Harbin: Izdatel’stvo M. V. Zaitseva, [1936?]. Octavo (21.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial card boards; 11 pp. Numerous illustrations, including two full-page color plates. Card wrappers and pages somewhat creased, but still about very good. Rare illustrated children's book about the adventures of three dogs who go hunting, published for..... More
Moscow: ca. 1958–1961. Oblong folio (21 × 31 cm). Light blue buckram photo-album, with illustration of Leningrad to front board; twenty unnumbered card leaves with handwritten text to rectos and versos in blue ink, with painted red and blue headings and collaged images, newspaper text, and original photographs. Some browning..... More
![Ispanskaia tantsovshchitsa [The Spanish Dancer]. Film promotional booklet published by the Soviet...](/pictures/thumb/P4821_1.jpg?v=1592501883)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, [1927]. 12mo (13.5 × 8.8 cm). Staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [7] pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; text browned to lower corners; stamp of Uzbekgoskino to rear wrapper. A scarce, fragile survival: this promotional prospectus was sold along with the newspaper "Kino" and the journal "Sovetskii ekran." It introduces and explains..... More
Petrograd: Tip. Fleitmana, 1915. Octavo (16.2 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 28 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; tiny Soviet bookstore mark to rear wrapper; still a very good copy. Scarce exhibition catalog of the Russian Imperial Society of Watercolor Painters, held in wartime Petrograd. The exhibition included a wide range..... More
St. Petersburg: Ispolneno v Khudozhestvennoi Fototipii i Tsinkografii A. I. Vil'borg, 1900. Quarto (32 × 23.5 cm). Original string-bound pictorial wrappers; [34] leaves on coated stock, with tissue guards, many of them printed. Color lithographs, as well as photographs in unusual configurations (early photo-montage), with ornamental floral frames in the..... More
Tallinn and Tartu: Kirjanikkude Ühingu "Siuru" Kirjastus; "Odamehe" kirjastus, 1917-1919. Quartos (27 × 19.2 cm). Later buckram bindings, preserving original pictorial wrappers by Nikolai Triik and Ado Vabbe (front and back); 148, [2]; 115, [4]; and 134 pp. Three full-page illustrations by Triik (volume I), six full-page drawings, of which..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie khudozhestvenno-graficheskogo zavedeniia "Union", [1916]. Octavo (23 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 60 pp. Light moisture damage, affecting margins of first and last few leaves; some wear to spine extremities; still good or better. Catalog of the forty-fourth exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, known as..... More
Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More
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1924. Tartu: Propeller, 1924. Octavo (24.5 × 16.5 cm). Original wrappers with a constructivist design and typography by Jaan Vahtra; 109, [3] pp. One original woodcut print and fifteen smaller illustrations by Vahtra in the text. Printed on thick paper. A very good copy. One of the most striking publications..... More
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", [1929]. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Mykola Bytyns'kyi; 274, [5] pp. With two folding maps and one folding chart. Very good; wrappers and last few pages a little dusty; else apparently unread. First and only issue of the émigré..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Large octavo (26 × 21 cm). Original orange paper-covered boards, incorporating an illustration by Mikhail Larionov; 26 pp. With six illustrations by Larionov throughout. Recent professional repair to spine; moisture damage to boards; very light traces of moisture to plates; still good or better. First..... More
Brno: [Grafický klub pro Moravu], 1925. Folio (44 × 32 cm). Recent gray portfolio with gilt-tooled title to front board; letterpress-printed title, introductory text, and seven plates of dry point etchings (one duplicate leaf!), some signed in the plate, and six prints signed in pencil by the artist (only duplicate..... More
1961-1965. Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1961-1965. Quartos (23 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 73 to 128 pp. each. Very good; light wear to wrappers; spine head of issue 8 lightly frayed. Complete run of the last surrealist journal edited by Breton, published in Paris from 1961-1965. With reproductions of..... More
272, XXXVIII pp. facsimile of the text originally printed in 1497 by Johann Grüninger in Strasbourg, with commentary by Gustav Klein discussing the printing methods, 16 plates showing titles pages and illustrations from works by Hieronymus Brunschwig and others. Small 4to. Wrpps., covers faded, original title-wrapper shredding. Munich (Carl Kuhn)..... More
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Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1926. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [4], 88 pp. 60 illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers lightly worn, with small nicks and creases; spine ends chipped, with some loss of spine strip; internally very good..... More
Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1927. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 111, [1] pp. Publisher's ads for the emigre journal "Perezvony" inside rear wrapper. Numerous illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers very lightly creased from use; else very good..... More
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo A. S. Zaksa, [1931]. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 65, [1] pp. Illustrations. Publisher’s ads. Wrappers very lightly soiled; sturdy pages toned due to paper stock; one page with small closed tear; a very good copy. Rare translation of one of the most famous works..... More
![Mámení [Delusion].; Edice nakloněná rovina 1. Zdirad J. K. Čech, born 1949](/pictures/thumb/P002895_1.jpg?v=1587487563)
[Prague]: 1989; 2012. Sewn balsa wood boards (30.5 × 19 cm), with original linocut sheets mounted to front and back; six gatherings consisting of 2-3 folio sheets. Signed by the author on the colophon. Very good, soft wooden boards with a few light marks. A surreal poetic meditation on time..... More
Vienna: Gedruckt und in Commission der Mechitaristen-Congregations-Buchhandlung, 1836. Quarto (25.8 × 19.7 cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; spine gilt-tooled, with black spine label; engraved frontis portrait, xxi, [1], 441, [3] pp. abd 72 [i.e. 71] leaves of plates (two double-folded and double-numbered). Boards and spine rubbed; corners somewhat scuffed;..... More
![Zahrada hříchu: grotesky [The garden of sins: grotesques].; Knihovna Osvobození života v...](/pictures/thumb/P004177.jpg?v=1587551522)
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
131 pp. play by the German literary master, including 6 plates showing drawings by Goetz Freiherrn von Seckendorff (1889-1914) of characters in the play, delicately hand colored with watercolors by Emil Wöllner, additional engraved title-page by E.R. Weiss. 8vo. Embossed leather, front cover slightly rubbed. Munich (Marées-Gesellschaft) 1918. (Marées-Gesellschaft, 1)..... More
The first edition of this children's book, 191 pp., telling the story of a young immigrant, featuring illustrations by Lea Grundig. Scattered illustrations throughout, including a number of visually arresting full-page illustrations. Minor browning, scattered foxing, spine slightly shaken, repair to front endpaper and flyleaf. 8vo. Original decorative cloth binding..... More
Prague: Družstvo "Vlast", 1948. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched printed; [26] pp. of text. Fourteen black-and-white reproductions and a frontis portrait of the author. Signed by three of the four contributors: Lorenc, Kundera, and Tomeš. Very good. Scarce booklet accompanying what appears to be the first solo..... More
Berlin/Leipzig: Friedrich Ernst Hübsch, 1931. Small quarto (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original linen boards, attractively printed in blue and black; dust wrapper; [7] leaves of text, [16] leaves of reproductions, and [10] leaves of ads. Boards very lightly rubbed; overall a very good copy. Published as part of the extensive..... More
Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1928. Octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original photographic wrappers; 30, [2] pp. Illustrated wrappers by V. A. Filippov. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout the text. Wrappers lightly worn and creased; internally very good. First edition of this monograph on Viktorina Kriger (1893-1978), the famous Russian ballet dancer, who performed..... More