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...](/pictures/thumb/P6440_1.jpg?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
N.p.: 1872. N.p., [1872], single folded leaves measuring 20.5 × 14 and 19 × 12.5 cm. Very good. Two holograph letters containing a polite request to be introduced to “Her Majesty the Queen” before Tolstoy’s return to St. Petersburg. “N’ayant pas eu le plaisir de vous trouver a à la..... 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
Three volumes in six comprising a rare complete collection of the monumental work on the Crusader Castles in the Holy Lands, the first volume covering the history, architecture, and construction of the Syrian Crusader castle Crac des Chavaliers, the second volume on the history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and..... More
![Book ID: 51142 Naše pjesme: svezak II [Our songs: volume II]. Natko Devčić,...](/pictures/thumb/51142_1.jpg?v=1612278663)
[Split?]: Izdanje Kulturno-umjetničkog odjela Ministarstva prosvjete Narodne vlade Hrvatske (Štamparija Oblasnog N.O.O. Dalmacije), 1945. Small octavo (14.7 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 39, [1] pp. Fifteen small in-text vignettes. Signed and inscribed by one female partisan to a friend in July of 1945. Very good or better. Scarce..... More
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo "Skify", 1922. Octavo (18.9 × 12.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 220, [3] pp. About very good; stamp of the "Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement" in New York; small chip to upper right corner; text toned and brittle due to stock; an uncut and unopened copy. First..... More
Vladivostok: Tipo-litografiia Iosif Korot, 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-cloth over boards, with original wrappers not preserved; 70 pp. 21 photo-illustrations. Ownership stamp to title page. Slightly resized, about very good. First edition. Filled with rare photographs of the destruction brought on by the Russian Civil War in..... 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
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
Geneva: Izdanie rossiiskoi sotsialdemokraticheskoi rabochei partii, 1904. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 40 pp. Stamp of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-democratic Worker’s Party to title and front wrapper. Light fading to wrapper; wrappers starting to detach from block, still about very good. First edition..... More
![Book ID: 52444 Vybir poezii [A selection of poems]. Fed'kovych, syp Iuriy](/pictures/thumb/52444_1.jpeg?v=1667336709)
Vetsliar (Wetzlar): Vydavnytstvo "Struia", 1920. Small octavo (13.8 × 10.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. Published by the education department of the Ukrainian Military Mission, this volume of poems was published for the benefit of Ukrainian prisoners of war in and near the camp at Wetzlar..... More
![Book ID: 51209 Kino v rabochem klube [Film in the worker’s club]. M. Filippov, oris](/pictures/thumb/51209_1.jpg?v=1639745643)
Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1926. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Numerous graphs, charts, and illustrations. Light wear and soil to corners; wrappers very lightly spotted; still about very good. Intended for political educators, this handbook is a practical guide for organizing cultural and educational events around..... 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
![Book ID: P6897 [Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet Distributed by Air Balloon]....](/pictures/thumb/P6897_1.jpg?v=1580327121)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954-1956]. Single leaf, measuring 14.5 × 57 cm, folded four times to create a pamphlet with ten pages of text and images. Very good. Scarce anti-communist flyer in Czech, printed in Germany by Free Europe Press and distributed over Czechoslovakia via balloon from 1954 to 1956..... More
![Book ID: P6877 [Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet]. "V jednotě síla. Všem...](/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
![Book ID: 51298 Svobodná Evropa [Free Europe]. Group of twenty-one issues: nos. 17, 18,...](/pictures/thumb/51298_1.jpeg?v=1620395287)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954-1956]. Single leaves, measuring ca. 14.5 × 57 cm, folded several times along the horizontal axis to create a pamphlet; later issues regular pamphlets with 8 pp. of text and images. A few issues and flybills with wear or tears, but overall about very good. Significant..... More
26 hand-colored lithographic plates, comprised of title leaf and plates. numbered 1-15, 15bis, 16-24, depicting captioned caricatures of leading French politicians and military figures at the end of the Second Empire and the beginning of the Third Republic, including Adolphe Thiers, Jules Favre, Ernest Picard, Joseph Vinoy, August-Alexandre Ducrot, Louis..... 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..... More
![Book ID: 51819 Filosofiia fil’ma [The philosophy of film]. Rudolf Garms, S. S....](/pictures/thumb/51819.jpg?v=1655989065)
Leningrad: "Academia", 1927. Octavo (18 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 187, [5] pp. Partially uncut. Book store stamp to inside of rear wrapper. Very good. First Russian translation of one of the earliest works on the philosophy of cinema by the writer, journalist, and film critic Rudolf Harms (1901–1984)..... More
Riga: Izdatel’stvo P.S. “Nakotnes kultura”, 1928. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 52 pp. Hoover Institute stamp to front and rear wrapper. Wrappers lightly toned; lower right corner of front wrapper chipped; spine extremities frayed; frequent underlining in pencil throughout, still good or better. Published on the tenth..... More