A scarce May 25, 1970, special edition of the Cuban newspaper Granma, the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party, 48 pp., chronicling the history of American aggression towards Cuba following the Cuban Revolution and the start of Communist rule in 1959, including coverage of the perceived and actual transgressions..... More
Konstantinopol’ (Istanbul): self-published (printed by Brat’ia Zellich), 1920. Octavo (19.8 × 13.9 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 12 pp. Cancelled library stamp of the Russian State Lenin Library; else very good. A scarce and highly interesting manifesto by the “Ukrainian National Committee” in exile in Constantinople, which envisions Ukraine as..... More
A complete run in 189 issues (lacking only 2 issues: Vol. I, No. 8 and Vol. II, No. 37) of the international Trotskyist political journal before its name changed to Intercontinental Press, under the editorial direction of Joseph Hansen, Pierre Frank, Livia Maitan, and George Novack, published under the auspices..... More
Kiev: 1920. Newsprint, measuring 35 × 27 cm; 8 pp. Illustrations throughout. Small discard stamp of the Warsaw Public Library to front page. Spine fold with small tears; old horizontal crease; still about very good. One issue (of ten published) of a communist Polish-language weekly, intended for distribution among the..... More
![Amerikanskie vpechatleniia [American Impressions]. Georgii Baidukov, Geroi Sovetskogo Soiuza,...](/pictures/thumb/P003615_1.jpg?v=1580499145)
Kuibyshev: “Poligrafkniga” Oblgiz, 1942. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 18 pp. Stamp of the American Russian Institute and library notations to front wrapper. Else very good. This WWII-era positive account of the United States by a Soviet hero pilot captures the complexity of the US-Soviet relations during..... More
Tbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed "O. Bur" in Cyrillic); 278, [3] pp. Wrappers professionally restored preserving part of spine strip; light overall wear; stain to front wrapper; internally very good. First and only edition of the Georgian translation of Henri Barbusse's account of..... More
![Komu zemlia dostanetsia? [Who will get the land?]. Bonch-Osmolovskii, natolii Iosifovich](/pictures/thumb/P5579_1.jpg?v=1580406423)
1919. Ekaterinburg: Tip. Vr. Tsentr. Voenno-Prom. Komit, 1919. Octavo (18 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. This land reform pamphlet was published during the Russian Civil War (1918–1922) by revolutionary narodnik Anatolii Bonch-Osmolovskii (1857–1930). The author’s political activity began in 1876 when..... More
8 vols. bound in 4. XVIII, 328, XII, 411, XII, 372, VII, 386, XVI, 393, XII, 459, XX, 452, XX, 412, 180 pp. text summarizing almost nine thousand pieces of source material for the study of 17th century France, including documents from an astonishingly wide variety of sources, indices. 8vo..... More
New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, [1970]. Single leaves measuring 55 × 43 cm each, offset print to rectos (versos blank). No. 2 printed in blue ink and no. 3 in black and red, with a striking illustration overlapping the text. Very good copies. Complete run in three..... More
XVI, 438 pp. treatise on the life, works and miracles of St. Francis, the history of his order and treatment of St. Francis in art, introduction by Pope Leo XIII, bibliographic notes, profusely illustrated, 35 plates. Lg. 4to. Boards. Paris (E. Plon, Nourrit) 1885. More
Unpaginated (circa 110 pp.) English translation of the French philosophical text by the Marxist theorist in which he postulates that modern life has become a series of representations, with the result that life is no longer being directly experienced, heavily illustrated throughout with reproductions of paintings and photographs used to..... More
Unpaginated (ca. 105 pp.) collection of documents originally issued as Oberbaum Blätter, an irregular weekly series of left-radical underground press broadsides and handbills, including contributions by Rudi Dutschke, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Peter Handke, Peter O. Chotjewitz, the members of Kommune 1, and others, executed throughout with an experimental graphic style..... More
