Geneva: Izdanie G. A. Kuklina, 1903. 12mo (17 × 11.5 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 100, [4] pp. Hoover Institute duplicate stamp to wrapper. Publisher’s catalog to wrappers and inside leaf. Wrapper lightly discolored; wrapper edges chipped; frequent underlining in pencil throughout, still good or better. This concise overview of..... More

Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo., 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 48, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Wrappers evenly toned; spine extremities lightly frayed. Still about very good. An early post-revolutionary attempt at creating a “Soviet Pushkin,” this collection of poems was edited by one of the founders..... More

L'viv: Nakladom vydavnytstva Hromada, 1934. 12mo (14.6 × 10.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 32 pp. About very good; light wear and fraying to wrappers. Scarce Western Ukrainian nationalist pamphlet about the history of the Ukrainian liberation movement, which takes aim at Yevhen Konovalets (1891–1938), a military leader of the Ukrainian..... More

Berlin: Parabola, [1936]. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5). Modern red quarter-leather binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine, with original printed wrappers preserved; 311, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vera Nikolaevna and Ivan Aleksandrovich (Alekseevich) Bunin, “In memory of..... More

Unpag. (4 pp.) text and list, 42 plates of color reproductions of historic maps and prints of views, landmarks and events of the cities and towns of Provence, some folding. Folio. Box portfolio (box slightly water stained and corners worn). N.p. (Editions Hier et Demain) 1971. More

Vienna-Prague: [Ukrains'kyi skytalets'], 1923. Octavo (18.7 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 162, [1] pp. Very good. Second edition, but first standalone printing, of this history and theory of Ukrainian nationalism, by Stepan Rudnyts'kyi (1877–1937), a geographer from Galicia. "After studying at Lviv University (1895–9) and Vienna University (1899–1901) he..... More

Petrograd: Biblioteka svobodnoi Rossii, [1917]. Octavos (20 × 12 cm). Original pink printed wrappers; 15, [1] and 16 pp. Very good; one volume uncut and unopened; the other with trace of a book distributor stamp and private inventory number to front wrapper. Two attractive popular pamphlets issued in the days..... More

1882. Kostroma: Tipo-litografiia A. Fal'k, 1882. Small quarto (23 × 15.6 cm). Contemporary pebbled boards; gilt title to front board; 98 pp. Two folding maps, partially in color. Spine recently re-backed; corners scuffed; faint Soviet bookstore stamps to rear pastedown; still about very good. Rare provincial imprint, which argues against..... More

147 pp. text on the development and construction of the Italian national motorway system, a great source of pride for Mussolini and his Fascist regime, including introductory text, indices of relevant locations and people, and 142 fine photographic plates showing roads, bridges, and other infrastructure both under construction and completed..... More

[Warsaw, 1944]. Single leaf, measuring 29.5 × 21 cm, printed to recto. Drawing signed "Mjölnir", V.[ölkischer] B.[eobachter] v. 25.08.1944." Stamp of private collection of Andrej Gołoś. Small insect damage, not affecting text; else about very good. A Nazi propaganda broadside by Hans Schweitzer, published by the Völkischer Beobachter, the official..... More

Belgrade: self-published, 1933. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 192 pp. Two folding maps. Partially unopened and uncut. Very good. First edition. A WWI memoir written by one of the commanding officers of the General Army Headquarters of the Russian Empire, Boris Sergeevskii (1883–1976). A nobleman, Sergeevskii graduated..... More

Shanghai: Tipografiia izdatel’stva “Slovo”, 1937. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by M. Iafshits; 568, IV pp. Wrappers somewhat worn and with partial loss to cover illustration; text toned; else about very good. First and only edition of this idiosyncratic work on sociology and politics, by Vladimir Sheremetev..... More

Vetsliar (Wetzlar): Vydanne Soiuza Vyzvolennia Ukrainy (Union for the Liberation of Ukraine), 1917. Duodecimo (14.2 × 10.9 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 43 pp. Wrappers separated and split along spine, some pages loose, handwritten ink notations to front cover and several internal pages; ex-libris of Prof. A. A. Granovsky to inside..... More