Katerynoslav-Leipzig: Ukrains'ke Vydavnytstvo v Katerynoslavi, 1922. Octavo (18.3 × 11.7 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on green stock; 22 pp. About very good. Early post-humous edition of this work of fictionalized biography about Ivan Sulyma, Hetman of the Cossacks, by Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), whose work was largely preoccupied with the..... More

Moscow: Kinofotoizdat, 1936. Octavo (22.2 x 14.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 208 pp. Light overall wear to wrappers, with restoration to corners; spine with recent repairs; leaves somewhat brittle; some pages have pencil marks; still good. This “Film repertoire index” is a fascinating historical document containing a detailed list of..... 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

Chicago: Nakladom Vydavnytstva "Samostiina Ukraina", 1951. Octavo (19 × 13.7 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 100 pp. Very good. First separate edition of these autobiographical essays about life under Bolshevik rule and in particular the persecution by the ChK and the NKVD, with eyewitness reports on interrogations, camps, and life..... More

Kharkiv: Glavpolitprosvet, Izdatel'stvo "Put' prosveshcheniia" pri narkomprose U.S.S.R., 1924. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 68 pp. and [2] pp. of musical notation. Wrappers professionally restored; some spotting to wrappers; else very good. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Scarce anthology intended for use in..... More

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

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: 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

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

1920. Prague: Nákladem časopisu "Sociální demokrat", 1920. Octavo (19.5 × 14.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers signed V. P.; 127, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Lenin. Small nicks to wrapper edges and wear to spine extremities; still about very good. One of the first appearances in Czech of Lenin's key strategic..... More

Petrograd: Zhizn' i znanie, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (21.2 × 14.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title (and his annotation in pencil to front wrapper?); a very good, uncut and unopened copy; tiny Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper. First edition of Lenin's in..... More

Moscow: V universitetskoi tipografii, 1873. Octavo (26.5 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 193, IV pp. One folding map. Stamp of the A. I. Tiumenev library to title. Light soil to wrappers and foxing to text; else about very good. First edition. A rebuttal to the famous memoirs of Filipp..... More

Geneva: Izdanie "Soiuza Russkikh Sotsial'demokratov"; Mr. Rabkine, 1901. 12mo (15.5 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 34 pp. Stamps of the Boris Nicolaevsky Collection (Hoover), with duplicate deaccession stamp. Light soil to wrappers; some pencil marks to margins, else very good. This pamphlet captures the complex politics within the..... More