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  The book is a homage to a Bohemian author Karel Čapek upon his premature death, at the age of 49, written by his Serbian and Croatian colleagues, published in an unstable situation on the eve of WWII, when Čapek was listed an enemy of the Nazi Germany.   

  A rare pioneering work on the Croatian contemporary art, printmaking and theatre scenography glorifying the artist Tomislav Krizman as the leading artist of the South Slavs on the eve of the birth of Yugoslavia. With a beautiful expressionist cover by a Dalmatian artist Jerolim Miše.

  A fine example of a Yugoslav mid-century book design and socialist propaganda for children is joined in a 1961 math primer.

  A short novel with a Futurist cover was published in Slovenian language in Fascist Italy by one of the last persisting Slavic publishing companies, under Italian censorship, in 1933.

  The scarce first edition of poems by one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century Ivan „Goran“ Kovačić.

  A modernistic Serbian literary magazine, influenced by the Russian avant-garde.

  An uncommon Slovenian translation of Pope’s decree against the Communism with a unique striking cover was published by a Missionary press to educate children.

  The first edition of one of ‘Dukhter-i Hindu’ [The Girl of India], a ‘romantic and exotic drama’ by Abdulhak Hamid, a foremost late Ottoman poet, playwright and statesman, immortalized in Turkish literature as ‘Dahi-i Azam’ [The Grand Genius]; the work is of profound historical importance for its daring poetry which transcended traditional rhyming schemes, embracing controversial social questions of…

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