![Book ID: P6314 Nagrudnye znaki russkoi armii [Medals of the Russian Military]. Andolenko,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6314_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1592502243)
Paris: Tanais, 1966. Octavo (25 × 16.5 cm). Original decorative boards; 227, [5] pp. Illustrations throughout. Some hand coloring of medals (likely by Pavel Pashkov) on pp. 29–33, 45, and 199. Very good. First edition of Serge Andolenko’s work on Russian medals. The introduction to the text indicates that the..... More
[Belgrade-Zagreb]: Kultura, 1946. Oblong quarto (21.5 × 28.5 cm). Original pictorial card portfolio with three folding flaps; contains twenty leaves of plates reproducing drawings by the artist. Light wear and one partial tear to flaps; else very good. Twenty striking photozincographic reproductions of drawings reflecting the Yugoslav Partisan experience during..... More
Geneva: George & Cie, 1903. Octavo (19.5 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 480 pp. Unopened and uncut. Light soil and moisture stain to wrappers; wrapper edges chipped. Internally very good. A socially and politically liberal philosophical tract, focusing on the reign of Alexander III in Russia (1881–1894), this text..... More
London: Izdanie Russkoi Pravoslavnoi-Zarubezhnoi Tserkvi, 1949. Octavo (19 × 14.5 cm). Side-stapled printed wrappers; 39, [1] pp. Photographic frontis; seven leaves of plates. A very good copy; wrappers lightly creased and soiled, with small chip to lower right corner. Scarce saint's life of John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), one of the..... More
Špilberk Castle, Brno: between 1841 and 1855. Wooden box, measuring 27 × 18.5 × 10 cm. A contemporary manuscript paper ticket (3 × 7 cm), mounted to interior of lid, reads: “Eine Sträflings-Arbeit von dem berühmten Räuber Babinskӱ (früher Wachtmeister bei den Uhlanen) verfertigt. Er wurde wegen seinen Mordthaten und..... More
![Book ID: P002968 Chem bylo kazachestvo [What were the cossacks?]. Otdel'nyi ottisk statei...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002968_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593515283)
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1931. 12mo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched blue wrappers; 48, [1] pp. Very minor soil to wrappers; very good or better. Rare Cossack-related publication, issued by the "Vol'noe Kazachestvo" (Free Cossacks) movement when Prague was still a key center of Russian emigre and..... 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
Riga: Kniga dlia vsekh, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers (unattributed); [4], 237 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Good or better; light wear to bottom of spine and light soil to front wrapper; internally very good. A rare autobiographical account by a Russian prisoner of war in Germany after..... More
Unpaginated photobook dedicated "allen noch lebenden Widerstandskämpfern des Dritten Reiches", comprised of approximately 29 black-and-white images from the funeral of three members of the RAF, each accompanied by a short explanatory text on the opposite page, with some pages of just text taken from contemporary newspaper reports, the images depicting..... More
![Book ID: P5959 Zemlia obietovannaia [The promised land]. Demian Bednyi](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5959_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1592501062)
St. Petersburg: Izdanie Petrogradskogo Sovieta Rabochikh i Krasnoarmeiskikh Deputatov, 1919. Octavo (21.5 × 14.75 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Extensive publisher’s catalog to front and rear wrapper. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Some browning to wrapper, else very good. Early edition of Bednyi's satirical anti-religious..... More
![Book ID: P003763 Slaviane i vostok [The Slavs and the East]. No. 1 (all published). V. E....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P003763.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591527003)
Prague: Slavianskoe izdatel'stvo, 1921. Large octavo (23.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unsigned); 119, [2] pp. An uncut and unopened copy; wrappers dust-soiled and frayed along spine, small chip to upper right corner of front wrapper. First and only volume of this intended series published by members of the..... More
![Book ID: P002446 Finansy i strategiia [Finance and Strategy]. . I. Beliaev, van](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002446_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591527496)
Paris: Izdanie avtora (self-published), 1937. Large octavo. Recent navy cloth boards, original front and back wrappers bound in; pp. IV-VII, 1-157, [1]. Three folding maps; charts and tables. Slightly resized; expert archival repairs to lower and upper wrapper edge and one folding map; very light smudge to front board; internally..... More
