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1. Ceskoslovenská Fotografie Prague: Fotograficky Obzor/Svaz Ceskoslovenská Klubu Fotografu Amatéru, 1931-40, 1946. Eleven volumes of the complete run of 13 (lacking the supplementary volumes of 1941 and 1949). 4to. 64 pp. each, with varying pages of ads in rear. First through eighth volumes bound in white cloth-covered boards stamped in red, grey, blue, and black; ninth through eleventh volumes bound in off-white paper-covered boards stamped in red, grey, blue, and black. Publication ceased during Nazi occupation, but an additional three volumes were published after World War II. Covers of first eight volumes designed by Karl Teige. 2. Fotorádce Prague: E. Beaufort, Podniky Grafické a Nakladatelské, undated (ca. 1940s-1950s). 13 issues (1-5, 7-13, 17) of this Czech photography series. Stiff photographic wrappers, some pencil notations and stamps on wrappers and title-pages. Text with black-and-white photographs and the occasional line drawing. 3. Hák, Miroslav Ocima: svet kolem nás Prague: Ceskoslovenské filmové nakladatelství, 1947. First edition. Square 8vo. 15 pp. of text, with 45 sheet-fed gravures. Stiff photographic wrappers. Miroslav Hák worked as the photographer for the theater group D34, for the Czech film industry, and in the 1940s was part of the avant-garde Group 42. (Heiting, 302). 4. Vilém Heckel Prague: Panorama, 1981. First edition. Text by Petr Teusk. 4to. Stiff photographic portfolio, rear fold separating; containing 18 loose bromoil prints; with 28 pp. of text in, stapled self wrappers. 5. Jenícek, Jicí (photographer) and Ladislav Sutnar (designer) Dvacet let ceskoslovenské armády v osvobozeném state Prague: for the Interior Ministry, 1938. 4to. 243 pp. Quarter white pigskin, stamped in gilt, over orange cloth-covered boards; black endpapers; photographic dust-jacket, variously chipped and torn, with tape repairs. Dvacet let ceskoslovenské armády v osvobozeném státe [Twenty Years of the Czechoslovakian Army in the Liberated State] was designed by Ladislav Sutnar with 72 black-and-white photographs by Jicí Jenícek, and produced by the Interior Ministry in pre-war Czechloslovakia. 6. Mezinárodní Fotografický Salon Prague: Svac Cs. Klubu Fotografu Amatéru, 1933, 1935. 8vo. In two volumes. Unpaginated. Stiff printed wrappers. Illustrated catalogues for the second and third international photography exhibitions organized by the Club of Amateur Photographers in Prague. Rare. 7. Vilém Reichmann Prague: Pressfoto, 1984. First edition. Text by Alena Šlachtová. 4to. Stiff photographic portfolio; containing 13 loose halftone prints (duplicate of image #1); with 14 pp. of text, stapled self wrappers. Volume 8 of the International Photography Editions series. 8. Rozhledy Fotografa Amatéra Prague: Rozhledy Fotografa Amatéra, 1926-29. 46 issues, plus index. Limp wrappers, printed in black, red, brown, and blue, several with front cover detached; contains text, reproductions of photographs, and ads. A near-complete run for the years 1926-29 (missing first issue of 1927). 9. Tmej, Zdenek (Czech, 1920-2004) Abeceda: Duševního Prázdna Prague: Nakladatelství Zádruha, 1946. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated with photogravures. Stiff wrappers, variously chipped; rubber stamps to recto of first free leaf and copyright page, possibly ex-library; dust-jacket wanting. Photographs by Zdenk Tmej with text by Alexandra Urbanová. Tmej's "Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness" largely consists of photos surreptitiously taken at Breslau in 1942 while forced to work for the Nazi war effort. (Roth, p.124.). 10. [Toyen] (designer) Matka: Povídky a medailony Prague: Rudolf Kmoch, 1943. 8vo. 175 pp. With frontispiece by Toyen. Quarter cloth over decorated paper-covered boards; photographic dust-jacket also designed by Toyen. With André Breton's help, the painter Toyen (1902-1980) helped make Prague a significant center for Surrealist activity. Born Marie Cermínová, he adopted the name Toyen, dressed in men's clothes, and used masculine pronouns.