CESKOSLOVENSKA FOTOGRAFIE. Complete in 12 volumes by (Czech Avant-Garde Photography) Skarda, A - 1931-1949

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine/No dust jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece and 56 plates, some in color, by Covarrubias. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Brown Modern art binding: full, polished morocco; front and back covers each has a stylized African-American head outlined in gilt. Top edge gilt. A few spots of foxing on the front fly-leaf and the margins of the final plate, still a beautiful copy. Near fine/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item).

Hartford, Conn.: Clark & Smith, 1883. 1st edtion. Octavo, rebound in brown buckram, top edge gilt, uncut, 144 pp. Plates, fold-out map. Very Good.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form with ‘S. Veller’ on page 342, line 5; ‘this friends’ for ‘his friends’ on page 400, line 21 and ‘f’ in ‘of’ imperfect in the headline on page 432. Octavo, bound by Morrill in full tan polished calf, calf labels, gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt. Extra-illustrated with 9 additional plates by Buss and Miller. Near-Fine; front joint is tender.

A Moonlight Boy, Ticknor and Company, 1886, first edition, slight wear and rubbing to spine extremities and fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original pictorial binding. While not a fantasy title per se, chapter 12, "The Attic Ghost," does indeed contain 12 pages of an encounter with a talking ghost. A very scarce book.

Prague, FR. Borovy, 1937. Uncut. 150pp. small 4to. In very good condition. With a card from the publisher Fr. Borovy.Nezval, Vitìzslav. Most. (The bridge). Praha, Fr.Borový, (1937). 2nd edition. (21,4 x 13, 5 cm). 148, 1 pp. Typography by Teige. Title page and 2 photomontages by Teige. Original wrappers, designed by Teige. 375,- ¶ A new edition of Nezvals first book of poems from the period 1919-1921 (first ed., published in Brno, S.Koci, 1922, under the auspices of Devìtsil, and not illustrated) is remarkable for the lenghty introductory essay Introduction to my work to-date, an overview of Nezvals literary output since his debut. The remarkable title page, with traditional elements, in strange contrast with the two surrealist photomontages. With a new publishers device and a composition with the letter N, designed by Teige.

Hatje Cantz Publishers. vg/vg dj. 4to, 361 pp. Hardcover. Dust jacket. 160 color illustrations. A massive work.

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1991. One of 25 copies, text on Apta Royale Laid Richard de Bas paper (made in 1938), images on Musee paper, backed on custom-made papers by Paul Wong on Dieu Donne' Papermill. Page size: 16 inches x 16 inches. Bound by Zahra Partovi in Coptic-style mauve-grey silk over boards, box by David Bourbeau, Thistle Bindery, fine. Six original line etchings by Susan Weil are hand-painted in watercolor and gouache with gold-leafing throughout, each mounted on museum board. These images surround the 40-page text when sitting in the box and when lifted out become three-dimensional paintings. There are also two original collages in the text and on the boards of the cover which is printed in three colors. The calligraphy is by Jerry Kelly and the letterpress is by Dan Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress. Susan Weil's third Joyce book takes an excerpt from FINNEGAN'S WAKE and it is as much as tour de force as her previous two. The box itself is a piece of sculpture, and… Read More

Stamford: The New Overbrook Press, 1984. This copy in a unique binding by Jack & Emma Craib: full black morocco with mother-of-pearl onlays forming design of characters from the play climbing out of the cylinder tube in which Beckett has set the play. The design reveals itself as a pictorial image only with the use of an anamorphoscope which is a 6 inch silver tube sitting on top of one of the marble onlays. Limited to 250 copies on Rives, each copy signed by Samuel Beckett. Each of the seven etchings is hand-numbered and signed by the artist, Charles Klabunde. Charles Klabunde, master engraver, was born in Nebraska where he spent the first two formative decades of his life. He received his MFA at the University of Iowa where his unusual talents were discovered by master print-maker Mauricio Lazansky who invited Klabunde to join his Print Workshop. Following his one-man exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the artist moved to New York where he established his own printmaking studio and… Read More

Prague, FR. Borovy, 1937. Uncut. 150pp. small 4to. In very good condition. With a card from the publisher Fr. Borovy.Nezval, Vitìzslav. Most. (The bridge). Praha, Fr.Borový, (1937). 2nd edition. (21,4 x 13, 5 cm). 148, 1 pp. Typography by Teige. Title page and 2 photomontages by Teige. Original wrappers, designed by Teige. 375,- ¶ A new edition of Nezvals first book of poems from the period 1919-1921 (first ed., published in Brno, S.Koci, 1922, under the auspices of Devìtsil, and not illustrated) is remarkable for the lenghty introductory essay Introduction to my work to-date, an overview of Nezvals literary output since his debut. The remarkable title page, with traditional elements, in strange contrast with the two surrealist photomontages. With a new publishers device and a composition with the letter N, designed by Teige.

1930-1960. Popular and indigenous music published from 1946-1960. All in very good condition.8vo. Housed in a contemporary clam shell box.