![Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet]. "V jednotě síla. Všem členům Československé...](/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
![Španělský lid bojuje [The Spanish people are fighting]. Grünwald, eopold](/pictures/thumb/50519.jpg?v=1583179743)
Prague: Nákladem Frant. Nedvěda, [1936]. Octavo (21 × 15.2 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Left margin of front wrapper rubbed, with partial loss to illustration; internally very good. First and only edition of this fragile yet visually striking pamphlet, which contains numerous shorter articles about the Spanish..... 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
1920. Prague: Nákladem časopisu "Sociální demokrat", 1920. Octavo (19.5 × 14.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers signed V. P.; 127, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Lenin. Small nicks to wrapper edges and wear to spine extremities; still about very good. One of the first appearances in Czech of Lenin's key strategic..... 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
Moscow: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Zhizn' i znanie", 1918. First Edition. Octavo (20.8 × 14.1 cm). Original printed wrappers; 80 pp. Partly erased private owner signature to front wrapper; old Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper; else very good or better. First edition of Lenin's study of the agrarian question in late nineteenth-century..... More
Petrograd: Zhizn' i znanie, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (21.2 × 14.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title (and his annotation in pencil to front wrapper?); a very good, uncut and unopened copy; tiny Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper. First edition of Lenin's in..... More
Moscow-Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Kommunist", 1918. First Edition. Octavo (21.6 × 14.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 135, [1]. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title; a near fine copy. First edition of this important post-revolutionary work by Lenin, which attacks Kautsky and the Mensheviks for their reactionary views. In particular, Lenin criticizes Kautsky’s..... More
Moscow: V universitetskoi tipografii, 1873. Octavo (26.5 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 193, IV pp. One folding map. Stamp of the A. I. Tiumenev library to title. Light soil to wrappers and foxing to text; else about very good. First edition. A rebuttal to the famous memoirs of Filipp..... More
London: Nakladatelství Nová Evropa, 1945. Oblong octavo (13.6 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Publisher's ads for a series of translations into Czech. Printed on thicker paper. Very good or better. Czech exile edition of David Low's anti-fascist caricatures, which rank among the best known and most..... More
Unpag. volume (approx. 24 pages), with brief introduction by Jean Marcenac, followed by testimonies of participating activists and photographs from the February 8th demonstration against the attacks of the OAS and for peace in Algeria, and the funeral several days later for the protesters who died. Illustrated profusely throughout. Oblong..... More
1920. Harbin: self-published, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98, [1] pp. Very good. First edition of this early memoir of the Tsar and his relatives, by the daughter of their physician, Evgenii Sergeevich Botkin (1865–1918), who was murdered along with the Imperial Family in..... More
1978. [Zagreb]: 1978. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset-printed to recto. Old horizontal crease; still very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Scarce flyer announcing the exhibition of A4, a series of mixed media works on paper by Stilinović, the Belgrade-born neo-avantgarde artist active in Zagreb. The works were created..... More
1988. Zagreb: Galerija Proširenih medija, 1988. Single leaf of white stock, A4, xerox-printed to recto. Old horizontal crease; still about very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Scarce flyer announcing the second exhibition of a famous installation by Stilinović, the Belgrade-born neo-avantgarde artist active in Zagreb, and associated with the "Group..... More
Unpaginated (approx. 123 pp.) typescript document comprising Moreno's theoretical essay on the OCI [Organización Comunista Internacionalista (unificada)] and Pierre Lambert and the French Trotskyists, first published publicly in Panorama Internacional, Año VI, No. 19, January 1982, divided into eleven chapters with titles such as "La teorìa de los campos burgueses..... More
St. Petersburg: XX Vek, 1902. Octavo (18.3 × 12.3 cm). Contemporary beige cloth; [4], 379 pp. Sixteen photographic portraits on separate leaves; numerous decorative head pieces and vignettes. Original wrappers perished; stamp of a non-existing lending library to title; else about very good. First and only edition of this sensationalist..... More
1930. Harbin: self-published (Khudozhestvennaia tipografiia), 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 13 cm). Contemporary buckram boards; original wrappers perished; 76, [2] pp. Frontis portrait of the author on better paper stock. About very good. [Eye Surgery for a Wounded Soldier of Ungern’s Army]. First and only Russian edition of this gruesome autobiographical..... More
Moscow: Tea-kino-pechat’, 1929. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original printed card wrappers; 465 pp. Good or better; lacking section of lower spine; wrappers chipped; internally clean and unmarked. First and only edition of these important proceedings of the First Soviet Party Conference on Cinematography, later referred to as the “Old..... More
![Armiia i flot: voennyi spravochnik [The army and the navy: a military directory]. V. V. Orekhov,...](/pictures/thumb/P6705_1.jpg?v=1580327115)
Paris: izd. Chasovoi, 1931. Octavo (18.5 × 13.5). Original printed wrappers; 170, [6] pp. Illustrations throughout. Very good. In protective mylar. Intended for White émigré military personel, the directory offers an overview of Russian imperial military history, lists the Russian army and naval organisatons operating abroad, their history, locations, and..... More
Artist's book, unpaginated, published in conjunction with Oursler's 1975 exhibition of the same name, held at Rome's Galleria's Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, with foreword by Italo Mussa in Italian and English, the exhibition catalogue comprised of reproductions of appropriated black and white photographs, each accompanied by a reproduced handwritten caption in..... More
A complete set of 20 colorful propaganda postcards, uncirculated, the postcards issued by the short-lived Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain, the Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, and its associated workers' union, the Unió General de Trebelladors, with text in Catalan, the images of which were sometimes available..... More