![Book ID: P6488 Peremena. Byl’ [Change. A true story]. Marietta Shaginian](/pictures/thumb/P6488.jpg?v=1580327102)
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. Octavo (18.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed); 234, [3] pp. Light wear to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; text evenly toned due to stock, still about very good. Owner signature dated 1925 to title page. First edition. An early novel by the prolific Soviet writer..... 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
![Book ID: 51639 Żarnowiec stop [Stop Żarnowiec]. Krzysztof Skiba](/pictures/thumb/51639_1.jpeg?v=1634851527)
Łȯdż: “Wolność i Pokój” Wzdawnictwo Własne, [ca. 1988]. A single leaf folded once to create a 4 pp. pamphlet measuring 21 × 15.5 cm. Light fraying to right edge; else good or better. An environmentalist punk-inspired zine protesting against the construction of the Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant, distributed by the..... More
[Paris]: Tipografiia Partii Sotsial.-Revoliutsionerov, [1905]. Small octavo (17.8 × 11.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 3 leaves of plates on coated stock, with portraits of Kaliaev at various ages; 48 pp. Wrappers lightly discolored; still very good. Rare propaganda booklet celebrating the revolutionary terrorist Ivan Kaliaev. Kaliaev was a member of..... More
![Book ID: P5277 Tsarskii oprichnik [The Tsar's Oprichnik], no. 2 (of two issues published)....](/pictures/thumb/P5277_1.jpg?v=1591525563)
Paris: Izdanie Soiuza Tsarskikh Oprichnikov, 1923. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 28, 8 pp. Stamps of the Mladoross Organization library in Paris. Spine covered with opaque tape; the fragile wrappers somewhat chipped and tearing along tape edge; text toned; still good or better. This issue reproduces previously..... More
![Book ID: 51522 Deutscher Nachrichtendienst [German news service]. With:...](/pictures/thumb/51522.jpeg?v=1645018539)
Prague: Verlagsanstalt Graphia und Paris, Vorstand der Sopade), August 30, 1934 – January 12, 1939. 44 issues (see below for details). Each ca. 30–60 numbered leaves printed rectos only on stock of varying color, including green and pink, staple-bound or sewn with thin thread. Ca. 9 × 6 cm to..... More
Prague: V. Rejmon, 1901-1948. Octavos (22.2 × 14.7 cm). Contemporary half-cloth; 192 pp. of consecutive pagination. Wrappers lightly worn; frequent annotations by the editor, with his owner inscription to the first page; else good or better. Complete early run of this long-standing Czech journal for socialist youth, with articles on..... More
Prague: Administrace Nového kultu, 1902-1903. Octavo (19.8 × 13.3 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards; decorative endpapers; 93, [2] and 84, [2] pp. Ten full-page illustrations, including on separate leaves of yellow stock. Resized to binding; lacking original wrappers; small closed tear; owner signatures of Emil Vachek; first issue..... More
Toronto: "Robitnyche slovo", 1917. Small octavo (15 × 11 cm). Original orange printed wrappers; 29, [3] pp. Text evenly toned and somewhat brittle; still about very good. Second, enlarged edition of this book of socialist workers' songs in Ukrainian, published by the Ukrainian socialist newspaper "The Worker's Word" (Robitnyche slovo)..... 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
Sofia: Rossiisko-Bolgarskoe Knigoizdatel'stvo, 1921. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 34, [2] pp. Stamp of George Sabo Slavic Books and ownership stamp of Igor Kersha to last page. Wrappers lightly chipped at corners; spine extremities frayed; old tape repair to spine; text toned due to stock, still..... More
Paris: Oliver de Serres, 1930. Octavo (24 × 16). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 36, [1] pp. Stamps of Union Des Jeunes Russes Bibliotheke to front wrapper and first page. Front wrapper detached; some light markings in pencil throughout, else about very good. The first publication (one of only two published..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Some moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; partially unopened and uncut, good or better. Third edition. A public health and hygiene pamphlet published during the Typhus epidemic unleashed by the privations of the Russian..... More
