Tbilisi: Izd. OPP Gruz. Otd. Khudfonda SRRR, 1942. Oblong 12mo (9.5 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 12 pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page drawings accompanying rhymed couplets. Very good. Rare anti-Nazi children's book published in the Georgian Soviet Republic, which depicts a hapless German soldier stealing honey from a...... More
![Stikhi. Arbat-89 [Poetry. Arbat-89]. Aleksandr Trubin](/images/noimage.png)
[Moscow]: Self-published, [1989]. Octavo ( × cm). Original side-stapled and hand-labeled wrappers; [?] pp. of typescript. Very good. A self-published collection of caustic, anti-Soviet poems by Aleksandr Trubin (b. 1961), apparently connected with the Arbat, a Moscow neighborhood known for its bohemian scene in the late Soviet period. The poems..... More
[Moscow]: self-published, [ca. 1962–1969?]. Octavo ( × cm). Original side-stapled hand-inscribed wrappers; [?] pp. of typescript with occasional handwritten corrections to margins. Very good. An early samizdat collection of poems by the poet, novelist, and essayist Vadim Fadin (b. 1936). Born in Moscow, Fadin graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute..... More
![Sputnik Partizana. [The Partisan’s companion]. I. Veber, ri](/pictures/thumb/50963_001.jpg?v=1601065909)
[Moscow]: Molodaia gvardia, 1941. 12mo (12.5 × 9.5 cm). Original card wrappers; 266, [1] pp., with 183 figures of illustrations. Owner inscription to title. Wrappers lightly worn; spine extremities frayed; internally very good. First edition. Addressed to the “young partisan,” this handbook was published in winter of 1941, just six months after..... More
New York: self-published by Mariia Burliuk (printed by Bazar Press), 1924. Small quarto (26.5 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 32 pp. Four leaves of plates on coated stock; numerous additional portraits and illustrations reproduced throughout. Publisher’s rubber stamp with address supplied in ink. Two small repairs to corners..... More
Small circular chromolithographed cardboard snuffbox dating to the time of the campaign for the defense of the Charter after the assassination of the Duke of Berry on February 13, 1820, at the hands of a Bonapartist with colored engraved decoration to lid of King Louis XVIII and the members of..... More
Collection of three small circular lacquer French tobacco boxes related to the Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution or the Second French Revolution, each bearing a varnished lithographed decoration with text and images relating to the Revolution and its immediate aftermath. Each 9 cm in diameter. Some..... More
![Das Tribunal: hessische radikale Blätter [The tribunal: Hessian radical leaves]. Vols. I, nos....](/pictures/thumb/50849_001.jpg?v=1600367344)
Darmstadt, 1919–1921. Quartos (29 × 24.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. per issue (with consecutive pagination: 136 and 68 pp. respectively for years one and two). Occasional old creases and light spotting to issues; overall about very good. Complete run of a scarce German late expressionist journal published..... More
![Pervoe maia 1901 goda [May 1st, 1901]. Along the head of front wrapper: Rossiiskaia...](/pictures/thumb/51001.jpg?v=1600181262)
Geneva: Izdanie soiuza russkikh sotsial’demokratov, 1901. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 24 pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Light soil to rear wrappers; else very good. An early May Day brochure, which captures the development of the May 1st holiday in pre-revolutionary Russia..... More
Petrograd: [Suvorin], 1915. Octavo (20.7 × 13.6 cm). Original printed wrappers on orange stock; 56 pp. Very good. Second edition; first published in 1914, of a rare report on atrocities against Russian soldiers and civilians committed by German soldiers during WWI, and based on oral reports by victims and witnesses..... More
Title, 4 pp. illus. preface, and 64 color plates showing 422 Art Nouveau ornamental compositions and motifs. Obl. 8vo. Board portfolio, with mirror, suggested for enhanced viewing, in rear pocket. Berlin (Kanter & Mohr) ca. 1903. A most important document of Austro-German Art Nouveau, according to the artists' preface a...... More
Letterpress poster (38" x 25"), designed by Duchamp, printed in black and orange on white ground, acting as both notice for and as a catalogue of works shown at the landmark DADA exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, April 15 to May 9, 1953, with the texts..... More
Soviet Union, 1980s. 12mos (9 × 6 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlets printed on photographic paper; each 6 leaves of photo-reproduced images and text to rectos. Very good. A group of five illustrated samizdat brochures containing recipes for homeopathic remedies, dream interpretation charts, and desert recipes. Mementos of the underground economy of..... More
