![Trn: Humoristický Občasník [The Thorn: A Humorous Periodical]. Vol. I, No. 1 (1966) through...](/pictures/thumb/48768_001.jpg?v=1580326727)
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
![Noc-dzien: mechaniczny instynkt elektryczny [Night-day: Mechanical electrical instinct]. Tytus...](/pictures/thumb/50134.jpeg?v=1584393964)
Krakow: Gebethner i Wolff (Drukarna "Czasu"), 1922. Octavo (22.3 × 15.2 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 3-41 pp. Very good or better. Fine copy of this volume of futurist poems by Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945), the Polish painter, Futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. In 1917, together with the brothers Zbigniew and..... 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
![Smeshno o kino [About the cinema with humor]. Vadim Shershenevich, designer unattributed](/pictures/thumb/50314_001.jpg?v=1580327010)
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