Harbin: self-published (Khudozhestvennaia tipografiia), 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 13 cm). Contemporary buckram boards; original wrappers perished; 76, [2] pp. Frontis portrait of the author on better paper stock. About very good. First and only Russian edition of this gruesome autobiographical narrative about the horrors of the Civil War in Mongolia..... More

Petrograd: Leshtukovskaia parovaia skoropechatnaia P.O. Iablonskogo, 1917. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Wrappers and text evenly toned due to stock; upper left corner of wrapper and text chipped; a tear to rear wrapper and one small perforation. Still about very good. An unlikely political..... More

Moscow: self-published, 1924-1925. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original paper wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to V. Arsen'ev in the year of publication. Light wear to wrappers; else very good. Count Iurii A. Olsuf’ev (1878-1938) was a scholar of ancient Russian art and iconography, as..... More

Berlin: Deutscher Zweig der Internationalen Frauenliga für Frieden und Freiheit, 1929]. Octavo (24 × 15.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 74, [4] pp. Wrappers worn, chipped to corners; front wrapper re-attached; else internally good or better. Scarce proceedings of the first public conference held in Germany against opium and other drugs..... More

Petrograd: Knigoizdatel’stvo kooperativnoi literatury Mysl’, 1918. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 64 pp. Wrappers lightly stained; still a very good copy. Scarce guide on establishing and maintaining smaller libraries as part of local co-operative societies, which were popular through the Soviet Union in the 1910s and 1920s..... More

Artist's book, unpaginated, published in conjunction with Oursler's 1975 exhibition of the same name, held at Rome's Galleria's Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, with foreword by Italo Mussa in Italian and English, the exhibition catalogue comprised of reproductions of appropriated black and white photographs, each accompanied by a reproduced handwritten caption in..... More

A beautiful and rare album comprising title page, a map showing the location of the naval battle of Kil-Bouroun (Kinburn), and 15 chromolithographic plates depicting mostly maritime scenes after the battle along the ice-bound Dnieper River, including inside the fort, disembarking onto the ice, and ruined fortifications, lithographed and colored..... More

Unpaginated (circa 36 pp.) promotional history of the French paper manufacturer who specialized in producing cigarette papers, with text in French, English, and Spanish, walking through the entire paper production process ,from the raw materials to pulp, all the way through to the finished product, with four-page double-fold at the..... More

Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskogo komiteta partii sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov, 1917. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Wrapper lightly chipped else about very good. [Political Literacy for Post-Revolutionary Russia]. Scarce brochure that seeks to educate a literate, but not highly educated, audience about the program of the Socialist Revolutionary..... More

Moscow: Izdanie narodnogo komissariata zdravookhraneniia, 1920. Octavo (22 × 19 cm). Publisher's staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 54 pp. Tables and graphs throughout. Slight moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; crease to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Else uncut and unopened; about very good. Second edition (first published in..... More

Paris: B. Barthold (S. P. L'vov), 1910. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original green printed card wrappers; XVI, [3], 187, XVI, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers lightly discolored; spine rubbed and front wrapper nearly detached; internally very good or better, with the tipped-in errata sheet. First edition..... More

Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Ogni", 1917. Octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 15, [1] pp. A fine copy. First brochure-form publication of an important essay by the Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918), published as part of a series titled "The citizen's library" (Biblioteka grazhdanina). Plekhanov uses writings..... 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