Moscow: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Zhizn' i znanie", 1918. First Edition. Octavo (20.8 × 14.1 cm). Original printed wrappers; 80 pp. Partly erased private owner signature to front wrapper; old Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper; else very good or better. First edition of Lenin's study of the agrarian question in late nineteenth-century..... 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-Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Kommunist", 1918. First Edition. Octavo (21.6 × 14.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 135, [1]. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title; a near fine copy. First edition of this important post-revolutionary work by Lenin, which attacks Kautsky and the Mensheviks for their reactionary views. In particular, Lenin criticizes Kautsky’s..... More
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Berlin: Verlag Paul Cassirer, 1914-1916. Folios (ca. 47.5 × 32 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; most issues 4 pp. Housed in original cloth-backed printed card portfolio; the latter professionally repaired; most issues toned due to stock, as usual, and with a few occasional nicks but overall an about very good set..... 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
London: Nakladatelství Nová Evropa, 1945. Oblong octavo (13.6 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Publisher's ads for a series of translations into Czech. Printed on thicker paper. Very good or better. Czech exile edition of David Low's anti-fascist caricatures, which rank among the best known and most..... More
Munich: self-published, 1980-1984. Octavos (21 × 15 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 8 pp. per issue. One issue incorrectly assembled and lacking inner leaf with four pages; else very good copies. Twenty-two issues spanning four years of this bi-monthly human rights bulletin, which alerted the public and the international community to..... More
Unpag. volume (approx. 24 pages), with brief introduction by Jean Marcenac, followed by testimonies of participating activists and photographs from the February 8th demonstration against the attacks of the OAS and for peace in Algeria, and the funeral several days later for the protesters who died. Illustrated profusely throughout. Oblong..... 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
![Nutnost revidovati process Polenský [On the need to revise the Polná legal case]. Prof. T. G....](/pictures/thumb/P4917_1.jpg?v=1591525682)
Prague: Nákladem "Času", 1899. Octavo (24.6 × 16.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. A very good copy; small chip to upper right corner of front wrapper. Scarce Czech edition of a pamphlet, later confiscated, through which Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk sought to intercede in the Hilsner Affair, which provoked..... More
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Moscow: Sotsial-demokraticheskoe izdatel'stvo “Dielo”, 1917. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original folded self-wrappers (single folded sheet); 15 pp. Publisher’s catalog to rear wrapper. Partially unopened. Some fraying to edges, else very good. [The Land Question in 1917]. This brochure outlining land reforms proposed by the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party..... More
Warsaw: Spółdzielnia Wydawniczo-Oświatowa "Czytelnik", 1949. Large octavo (24 × 16.5 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 3, [6], 30, [1] pp. of text and [48] pp. of photographic reproductions. Wrappers somewhat worn, especially to spine extremities; inscription to title and front wrapper verso; occasional foxing; still good or better. A photographic record..... More
Helsinki: J.C. Frenckell, 1886. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 127 pp. Wrappers lighly toned due to stock; small chips along wrapper edges. Internally very good. Second edition. An important work on Constitutional law of Finland, commenting specifically on Russo-Finish political relations, written by the law professor and..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Medico International, ca. 1988. Printed card package, measuring 10.5 × 7 cm, containing eleven folded colored leaves, printed rectos and versos. Package lightly worn and cocked, a few flaps torn; contents fine. A package that resembles a pharmaceutical medication, but contains "ten high-dosage informational cards, to educate..... More
Paris: Rodnik (La source), 1929. Octavo (18 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 91 pp. Very good; uncut and unopened copy; trace of moisture to margin of front wrapper; some bleeding of wrapper color on first and second pages. Sergei Mel'gunov (1879-1956) was a Russian historial and political activist instrumental..... More
Harbin: self-published, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98, [1] pp. Very good. First edition of this early memoir of the Tsar and his relatives, by the daughter of their physician, Evgenii Sergeevich Botkin (1865–1918), who was murdered along with the Imperial Family in Ekaterinburg..... More
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Olomouc: Lidové knihkupectví, 1933. Octavo (19.5 × 11.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 124, [4] pp. Very good. The second Czech monograph on homosexuality, issued nine years after a largely tolerant and supportive work by František Jelínek, which argued for homosexual inborn identity, not preference, claiming that 'it is impossible to..... More
Paris: Librairie franco-russe “Oko”, 1928. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 83, [1] pp. Owner stamp to front wrapper an title page. Wrappers lightly soiled and chipped to edges. Internally very good. First and only edition. A WWI prison memoir written by Nikolai Melnikov (1875–1935?), a Russian writer..... More
![Das Tribunal: hessische radikale Blätter [The tribunal: Hessian radical leaves]. Vols. I, nos....](/pictures/thumb/50849_001.jpg?v=1600367344)
Darmstadt, 1919–1921. Quartos (29 × 24.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. per issue (with consecutive pagination: 136 and 68 pp. respectively for years one and two). Occasional old creases and light spotting to issues; overall about very good. Complete run of a scarce German late expressionist journal published..... More
237 pp. text on prison reform in mid-century Spain, divided into chapters with headings such as "Educación, Cultura y Arte", "Labor Religiosa", "Trabajos Exteriores", "Redención de Penas", "Libertad Condicional", and "Instituciones Especiaies", followed by an unpaginated (28 pp.) appendix titled "Estadistica Penitenciaria" of various tables and charts, documenting statistics such..... More
St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Shtaba Otd. Korp. Pogran. Strazhi (V. O., u Birzhi), 1914. Octavo (22.8 × 15.5 cm). Original green printed wrappers; 107 pp. Private inventory number to front wrapper; first signature beginning to detach; else about very good. Scarce pamphlet issued to counteract a rising wave of public speculation..... More
1978. [Zagreb]: 1978. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset-printed to recto. Old horizontal crease; still very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Scarce flyer announcing the exhibition of A4, a series of mixed media works on paper by Stilinović, the Belgrade-born neo-avantgarde artist active in Zagreb. The works were created..... More
1988. Zagreb: Galerija Proširenih medija, 1988. Single leaf of white stock, A4, xerox-printed to recto. Old horizontal crease; still about very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Scarce flyer announcing the second exhibition of a famous installation by Stilinović, the Belgrade-born neo-avantgarde artist active in Zagreb, and associated with the "Group..... More
Two works of concrete poetry from the late 1960s by Jean-Claude Moineau, comprising an undated 12-page unrecorded work of Concrete Poetry done in collaboration with Christiane Frougny, "Textes à tester (Texts to Test)", and a 1968 work "Orléans mai-juin 1968 / La Bibliotheque Universitaire est occupee". Typed and mimeographed pages..... More
Prague: Orbis, 1940. Octavo (19 × 12.2 cm). Original printed boards; 223, [4] pp. In the original brown card slipcase. Tiny nick to spine; else very good or better. First edition of this collection of broadcast speeches by Emanuel Moravec (1893–1945), a Czech soldier, journalist, and a leading collaborator with..... More