Berlin: Trowitzsch und Sohn, 1866. Octavo (19 × 10.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers with brown paper spinestrip and title vignette; 16 pp. Paper evenly toned due to stock, else very good. Illegally published pamphlet urging Czech independence from Austro-Hungary. Published anonymously in Berlin during the Austro-Prussian War (1866), it was..... More

Paris: Tip. "Franko-Russkaia" Pechat', 1922. Octavo (19 cm). Original wrappers; 61 pp. Uncut and unopened copy; foxing to rear wrapper and top edge; ca. 4 cm. tear along edge of rear wrapper. Russian translation of a Polish pamphlet on the Russian role in declaring Poland's independence in 1917. The author..... More

Geneva: Izdanie soiuza russkikh sotsial’demokratov, 1901–1902. Octavos (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 24 and 16 pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Light soil to rear wrappers of 1901 edition, else very good. The 1902 edition is unopened and uncut, very good. Two early May..... More

London: Izdanie Gruppy Russkikh Kommunistov-Anarkhistov, 1902. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over five raised bands; marbled boards and endpapers; gilt-tooled title to spine; 295 pp. Boards very lightly rubbed; wrappers not preserved; rear hinge barely starting; still very good. First Russian edition of the key work by Prince..... More

[Paris?]: Izdanie federatsii Anarkhistov-Kommunistov, 1913. Octavo (18.5 × 12 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 8 pp. Unopened and uncut; wrappers detached and lightly chipped at corners. Good. A rare pamphlet on radical socialism written by Petr Kropotkin, a Russian revolutionary, activist, and one of the central philosophers of international anarcho-communism..... More

[Frankfurt am Main]: 1814. Octavo (18.5 × 11.5 cm). Sewn brochure with ochre paper spine strip; 15 pp. Old shelf mark to title verso; else a very good copy. Scarce pamphlet reproducing the text of an appeal to the German people by Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1845-1813), one of 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

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

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

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: 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

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