Three rare issues of the sometimes humorous internal newsletter from by Company 1905 of the Civilian Conservation Corps of California, dated January 24, July 25, and August 31, 1936, put out by the Camp Hawkins Bar outpost, containing camp and company news regarding programming, promotions, and projects, anecdotes on camp..... 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
Group of three crudely illustrated mimeographed flyers from the Resurgence Youth Movement, two flyers single-sided and one mimeographed to both sides, titles include "War or Revolution", "World Revolution of Youth", and "The Lurker", with content and text including the encouraging of marginalized groups such as "guerillas, migrants, slaves, dropouts, anarchists..... More
![Trn: Humoristický Občasník [The Thorn: A Humorous Periodical]. Vol. I, No. 1 (1966) through...](/pictures/thumb/48768_001.jpg?v=1580326727)
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
Moscow: 1920–1921. Large octavos (25.5 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 23, 36, 64 pp. First issue lacking wrappers; occasional tears and one issue with private inventory label; overall good or better. Complete run of this Proletkult literary journal issued in three fascicles. “We ourselves need to create!” declare the..... 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
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
![Ai, ra uk'ves sakartvelos: p'ublitsist'uri nark'vevi [Voici ce qu'on a fait de la Géorgie]....](/images/noimage.png)
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
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo kul’turno-prosvetitel’noi literatury, 1951. Oblong quarto (26.5 × 35.5 cm). Contemporary stab-stitched blind card wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Illustrations on 61 pages, some with details printed in red. Lacks original printed front wrapper (rear wrapper preserved); a few pages finger-soiled; still about very good. The present work concerns..... 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
An anti-Dreyfus articulated caricature printed on thin cardboard, depicting a soldier in red pants and cap plunging the writer Émile Zola into a barrel bearing the word "Vidange", with a brad fastener used to move the soldier's arm (and thereby the figure of Zola) up and down into the barrel..... 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