Paris and New York: Adrien Maeght Editeur for The Museum of Modern Art; Ateliers Arte Paris, 1974. Special Edition for The Museum of Modern Art. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of green cloth boards with color paper label and folding color lithographic interior. Very trivial spotting along..... More

Prerov: Obzor, [1923]. Presumed first edition. Paperback. 61pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] in wraps. Light wear to toned wraps; ink name and initials on title page; two signatures completely disbound (but present); occasional light ink underlining throughout. The first collection of prose by Lev Blatny, Czech playwright and founding member of..... More

Brno: Exod, 1935. Third edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 165pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] in light brown cloth. Boards are crisp and unworn, with a tiny red smudge to front board. This appears to be a rebound copy of the paperback original, with original wraps present within (French flaps apparently trimmed off). It..... More

Brno: Exod, 1934. Second edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 165pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] in French wraps. Light edgewear to wraps; creasing to spine, textblock completely disbound; interior is unmarked. Illustrated with 15 woodcuts by the author, each protected by a laid-in sheet of glassine. Signed by Bochorakova-Dittrichova in pencil on limitation page..... More

Brno: Karel Novotny and Uh. Hradisti, 1925. First edition. SIGNED. One bookplate is missing. Fourteen tipped-in bookplates mounted on green paper, housed in a folding printed paper portfolio, with folded sheet comprising title page, introduction, and colophon laid in. List of plates pasted to verso of rear portfolio cover (as..... More

San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2010. Later printing. Hardcover. 219pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Black and white illustrated paper over boards. Corners bumped. Sticker residue left on front cover. From publisher: In Walking Shadows, a couple stuck in low paying, soul-destroying work get by in a small flat while bringing up two..... More

Norwich, VT; New York, NY: Impermanent Press; The Grolier Club, 2015. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 154pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards with the title stamped in black ink on the spine. Top edge trimmed; other edges rough-trimmed. Blue endpapers. Tipped-in frontispiece illustrating Waif Maid. Errata slip laid in. This..... More

Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, design by Joseph Simon, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 255 pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]; red cloth over black paper boards. Gilt titling to spine, graphic device stamped in red on the front cover. A dramatic and chilling tale, told in wood engravings by the..... More

[San Francisco, CA]: [c.1940]. Second handmade edition. Paperback. Quarto [26.5 cm] in textured black wraps with the image of the man with the "white collar" printed in white on front wrap. Metal comb binding. The leaves are of a fine thin paper tissue. Covers professionally and very expertly reattached. Corners..... More

Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1982. First edition. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of brown cloth boards with color paper cover label and folding color lithographic interior. Book is near fine. Top board sits slightly off-center (as is common). The accordion-folding text is pristine. A bright and colorful visual reinterpretation..... More

Zurich: Edition Schlégl, 1978. Multilingual edition of Lavater's interpretation. Hardcover. Tall narrow quarto [30.5 cm] White glossy paper over boards with a pictorial paper title label mounted to the front board. Olive green endpapers. Spine ends gently bumped. Top fore-edge corners of the covers also bumped, with the underlying boards..... More

München (Munich): Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1920. First German edition. Hardcover. 208pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with tan paper over boards. Publisher's black topstain. The spine is slanted. Mit zwanzig Holzschnitten von Frans Masereel. Ubersetzt von Camill Hoffmann. More

Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1942. Limited Edition. Paperback. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 28 cm] Plain wraps with a white folded wrapper printed in red and black, and a glassine wrapper. The glassine wrapper is darkened and torn, with a number of small losses from the edges and folds. The..... More