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Prague: Petr a Tvdrý, 1922 Octavo 20x13.5 cm., original wrappers, 85pp. with four foldouts. Second edition. Linocut cover & page design by Josef Capek. This second Czech edition of Macak's translation was a highly inventive response to Marinetti’s visit to Prague in December 1921 and can be seen as the most creative exercise in Futurist books published in Czech. Capek’s graphic work on this went beyond mere replication of the original graphics, employing the alphabetical symbols and phonetics unique to the Czech language. The publication had a major impact in the Czech publishing world and led to further developments in typography and book design. It is probably also one Josef Capek’s most radical design statements in his long career of bookmaking, especially in the foldouts. Primus No. 6. Worldcat finds 8 North American institutional holdings.

Moscow: Mossoveta, 1933 Quarto, wrappers. Stroitel'stvo Moskvy (1924-1941) is a significant document of soviet architecture and design for the era. Issues through the mid-1930s employ bold typographic experiments and page design. It also became a forum for urban planning, mass housing and monumental construction, in theory and practice between leading architects, engineers and thinkers (e.g., Moisei Ginzburg, Anatoly Lunacharsky). Eventually Soviet orthodoxy and Neoclassicism prevailed and experimental graphics disappeared. T. Kvesin is the editor for this number. Palace of the Soviets, later submissions; projects by Shchuko, Iofan, articles by Lunacharsky, photomontage cover by Elkin. This copy very good + with spine wear.

Moscow: Mossoveta, 1933 Quarto, wrappers. Stroitel'stvo Moskvy (1924-1941) is a significant document of soviet architecture and design for the era. Issues through the mid-1930s employ bold typographic experiments and page design. It also became a forum for urban planning, mass housing and monumental construction, in theory and practice between leading architects, engineers and thinkers (e.g., Moisei Ginzburg, Anatoly Lunacharsky). Eventually Soviet orthodoxy and Neoclassicism prevailed and experimental graphics disappeared. Increasing politicization in articles and design entries with Postroikii domov, Red Army Theater in Moscow, elevation drawings and plans; Nikita Khruschchev, Let s have a Bolshevik build a house. A near fine copy.

Budapest: Pax, 1929 Cover design by József Hanák. Octavo, wrappers, 45, [3] p. 22 x 16 cm. A book of poetry by the Hungarian poet Ernö Tamás. Tamás (1892-1955) was a poet, journalist, and publicist. At the head of the poem Merengés ( Meditation ) on p. 43 is a lithographed hand-drawn staff with the first two measures of the tune for the poem. József Hanák (1903-1945) was a noted Hungarian modernist who worked initially in Nagybánya and and relocated to Paris in 1925, working as a graphic artist for the Pesti Hirlap. As a painter he is chiefly known for his figurative work. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America (NYPL). Inscribed by Tamás with a warm dedication to novelist and editor Adorján Bónyi (1892-1967).

Pisek: Edice Prusvit, 1934 Octavo 21x17 cm., decorated cloth, 42 (3)pp. A fine bibliophile work of the regional Czech avant-garde, with cover and page design by Jiri Skorpil. The Czech National Library, the only institution holding this work, attributes the publication to Miloslav Nodl in Zatec, however our description takes the information as stated in the book and colophon. Author Miroslav Tater (1911-?) is known to have published three collections of poetry in the 1930s. This book is delightfully conceived with constructivist page design and experiment throughout. Signed by author on title page. No library holdings found in North America.

Quarto 30.5x26.5 cm., embossed canvas folio, (2), holding ten original albumen prints. 3400 copies. Book design by Stanislav Kohout, bibliophile printing by Josef Prošek. A retrospect after fifteen years ending WWII in Prague, when hostilities ceased in May 1945. Jiří Taufer provides a short essay, with a visual essay of original photos by Jaroslav Pacovský, Slava Štochi,Václav Chochola, Karel Ludwig, František Ondrášek, Tibor Honty (2), František Illek, Miroslav Hák, and Jiří Jeniček. They were taken at the time of liberation and show the state of exhaustions and exultation. The photographs are full size, each 20x26 cm. An important photobook of high quality from the time when life in Czechoslovakia were thawing. Refs: Heiting, Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918-1989, 2018, No. 261. Scarce, with only two institutional holdings outside the Czech Republic (Oxford, Northwestern). Near fine copy.

Prague: Panorama, 1979 Quarto 29.7 x 20.7 cm, wrapper folio, 26pp.with 18 full page bromographs and a contact sheet, loose as issued. Josef Ehm (1909-1989) was an important Czech photographer, teacher and editor. With Funke he edited the Fotograficky obzor from 1939 to 1941. He is noted for employing the Neue Sachlichkeit approach to photography from its earliest days. This is part of the Profile of Czechoslovakia Master Photographers. A fine copy.

Prague: Panorama, 1981 Quarto 29.5 x 20.5 cm, wrapper folio, 26pp., 18 full page bromographs and contact sheet. Vilem Heckel (1918-1970) was a renowned Czech photographer of dramatic landscapes, mountains, and outdoors. This is from the series Profiles of the Work of Czechoslovakian Master Photographers. Rare, found in one North American library. A fine copy.

Prague: Panorama, 1980 Quarto 29.7 x 20.7 cm, folio wrappers, 28pp., with 18 full page bromograph prints and a additional sheet. Josef Sudek (1896-1976) is the most renowned Czech photographer of the 20th century. An overview of his work is presented here, along with an important illustrated essay by the historian Petr Tausk. This is the first of a series Profiles of Master Photographers of Czechoslovakia, printed in five languages. This copy fine.

