![Kak rabotat’ nad plakatom [How to work on the poster]. Mit 3 Farbtafeln und 45 Illustrationen....](/pictures/thumb/50812_001.jpg?v=1593195007)
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ–IZOGIZ, 1932. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 81 pp. With 45 illustrations and three leaves of color plates. Wrappers lightly worn; owner inscription and old price stamp; very good. First and only edition. A richly illustrated manual on the making of the Soviet political poster..... More
![Kriegszeit. Künstlerflugblätter [War time. Artistic broadsides], nos. 1 (August 1914) through...](/pictures/thumb/50807_001.jpg?v=1592932250)
Berlin: Verlag Paul Cassirer, 1914-1916. Folios (ca. 47.5 × 32 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; most issues 4 pp. Housed in original cloth-backed printed card portfolio; the latter professionally repaired; most issues toned due to stock, as usual, and with a few occasional nicks but overall an about very good set..... More
![das tau [the tau], vol. I, nos. 1–3 (all published). Fredy G. Fehr](/pictures/thumb/50803_001.jpg?v=1592921463)
Zürich: self-published, 1966. Quartos (29.5 × 21 cm to 32 × 23.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 28, 23, and 32 pp. About very good; a few pages with underlining by the former owner; one issue with crease to lower corner. Evidently the first Swiss post-war journal that understood itself..... More
Tallinn: ERK, 1929. Quarto (19.5 × 17 cm). Later brown buckram, original wrappers not preserved; 60, [1] pp. Stamps of Bibliotheque de l'union Galipoli, Paris, and Lycee Russe Empereur Nicolas II to title and first page. Light wear; overall about very good. First edition. The first of three memoirs by..... More
Prague: Špálova galerie Praha, 1968. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 12 pp. Very good. A catalog of an exhibition of West German art dedicated to the Lidice massacre, a mass execution of the residents of a small Czech village by SS officers in 1942. The 1968 exhibition..... More
St. Petersburg: V Tipografii I. Glazunova, 1805. Octavo (17.5 × 11 cm). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; 32 pp. Spine extremities chipped; light wear to boards and hinges rubbed; owner inscription to title page; light foxing throughout, still about good or better. This historical brochure contains brief accounts of..... More
![Gimtinės žiburėliai, ketvirtoji knygute [The Lights of Our Homeland, volume four]. Juozas...](/pictures/thumb/P5595_1.jpg?v=1592920939)
Hanau: Išleido Hanau LTB Švietimo Skyrius, 1947. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers; 42, [2] pp. of mimeographed text and illustrations. Trace of label to upper spine and stamp of a Baltimore Lithuanian organization to front wrapper; else about very good. Scarce final volume of this illustrated..... More
[Paris]: Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1905. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary half-leather with gilt-tooled red leather spine label; 978, [8] pp. Lacking original wrappers, title, and a first leaf with preface; second leaf with restauration; else a very good copy with wide uncut margins in an attractive..... More
Meppen/Ems: Ems-Kopp, [1974]. Original folio (fifteen unnumbered, loosely gathered folded leaves DIN A4, ca. 30 x 21.5 cm), mimeographed text. Pages lightly toned; outer leaf with tear to fold; still very good. Rare bibliography of anarchist books and related publications, crudely mimeographed and distributed by students in provincial West-German Meppen..... More
Krakow: Antykwariat Artystyczny Franciszka Studzinskiego, 1929. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 8 pp. With three photo-reproductions and a price list laid in. Light soil to wrappers; crease to lower corner of front wrapper. Still about very good. With three photo-reproductions and a list of 43 paintings in..... More
[Paris]: 1957. Oblong quarto (22 × 28). Original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with the imperial heraldry of the Romanov family; 129, [3] leaves, most featuring black and white photoreproductions with Russian captions, printed on coated paper stock throughout. Scarce album of 121 black and white photographs, depicting members of the royal..... More
![Chem bylo kazachestvo [What were the cossacks?]. Otdel'nyi ottisk statei iz nomerov 82-87 zhurn....](/pictures/thumb/P002968_1.jpg?v=1593515283)
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1931. 12mo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched blue wrappers; 48, [1] pp. Very minor soil to wrappers; very good or better. Rare Cossack-related publication, issued by the "Vol'noe Kazachestvo" (Free Cossacks) movement when Prague was still a key center of Russian emigre and..... More
