Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More

Tbilisi: Sakartvelos k’ino (Georgian cinema), 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi; 32 pp. With six illustrations, of which five full-page. Text toned due to stock; rust to staple; else about very good. Early Georgian-language monograph about the popular film actress Nato (Natalia) Vachnadze (1904-1953)..... More

Munich: Vydavnytstvo "Suchasna Ukraina", 1952 and Paris: Vydannia Pershoi Ukrains'koi Drukarni u Frantsii, 1955. Octavos (18.2 × 12.3 and 18.3 × 13.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31 and 30, [2] pp. Very good. Two volumes of poems by Diamara Oleksiivna Khodymchuk, born 1925. Khodymchuk's parents were actors at the Berezil..... More

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

Prague: Československá grafická Unie, [1937]. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers on green stock; 122, [2] pp. Light wear to wrappers; spine sun-tanned; else about very good. Scarce book of essays by the little-known Serbian feminist writer, who was active in the Czech women's movement beginning in the..... More

Tbilisi, 1925-1927. Octavos (26 × 18 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 32-40 pp. per issue. Illustrations throughout, including a photomontage by Klutsis. Light soil and foxing to wrappers, else very good. Four issues of a Georgian communist periodical for children, with poetry, musical notes, puzzles, photographs, drawings, and vignettes throughout..... More

Prague: F. J. Müller, 1931. Small octavo (21.5 × 12.5 cm). Original blind orange wrappers in original glassine wrapper; [5] pp. and [1] leaf. Printed on laid paper, bound Japanese-style with folded leaves. Color frontis, hand-colored by Toyen. Very good. Rare promotional brochure (prospectus) for this translation of the Old..... More

Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1979. Octavo (16.5 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 167, [1] pp. Five full-page illustrations by Rosenstein. Light soil to wrappers. Very good. First edition. Third collection of poetry by the Polish-Jewish surrealist artist and poet Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004), illustrated with five black and white reproductions of..... More

[Moscow, ca. early 1970s?]. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original stab-stapled cloth-backed folder, into which are stapled 28 leaves of typescript to rectos. Occasional corrections in ink. Wrappers worn; internally good or better. A curious artifact, this samizdat gathers two long poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. The first, “The poem of..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1929. Octavo (19.8 × 13.7 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Karel Teige; 134, [3] pp. This copy unnumbered, but signed and inscribed by the author and Toyen to Vitězslav Nezval. Very good or better; with very faint soil to wrappers. Third edition (but first illustrated) of the acclaimed..... More

Lublin: Galeria Grodzka BWA [Biura Wystaw Artystycznych], 1990. Quarto (29.8 × 21.4 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [10] leaves of reproduced handwritten texts and drawings. Light wear and soil to wrappers; still about very good. Volume of texts and drawings by the Polish performance and conceptual artist Ewa Zarzycka (born..... More