XXVI, 392 pp. text discussing the city from its origins until the beginning of 19th century, with special attention paid to the city's notable buildings, notes, transcription of documents, indices, 118 plates showing drawings and images from photographs of buildings, street scenes, artwork, architectural details, etc. 4to. Signatures loose as..... More
Moscow: Izdanie M. S. Sabashnikovykh, 1928. Octavos (23.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with an illustration by A. Kravchenko; 220, [3] and 259, [1] pp. Wrappers rubbed and with partial insect damage to spine of volume II; still about good. First Russian publication of the memoirs and diaries of..... More
![Book ID: P002475 K rabochemu narodu [To the working people]. Prilozhenie. I. Proekt...](/pictures/thumb/P002475_1.jpg?v=1597926723)
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
Berlin: J. Ladyschnikow verlag, 1903. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 45, [4] pp. Publisher’s catalog to rear wrapper. Wrappers lightly discolored; still very good. The first foreign edition of Tolstoy’s banned anti-death penalty essay, written in response to an announcement of the execution of twenty peasants in..... More
Berlin: Heinrich Caspari Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1920? Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [5], 55 pp. Publisher's ads inside wrappers. Light tears to overlapping wrapper edges; text lightly toned; wrappers beginning to detach along spine head; still a very good, uncut and unopened copy. First edition thus. An émigré publication..... More
Constantinople: Tipografiia Izd. T-va “Pressa”, 1921. Octavo (19 × 14). Modern quarter-cloth with paper over boards (original wrappers preserved?); 310, [2] pp, with foldout map, and illustrations by Aleksandr Cosmin. Light moisture stain and foxing to title and first few pages; first page beginning to detach; text toned due to..... More
1986. [Zagreb]: Galerija proširenih medija, 1986. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset-printed to recto. Red pen mark below artist's name; else very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Original poster announcing an exhibition of two works by Trbuljak in May 1986, at Galerija proširenih medija in Zagreb. Trbuljak (born 1948)..... More
Paris: Izdanie tsentralnogo organa R.S.-D.R.P. "Sotsialdemokrat", 1910. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16, [1] pp. Very good. First edition of this pamphlet by Vlasa D. Mgeladze (1868-1944), a Georgian revolutionary, Menshevik leader, and a participant of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911. After the October Revolution..... More
![Book ID: P6864 Kam spěje Anglie? [Where Is Britain Going?]. Lev Trockij, Bohumil Mathesius](/pictures/thumb/P6864_1.jpg?v=1580327119)
Prague: Komunistické nakladatelství a knihkupectví v Praze, 1926. Octavo (19 × 14.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 173, [2] pp. Spine cocked; wrappers lightly discolored; still about very good. First and only separate edition in Czech of Trotsky's work, translated by Bohumil Mathesius, a prolific translator from a number of European..... More
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo Biulletenia Oppozitsii, 1932. Octavo (20 × 14.3 cm). Original printed wrappers on red stock; 159, [1] pp. A very good, partially uncut and unopened copy. First edition. Published in Russian and German in Berlin in 1932, this text about the nature of fascism was Leon Trotsky’s attempt to..... More
Kaluga: Tipografiia S. A. Semenova (self-published), 1914. Octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Original tan printed wrappers; 16 pp. Two pp. of illustrations. Complete list of the author's publications on pp. 2-3 of wrappers. Light wear to wrappers; trace of moisture stains to wrapper edges, paper label remnant to upper left..... More
Prague: Plamia, 1926. Small quarto (25 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; frontis portrait of Pushkin; 107, [5] pp. Numerous black and white photographs in the text. A very good copy, printed on better paper stock, wrappers lightly dust-soiled. Scarce collection of detailed reports on local festivities on the first..... More