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. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 24 pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Light soil to rear wrappers; else very good. An early May Day brochure, which captures the development of the May 1st holiday in pre-revolutionary Russia..... More

New York: Časopis "Volné Listy" (Tisk L. Cimlera)., 1907. Octavo (23.5 × 15 cm). Original stapled printed wrappers; 40 pp. With a list of other publications by the publisher and a full-page advertisement for the Czech anarchist journal "Volné Listy". Tiny nick to front wrapper, else very good. The first..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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