![Kratkii obzor po russkoi istorii [A short overview of Russian history]. N. N. Alennikov](/pictures/thumb/50582_001.jpg?v=1590655271)
Harbin: Izdanie NORR, 1937. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 120 pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings throughout. Very good, partially uncut and unopened. First and only edition of this introduction to Russian history up until the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, intended primarily for young..... More
Prague: "Svět v obrazech", 1948. Quartos (30 × 22.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [44] and [31] pp, chiefly of black-and-white illustrations from photographs. Very good or better. Strikingly photo-illustrated and with overall design by Vilém Ambrosi (1898-1962), the graphic designer and typographer, these two volumes present the history of..... More
Geneva: self-published (Tipografiia Bunda), 1905. Octavo (18.7 × 11.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 56 pp. Wrappers lightly faded; spine beginning to split; private stamp to title ("Shukman Collection"); else internally very good. First edition of this impassioned treatise on the role of women in the Russian liberation movement, which..... More
![Nagrudnye znaki russkoi armii [Medals of the Russian Military]. Andolenko, erge](/pictures/thumb/P6314_1.jpg?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
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
![Asketizm, kak osnova russkoi kul’tury [Asceticism as the foundation of Russian culture]....](/pictures/thumb/P5800_1.jpg?v=1591347063)
Moscow: self-published (Pechatnaia A. Snegirevoi), 1915. Octavo (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 32 pp. Publisher’s catalog to rear wrapper. Wrappers lightly discolored; mark from removed ownership sticker to front wrapper. Still very good. Published at the height of WWI, this theological and nationalist pamphlet makes arguments about..... More
[Paris]: Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1905. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary half-leather with gilt-tooled red leather spine label; 978, [8] pp. Lacking original wrappers, title, and a first leaf with preface; second leaf with restauration; else a very good copy with wide uncut margins in an attractive..... 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
![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
![Chem bylo kazachestvo [What were the cossacks?]. Otdel'nyi ottisk statei iz nomerov 82-87 zhurn....](/pictures/thumb/P002968_1.jpg?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
First Russian edition. London: Edinburgh University Press, 1919. First Russian edition. Large octavo. Later cloth with decorative front wrapper preserved; 175, [1] pp. Eight leaves of color plates, one folded. Light soil to wrapper; first few pages slightly spotty; traces of moisture to gutter and lower edges; text and plates..... 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
Geneva: Novaia russkaia tipografiia, 1893. 12mo (13 × 10 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 48 pp. Light soil to wrappers; edges lightly chipped; still about very good. Stamps of the Boris Nicolaevsky Collection (Hoover Institution), with duplicate deaccession stamp, as well as of the famous Lavroff-Gotz Russian library in Paris, which..... 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
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920 [1921]. Octavo (24 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 53, [1] pp., with thirty-four black-and-white illustrations. Wrappers detached; trace of private library label to upper spine; still good or better. First edition of this work by Yefim Pridvorov (1883–1945), the pro-Bolshevik bard who published his verse..... More
![Zemlia obietovannaia [The promised land]. Demian Bednyi](/pictures/thumb/P5959_1.jpg?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
![Slaviane i vostok [The Slavs and the East]. No. 1 (all published). V. E. Belanovich-Zubov, A. E....](/pictures/thumb/P003763.jpg?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
![Finansy i strategiia [Finance and Strategy]. . I. Beliaev, van](/pictures/thumb/P002446_1.jpg?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
![Glinosolomennaia krovlia [Thatched roofs]. S. D. Beliavin](/pictures/thumb/50740_1.jpg?v=1589471230)
Moscow: Gosudarstennoe sel’skokhoziaistvennoe izdatel’stvo “Novaia derevnia”, 1929. Small octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Illustrated with sixteen drawings and photographs. About very good. First and only edition of this pamphlet, not found in KVK or OCLC, which introduces the method of constructing fire-proof roofing..... More
![Khristianstvo i aktivnost' cheloveka [Christianity and Human Activity].; Khristianstvo na...](/pictures/thumb/P000122_1.jpg?v=1590693487)
Paris: YMCA-Press, [1933]. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers, 23 pp. Unread copy in fine condition. Berdiaev here presents a vigorous rebuttal to Soviet anti-religious propaganda, in particular the claim that Christianity breeds passivity and submission. In an interesting take, he deconstructs the supposed "activity" underlying Soviet industrialization..... 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
![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
Prague: Ústřední dělnické knihkupectví a antikvariát (A. Svěcený), [1919]. Large octavo (25 × 18.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 120, [8] pp. Frontis portrait of Masaryk and three additional plates. Very good. Single issue of this rare socialist almanac, published by the Czechoslovak Social-Democrat Party. In its present form, it appeared..... 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