15 x 10.5cm, 1pp typographic design for a solo show. Printed black on brown cardboard, verso has mailing label and stamps/frank. Slight creasing to bottom corners due to the postal experience else VG+.

18 x 12cm, 60 pp. Original wrappers. Loose signatures. First edition of this privately printed and remarkably notorious "story of damask illusion".

The title translates as "A sexual nocturne" and is a tale of a man recalling his early encounters with sexuality and sexual language, a rendezvous in a bordello ("one of those high moments that convinces us to put off suicide") and other incidents that shaped his erotic history.

Edice 69 books were never available for sale; they were exclusively available to subscribers and friends. The company consisted of Styrsky as editor with Toyen for the most part. This book and Styrsky's EMILIE PRICHAZI KE MNE VE SNU (Emily Comes to Me in a Dream) constitute the most important of the series of which there would be only six volumes in all.

In these issues Toyen would express herself with the least inhibitions of frank sexuality, a factor never far from her central concerns throughout her oeuvre, and Styrsky a complex, multilayered self-confession. Styrsky was the more obsessive of the two and more attracted to kinkiness and the downright weird. Nezval's participation in Edice 69 was limited to this one release. It is oft cited as one of Nezval's worst books but the text serves as a platform for the visual content, which is also true of all the issues of Edice 69.

All of the participants in the publishing venture shared the conviction to employ art as a means to eroticise the world, overcoming the throes of 19th century morality and thus self-releasing into freedom; they were social critics and shared strong leftist sympathies, pushing the boundaries of conventional reality through eroticism. The collages by Styrsky are some of his most startling and outrageous, conveying psychological twists and biographical messages in a zany humour.

This is nr 83 of 138 numbered copies ie 2 x 69 - half of the edition was hand coloured and is very, very rarely encountered - and this example is in very good condition with some marks on the wrappers . Exceptionally rare and desirable. 

41 x 28.5cm, b/w offset lithographic poster for a Czech showing of the Swedish film "about adolescence" ("o strastech dospivani") and directed by Kjell Grede. VG+.

Standard audio cassette in two part plastic box with printed insert. A large number of musical tracks in a variety of mixed up styles recorded by Knizak with a wide range of musicians. The title of the work translates to "The Ceremony of Burning Mind". VG+>

20.2 x 12.3cm, 52pp. Original wrappers. Poetry collection with an afterword by Marie Marcanova. Uncredited typography by Devetsil founder Obrtel. Slight browning but very good overall.

32.5 x 23cm, 57pp. Six b/w textual illustrations. Original wrappers with pictorial emblem. The title translates to "The Chronicles of Prague on Bad Times after the Death of King Přemysl Otakar II".  First edition of this rather grim work by the vanguard Czech poet and dramatist. Translated  from Václav Vladivoj Tomek by Bedřich Mendl and woodcuts by Jan Konůpek. One of 220 numbered examples issued. A very good+ copy. Scarce.

31 x 21cm, blindstamped and be-ribboned folder with tipped in  30 x 20cm, 40pp book -  of which 30pp have original reproduced pen and ink drawings by Holarek. The title translates to The fairy tale of the innocent.

The text tells of the young angel being sent down to earth and being rejected by the various estates of the nation - ultimately being sentenced to death by the courts. Holarek (1867 - 1919) studied at the art academies in Prague (and Munich for six years) before returning to Prague. This was the public version of the extremely rare deluxe version with original watercolours. Very slight markings to the outer folder and some minor marking internally on the title page from the ribbons which are interleaved through the covers but otherwise a near fine copy of this wonderfully attractive book.

35.2 x 28cm, unpaginated with 33 full-page hors-texte images (many in color) by Kupka. Gilt printed blue paper over period boards with emblematic art nouveau design. First edition of this rare primary documentation of the pioneering Czech modernist's works of the period.A short preface is followed by thirty-three finely rendered plates after drawings and paintings by Kupka, portraying his transition from art nouveau to abstraction. An unusually fine example of the early and important monograph.

25 x 19cm, 58pp. Original paper wrappers. First edition of this collection of lithographs by V.H.Brunner who was a key designer in what is sometimes called Czech cubism but recently has been redefined as the Czech geometric design (to avoid confusion with the French cubist genre. VG+.

23.5 x 16cm. 202pp. Hard boards. Profusely illustrated in b/w after works by Archipenko, Chagall, Grosz, Kisling, Leger, Modigliani, Survage, Teige, et. al. Editors: Jaroslav Seifert and Karel Teige. Original printed wrappers with central black circular emblem and bound into vintage plain brown and spine printed boards as issued.

First edition of the manifest almanac of the vanguard revolutionist Czech 'Devetsil' group, as edited by the poet Seifert and the designer and theorist Teige. Initiated in the Modern Cultural Union (Prague), 'Devetsil' was ground zero for all Czech artistic and literary avant-garde activity during the 1920's and early 30's, and was (according to Teige): "a focus for socialist and revolutionary trends in culture". Text contributions by Seifert, Teige, Nezval, Honzl, Goll, Biebl, et. al. + a short trilingual summary (German, French and Russian) of the group's aims as appendix.

Some minor expert repairs and reinforcements to wrappers and some large stains to the rear covers, and the evidence of rough paper on the end papers where an ex-libris label has been removed before else a very good example of this crucial document. Rare.

21 x 14cm, 228 pp. Original boards with pictorial dustwrapper designed by Toyen. First edition of this period novel notable for its cover design (and almost certainly vignette on the boards which is not noted) by the surrealist. Minor wear and small closed tears to the dustjacket.