Berlin: Izdanie Gugo Shteinitsa (Hugo Steinitz Verlag), 1903. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; [5], 80 pp. Publisher's ads inside wrappers. Light fraying to spine extremities; red pencil marks to publisher's catalog on rear wrapper (recto-verso). Tolstoy's exhortation to the working peasants, expressing his deep sympathy and advocating..... More
Vienna: Izdanie russk. knizh. mag. J. Persky, 1922. Second Edition (fifth to tenth thousand). 12mo (14 × 10 cm). Original illustrated wrappers: [2], 72 pp. Publisher’s ads. Very light moisture stain to lower margin, just barely touching text; pages evenly toned; some oxidation to staples; else a very good, apparently..... More
![Kupava: roman odnogo khudozhnika [Globeflower: an artist's novel]. Georgii Grebenshchikov](/pictures/thumb/P002064_1.jpg?v=1593527523)
Southbury, Conn.: Alatas, 1936. Small octavo (18 × 14 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 104, [5] pp. With the signet of the Russian village "Churaevka" on the rear wrapper. Very good; light fraying to wrappers and lower spine extremity; one small chip to overlapping edges. First edition of this novella by..... More
Southbury, Conn.: Alatas, 1928. Small octavo (18.5 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 188, [4] pp. Very good; small nick to spine; else an unusually well-preserved copy. First edition of this novel by Georgii Grebenshchikov (1883-1964), the prominent Russian writer and cultural activist, best known for founding the Russian village..... More
[Krakow]: Teatr Cricot 2 (printed by Wydawnicza im. W. L. Anczyca), [1975]. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers (photo by the actor Andrzej Wełmiński). Very good. Striking publication issued to accompany the second version of this performance by painter and avant-garde theater artist Tadeusz Kantor. His play..... More
Krakow: Nakładca Fr. Dabioch, [1946]. Original red pictorial card portfolio, housing [3] pp. of text followed by twenty-one lithographic plates, measuring 36.5 × 25.5 cm. Light abrasions to spine; lower spine end beginning to split; private stamp to first leaf; contents very good. First and only edition. A collection of..... More
Berlin: Skify (A. Shreider, also: Partiia levykh sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov), 1921. Quarto (31 × 22 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Polina Khentova; 24 pp. About very good. Rare first issue, one of only two published, of this Berlin journal by the SR (Socialist Revolutionary) Party, edited by Aleksandr Shreider (1895-1930), a...... More
Ierusalim (Jerusalem): self-published, 1931. Octavo (23 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 122, [2] pp. About very good. First and only edition of this memoir by Mikhail A. Pols'kii (1891-1960), a Russian Orthodox priest (protopresviter) and theologian, who was imprisoned by the Soviet government for his religious service but later..... More
Radvanice-Moravská Ostrava: Spiritistická revue, 1925. Octavo (23.2 × 15.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 64 pp. Very good, in protective mylar. Published as volume 3 of the Library of "Spiritistic Revue" (Spiritistické Revue), this volume gathers astrological predictions and advice for 1926, elaborated by the "Circle of occult colleagues" in Czech..... More
![Mladá sovětská lyrika: sborník [Young Soviet lyric poetry: an anthology]. Ilja Bart, designer...](/pictures/thumb/P6873_1.jpg?v=1592580770)
Prague: Svaz přátel SSSR (Tisk Václav Palán), 1936. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 61, [3] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy. Scarce anthology of Soviet poetry, divided into four sections: "Spring," "Work," "The third shift," and "Fire and snow." According to the translator and editor's..... More
![Velká zkouška demokracii [La grande épreuve des démocraties; the great trial of democracies]....](/pictures/thumb/P6865_1.jpg?v=1592580768)
Prague: Melantrich, 1948. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original cloth-backed decorative boards; pictorial dust-jacket; 116, [4] pp. Very good; dust jacket very lightly discolored and age-toned to verso; in protective mylar. Second printing (2000-3000), the hardcover version, of the Czech translation of "La grande épreuve des démocraties. Essai sur les..... More
![Holý rok [The Naked Year]. Boris Pilňak, Vladimír Vendyš, Pilniak Pil'niak](/pictures/thumb/P6799_1.jpg?v=1592580765)
Edice Symposion, 32 (series title). Prague: Symposion, 1928. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on red stock; 189, [3] pp. Very good. First Czech translation of Pil'niak's novel "The Naked Year." "It was his novel The Naked Year, a flinchingly honest portrayal of life in post-Revolutionary Russia, that..... More
Prague: F. M. Mueller, 1936. Octavo (21.2 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on red stock; [16] pp. of letterpress-printed text and one large woodcut illustration on facing pages. A very good, partially uncut and unopened copy. Striking bibliophile edition containing the Czech translation of a "Tale about Lenin," supposedly..... More