2 vols., 654 pp. text on the ideas and works of the Humanist theologian, including discussion of his supporters, collaborators and illustrators, bibliography, index, profusely illustrated (many portraits). 8vo. Boards, slipcase. Cologne (Wienand) 1967. More
![Doloi negramotnost’: bukvar’ dlia vzroslykh [Down with illiteracy: a primer for adults]....](/pictures/thumb/50116_1.jpg?v=1580326928)
Nizhnii-Novgorod: Izd. Vserossiiskoi chrezvychainoi komissii po likvidatsii bezgramotnosti, 1921. Large octavo (single folded sheet); 32 pp. A fine copy. Early provincial edition, and a fine copy, of the first mass-produced Soviet primer for illiterate adults, published by the newly formed All-Russian Emergency Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia..... More
43 pp. volume containing ten total colored plates of Napoleonic paper dolls, with accompanying descriptive text by Aristide Fabre, the ten plates depicting Napoleon Bonaparte as military general; Napoleon in ceremonial robes; Napoleon's hunting costume and frock coat; Empress Josephine in ceremonial costume and dressed to go to town; the..... More
2 vols., 331, 422 pp. text consisting of memoirs written during the Sun King's minority, supposedly written by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld and Edme de La Châtre, comte de Naucay, though at least the former repudiated his connection with the text, notes. Note in ink on title-pages, title-page of..... More
2 vols., 856, XXVI pp. alphabetical dictionary of the trades and professions practiced in Paris since medieval times, including an essay by M.E. Levasseur on the historical and social context of vocations in France. 4to. Wrpps. Paris/ Leipzig (H. Welter) 1905-1906. More
![Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet]. "V jednot síla. Všem len m eskoslovenské...](/pictures/thumb/P6877_1.jpg?v=1580327120)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954]. Single folded leaf, measuring 20.8 × 14.6 cm, printed to recto and verso, and when folded resembling a US airmail envelope. With one duplicate copy; laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags, with the text "The American people greet the..... More
Unpaginated (29 leaves) album including introductory text on the conference and promoting and explaining the planned-for International Exposition scheduled to be held in Tokyo in 1940, printed list of contents, and 31 mounted original photographs(most approx. 4 1/2" x 6") showing international delegates (both Asian and Caucasian) to the conference..... More
2 vols., XXXII, 454, XIII, 291 pp. text documenting the history of guilds in Barcelona, mainly during the 15th and 16th centuries, including the apothecaries, silver-makers and book sellers, list of members, transcriptions of documents, extensive scholarly notes, 19 plates. Slight foxing on opening pages. Lg. 8vo. Wrpps. Barcelona (Libreria..... More
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennyi antireligioznyi muzei, byvshii Isaakievskii sobor, 1941. 12mo (14 × 10.3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 10, [2] and [5] pp. of announcements and ads. Possibly lacking the first leaf. The pamphlet is an example of Soviet anti-religious propaganda, issued by the "State Anti-Religious Museum" established at what had..... More
![Chernyi god dlia kommunizma [A black year for communism]. D. Karnovskii](/pictures/thumb/P6670.jpg?v=1580327113)
[Munich?]: self-published, 1957. Octavo (21 × 15). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp of mimeographed text to rectos and versos. Library of Congress "Surplus Duplicate" stamp to front wrapper. Very good. The violent anti-communist uprisings in Hungary and Poland as well as Tibet, Turkistan and Ukraine in 1956 are the..... More
London: Izdanie Gruppy Russkikh Kommunistov-Anarkhistov, 1902. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over five raised bands; marbled boards and endpapers; gilt-tooled title to spine; 295 pp. Boards very lightly rubbed; wrappers not preserved; rear hinge barely starting; still very good. First Russian edition of the key work by Prince..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskogo Soveta Rab. i Sold. DVP, 1917. First edition. Large octavo (27.2 × 18 cm). Original printed wrappers; 550 pp., [2] leaves of plates, 2 portraits (of Lenin and Zinov'ev). Wrappers lightly worn to edges; rear wrapper lightly soiled; tearing to hinges; internally very good. First edition in..... More