Gräfenhainichen: Izdatel'stvo R. Gerroze (Herrosé's Verl.), 1943. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 255, [1] pp. Overall wear; still good or better. Rare edition of this work by Gogol, issued by a publisher of German technical manuals and presumably aimed at forced laborers from Russia and Ukraine (so-called..... 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
![Španělský lid bojuje [The Spanish people are fighting]. Grünwald, eopold](/pictures/thumb/50519.jpg?v=1583179743)
Prague: Nákladem Frant. Nedvěda, [1936]. Octavo (21 × 15.2 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Left margin of front wrapper rubbed, with partial loss to illustration; internally very good. First and only edition of this fragile yet visually striking pamphlet, which contains numerous shorter articles about the Spanish..... 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](/images/noimage.png)
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
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
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
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
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
![Na putiakh k konfederatsii Kavkaza [Towards a confederation of the Caucasus]. Vano Kavtaradze](/pictures/thumb/P6904.jpg?v=1580327122)
Warsaw: self-published (P. Szwede), 1937. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; XIII, 133, [1] pp. Light wear to wrappers and overlapping edges; front wrapper beginning to tear along spine extremities; first chapter with pencil annotations in Russian; overall still about very good. First and only edition of a...... 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
![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
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
London: Izdanie Gruppy Russkikh Kommunistov-Anarkhistov, 1902. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over five raised bands; marbled boards and endpapers; gilt-tooled title to spine; 295 pp. Boards very lightly rubbed; wrappers not preserved; rear hinge barely starting; still very good. First Russian edition of the key work by Prince..... More
![Anarchistická morálka [Anarchist Morality].; Mezinárodná knihovna, čís [International...](/pictures/thumb/P003873_1.jpg?v=1587487683)
New York: Časopis "Volné Listy" (Tisk L. Cimlera)., 1907. Octavo (23.5 × 15 cm). Original stapled printed wrappers; 40 pp. With a list of other publications by the publisher and a full-page advertisement for the Czech anarchist journal "Volné Listy". Tiny nick to front wrapper, else very good. The first..... More