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
[Buenos Aires: Ediciones Comité Regional de Relaciones Anarquistas, 1934]. Octavo (XX × XX cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Lower spine extremity beginning to split; light overall toning; still about very good. Scarce pamphlet about the anarcho-syndicalist and communist insurrections in Spain during the early 1930s. It analyzes the..... 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
Vienna: Ex Typographia Francisci Ludwig, 1833. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original blind paper wrappers; [2], 50 pp. Front wrapper smudged; else a very good, uncut and unopened copy. First and only edition of this scarce catalogue of the outstanding library of Johann Peter Cerroni, secretary of the court of..... 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
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
Unpaginated (ca. 105 pp.) collection of documents originally issued as Oberbaum Blätter, an irregular weekly series of left-radical underground press broadsides and handbills, including contributions by Rudi Dutschke, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Peter Handke, Peter O. Chotjewitz, the members of Kommune 1, and others, executed throughout with an experimental graphic style..... 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
![Doloi negramotnost’: bukvar’ dlia vzroslykh [Down with illiteracy: a primer for adults]....](/pictures/thumb/50116_1.jpg?v=1580326928)
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
![Krest’ianskii vopros vo Frantsii i Germanii [The peasant question in France and Germany]....](/pictures/thumb/P6719_1.jpg?v=1592500703)
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
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
![Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet Distributed by Air Balloon]. Svobodná Evropa [Free...](/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
![Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet]. "V jednotě síla. Všem členům Československé...](/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
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 conference..... 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
Paris: Gide, 1861. Octavo (24.5 × 16 cm). Later cloth with original front and rear wrappers preserved; [4], 61, [1] pp. The wrappers lightly chipped, else very good. This effusive memoir about Empress Alexandra Fedorovna (nee Charlotte of Prussia 1798–1960), wife of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, was written by..... 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
![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