of the National Women's Political..... More
Album of 48 original photographs depicting sights around the city of Guatemala, predominantly architectural, some photographs with hand-written captions or captioned within the plate, views include the Catedral Metropolitana, National Theater, Templo de la Recolección, Plaza de Armas, Gran Hotel, Calle de la Libertad, Calle del Mercado, Iglesia de San..... More
![Molochnoe khoziaistvo na stroike MTF [Dairy farming in the construction of dairy product farms],...](/pictures/thumb/50828_001.jpg?v=1608206944)
Sel’kolkhozgiz, 1932. Octavo (25cm × 17.5cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers (not attributed); 48 pp. Very good; trace of mailing label to rear wrapper. Special issue of a long-standing journal on dairy farming, which was the continuation of a pre-revolutionary trade periodica. It was renewed in 1925 and covered such topics as..... More
Commercial souvenir album of 120 gelatin silver prints, each 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in., of Peking, with printed captions identifying the subjects, the first 98 photos primarily concerned with architecture and ornament, providing detailed exterior views of the city's most famous sites including The Temple of Heaven, the Universal..... More
Collection of photographs of approximately 150 different businesses and associations in the St. Louis area and throughout Missouri and Illinois utilizing Butler rigid-frame pre-engineered buildings, including manufacturing, distributing, civic buildings, small businesses, bowling alleys, car manufacturers and dealerships, and bottling companies, organized alphabetically into two photo albums with alphabetized indices..... 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
Jíru, Václav. Unpaginated (circa 5 pp.) preface to a presentation of twelve 5" x 7" original photographic postcards showing works by the Czech photographer best known for his magazine work, including landscapes and streetscapes. 8vo. Postcards loose as issued in wrpps. portfolio. Prague (Edice Profily) 1963. 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
![Zpěvy o Rusku [Songs about Russia]. From the Russian by Jaroslav Teichmann.; Van, edice krásné...](/pictures/thumb/P5539_1.jpg?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
![Spojité nádoby [Communicating Vessels, originally: Les Vases communicants]. André...](/pictures/thumb/P5616_1.jpg?v=1591105863)
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
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
![100 godzin Stalingradu [100 hours of Stalingrad]. Mieczysław Berman](/pictures/thumb/51226_1.jpg?v=1612955233)
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
![Věrný hlas: básně [The faithful voice: poems]. Konstantin Biebl, designer Vojtěch...](/pictures/thumb/50546_1.jpg?v=1581695280)
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
![Než se rozední [Until the Day Breaks]. Louis Bromfield, artist Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/P5527_1.jpg?v=1601650370)
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