![Book ID: 51226 100 godzin Stalingradu [100 hours of Stalingrad]. Mieczysław Berman](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51226_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1612955233)
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo "Prasa Wojskowa", 1949. Large octavo (26.4 × 18.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated staple-stitched self-wrappers; 31, [1] pp. First leaf with recent tape repair to upper corner; a few nicks; still about very good. Surprisingly scarce account of the Battle of Stalingrad, photo-illustrated and with numerous striking photomontages by Mieczysław..... More
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", [1929]. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Mykola Bytyns'kyi; 274, [5] pp. With two folding maps and one folding chart. Very good; wrappers and last few pages a little dusty; else apparently unread. First and only issue of the émigré..... More
[Berlin]: Bolsevik Partizan, 1985. Single leaf of yellow paper (21.5 × 30 cm), photocopied typescript to recto and verso (4 pp). Old vertical crease; edges lightly faded; still about very good. Rare flyer calling for solidarity during the hunger strike of imprisoned members of RAF in 1984-85 (involving, among others..... 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
Geneva: Tipografiia gruppy starykh narodovol’tsev, 1899. Small octavo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Very good or better. Written by one of the first peasant organizations, “The brotherhood for protection of the people’s rights,” this brochure calls for peasants to organize themselves to fight for their..... More
![Book ID: 52796 Oktobris: stāsti [October: short stories]. Aleksis Brēdermans,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52796_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1686154505)
Riga: Daile un Darbs, ca. 1930. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers in the constructivist style (not attributed); 118 pp. About very good; slight wear to lower wrapper extremity. Striking yet understated constructivist wrapper design for this pamphlet about the October Revolution in Russia. We are unable to..... More
Kościan: Powiatowy Wydział Informacji i Propagandy, 1945. Quartos (30 × 21.5 cm). Original folded leaves, some single leaves, printed to rectos and versos; [2-4] pp. per issue. Printed on stock of varying color. Very good. Eight issues of this daily publication by the Red Army, distributed in the last two..... More
Buenos Aires, 1957. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Stamp of the Union San Alejandro Newsky, a defunct private diaspora library, on title page, faint outline of a previously attached price sticker on the upper left-hand corner of the wrapper. Some light signs of wear; else..... More
![Book ID: P002969 Istoriia kazachestva [History of the Cossacks], vol. 1 (all published)....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002969_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591526283)
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1930. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched gray wrappers; 174, [1] pp. With two folding maps affixed to rear wrapper (showing Eastern Europe in the 13th-16th centuries). Uncut and unopened copy in very good condition. Isaak F. Bykadorov (1882-1957) was a Don..... More
St. Petersburg: Senate, 1776. Single leaf of laid paper with watermark and woodcut printer's device (unresized, ca. 34 × 21 cm). Apparently disbound from a Sammelband, with crease and old sewing holes; large stain to upper right corner. A solemn ukase occasioned by the sudden death in childbirth of the..... More
Moscow: Vserossiiskii Proletkul’t, 1924. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 109, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; crease to front wrapper; text toned due to stock; occasional underlining in pencil; about good or better. First edition. This polemical pamphlet argues for tightening the political positions of the Russian..... More
Paris: Hratarakutʻiwn Tigran Khan K'elekeani, 1910. Large octavo (25.5 × 16.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 128 pp. Illustrations. Rebacked with green card stock; front and rear wrappers affixed, with chipping to edges; lacking spine strip; internally very good. First edition of this monograph on two members of the Hovnatanian artist..... More
![Book ID: P6440 Fabiánský socialismus [Fabian socialism]. G. D. H. Cole, designer Karel...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6440_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1587490564)
Prague: Klub socialistické kultury ("Práce"), 1947. Octavo (22.8 × 14.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Karel Teige; 156, [2] pp. Front wrapper with light dust soil; else very good, in protective mylar. First edition of this translation by M. Haluza, with an understated but effective late typographic wrapper design by..... More