Vienna: Wien-Progress, 1930. Quarto (29 × 20.6 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [1] leaf of introductory text followed by [12] leaves of letter sets with gummed versos. Entirely unused; near fine. First and only edition of a scarce, pioneering publication of adhesive letter shapes, meant for composing advertising posters and other..... More

[Berlin]: Sala, [circa 1890]. Duodecimo (15.5 x 10.3 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; unpaginated (78 pp.), a mix of introductory text pages in various languages, silhouette-style illustrations, and chromolithographed plates. Some light soiling and handling wear or creasing to wrappers, binding coming loose, some light soiling and handling wear to interior..... More

Various cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston: various publishers, primarily circa 1890's to 1920s. Various sized quartos (most measuring approximately 31 x 23.5 cm or 35 x 26.5 cm). Original publisher's colorful wrappers; most circa 4-8 pp. Wrappers worn, many with detached covers, some with tape repairs..... More

Year 35, No. 1 (January 1923) through Year 35, No. 12 (December 1923), 12 issues bound in 1, 228 pp. serial devoted to numerous aspects of the Hungarian printing industry, including advertising posters, book cover design, print ads, etc., heavily illustrated throughout, many images in excellent color, some tipped-in. 4to..... More

Various cities: various publishers, circa 1924. Various sizes, mostly octavo 18 to 24 cm high, some fold out to larger sheets. Original printed wrappers and self-wrappers; pagination ranges from single sheets to a 14-pp. catalog. Some light handling wear, chipping, minor soiling, overall very good. An assortment of seven 1920's..... More

Budapest: Együtt, 1929. Octavo (24.4 × 16.2 cm). Original wrappers with typographic linocut print to cover by Vera Csillag; 45, [3] pp. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled and foxed; sections uncut and unopened; else very good. First edititon of this collection of poems by György Bálint, who was a writer, publicist, and..... More

Berlin: [Berthold AG], 1930. Quarto (30.5 × 21.7 cm). Original pictorial card folder with three folding flaps; housing thirteen items of ephemera, of varying sizes, including brochures, samples mounted to cardboard, letterhead, and promotional flyers, all using different cuts of the Radio typeface. Very good or better. Scarce sampling of..... More

12 vols., altogether over 7000 pp. catalogue, by J. van den Gheyn, Fréderic Lyna, Emile Wagemans, et al., of the collection of over 8500 illuminated and otherwise rare or unusual mss. in the Royal library, each item described, many with extensive annotations and cross-references. 4to. Orig. wrpps., some vols. sl..... More

Prague: Nakladatelství Svoboda, 1969. Slim octavo (24 × 10 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers designed by Milan Grygar, over blind wrappers; 78, [1] pp. Light wear and toning to edges of dust-wrappers, else about very good. First editon of these translations into Czech by Jiří Gruša of poems by Erich Fried..... More

Barcelona: Graficos Alfa, 1934. Quarto (28 x 22 cm). Original two-color illustrated side-stapled wrappers; unpagined (approximately 23 leaves, most printed recto only). Toning and slight warping to wrappers, minor soiling, abrasions and minor chipping along spine, small loss to lower right corner of front corner, creasing along right side of..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1927. Octavo (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 163 pp. Light wear to wrappers; about very good. Uncommon volume reflecting the shift of bibliography from the sphere of personal collecting to a matter of key importance for the young Soviet state and its libraries, trade union..... More

Kaunas: "Sakalo" b-ves leidinys, 1932. Octavo (19.8 × 14.1 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Vladas Fedotas-Sipavičius; 64 pp. Some creasing to text block and wear to overlapping wrapper edges; owner signature to first leaf; still about very good. First edition of this book of avant-garde-inflected verse by a Lithuanian poet..... More

Berlin: Jüdischer Literarischer Verlag (Idishe literarisher farlag, printed by Lutze & Vogt), 1923. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Y. Tshaykov; 163, [3] pp. Light wear and traces of professional restoration to spine and hinges; else about very good; the best copy we have encountered in the..... More