623 pp. expansive volume on American typefaces produced by the San Francisco outpost of the noted Keystone type foundry, together with a catalogue of printing equipment including type case stands, make-up tables, galley racks, presses, newspaper presses, paper cutters, binding machines, and stitchers. Profusely illustrated throughout with woodcut borders, text..... More

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

The first of a set of four volumes (68 pp., pp. 26-67 printed and numbered to rectos only) of the Catalan albums produced as source books for Trochut typefaces, displaying advancements in modern typography and typographical design, comprised of brief introductory text in Spanish and French, followed by examples of..... More

48 pp. type specimen catalogue from the landmark type foundry, presenting numerous examples of the various uses of typefaces in a range of commercial printing applications, including stationary, magazine ads, notices, and trade catalogues, plus two folding plates including a replica of a large newspaper ad for a clothing store..... 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

Olomouc: Index, 1937. Octavo (20.5 × 14.6 cm). Publisher's decorative wrappers; 50, [1] pp. Bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; very light soil to wrappers; else very good. First edition of this work on Czech modernist music by interwar musicologist Helfert (1886-1945), an early champion of the work of Leoš Janácek..... More

Prague: Československý spisovatel, [1968]. Quarto (29.5 × 18 cm). Original blind wrappers with typo-illustrated dust-wrappers; accordeon-bound leaves; [69] pp. With four full-page color lithographs ("graphic labyrints") by Zdeněk Sklenǎŕ and numerous pages of typographic compositions by Hlavsa. A very good copy. Bilingual edition, with text in Latin and Czech, 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 creased; tear to upper edge of two leaves not affecting text; overall very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary..... 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 by the avant-garde artist Mieczysław..... More

Nitra: Tiskem "Slovenské knihtiskárny" L. Tyršel, [1920]. Octavo (18.5 × 13.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Very good. Second, expanded edition, in Czech, of an impassioned pamphlet by the Slovak priest, about whom little is known. Against the background of the First World War, Meakulpinský calls for a...... 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

Olomouc: Index, [1938]. Single leaf, 30.5 × 21.2 cm, thrice folded to create a slim leaflet. Toned, else fine. Scarce promotional booklet, designed by Zdeněk Rossmann, for the Index publishing house in Olomouc, which also issued the eponymous modern art and architecture journal throughout the 1930s. With Rossmann's distinctly understated..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1927-1928. Octavo (ca. 23 × 18 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards; decorative leather spine labels; preserving all front and rear wrappers; approx. 32–40 pp. per issue. Numerous photographs and illustrations. Wrappers resized with very slight loss to right and lower margin; else very good. “The most..... More