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: 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
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo "Slovo", 1922. Second edition (izdanie vtoroe). Large octavo (24 × 19.2 cm). Publisher’s decorative printed wrappers; 225, [3] pp. Text toned due to paper stock; else about else very good. Volume two of the important and scarce compendium of materials pertaining to the Russian Revolution, published by White..... More
Moscow: Tip. “Sovremennaia kul’tura”, 1928. Single leaf printed to recto (with partial text to lower verso), once folded, measuring 35 × 21 cm. Very good. This prospectus, addressed to heads of public educational institutions and educational inspectors, announces the new subscription year of two chief publications of the League of..... More
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ–IZOGIZ, 1931. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 78, [2] pp. With eleven full-page reproductions. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; still very good or better. Showcasing anti-imperialist posters by Soviet and European artists, this catalog was published for the first exhibition organized by the short-lived..... More
![Book ID: P6354 Pravda o Tiflise [The truth about Tiflis]. Iakov Gogebashvili](/pictures/thumb/P6354_1.jpg?v=1591346943)
Tbilisi: Tipografiia M. Sharadze, 1897. Octavo (20 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 32 pp. Rear wrappers with an extensive list of the author's other published works. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title. Light soiling and wear to wrappers; restoration to spine. Faint trace of a pre-1917..... More
Riga: Izdevnieciba "Mir", [1935]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 228, [4] pp. With maps and diagrams throughout. Wrappers professionally restored; somewhat spotted and toned; insect damage to rear wrapper and final twenty leaves, not affecting text; still good or better. First edition of this by Nikolai Golovin..... More
2 vols., XXXII, 454, XIII, 291 pp. text documenting the history of guilds in Barcelona, mainly during the 15th and 16th centuries, including the apothecaries, silver-makers and book sellers, list of members, transcriptions of documents, extensive scholarly notes, 19 plates. Slight foxing on opening pages. Lg. 8vo. Wrpps. Barcelona (Libreria..... More
Moscow-Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original typographically formatted printed wrappers; 136, [8] pp. Very good. A guidebook for guides of the Russian Pioneer movement, in charge of the physical and athletic development of children and young adults. While acknowledging biological differences between the two sexes, the..... More
![Book ID: P5563 Umiraiushchee obshchestvo i Anarkhiia [The Dying Society and Anarchy]. Jean...](/pictures/thumb/P5563.jpg?v=1591525479)
[New York]: Izd. A.K.G.S.Sh., 1921. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 178, [2] pp. Cover lightly worn; cancelled library stamps from the University of London; still about very good. This text by the French anarchist Jean Grave was published in Russian in the United States (most likely in..... More
Kraków: Wyd. “Hutnik”, [1985]. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [12] pp. of illustrations. Very good. A samizdat collection of irreverent caricatures of Jerzy Urban (b. 1933), the press secretary of the Polish Council of Ministers during the period of Martial Law (1981–1983), subsequently dubbed the “Goebbels..... More
Paris: Izdatel'stvo redaktsii gazety "Kazak", 1957-1959. Octavos (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 330 pp. (continuous pagination). Illustrated. Good to very good. A detailed illustrated history of the Cossack communities from antiquity until the Middle Ages and beyond written by Don Cossack and a historian of Cossack antiquity, Georgii..... More
![Book ID: 50604 Ashkhatanq [Labor]. No. 12-13 (1925). designer Hakob Kojoyan](/pictures/thumb/50604.jpg?v=1643030416)
Erevan: Committee of Armenia's Trade (Labor) Unions, 1925. Quarto (33 × 25.3 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 24 pp. About very good; a few small tears to margins. Single issue of the Armenian trade union journal allied with the Social Democratic Party, with a drawn cover design bhy Hakob Kojoyan (1883-1959)..... More
Rotterdam, [1970]. Large quarto (36.3 × 25.7 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [20] pp. Illustrations, including a psychedelic centerfold. Old horizontal crease; some foxing to right edge of front wrapper; light creasing to upper edge; still about very good. Apparently all published of this Dutch Provo-affiliated journal. As of April 2022..... More
London: Vol'naia Russkaia Tipografiia, 1861. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt-tooled red leather spine label; original wrappers not preserved; XII, 413, III pp. A very good copy, with wide uncut margins in an attractive contemporary binding and with an important provenance. First part of the first..... More