IWC: Inicjatywa walki czynnej [Active fighting initiative]. Ca. 1985. Original envelope measuring 15.7 × 11 cm, with original prints to recto and verso in black and green. Very good. A Solidarity-issued envelope with a laconic design symbolizing the friendship between Polish and Afghani anti-communist opposition, likely printed in 1985. The..... More

Kiev-Kharkiv: "LIteratura i iskusstvo", 1934. Octavo (17.8 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 167, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout. Lacking the pictorial dust-jacket. Wrappers somewhat worn and creased; lightly toned; still about very good. First edition. An eye-witness account of travels to the arctic circle on the Soviet icebreaker..... More

[Paris, 1942]. Quarto (26.8 × 20.7 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 15 pp. Very good. Second "Liste Otto", one of three volumes published under this unofficial title during the German occupation of Paris and the Vichy Regime. The pamphlet was issued on July8, 1942 and listed 1170 prohibited titles, including..... More

Kharkiv: Narodnyi komisariiat lehkoi promyslovosty USRR, 1932. Oblong quarto (22 × 29.5 cm). Original string-bound embossed cloth over boards, with constructivist design; 104 unnumbered leaves of illustrations. In Ukrainian and Russian. Very good. A richly-illustrated promotional album for the achievements of the first five-year plan in Ukraine, a period of..... More

Moscow [Odessa]: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Buria", [1918]. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63 pp. About very good; light overall wear and dust-soiling, minor chipping to spine. A curious bibliographical mystery, this edition appears to be one of the very first full publications of Pushkin's scandalously sacrilegious poem, written..... More

Altogether 8 issues: I. A complete run of the 6 issues (16-24 pp. each) of Le Torchon Brûle ("The Sparks Fly"), directed by Marie Dedieu, which acted as an organ of the M.L.F. which held its first meeting at the Université de Vincennes in the Spring of 1970, with articles..... More

42 pp. volume comprised of three pages of introductory text by F.T. Marinetti, a six-page biography of Giuntini authored by Adolfo Angeli, and pages of parole in libertà by Giuntini. Not illustrated, the pages with bright blue typographic titles, portrait of Giuntini to frontispiece. Oblong 8vo. Some slight toning, handwritten..... More

Single sheet requesting participants for a musical event, outlining instructions for how to participate, with a facsimile letter from Jones and instructive diagram, facsimile signature and date to lower righthand corner. 4to., folded across the center. Some toning and sunning, otherwise good. Reggio Emilia (Edition Pari and Dispari) 1976. The..... More

Unpaginated volume consisting of 6 pages (three leaves printed recto and verso) of musical notation by Malipiero, written presumably for the piano in standard treble and bass clefs, in 14 brief sections, followed by 14 plates depicting three-color abstract line and geometric drawings by Veronesi, in which one can see..... More

[London or Stockholm?], 1918. Octavo (21.5 × 13.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; [8], iii, 40 pp. Wrappers somewhat creased and worn to upper edge; still about very good. Russian translation of "Meine Londoner Mission, 1912-1914," prepared and with a preface by N. Nordmann, as well as with a short biographical..... More

Soviet Union: self-published, ca. 1970. Quarto (28.5 × 20 cm). Original side-stapled hand-lettered wrappers on colored stock; typescript to rectos only; 3 pp. Very good. A selection of lyrics by the famous Russian pre-revolutionary Cabaret singer Aleksandr Vertinskii (1889-1957). Vertinsky began his musical career in 1915, after trying his hand..... More

Soviet Union, 1970-1980s. Octavo (22 × 15.5 cm). Original paper-covered boards, with original drawn label affixed to front board; 19 leaves of typescript to rectos. Very good. Typewritten samizdat edition (first copy) of Akhmatova’s “Requiem.” LIke most samizdat versions of the narrative poem, the present edition is based on the..... More

Kiev: VUFKU, 1927. Quarto (30 × 23 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 16 pp. Illustrated throughout from drawings, photographs, portraits and film stills. About very good; light rubbing to spine fold. Single issue of the early Ukrainian cinema journal, edited by the Ukrainian Futurist poet Mykola Bazhan and heavily invested in..... More