A complete run in 6 issues, each issue 32-48 pp., of the provocative satirical 60's Czech journal under the editorial direction of Jan Jirasek, published during the brief period of political liberalization leading up to the Prague Spring of 1968, with political satire, erotic and literary humor, and innovative typographic..... More

1927. Prague: R. Rejman, 1927. Small octavo (16 × 11.4 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [40] leaves. A very good copy. Scarce collection of good-natured, but witty parodies of contemporary Czech political life, including the communists, fascists, republicans, workers and bourgeois, as well as leading figures of the Czech avant-garde, such..... More

Slezská Ostrava: Tiskem a nákladem Aloise Šaška, [1923]. Oblong octavo (14.4 × 21.2 cm). Original decorative card portfolio, containing [8] pp. of introductory text and 60 numbered lithographed plates in black-and-white on card stock. The cards fine; the portfolio worn, with tape repairs and one flap detached. Portfolio of decorative..... More

Prague: F. Svoboda, 1926. Octavo (20 × 15.5 cm). Original typographically illustrated wrappers; 108, [4] pp. About very good; wrappers lightly discolored and worn to edges. Appealing understated typographic design for this Czech translation of Ivanov's adventure novella, first published in 1925. Ivanov (1895-1963) was a member of the Serapion..... More

Kiev: self-published (Kyiv-Druk), 1927. Large oblong octavo (17 × 26 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, not preserving original decorative wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light moisture stains to leaves; text evenly toned due to stock; good or better. Scarce commercially published album intended as a guide for lettering of..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Wrappers very lightly smudged; else very good or better. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to September 1924. "Nowa kultura" was a continuation..... More

Olomouc: Slav, 1934. Octavo (19 × 14.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 74, [6] pp. Very good. In protective mylar sleeve. Scarce regional avant-garde book of poems, with spare but attractive typographic design to wrappers and throughout (on title, section titles, etc.). Nezbeda (1912-2004) was a teacher and poet from Moravia..... More

Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1928. Octavo (16.7 × 11.5). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. First edition of this rare collection of cinema-themed feuilletons by Shershenevich, one of the co-founders of the Ego-Futurist group and later a noted theoretician and propagator of Russian Futurism, who edited numerous almanacs and collections of..... More

1927. Prague: Spolek Typografia v Praze; Orbis, 1927. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original printed card folder, with thirty-four bookplates mounted on black card stock and loosely inserted; string-bound text part (14 pp.) laid in. Signed and inscribed by the editor, Rudolf Hála. Folder lightly worn; largely lacking green tie..... More