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
Rostov-on-Don: N. E. Paramonov, [1905]. Octavo (20.5 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 55 pp. Light soil to front wrapper; else very good. First edition. KVK, OCLC show copies at Bern University, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, British Library, Columbia, Harvard, Hoover, IISG, Ohio State, Polish National Library. 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...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5563.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
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](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50604.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
![Book ID: P4381 Byloe i dumy [My Past and Thoughts], vol. 1: 1812-1838. From the Chimen...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png)
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
[West Germany]: 1947. Octavo (21 × 15.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed); 32 pp. Wrappers with faint vertical crease and duplicate stamp to upper right; still about very good. Ukrainian translation from a condensed version of the author's work "The Soviet Spies," originally published in English the same year (full..... More
![Book ID: 52937 Na poboievyshchakh Espanii [On the battlefields of Spain]. Khrystiians'ka...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52937_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1686149769)
L'viv: Vydavnytstvo "META", 1938. Octavo (16.8 × 12.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on blue stock; 29, [2] pp. Six illustrations. About very good; rust to staples; small chip to rear wrapper, not affecting text. First and only publication of this pamphlet about the Spanish Civil War by Osyp Hodun'ko..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo inostrannoi literatury, 1948. Octavo (19 × 12.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 37, [3] pp. Very good or better. Russian translation in pamphlet form of an article on Soviet nuclear power by Hogerton and Raymond, "When will Russia Have the Atomic Bomb?" (published in Look, March 16..... More
Prague: Nákladem Komunistického knihkupectví a nakladatelství, [1925]. Large octavo (25 × 18.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed); 106, [22] pp. Numerous illustrations, some full page. Very good. Single issue of this rare communist almanac, edited by the poet Josef Hora. It was associated with the Czech Proletkult organization, a...... More
![Book ID: 52448 Soniashnyi promin': povist' [The sun ray: a tale]. Borys Hrinchenko, artist...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52448_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1667242294)
L'viv: Nakladom knyharni naukovoho tov. im. Shevchenka, 1924. Octavo (21.3 × 14.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 128 pp. Good or better; wear to spine extremities; closed tear to rear wrapper; pencil gift inscription to first page; old stamp "Printed in Poland" to front wrapper. Second edition of this novella by..... More
Scranton: Nakladom Ukrains'koho Robitnychego Soiuza, 1934. Octavo (22.5 × 15.1 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 47 pp. About very good. First edition of a major treatise by Nikifor Iakovych Hryhoryiv (1883–1953), a Ukrainian political figure, journalist, writer, and pedagogue. Hryhoriv served as organizer of the Information office of the army..... More
![Book ID: P4983 Bibliograficheskoe delo: sbornik [Bibliography: an anthology]. N. F. Ianitskii](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P4983_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1590179207)
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1927. Octavo (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 163 pp. Light wear to wrappers; about very good. Uncommon volume reflecting the shift of bibliography from the sphere of personal collecting to a matter of key importance for the young Soviet state and its libraries, trade union..... More
Shanghai: [Ideologicheskii Tsentr], July 17, 1943. Quarto (27 × 20 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 7, [1] pp. About very good. A paean to three hundred years of Russian imperial glory, and a damning indictment of the Russian people for having permitted the murder of the Romanov Tsar and his family..... More
Moscow-Leningrad: Moskovskii rabochii, [1928]. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 186, [1] pp. Illustrations throughout, including two maps. Private ownership stamp and inscription in Russian to title; else good or better. Second edition of a historical and cultural overview of Iran, which provides the Soviet take on the..... More
Paris: Izdanie Obshche-Kadetskogo Ob’edineniia, [1955?]. Octavo (18.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 326, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Owner inscription of E. Grot to front wrapper. Light soil and creases to wrappers, still about very good. Part history part memoir, this book about the Simbirsk Cadet..... More
Chicago: National Alliance of Czech Catholics, 1949. Octavo (26 × 14.5 cm). Publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers; 88, [1] pp. Small tear to wrapper; pencil note to title (gift of author); else very good. English translation of this anti-communist account of the 1948 takeover, which appeared in Czech the same year..... More
![Book ID: P4635 Odna ili dve palaty? [One or two chambers?]. Svobodnyi narod, no. 14. N. A....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P4635_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1592501343)
Moscow: Tip. T-va “Zadruga”, 1917. Octavo (22.5 × 14.8 cm). Original sewn printed wrappers; 14 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled and creased; damp stains to margin; good or better. One of at least two pamphlets published on the issue of whether the future Soviet legislative system should consist of one or..... More
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennyi antireligioznyi muzei, byvshii Isaakievskii sobor, 1941. 12mo (14 × 10.3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 10, [2] and [5] pp. of announcements and ads. Possibly lacking the first leaf. The pamphlet is an example of Soviet anti-religious propaganda, issued by the "State Anti-Religious Museum" established at what had..... More
Munich-Toronto: Spilka Vyzvolennia Ukrainy, 1953. Octavo (20.6 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers on red stock; 112, [2], [28] leaves of plates, [1] pp. Very good. This volume discusses the Great Famine, or Holodomor, in the Krynychansky region in central Ukraine, based on original government documents saved and smuggled to..... More
Moscow-Gosizdat RSFSR "Moskovskii rabochii", 1930. Octavo (17.5 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 155, [5] pp. Good or better; some splitting to spine; front wrapper with creases; text toned; largely uncut and unopened copy. First edition of this volume of essays about the socialist transformation of the well-established Trekhgornaia textile..... More
[London or Stockholm?], 1918. Octavo (21.5 × 13.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; [8], iii, 40 pp. Wrappers somewhat creased and worn to upper edge; still about very good. Russian translation of "Meine Londoner Mission, 1912-1914," prepared and with a preface by N. Nordmann, as well as with a short biographical..... More