![U-10. Malowanka dala niegrzecznych dzieci [A coloring book for naughty kids]. G. Griot](/pictures/thumb/51346_1.jpg?v=1622805376)
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
![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
![Byloe i dumy [My Past and Thoughts], vol. 1: 1812-1838. From the Chimen Abramsky collection. A....](/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
![Komunistický kalendář na rok 1926 [Communist calendar for the year 1926]. Josef Hora](/pictures/thumb/P6478.jpg?v=1587549544)
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
![Bibliograficheskoe delo: sbornik [Bibliography: an anthology]. N. F. Ianitskii](/pictures/thumb/P4983_1.jpg?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
Moscow: Otdel Izdatel'stva i Knizhnoi Torgovli Moskovskago Soveta Rabochikh i Krasno-armeiskikh Deputatov, [1918]. Small octavo (17.3 × 12.3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 56 pp. Light soil and chips to wrappers; notes in pencil to title and cancelled Polish library stamp to title verso. About very good. This pamphlet contains..... 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
![Odna ili dve palaty? [One or two chambers?]. Svobodnyi narod, no. 14. N. A. Kabanov](/pictures/thumb/P4635_1.jpg?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
[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
Moscow: Universitetskaia tipografiia, 1887. Octavo (22 × 15.5 cm). Quarter calf over pebbled cloth, with gilt title to spine; 662 pp. Vol. 1 of 3. Spine and corners corners scuffed; small nicks and a closed tear to top left of title page not affecting text; Soviet bookstore stamp and Soviet..... More
Krakow: Naklad Towarzystwa Wydawnictw Ludowych, 1906. Octavo (21.5 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Henryk Uziembło; 160 pp. Light overall wear to wrappers; spine sun-tanned; discrete owner signature to title; overall very good. First edition thus. Polish translation of the famous Erfurt Program of 1891 of the SPD (Socialist..... More
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a constructivist design by Varvara Stepanova; 62, [2] pp. Very good, save for light foxing and light wear to spine. A single issue of this bi-weekly Soviet politics and bibliography journal with wrapper and layout design by the..... More
![Stolitsa Anglii. Progulki po Londonu [The capital of England. London walks]. V. Kerzhentsev,...](/pictures/thumb/P6416_1.jpg?v=1591346883)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 141, [1] pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; original spine strip lacking and sections of the text beginning to detach; text evenly toned; still good or better. First edition. This curious mix of the history and ethnography..... More
Czechoslovakia, ca. 1987?. String-bound booklet comprising 62 works on papers of varying stock, housed in Soennecken plastic sleeves. Bound with twine and decorative strands of woven yarn. Various media, including xeroxed sheets (usually partially colored or annotated by hand), hand-drawn illustrations, thirty-four mounted original photographic prints (both black-and-white and color)..... More
![Tiuremnye “volynki” [Prison “bagpipes” (strikes)]. Along the head of the title: Deshevaia...](/pictures/thumb/51074_001.jpg?v=1608140500)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo vsesoiuznogo obshchestva Politkatorzhan i SS.-Poselentsev, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 24 pp. Light soil to wrappers; slight wear to wrapper edges else very good. A brief history of political prisoner protests staged in Czarist Russia in the lead up to the 1905 Revolution..... More
![Žena vojnik [Women soldiers]. Ana Konjović](/pictures/thumb/51358_1.jpeg?v=1625751188)
Zagreb: Izdanje glavnog odbora AFŽ Hrvatske, 1945. Small octavo (14.6 × 11.2 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrapper; 62 pp. With seven black-and-white photographs of Yugoslav women soldiers. Wrappers lightly dust-soiled; else very good. First and only edition of this account of the many achievements of women fighters in the Yugoslav..... More
Berlin: Trowitzsch und Sohn, 1866. Octavo (19 × 10.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers with brown paper spinestrip and title vignette; 16 pp. Paper evenly toned due to stock, else very good. Illegally published pamphlet urging Czech independence from Austro-Hungary. Published anonymously in Berlin during the Austro-Prussian War (1866), it was..... More
Prague: Knihovna "Česká belletrie", 1925. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [5], 111, [1] pp. With a lengthy inscription by the author, in Russian, dated 1925: "For the library of the Czech Women's Club, with fraternal greetings." Small paper label pasted to front wrapper verso (apparently as issued);..... More
Paris: Tip. "Franko-Russkaia" Pechat', 1922. Octavo (19 cm). Original wrappers; 61 pp. Uncut and unopened copy; foxing to rear wrapper and top edge; ca. 4 cm. tear along edge of rear wrapper. Russian translation of a Polish pamphlet on the Russian role in declaring Poland's independence in 1917. The author..... More
Paris: Jacques Povolozky & Cie., [1921?]. Octavo (24 × 16.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 142, [2] pp. Eight plates of illustrations. Partially unopened and uncut. Spine extremities frayed; light wear to wrapper edges; text evenly toned due to stock. About very good. First edition. Part memoir, part work of documentary..... More
![Pervoe maia 1901 goda [May 1st, 1901]. Along the head of front wrapper: Rossiiskaia...](/pictures/thumb/51001.jpg?v=1600181262)
Geneva: Izdanie soiuza russkikh sotsial’demokratov, 1901. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 24 pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Light soil to rear wrappers; else very good. An early May Day brochure, which captures the development of the May 1st holiday in pre-revolutionary Russia..... More