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
![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
![Ai, ra uk'ves sakartvelos: p'ublitsist'uri nark'vevi [Voici ce qu'on a fait de la Géorgie]....](/pictures/thumb/P6002_001.jpg?v=1598366583)
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
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
![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
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
![Istoriia kazachestva [History of the Cossacks], vol. 1 (all published). Isaak Fedorovich Bykadorov](/pictures/thumb/P002969_1.jpg?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
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
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
![Průvodce Prahou [A guide to Prague]. Čeněk Chyský](/pictures/thumb/50906_1.jpg?v=1597073763)
Prague: Svaz československých dělnických turistů, [1934]. Octavo (18 × 12.1 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers by L. Šmíd; 145, [2] pp. About very good; light overall wear and nick to upper spine extremity. Scarce guidebook to Prague issued by the Czechoslovak Union of Proletarian Tourists, which sought to turn tourism, hiking..... More
![Fabiánský socialismus [Fabian socialism]. G. D. H. Cole, designer Karel Teige](/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
London: 1902. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 16-48 pp. per issue. Good to very good, with one issue unopened and uncut. Five issues (of twelve published) of the political supplement to the literary and political journal “Zhizn’” (Life), founded in St. Petersburg in 1897. Literary works by..... More
[Geneva]: Tipografiia Russkikh Sotsialdemokratov, 1897. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original tan staple-stitched printed wrappers; 48 pp. Very good. A pamphlet discussing regulation of work hours in factories of the Russian Empire, with the new law of June 2nd 1897 limiting the work day to 11 hours for men and..... More