[Moscow]: A. Rerikh, ca. 1900-1903. Oblong folio (25.5 × 35 cm). Original embossed green cloth with gilt title to front board and 25 leaves of photographic plates. Inscription to marbled boards reads: “Presented to F. Lambert by acting Abbot of Solovetsky Monatery, Sept. 20, 1918.” Boards and corners lightly scuffed;..... More
1932. Moscow: IZOGIZ (Agit-massovyi sektor), 1932. Octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [16] pp., of these, eight pages are divided horizontally and freely moveable. Light wear to wrappers; lower right corner creased; still about very good. Catalog issued on the occasion of the first exhibition of work by..... More
Prague: Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, 1985. Octavo (20.7 × 15 cm). Original yellow printed folder containing [6] + 38 leaves of Hoffmeister's humorous collages to rectos. Very good. Complete series of reproductions of humorous collages, or jokes in collage form, by Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973), an artist influenced by the Poetist style formulated..... More
![Sborník Literární Skupiny [Anthology of the Literary Group]. Lev Blatný](/pictures/thumb/P6797_1.jpg?v=1595606448)
Výškov na Moravě: Nákladem F. Obziny, 1923. Quarto (26 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 110, [3] pp. Numerous plates, some full-page on coated stock, some tipped-in. Light wear and fraying to lower spine; very minor moisture stains to overlapping wrapper edges; overall still a very good copy. First and..... More
![Nebylo marně žít a umírat [And not in vain did we live and die]. Názorná...](/pictures/thumb/P5773_1.jpg?v=1595606444)
Prague: Vydala redakce Názorná agitace, Vydavatelství časopisů MNO, [1961]. Oblong quarto (14.8 × 20.4 cm). Original gray pictorial wrappers; [32] leaves of portraits and biographical text loosely inserted, as issued. Very good. Scarce portfolio of short biographies and portraits of young Czech men and women who died for the cause..... More
Dourdan: [H. Vial, ca. 1902]. Folio (46 cm). Boards portfolio, contents loose as issued. 8, (2) pp. introductory text, list, and descriptions of plates, 32 leaves of chromolithographic plates showing details of interior ornamentation painted in two techniques, poncif and pochoir, including subtly colored delicate motifs, often based on floral..... More
Vienna: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong octavo (14.7 × 17 cm). Original white leather with gold, red, and black armorial stamping; all edges gilt; [2] pp., title, 1 pp. poem by Harmann Hangoo, followed by 11 fine chromolithographic plates showing an illustrated score by Haydn and scenes commemorating events in Vienna..... More
![Bulletin Folkové sekce. prosinec 83 [Bulletin of the Folk Section. Fall of 1983]. Unnumbered...](/pictures/thumb/50844_1.jpg?v=1595260205)
Ostrava-Poruba: Folková sekce Klubu mladých, 1983. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial xeroxed wrappers on pink stock; 35 pp. Very good. Scarce regional bulletin devoted to folk and rock music, published illegally as a samizdat serial distributed to members of the "Folk Section." Contains a series of reports from..... More
Paris: Librairie franco-russe “Oko”, 1928. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 83, [1] pp. Owner stamp to front wrapper an title page. Wrappers lightly soiled and chipped to edges. Internally very good. First and only edition. A WWI prison memoir written by Nikolai Melnikov (1875–1935?), a Russian writer..... More
![Pieśni żałobne getta [Ghetto dirges]. Izabela Gelbard, Por. Czajka, Izabela Stachowicz](/pictures/thumb/50837_001.jpg?v=1595356983)
[Katowice]: Nakładem Wyd. Julian Wyderka, 1946. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 58, [3] pp. Photographic frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good. First edition. A collection of laments and funerary songs for the dead of the Warsaw Ghetto written by the Polish-Jewish writer Izabela Stachowicz..... More
Hannover: self-published, April 1972–October 1972. A4 (30.5 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; offset-printed and xeroxed text, photographs, and drawings on loosely inserted sheets; 8 pp. Very good. Single issue of this uncommonly seen German underground journal, inspired by the “Agit 883” periodical published in Berlin from 1969 to 1972..... More
[Berlin: self-published, 1985]. Quarto (A4). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 15, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs. Very good. Scarce program issued for the first festival of erotic film in Berlin, held in the summer of 1985. Its goal was to "give an overview of the as yet unexplored regions of..... More
