Moscow: Izdanie vsesoiuznoi knizhnoi palaty, 1960–1961. Octavos (20 × 13 and 22 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers and boards; 135 and 459, [1] pp. Spine extremities of one volume very lightly chipped; light moisture stain to rear wrapper, else very good. Printed by the publishing house of the Ministry..... More

Leningrad: Gublit, ca. 1925-1928? Various formats. Three small posters, printed to rectos in blue and red. About very good; small nicks and tears to edges. In protective mylar sleeve. Contains the following slogans: "Kazhdoe novoe sel’sko-khoziaistvennoe tovarishchestvo – zalog uluchsheniia krest'ianskogo khoziaistva (Every new agricultural cooperative plays its part in..... More

A complete run in 6 issues, each issue 32-48 pp., of the provocative satirical 60's Czech journal under the editorial direction of Jan Jirasek, published during the brief period of political liberalization leading up to the Prague Spring of 1968, with political satire, erotic and literary humor, and innovative typographic..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

535 pp. history of the culture and art of Campania and Naples from ancient times to the 19th century, 524 illustrations (many in color). 4to. Cloth, slipcase. Milan (Electa for Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) 1977. 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