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First and only edition. Small quarto 24x17 cm., original pictorial wrappers, 48 pp. Very small edition, under 150. The Title translates as Day and Night, or Around the Clock. Woodcut cover and five full-page woodcuts by Aleksander Bergmann, the lifelong pseudonym of Aleksander Vardi (1901-1983). Vardi achieved renown in Estonia for his Impressionist and color-saturated landscapes in a style he embarked on by 1928. The work he did for this book was executed during his studies in Tartu at the Pallas Art Institute and was part of an experimental phase. He used the Bergmann pseudo for his book illustrations. These were always an opportunity for him to explore other approaches. Here he employs a highly original cubo-expressionism. Author Julius Oengo (Öngo, 1901-1941) was a poet and widely published author of children's books. He and his wife were captured in the Soviet invasion following the Ribbentropp Pact and disappeared, presumably liquidated. OCLC locates two worldwide holdings (Columbia,… Read More

Riga: Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, 1926 Folio 32 x 24.5cm, wrappers, 68pp., French text. A commemoration of art and culture in Latvia published by the government, showcasing both traditional and more recent art, architecture, folk art, music, theatre, literature and photography in 16 essays and a host of illustrations. Cover and frontispiece by Sigismunds Vidbergs. Several full-page color reproductions, some tipped on, by Purvitis, Liberts, One of the earliest surveys of Latvian art and culture published in a Western European language. Worldcat finds no copies in North American libraries, uncommon.

Oblong octavo 15x19,5 cm., wrappers, (10) pp. Cover and illustrations by Aleksandr Vasil'evich Nikolaev (1897-1957). Author Olga Trizna (1898-1939) is only known as Soviet writer. The illustrator is noted here as Usto-Mumin, a working name for Alexander Vasilyevich Nikolaev (1897-1957), who was an Uzbek Soviet artist of note; he was known as Honored Worker of Arts of the Üzbek SSR, painter, graphic artist, founder of new Üzbek painting. In 1919 he attended the second State Free Art Workshops with Kazimir Malevich in Moscow. In 1920, under the mandate of the Turk Central Executive Committee, to strengthen and develop national arts, he moved to Turkestan and joined the artistic association Masters of the New East . OCLC locates four North American institutional holdings (Chicago, Harvard, Univ MO, Princeton). Near fine, a very fresh copy of a lovely book.

New York: Dancey-Davis, 1923 Folio 32.5 x 24.5 cm, wrappers, 32pp. Cover design and numerous color illustrations by Serge Sudeikine (Sergei Sudeikin), with work also by Nicolas Remizoff (Nikolai Remizov). Undated. An extravagently conceived announcement for the first tour in New York for 17 months under the auspices of C.Ray Comstock & Morris Guest, it is a fine document of costume and theatre design by two of the preeminent Russian avant-garde artists. Fine except for a small chip off front cover. Rare.

Tokyo: Sheishosha Ltd., 1975 Folio 37x26cm, cloth, 327pp., slipcased. No. 124 of 170 copies of the Overseas Limited Edition. Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955) was a great master of printmaking and book design, participating in all manner of Japanese visual culture including printing, photography bookmaking, editing and publishing. He worked in all genres but is especially noted for his abstractions and experimentation in various media. This is close to a catalogue raisonné ever published and offers 424 black/white illustrations and 125 in color; one beautiful original print included with the artist's blind-stamp. Captions are in English/Japanese, with several essays in English. A fine copy. Please note weight of 12 lb. packed to ship.

Octavo 17,8x 12 cm., wrappers, (26) pp. The All-Russian Union of Poets was organized in Moscow in 1918 and continued to 1929 when it was absorbed into All Russian Union of Writers.
In 1922 it came under the scrutiny of the NKVD who forced it to change the charter of its aims This collection consists of exponents of various schools "due to the extreme dubiousness of the goals and revolutionary objectives pursued by the Union, as well as harmful activities to the ranks of youth." This is the second poetry collection issued by the Union. Poets representing various isms are found here with Mandel'shtam (Sestry), Tsvetaeva (Kon'-Khrom), Pasternak (Mne v sumerki ty vse..), Sel'vinskii and Boguslavskii, among others. Rare, Getty 827,MOMA 394. Printed on heavy van Gelder, This copy very crisp, near fine. With very fine cover by Gustav Klutsis, one of his earliest works.

Belgrade: Cvijanovic (Nadrealisticka izdanja), 1931 Quarto 29.5x21.5 cm., wrappers, 48pp. Nadrealizam danas i ovde appeared for three issues. Together with Nemoguce, it is the most advanced of Serbian Surrealist efforts which would soon encounter government suppression and cripple surrealist activity there. Artwork by Dalí, Ernst, Zivanovic-Noje, Tanguy, Aleksandar Vuco and Zivanovic-Bor inter alia. Four holdings in North America as per OCLC (Getty, MOMA, NYPL, Univ VA). This copy fine.

Prague: Aventinum, 1925 Folio 48 x 32 cm, 9 annuals in 7 vols. (all published), 130, 228, 250, 398, 504, 474, 324, 72, 134 pp. A weekly and sometimes biweekly magazine which showcased all the contemporary visual arts, film, music, and literature. with greatest emphasis on the Czechoslovak world but embracing the international scene in a spectacular newspaper format. It is most renowned with the covers of the fifth year by Adolf Hoffmeister, whose caricature portraits of avant-garde luminaries both Czech and abroad have reached greatest exposure and established as cultural icons of the day, but only in the post-communist era. It is now an historical fact that interwar Prague was the most open city of the era, possibly overtaking Paris and New York as a center of discourse and exchange of ideas artistic and political. This weekly magazine included reviews of important exhibitions, interviews with artists and authors, essays on all the artists and richly illustrated with drawings, graphics and photos: a… Read More

Prague: Svaz Ceskoslovenskych Klubu Fotografu Amateru, 1937 4to, dec. cloth, 284pp.