[West Berlin?], ca. 1970. Square octavo (14 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched blue printed wrappers; [24] pp. of text and image, combining reproduced typescript with ten full-page pornographic photographs. Very good. Scarce pamphlet containing an accessible introduction to questions of capitalism, alienated labor, and sexual repression, as well as criticism..... More
Bremen: self-published, 1973. A4 (30.5 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; offset-printed and xeroxed text, photographs, and drawings on loosely inserted sheets; 10 pp. Very good. Single issue of this uncommonly seen German underground journal, inspired by the “Agit 883” periodical published in Berlin from 1969 to 1972. It was..... More
Hannover: self-published, April 1972–October 1972. A4 (30.5 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; offset-printed and xeroxed text, photographs, and drawings on loosely inserted sheets; 4, 10, 8, 8, and 10 pp. Small light stain to issue four; else very good. Apparently complete run of this uncommonly seen German underground journal..... More
Moscow: self-published, 1929. Octavo (15.5 × 11.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; XIII, 3–31 pp. [40] leaves of plates. Rust to staple; light wear to wrappers and spine; ink stains to front wrapper and two first leaves; still about very good. Catalog of the second and last exhibition of OMKh (Society..... More
Moscow: OST, 1925. Octavo (17 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 8 pp. Very good save for light toning around staples and two small pan marks to front wrapper. A catalog of the first of four exhibits of The Society of Easel Painters (OST) “one of the most original but..... More
Moscow: Tipo-litografiia I.E. Shchekina E. A. Martynova, 1909. 12mo (15 × 11 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 21 pp. Laid in are two folded tables. Very good. An ephemeral catalog of the Riabov paper manufacturing company, with a list of goods and their selling prices for the year 1909. The..... More
West Berlin: self-published, 1968-1982. Mostly single leaves of A4, offset-printed or mimeographed to rectos and versos; a few folded leaves; a few on colored stock. Mostly very good; occasional small nicks to margins. A group of twenty-seven broadsides and flyers documenting the Women's Movement in West Berlin (Neue Deutsche Frauenbewegung)..... More
Beijing (Peking): Tipo-litografiia Russkoi Dukhovnoi Missii, 1919. Octavo (23.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed paper over boards; 265 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light fading and soil to wrappers; edges and corners slightly rubbed. Internally very good. First edition outside of Russia. A Russian émigré publication of a classic textbook on ancient..... More
Helsinki: Société de literature finnoise, 1882. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 127 pp. Small tape repair to head of spine; else about very good. A history of the Finnish nationalist movement during the relatively liberal reign of Alexander II over the Grand Duchy of Finland, written by..... More
Helsinki: J.C. Frenckell, 1886. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 127 pp. Wrappers lighly toned due to stock; small chips along wrapper edges. Internally very good. Second edition. An important work on Constitutional law of Finland, commenting specifically on Russo-Finish political relations, written by the law professor and..... More
Berlin, 1977–1978. Various formats, mostly A4. Overall very good. Hosted by the Technische Universität in Berlin and attracting over fifteen thousand attendees from around the world, the TUNIX meeting laid the groundwork for non-violent, grassroots German alternative politics. One of its main goals was to discuss new strategies of resistance..... More
Berlin and Vienna, ca. 1972–1976. Various formats, most A4. Very good. Group of scarce ephemera documenting the activities of the AA-Commune in Berlin, a utopian commune founded by Otto Muehl (1925–2013), the Austrian artist known for his participation in Viennese Actionism. The original commune was founded in 1972 in Friedrichshof..... More
Geneva: George & Cie, 1903. Octavo (19.5 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 480 pp. Unopened and uncut. Light soil and moisture stain to wrappers; wrapper edges chipped. Internally very good. A socially and politically liberal philosophical tract, focusing on the reign of Alexander III in Russia (1881–1894), this text..... More