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
![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
[Soviet Union, ca. 1923-1925]. Small oblong quarto (18 × 26.5 cm). String-bound self-made pamphlet comprising seventeen originally blank leaves with hand-drawn bars and musical notation in ink of various colors, to rectos and versos. Worn from use; with creasing, soil, and occasional small tears, especially to first leaf; a few..... 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
![Svobodná Evropa [Free Europe]. Group of twenty-one issues: nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,...](/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
![Zakat bol’shevizma. Desiat’ let diktatury [The end of Bolshevism. Ten years of dictatorship]....](/pictures/thumb/P6537_1.jpeg?v=1649188623)
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
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
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
![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
![Budem uchit'sia: gorodskoi bukvar' dlia vzroslykh [We will study: an urban primer for adults]....](/pictures/thumb/51907_1.jpeg?v=1652105082)
Moscow--Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1930. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Wrappers worn; rear wrapper lacking ca. 5×7 cm segment, with some loss to text; still good or better. Thirteenth edition. A popular primer for adults learning to read, with extra-large print for new readers..... 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
![Umiraiushchee obshchestvo i Anarkhiia [The Dying Society and Anarchy]. Jean Grave, Zhan Grav](/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