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London: Allan Wingate, 1963. Cloth, 93 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Joint edition with the Publishing House of Czechoslovak Artists. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket worn & chipped at the crown/spine. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword; The Beginnings of Tapestry-Making in Czechoslovakia; The Work of Frantisek Kysela; The Tapestries of Antonin Kybal; Students and Graduates of Kybal's School; The Problem of Tapestry Style; Alois Fisarek and His School; Tapestries by Painters and Graphic Artists; Conclusion; List of Artists and Their Works. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 172 pages; 22 cm. Contemporary Film Directors Series. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Ineffable experiences of the profane world; The ineffable and the profane; Au revoir, les communistes?; Theater of memory: retirement home; The road not taken: stuff and dough; Fathers and sons: cigarettes and coffee; Regarding the death of others: the death of Mr. Lazarescu; Author! author! Aurora; Masks off! three exercises of interpretation; What's in a name? "Das spektrum Europas"; Father is gone: Sieranevada; Interview with Cristi Puiu.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Cloth, 169 pages, [10] pages of plates, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Profusely illustrated with photojournalism of the Hungarian uprising of 1956.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Houston and Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; Bulfinch Press, 1989. Cloth, 263 pages, illustrations, photographs (some colour); 30 cm, Published on the occasion of the exhibition Czech Modernism, 1900-1945, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. An indispensable publication on Czech modernism. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Director's Statement; Foreword; The Czechoslovak Film Archive; In Search of Redemption: Visions of Beginning and End; Czech Modernism: 1900-1920; Czech Cubism: Points of Departure and Resolution; From Lyrical Metaphors to Symbols of Fate: Czech Surrealism of the 1930s; Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Photography; Situation of Czech Modem Photography; Imaginative Photography; Art/Commerce and the Avant-Garde; Artists as Filmmakers; The Theater and Films of Jifi Voskovec and Jan Werich; On the Sunny Side… Leer más

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1988. Cloth, 144 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A monograph on the Romanian-born painter, cartoonist and graphic artist Devis Grebu Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Koln; Cologne: Galerie Gmurzynska, 1975. 161 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Text in German and English. Ausstellung vom 3. Juni bis Mitte September, Galerie Gmurzynska = Exhibition from June 3 to mid-September, Gmurzynska Gallery. SEHR GUT. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Constructivism, Bauhaus and other trends in European abstract art of the 1920s.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

San Diego, CA: Mingei International Museum, 1999. Cloth, 100 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. On Eastern European marriage customs, and furniture, textiles, etc. as dowry. Profusely illustrated with the folk art of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. ..

Zadar: Forum Gallery, 1998. 72 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, colour map; 24 cm. Translated from the Serbo-Croat. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dubrovnik (Croatia), Pictorial works. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, architecture, scenery).. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Radolovic, Mladen (Photographs by). 8vo. Guidebook.

Zagreb: Turistikcka Naklada, 2008. 80 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, colour map; 24 cm. Translated from the Serbo-Croat. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dubrovnik (Croatia), Pictorial works. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, architecture, scenery).. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Oxford History of Art Ser.,, 2006. xiii, 258 pages, colour illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Providing an overview of the key artistic developments and connections in the lands of the Romanov and Habsburg empires, as well as their neighbouring and successor states, this book argues, that an appreciation of East European art should lead us to a fresh definition of 'European' art as a whole." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The Vienna Academy and Its Orbits; The St. Petersburg Academy and Its Orbits; Women Emergent; Women Range; Circling the Square: Questions of Being and Becoming. "The latest addition to the [Oxford History of Art series] is a pioneering overview of the visual cultures of Eastern Europe in the modern age. Here, art historian Jeremy Howard challenges traditional definitions of what constitutes 'European' art and embraces the whole spectrum of art creation, including painting, sculpture, architecture, the… Leer más

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival Society, 1962. 1 vol. (unpaged), illustrations (1 colour); 25 cm. Cover title: Yugoslav Modern Primitives. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh, 1962. A good copy, wraps worn at extremities. Small previous owner's signature/title page, otherwise unmarked. Expected browning. Scarce.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. xix, 810 pages, illustrations, colour maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Prague, Germans, Jews, and the Crisis of Modernism. Prague and Vienna; Prague and Kafka, Kafka and Prague; Early life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Prague and the schoolboy; Turn of the century; late adolescence and fin de sie cle; The advent of high modernism: Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Munich; Young Kafka and modernism; Early years of achievement in an age of hostility; Franz, Felice, and the great war; Kafka's maturity and the beginning of a new era; Kafka as prophet, 1915-1917; Modernism and death, Kafka and death; Kafka, Jews, and other solutions: the Kafka presence.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

Prague: Vitalis, 2005. Pictorial boards, 192 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Map on lining papers. Ribbon book mark. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. One corner lightly bumped.. 3rd. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

Prague: Vitalis, 2014. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. English Edition. Translated from the German by Anthony Northey. Tight, clean copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

New York: Random House, 1970. Cloth, 254 pages; 23 cm. Based on lectures given in 1968 in the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies at the University of Reading. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London and Miami: Corvina/Barbican Art Gallery; Center for the Fine Arts, 1989. 197 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 25 October, 1989 to 14 January 1990; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 16 March to 27 May 1990; and San Diego Museum of Art, 10 November, 1990 to 5 January 1991. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: From the millennium to the Republic of Councils, by Ivan T. Berend; Art, nationalism, and the Fin de Siecle, by Lajos Nemeth; Hungarian art and architecture 1896-1914, by Ilona Sarmany-Parsons; The Millenial celebrations of 1896, by Gyongyi Eri and Zsuzsa Jobbagyi.. 1st. Paperback. Good. Folio.

Prague: Jiri Jiru, 1998. Pictorial boards, [56] pages, illustrations; 22 x 27 cm. Text in Czech with English translations. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards. 2 postcards of photos (commemorating the visit of Bill Clinton to Czech President Vaclav Havel) enclosed, signed and inscribed by the photographer Jiri Jiru.. SIGNED. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Cloth, xvii, 374 pages, [15] pages of plates; 23 cm. Russian & East European Studies. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Vaclav Havel (1936-2011), the famous Czech dissident, ex-con, and playwright, was there when a half million people came to Wenceslas Square to demand an end to communism in 1989. Many came to hear him call for a free Czechoslovakia, for democratic elections, and a return to Europe. The demonstrators roared when he spoke. 'Havel to the castle,' they chanted-meaning Havel for President. And a few weeks later, Havel became a most unusual President. He was sometimes misunderstood and not always popular, but by the time of his death in 2011, the world recognized Havel as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. In this intimate and sweeping portrayal of Havel, David Barton reveals the eccentricities of the last President of Czechoslovakia, and… Leer más

New York: Puski Publishing, 1989. Cloth, 187 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.. 3rd. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1957. Cloth, xxv, 548 pages, illustrations, colour maps (part folded), genealogical tables; 25 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Small previous owner's signature/verso of front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.