![Almanakh muz. Po babam. [Almanac of the muses. Whoring]. Leonid Smorchkovskii, Lavrentii?](/pictures/thumb/50988_1.jpg?v=1599650584)
[St. Petersburg]: self-published, 1976. Octavo (31 × 24 cm). Original decorative wrappers with collage incorporating beer labels and other ephemera; 33 leaves of typescript to rectos, with two original watercolor drawings. Very good. A postmodernist samizdat publication with a mélange of literary references, typical of the Leningrad underground literary scene..... More
Łódź: Pomaranczowa Alternatywa Miasto, 1989. Octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [4] pp. Xerox-illustrated throughout. Very good. A pamphlet of the Łódź branch of Pomarańczowa Alternatywa [Orange Alternative], an artistic and quasi-political (anti-communist) movement which reached its peak of activity in Poland in 1985-1989. The pamphlet contains satirical..... More
Poland, ca. 1985–1989. Single leaves, measuring 14 × 10 and 15 × 11 cm respectively. Reproduced typescript to rectos only. Very good. Two typescript handbills with a call to join a happening of the Pomarańczowa Alternatywa [Orange Alternative], an artistic and quasi-political (anti-communist) movement which reached its peak of activity..... More
![Křestný list [Baptismal certificate]. Jiří Kolář](/pictures/thumb/50845.jpg?v=1599577683)
Prague: Václav Petr, 1941. Octavo (21 × 14.6 ). Original printed wrappers; 41, [3] pp. About very good; wrappers very lightly soiled; moisture stain to lower right corner of second half of text block. First and only edition, the first book publication by Kolář, a leading member of the Czech..... More
![Persiia [Persia]. Header on title: "Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v stranakh kapitala" (The...](/pictures/thumb/50824_001.jpg?v=1599579024)
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo TsK MOPR SSSR, 1929. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 30, [1] pp. Light overall wear to wrappers; pencil owner inscription to title; else about very good. Scarce pamphlet about revolutionary efforts in today's Iran during the late 1910s and 1920s, by the Persian born..... More
Prague: Zdeněk Ballenberger, [1938]. Square 12mo (11.8 × 11.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; fifteen leaves of card stock, interleaved with text printed on very thin original Japanese silk paper ("Tengujo"). Four small woodcuts by V. R. Růžička. Loosely inserted, in the original publisher's envelope. Very good. Striking bibliophile edition containing..... More
Dresden, [1967]. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Single folded leaf; [4] pp. Very good. Scarce early flier for an exhibition in Dresden of Lach-Lachowicz's work, with a preface in German by Aleksandra Gonczynska and a list of thirty-five works shown. Born in 1937, Natalia Lach-Lachowicz studied photography and graphic arts..... More
![Kevad: armastusnovellid [Spring: short stories about love]. Panteleimon Romanov](/pictures/thumb/P003573_1.jpg?v=1597934824)
Tartu: Tapperi Kirjastus, 1928. Octavo (18.5 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Peet Aren; 125, [1] pp. Light general wear; rear wrapper somewhat stained, light abrasion to tail of spine; small owner inscription. Still about very good. Estonian translation of "Rasskazy o liubvi" ("Stories about love"), a collection of..... More
Moscow: Gramatizdevneeciba "Prometejs", 1931. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [2], 237 pp. Very good. Rare example of Latvian modernist publishing in Moscow, Russia. The design of the Latvian first edition resembles the Russian original (Fabrika Rable, 1928), which also features a vertical red rectangle abutted by two..... More
![Rytíř Smíl [The whoring knight].; Knihovna "Fenix" ["Fenix" series], vol. 3. Jaroslav...](/pictures/thumb/P6129_1.jpg?v=1597769731)
Prague: Fenix, 1932. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original brown card wrappers with "gilt" vignette to front wrapper; 34, [1] pp. Six anonymous full-page erotic drawings, and two smaller illustrations. Text printed in orange on better stock. Rear wrapper creased; else a very good, uncut and unopened copy. A..... More
[Czech Republic]: Fenix, 1932. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original red wrappers with "gilt" vignette to front wrapper; [36] pp. on loosely inserted gatherings. Twelve erotic drawings and three vignettes. Very good. A scarce sample of the abundant Czech erotica of the interwar period, this was the second volume..... More
![Divadlo Práce: studie divadelního prostoru [Theater of labor: studies in theater space]....](/pictures/thumb/P5968_1.jpg?v=1597769727)
Prague: Jaroslav Kohoutek, 1938. Oblong quarto (14.7 × 21.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 53, [3] pp. Wrappers beginning to detach from text block, but still intact; overall about very good. First edition of this study of various aspects of modern theater design, with many examples of historic theatrical constructions, a...... More