Prague: self-published, 1989. Quartos (29.7 × 21 cm). Original stapled pamphlets; 36 to 41 pp. of mimeographed or xeroxed text to rectos and versos (one issue with text to rectos only). One issue with tape repair to staple; else very good. Complete run of the scarce Czech samizdat journal, the..... 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
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
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
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
Odessa: Izdanie E.M. Alekseevoi (Tipografiia I. Kopel'mana), 1905. Octavo (18.5 × 13 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 23 pp. About very good; toning to wrappers; small stain to upper margin; blue pencil number to title; else clean. First edition. First publication of this text in the Russian Empire, at the..... More
Odessa: Burevestnik (Tip. I. Kopel'mana), 1905. Octavo (21 × 13 cm). Original decorative staple-stitched wrappers; 24 pp. Light foxing and soil to wrappers and title; rust to staples; inventory number in pencil and ink to front wrapper; book store stamp to rear wrapper; still about very good. First edition. One..... More
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
Moscow: V. k. t-vo "Khudozhnik", 1931. Octavo (16.5 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative card wrappers; 31 pp., [23] leaves of illustrations. Private owner stamp to title and first page. Light soil to rear wrappers; two leaves with illustrations detached from staples; still about very good. Catalog of the third Soviet..... More
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
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
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
![Book ID: 51979 Iskusstvo i fizicheskaia kul'tura [Art and physical culture]. Mileev,...](/pictures/thumb/51979_1.jpg?v=1652890122)
Moscow: Fizkul'tura i turizm, 1931. Octavo (19 x 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 207, [1] pp. followed by unnumbered leaves of plates. 55 illustrations throughout. Wrappers somewhat toned; minor staining to lower right corner, affecting several pages; still about very good. A history of the “social function of the motif..... 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
![Book ID: 51099 Telefonnyi spravochnik [Telephone directory]. Dlia sluzhebnogo pol'zovaniia...](/pictures/thumb/51099_1.jpeg?v=1658869112)
Moscow: Ministry of Culture of the USSR, 1966. Small octavo (14.2 × 10 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on tan card stock; 54 pp. Good or better; light wear to wrappers; one leaf detached from staple; occasional underlining and corrections in ink. Directory for the Soviet Ministry of Culture during..... More
Moscow: Izdanie upravleniia Moskovskoi gorodskoi telefonnoi seti, 1958. Octavo (27 × 21 cm). Original decorative paper-covered boards; XXVII, 416 pp. Very good. An institutional telephone directory for Moscow in 1958, this book provides an overview of the Soviet society at the height of the Cold War. The directory is divided..... 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
[Zagreb]: Galerija studentskog centra, 1980. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset-printed to recto and verso; rubber-stamped opening date. Old crease; still very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Original poster announcing a collaborative work by Mladen Stilinović and Vlado Martek. Stilinović is a Belgrade-born neo-avantgarde artist active in Zagreb, and..... More
Born two-hundred years ago, Lola Montez (1821–1861) was one of the most mystifying figures of her age: a proto-feminist figure, one of the most ‘liberated’ women of her day, and a skilled performer and self-promoter with a taste for fraud, and with the remarkable ability to continually reinvent herself. An..... More