Avantgarde

An unusual multilingual work by de Cantos with a text collage, made of various languages Square 8°, 190 pp. also printed upside down(first 65 pp. not numbered), [2 pp.], one full page illustration in grey, black and red (same design as on the cover), illustrated covers with flaps (light foxing throughout the book, slightly age-toned in margins, wrappers with foxing…

A pedagogical avant-garde book with data visualization, in techniques of typographic illustrations in letterpress, made by a Portuguese educator Paulo de Cantos.  

  An uncommon Serbian book with poems by Todor Manojlović with the cover design by an Avant-Garde artist Mihailo S. Petrov, a member of Group Oblik. Signed by the author.

A short dictionary of foreign words, as well as expressions used in Brazil and in Portuguese colonies, and correct Portuguese words with an attractive cover. Small 8°, 8 pp. on pink paper with covers printed in black and red, unbound as originally published (Very Good).

A collection of avantgarde poems with a decorative cover design by Stanisław Ryszard Dobrowolski (1907-1985). With a dedication by the author   8°. 46 pp., [2 pp.] index, original wrappers with illustrated cover, dedication of the author on the first page (wrappers slightly age-toned, otherwise in a good, clean condition).  

  12°. original illustrated cover, 62 pp. on darker paper, [2], (cover trimmed with a small loss of lettering on the right-hand side. inside good, clean, seemingly unread condition, wrappers with light foxing and minimal wear on the edges).  

Book on the geography of Portugal, richly illustrated with de Cantos’s unusually designed maps and drawings.   Small 8°, 138 pp. with colour illustrations, 2 mounted illustrations on brown paper, pink wrappers with flaps and hand-coloured illustration on the cover (three owner’s signatures on the first page and one on the top of the cover, small paper label on the…

  A first edition of poetry by one of the founders of the Turkish avant-garde Nâzım Hikmet Ran, inspired by Mayakowsky’s work, accompanied with black and white illustrations by Fikret Muallâ and decorated with blue and black cover design by Ali Suavi.   8°. 116 pp. with black and white illustrations, [12], original printed wrappers, stapled (uncut and unread condition,…

  Possibly the most powerful Hikmet’s revolutionary poem on Mona Lisa falling in love with a Chinese man and starting a rebellion in China after seeing his execution tries to connect various nations in the revolution.   Small 8°. 40 pp with two full page black and white illustrations within text, original illustrated wrappers (pages slightly age-toned, light wear on…

The second edition of Nazim Hikmet’s fine avantgarde poetry book from 1929 was republished with a different cover, made by a poster and book designer Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who was more known as an award-winning photographer Suavi Sonar.   8°. 48 pp., original illustrated wrappers (a tiny worm-hole in the outer white margin of the first half of…

Hikmet’s fierce attack on the Nazi Germany   N.B. The image of the book provided here censors out the Nazi symbol of the Swastika from the title page; this has been done pursuant to German laws on the representation of Third Reich symbols; however, such details are clearly present and uncensored on the actual book itself.   8°. 96 pp., inserted…

  The first edition of Turkish Avantgarde poetry by Nazim Hikmet, accompanied with powerful illustrations by a pioneer of Turkish modern art, Abidin Dino (1913-1993)   8°, 79 pp. with a full-page portrait of the author and green illustrations on first pages, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, tiny loss of paper on the spine, sporadic tiny tears in margins, old…