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
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: Rabkine, 1900. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 22 pp. Very good. This pamphlet contains a speech by the leader of the Mensheviks and a mentor of Leon Trotsky, Yuliy Osipovich Martov (1873-1923). The speech, delivered at the May meeting of agitators in 1895 in Vilna, is..... 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
![Chto dielat s zemlei. Izdanie 2-e. [What to do with the land. Second edition].; Along the head of...](/pictures/thumb/P5965_1.jpg?v=1592501063)
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
![Homosexualita: studie morální [Homosexuality: a moral study]. Antonín Melka](/pictures/thumb/50907_1.jpg?v=1596209219)
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
Ierusalim (Jerusalem): self-published, 1931. Octavo (23 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 122, [2] pp. About very good. First and only edition of this memoir by Mikhail A. Pols'kii (1891-1960), a Russian Orthodox priest (protopresviter) and theologian, who was imprisoned by the Soviet government for his religious service but later..... 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
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
Unpaginated (approx. 123 pp.) typescript document comprising Moreno's theoretical essay on the OCI [Organización Comunista Internacionalista (unificada)] and Pierre Lambert and the French Trotskyists, first published publicly in Panorama Internacional, Año VI, No. 19, January 1982, divided into eleven chapters with titles such as "La teorìa de los campos burgueses..... More
![Tainstvennaia natsiia (Iaponiia) [The mysterious nation - Japan; An Unknown Nation]. Juji Nakada,...](/pictures/thumb/P4450.jpg?v=1593529683)
Harbin: Mech Gedeona, [1933]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 119 pp. Very good; text evenly toned due to stock; very discrete repairs to spine extremities. Russian translation of this 1933 work by Nakada, a Japanese protestant minister and the first bishop of the Japan Holiness Church. Influenced..... More
Paris: 1907. Octavo (20.5 × 13 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 96 pp. Light soil to wrappers, wrappers chipped at corners. Good or better. First and only compilation (of an intended series) containing the documents of far-left Russian terrorist and political organizations Narodnaia volia (People’s Will) and the later Partiia..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. A public health and hygiene pamphlet published during the Typhus epidemic unleashed by the privations of the Russian civil war, which followed the Bolshevik Revolution (1918-1923). A massive public education campaign..... More
Belgrade: Izdanie ispolnitel’nogo biuro soveta soiuza, 1939. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 156, [4] pp. Publisher’s adverts to insides of wrappers. About very good. An extremely rare early WWII publication by the NTS (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists), an anti-communist émigré organization founded in Belgrade in 1930..... More
![Nebylo marně žít a umírat [And not in vain did we live and die]. Názorná...](/pictures/thumb/P5773_1.jpg?v=1595606444)
Prague: Vydala redakce Názorná agitace, Vydavatelství časopisů MNO, [1961]. Oblong quarto (14.8 × 20.4 cm). Original gray pictorial wrappers; [32] leaves of portraits and biographical text loosely inserted, as issued. Very good. Scarce portfolio of short biographies and portraits of young Czech men and women who died for the cause..... More