![H2SO4: satyrický týdeník studentský [a satirical student weekly], vol. I, no. 1. Achille...](/pictures/thumb/P6800_1.jpg?v=1593776824)
Prague: J. Stejskal, 1934-1935. Quarto (31 × 23 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 10 pp. Several caricatures and vignettes throughout. Light discoloration to wrappers; else very good. First issue of this rare Czech student journal of political and cultural satire, influenced by world events as well as avant-garde tendencies such as..... More
Kharkov: Izdanie F. I. Kuzmina, [ca. 1915-1916]. Broadside on purple stock, measuring 55 × 35 cm, printed to recto and verso, with decorative header. Old horizontal and vertical creases; light discoloration; pre-revolutionary stamp of the Imperatorskii Moskovskii Muzei (Moscow State Historical Museum); else about very good. This WWI propaganda poster..... More
![Zaklad pravoslavnago khrama v Zheneve [The founding of the Orthodox Church in Geneva]. WITH:...](/pictures/thumb/P6316_1.jpg?v=1593776822)
Moscow: Tip. V. Gotie, 1863. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 5 pp. Binding reinforced with paper; foxing throughout. About good. Geneva: Russkaia tipografiia, 1939. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 16, [1] pp. Five leaves of illustrations. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Two..... More
Prague: Zápotočný a spol., [1937]. Octavo (19 × 13.3 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers over blind orange wraps; 141, [2] pp. Publisher's catalog to rear wrapper. The dust wrappers slightly worn and torn to spine extremities; else about very good. First title (second printing) in this series titled "Knihovna SOS" ("SOS..... More
![Puteshestvie. Proza, lirika, illiustratsii [The Journey. Prose, poetry, illustrations]. Aleksandr...](/pictures/thumb/50855_1.jpg?v=1593536104)
St. Petersburg: [self-published?], 1993. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 188, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; corners of front wrapper chipped. A good copy. Assembled in the tradition of “unofficial” Soviet literature, this self-published collection of short prose, poetry, and drawings reflects the transitional..... More
Dmitrov: Izdanie muzeia Dmitrovskogo Uezda, 1925. Small octavo (17 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 82 pp. Owner inscription to front wrapper and title page. Very good. Dedicated to the centenary of the “Decembrist”, anti-monarchist uprising of the 19th century, this publication of the History Museum of Dmitrov (just north..... More
Geneva: Izdanie "Soiuza Russkikh Sotsial'demokratov"; Mr. Rabkine, 1901. 12mo (15.5 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 34 pp. Stamps of the Boris Nicolaevsky Collection (Hoover), with duplicate deaccession stamp. Light soil to wrappers; some pencil marks to margins, else very good. This pamphlet captures the complex politics within the..... More
[Geneva]: Izdanie "Soiuza Russkikh Sotsial'demokratov"; Mr. Rabkine, 1900. 12mo (16 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 24 pp. Very good. A report on labor organizing in Ekaterinoslav (modern day Dnipr, Ukraine), an industrially rich region with a reported “25000 workers” engaged at “7 major factories” at the time of..... More
Geneva: Izdanie "Soiuza Russkikh Sotsial'demokratov", 1896. 12mo (15.3 × 10.5 cm). Original staple-stitched beige wrappers; 16 pp. Publisher's catalog to wrappers. Stamps of the Boris Nicolaevsky Collection (Hoover), with duplicate deaccession stamp. Very good, save for tear to lower right corner. А report presented by the Union of Russian Social..... More
[Prague]: Ministerstvo Školství a Kultury, 1957. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers over staple-stitched printed wrappers; [28] pp. With twelve full-page reproductions and two smaller plates. Very good. Catalog of a major exhibition of the works of Bohumír Dvorský (1902-1976), a Czech painter of the Academy who created..... More
![Budha žije [Bouddha vivant; The Buddha lives]. Paul Morand, Jarmila Fastrová](/pictures/thumb/50842_1.jpg?v=1593514446)
Prague: Aventinum, 1928. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by František Muzika; 147 pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy; very light wear to lower spine only. Although less well-known than Teige, Štyrský, and Sutnar, Muzika (1900-1074) was a key representative of the Czech avant-garde and a...... More
![Poèmes, Chants, Dessins, Mai 70, Mai 68 [Poems, chants, designs, May 70, May 68]. Front...](/pictures/thumb/50788_001.jpg?v=1593515164)
Paris 2e: Front culturel, 1970. Quarto (27 × 19 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [33] pp. Illustrations throughout printed in red and black. Very good. Striking graphically illustrated book of poems and protest songs documenting the French student movements of May 1968 and May 1970 in Paris. A scarce but compelling..... More
[Prague]: Historický ústav ČSAV v Praze, 1968. Octavo (20.4 × 15 cm). Original printed black wrappers over blind white wraps; [6], IV, [1], 35, 37–54, [1 blank], 55–494 pp, and fifty-six unnumbered pages with photographic reproductions interspersed. Good; wrappers worn and creased; binding shaken but intact. First edition of this..... More
A collection of five texts (all published, in five volumes) of classical Georgian literature, edited and with an introduction by Platon Ioseliani (1809–1875), the Georgian linguist, philologist, and historian. The son of a priest and a hereditary nobleman, Platon Ioseliani graduated from the Tiflis Theological Seminary (1830) and later St..... More
Moscow: Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 1928. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 13, [1] pp. Trace of rust to staple; title with owner signature; faint trace of moisture to lower edges; still about very good. One of the last exhibitions of “Bytie” (Being), a society of “fellow traveler” artists..... More
Moscow: [Izdanie vserossiskogo soiuza poetov], 1925 (front cover states 1926). Large octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 30 pp. Wrapper illustration and 6 (5 full page) lithographic illustrations by Maria Siniakova. Wrappers somewhat worn and soiled; corners a bit bent; still about very good. First freestanding edition of..... More
![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
![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