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

[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

Shanghai: Sklad izdaniia: Russkaia tipografiia “Grafik”, 1933. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 371, [5] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Viktor Porfir’evich Petrov in the year of publication. Wrappers worn to edges; spine with tape repair, retaining part of original spine strip; text toned; still..... 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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

Paris: Izd-vo "Mech", 1937. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 42 pp. Wrappers lightly creased and spotted; still about very good. First and only edition of this harsh polemic by a pro-Ukrainian member of the Russian diaspora, writing under the pseudonym A. Chigirin. The book critiques the..... More