Ljubljana: Milan Vrtovec, 1940. Octavo (24.5 × 16.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Wrappers toned and lightly discolored; else about very good. Scarce anti-communist pamphlet published in Slovenia, issued as part of the periodical "Za resnico" (For the truth), this being vol. 7 in the series. With an..... More
[Belgrade-Zagreb]: Kultura, 1946. Oblong quarto (21.5 × 28.5 cm). Original pictorial card portfolio with three folding flaps; contains twenty leaves of plates reproducing drawings by the artist. Light wear and one partial tear to flaps; else very good. Twenty striking photozincographic reproductions of drawings reflecting the Yugoslav Partisan experience during..... More
Sofia: Narodna kniga, 1936. Octavo (18 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Veselin Staikov; 105, [3] pp. Light wear to spine and fraying to lower spine extremity; else about very good. First edition of this book of village-inspired short stories by G'oncho Bielev (1889-1964), the Bulgarian writer and translator..... More
![Book ID: 51142 Naše pjesme: svezak II [Our songs: volume II]. Natko Devčić,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51142_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1612278663)
[Split?]: Izdanje Kulturno-umjetničkog odjela Ministarstva prosvjete Narodne vlade Hrvatske (Štamparija Oblasnog N.O.O. Dalmacije), 1945. Small octavo (14.7 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 39, [1] pp. Fifteen small in-text vignettes. Signed and inscribed by one female partisan to a friend in July of 1945. Very good or better. Scarce..... More
![Book ID: P6005 Mulchalivi geroi [Silent heroes]. Two parts in one (all published). Dora...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6005_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591102877)
Sofia: Khemus, [1931]. Octavo (22.3 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak-Skitnik (?); 109, [3], 110, [3] pp. Wrappers rebacked; restorations; a few nicks to wrappers; still good or better; in protective mylar. First edition of this account of the life of Soviet military leader and veteran of the..... More
![Book ID: P6014 Vietrove: stikhotvoreniia [The winds: poems]. Andrei Kamengradov, 1905-...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6014_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591104664)
Sofia: Novo izkustvo, 1929. Octavo (22 × 14.5 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers; 46, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to title in the year of publication. Very good. First edition of the second book of poems by Kamengradov (i.e. Andrei Manev), the Bulgarian poet and prose writer..... More
![Book ID: P6374 Avtomati: neveroiatni razkazi [Machines: incredible stories]. Svetoslav Minkov](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6374_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593514683)
Sofia: Izdanie Kazanlushka Dolina, 1935. Second, expanded edition. Small octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak Skitnik; 133, [3] pp. Wrappers with light overall wear; front wrapper beginning to detach; some ink stains to upper edge and rear wrapper; bookstore stamps; still good or better. Second edition..... More
Sofia: Azbuka, [1932]. Small quarto (22.3 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Max Metzger; 109, [3] pp. Poor condition; wrappers worn and chipped; traces of four strips of clear tape across spine; possibly lacking title; in protective mylar. First and only edition of a Bulgarian anthology, containing sixteen essays..... More
![Book ID: 52173 6 oktiabria 1929 goda v g. Bielgradie [October 6, 1929 in Belgrade]....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52173_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675549036)
Beograd: Vremia (Izdanie N. P. Rklitskago), 1929. Oblong octavo (14 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers; [16] leaves of photographs to rectos. Stain to wrappers; trace of spine label; else good. Booklet of sixteen photographs documenting the funerary procession and dignitaries, following the arrival and burial of the remains of..... More
Sofia: Pechatnitsa "Doverie", 1932. Octavo (20 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (by the author?); 132 pp. Largely uncut and unopened copy; text toned; small repair to lower right corner; a few nicks to rear wrapper; overall about very good. First work by Rusev (1902-?), a Bulgarian psychologist who was..... More
![Book ID: 50538 Nova pantologija pelengirike [New Panthology of New Serbian Pelengyrics]....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50538_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602571218)
Belgrade: Biblioteka "Misao"; Stamparija "Mirotocivi", 1922. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 176 pp. Stain to rear wrapper; else a very good copy. First edition of a volume of literary parodies by Vinaver, the translator, literary critic, and poet, who was the author of a "Manifesto of..... More
Essegg (Osijek) and Hanau a.M.: self-published (C. Naumann's Druckerei and B. Dondorf in Frankfurt a.M.), [1871 or 1872]. Table of contents and 20 chromolithographed plates, loose as issued in the original publisher's pictorial wrappers. With a text booklet comprising 26 pp. and one wood-engraved plate, in the original publisher's printed..... More
![Book ID: 50805 Svedocanstva: knizevni casopis [Testimonies: a literary journal]. Vol. I,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50805_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614625984)
Belgrade: self-published (Štamparija "Rodoljub"), 1924-1925. Large octavos (24 × 17 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers printed on variously colored stock; 16 pp. each. Vols. 5, 7, and 8 with illustrations to rear wrappers. One issue with detached wrappers; else very good, partly uncut and unopened copies. Complete run in eight..... More
![Book ID: 51713 Pop Express: muzičke novine [Pop Express: music news], nos. 1–23. Darko...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51713_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642603684)
Zagreb: Centar za kulturnu djelatnost omladine Zagreba, 1969–1970. Folded newsprint, measuring ca. 32 × 28.5 to 42 × 29.5 cm per issue; 16-24 pp. per issue. Profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs. Light toning; a few issues with minor foxing, particularly nos. 10-12 and 17; else about very good. Complete..... More
Zagreb, [1932]. Octavo (22.8 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [16] pp. With thirteen black and white reproductions. About very good. Rare catalog of the "Soil" (Zemlja) group, a Croatian artists' group of mostly peasant origin which is thought to have initiated one of the most influential tendencies in modernist..... More