Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Arkhitekturnoe Izdatel'stvo Akademii Arkhitektury, 1944. Octavo (21.5 × 16.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 86, [2] pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, diagrams, and drawn plans. Very good. Scarce work on single- and low-rise housing buildings in the United States, illustrated with a wealth of architectural diagrams, photographs, and floor..... More

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

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

[Tombolo, Tuscany]: Pinienpost, [1947?]. Octavo (20.5 × 17 cm). Original side-stapled pictorial mimeographed wrappers; [12] leaves of mimeographed typescript and full-page illustrations to rectos. Front wrapper printed in black and red. Very good. A rare pamphlet printed by German POWs in the notorious Tombolo camp near Livorno, Italy, also known..... More

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

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

Kiev-Kharkiv: "LIteratura i iskusstvo", 1934. Octavo (17.8 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 167, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout. Lacking the pictorial dust-jacket. Wrappers somewhat worn and creased; lightly toned; still about very good. First edition. An eye-witness account of travels to the arctic circle on the Soviet icebreaker..... 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

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

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

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

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