V Praze [Prague]: Alois Hynek, 1919. First edition. In contemporary half cloth with gilt embossed title on the spine. Panels covered with marbled paper. Marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. XXI [1] 263 [1] p. The black book of the arch-traitors to Austria-Hungary, listing nearly 1400 persons including James Joyce, Tomáš Garrigue..... More

Stockholm: [n.p.], 1949. First edition. Unbound as published. Printed on yellow paper. Saddle-stitched. 12 p. and 2 plates with 4 full-page photographic reproductions. Scarce catalogue of post-war surrealist exhibition held at Expo Aleby in Stockholm. Organised by Wilhelm Freddie and Gösta Kriland, assisted by Ilmar Laaban, the exhibition featured..... More

Praha: Průmyslový svaz kožedělníků (Aldolf Novotný), 1932. With Kurt Stolp’s photomontage on cover. With several photographic text illustrations. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 82, (2) p. Rare photomontage item about the Bata Shoe Company. Cover by the Bauhausler graphic artist Kurt Stolp. Kurt Stolp (1904– 1981) studied at..... More

[The United States]: [Between 1850–1852]. In full black morocco binding with carved silver clasps and metal hinges on the spine. Panels and spine are gilt tooled. The front panel ruled and decorated with floral pattern at the edges, with four eagles in the corners and the figure of Lady Columbia..... More

[Paris]: [Imp. Pillet], [1867]. First edition. In publisher’s half cloth, with printed title on front panel. [3] IV–V [4] 10–23 [1] p. Scarce catalogue of on of the earliest posthumous sale of Ingres’s works. The sale was held on April 27, 1867, and included sixteen works belonging to Ingres’s..... More

[S.l.]: [S.n.], [no date, but 1690?]. Unbound, protected with later marbled paper cover. [8] p. Scarce Spanish Golden Age poem on bullfighting. Published anonymously, but written by Manuel de León Marchante (1631–1680), poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. This humorous poem about the bullfight of Meco Relación..... More

[Praha (Prague)]: Svaz českých skladatelů, 1969–1970. First edition. Complete run. All issues illustrated with black-and-white reproductions. Saddle-stitched. 52 [4]; 52 [4]; 52 [4]; 62 [2] p. Scarce, complete set of four issues of the magazine Konfrontace, dedicated to experimental contemporary music, published by Vladimír Lébl until its ban in 1970..... More

[Budapest]: Nova Irodalmi Intézet, [1934]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s printed cloth with gilt-embossed ornaments on the spine and the publisher’s logo on the cover. With the original, illustrated dust jacket, designed by Jenő Pályi. 392 p. First Hungarian edition of Alfred Döblin’s (1878–1957) 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz. Dust jacket..... More

[Praha]: [S.V.U. Manes], [1914]. First edition. With an original price-list flyer. In publisher’s woodcut-illustrated wrappers by Oldřich Koníček. [28] p. Scarce catalogue of a 1914 international avant-garde exhibition in Prague, organised by the Czech artist association, S. V. U. Mánes. With original, inserted leaf of price list. The catalogue..... More

[Prague]: [Topičův salon], [1947]. Graphic design by Zdeněk Seydl. First edition. With 10 full-page black-and-white reproductions. Together with an 8-page brochure of the list of exhibited works. In publisher’s typographically illustrated wrappers. Saddle-stitched. [44] p. Catalogue of the 1947 Prague exhibition, Mezinárodní Surrealismus that took place at Topičův salon, re-staging..... More

Praha: [S.V.U. Manes], 1923. First edition. Illustrated with 58 full-page black-and-white reproductions. In publisher’s typographically illustrated wrappers, designed by Jaroslav Benda. 64 [48] [12] p. Richly illustrated, scarce catalogue of the 1923 exhibition of 19th and 20th-century French art in Prague, organised by the Czech artist association, S. V. U...... More

New York: Ballantine Books, [1964.]. Association copy. Inscribed to Dennis Gabor by the author on the cover’s verso in blue ink. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (6), 214, (4) p. Association copy of Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 science fiction novel, Childhoods’ End, inscribed to the Nobel laureate physicist, Dennis Gabor... More

Handwritten, signed postcard. Date on stamp: 26th March 1876. Wien. Johannes Brahms’ holograph letter to his publisher and friend, Fritz Simrock. In his letter, Brahms informs Simrock about his return to Breslau, then, he adds a note referring to an 1875 edition of Hungarian Dances by Wilhelm Kühe that..... More