Prague: Odeon, 1928 Octavo, wrappers, 91(iv) pp. 7 plates, with photo-collage cover by Teige. Six b/w illustrations by Grosz, Léger, others and seven photographic plates, book design by Teige. This forms Part I of the series O humoru clownech a dadaistech.It is comprised of essays composed from 1924 to 1926. Both this and its sequel, along with other work written by Teige at the time, examines the function of laughter and absurdity and its unique function in human life. It also was Teige's critical appraisal of dada --- he would praise it for clearing the ground of the old, but reject it as a part of the past, whereas constructivism was the path of the new; he would incorporate the humor and absurdity in his constructivism nonetheless, as a counterweight to the rational bias. This is a classic devetsil work. Despite its renown, only one copy of this first edition found in North America libraries. 800

Prague: Olymp, sv. 7-8, 1927 Quarto 24 x 16cm., wrappers, 192pp., 28 plates. Cover and book design by Teige. A collection of Teige s ideas on Poetism, which rejected any sense of elitism in the arts, especially poetry, which he viewed as the distanciation from a living art. Poetism calls for the industrial arts to integrate with the fine arts and integrate in everyday experience and usage. This is couched in the context of a revolutionary ideology and leans towards constructivist idealism. It is one the author s most original contributions to 20th century esthetics. Stavba a básen' is a high point of the devetsil movement and is the author s confession of a vision that he would strive towards continuously. Illustrated with examples of the international avant-garde of the day, including le Corbusier, Lissitzky, Picasso and many others, as well as the leading exponents in Czechoslovakia, Styrský and Toyen. This copy inscribed by Teige to F. Gökari, 1927.

Prague: Vaclav Petr, 1932 Quarto, ½-cloth, 208pp. Czech text, with captions and summaries in Russian and German. Cover and book design by Teige. Volume 2 of the Editions of Contemporary International Architecture edited under Teige. The first major appraisal of the architect Jaromír Krejcar (1895-1950), Czech Functionalist architect and one of its chief exponents. Krejcar was a close friend of Teige’s, and participated in the Devětsil movement from early on with him. This is a major monograph of his work to date, including built and unbuilt projects, and includes his work in urban planning, interior and industrial design as well as some commercial graphic work, with every page bursting in images, photos, drawings. Teige is here the theorist, now completely dedicated to architecture as his main outlet as writer and editor, and in a number of ways his evolution to this point paralleled or was in synch with Krejcar’s own, especially as it served here to show the link of… Read More

Quarto 26.5x18.5 cm., wrappers, 28pp., with insert. 5000 copies; includes corrigenda slip. Designed by the October group members Telingater, Gutnov, and Spirov. October was a Constructivist artist collective organized through the efforts of Aleksandr Rodchenko, Aleksei Gan, El Lissitzky. The elite of Soviet modernism, including Dmitri Moor, Sergei Eisenstein, Boris Ignatovich, the brothers Vesnin, Gustav Klutsis, came together under an aegis of excellence in the visual arts and design. The group was inaugurated in 1928. Rodchenko displayed many of his classic photos in an exhibition in 1931.This manifesto followed, in which the collective called for the consolidation of the proletarian art forces and announced a campaign in aggressive language. Solomon Telingater supported this with a highly dynamic visual design throughout. Authoritarian pressure led to expelling Rodchenko with charges of formalism later that year, and the pressures from above increased steadily to disband the group in 1932. Two… Read More

Octavo 20x14 cm., wrappers, (4) pp. A brochure issued by the Magazine and Newspaper Association addressed to Bolsheviks titled, "For the Bolshevik, Ideology and High Skills in All Types of Art," with a list of open subscriptions for recommended reading in Soviet art, theater, film, literary gazettes, and literary heritage. --- All in a classic Constructivist page format designed by Solomon Telingater. Quite rare, no institutional holdings found.

Octavo 20x14 cm., original wrappers, 96pp. A critical assessment of Il'ia Erenburg (1891-1967), who enjoyed singular independence from party dictates as he roamed throughout Europe reporting on art, literature, and capitalist society. Unattributed cover design. This copy mostly uncut. OCLC locates two holdings in North America (NYPL, Stanford). Fine

Budapest: Taltos-kiadasa, 1916 Quarto 26.3 x 21.4 cm, wrappers, xvii, 105 plates, cover and book design by author. Ede Toroczkai-Wigand (Hungarian, 1869-1945) was an architect, builder and author of a number of books on architecture and the design traditions of Transylvania. He designed and built a number of projects in a Hungarian secessionist, arts-&-crafts style which has been termed National Romanticism, a style found chiefly in Transylvania. This was developed most notably by Toroczkai-Wigand, Karoly Kos and Marcell Komor. His books, such as the present one, celebrate this style with drawings, photos and paintings of his projects, with settings in the landscape and interior work. This copy very good with owner inscription. Six copies found in North American libraries.

Budapest: Elektromos Muvek,nd (1985). 8vo, wrs, 88pp. Hungarian w/Engl text. Fine.

The first book of Georgian Dada, by Grigol Tsetskhladze (1894-1976), who introduced dada literature in the Georgian language.. Cover design by Imrakli Gamrekeli, the foremost modernist and graphic designer of the Georgian avant-garde. These are his first poetic statements employing dadaist elements. Soon Tsetskhladze would become a spokesman for Synthetism, forswearing Futurism, Symbolism and other modernist movements as obsolete for a new activist vision. This copy good, cover portrait clear, covers restored with backing, chipped edge on pages throughout.

Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1991 Sq 4to, wrs, 56pp.