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
Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1953. Octavo (17.3 × 13.4 cm). Original printed wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Old inventory number to title; light creasing to block and wrappers; still about very good. A catalog for the last exhibition dedicated specifically to women artists of Moscow, held in April–May 1953, featuring 258 works..... More
Chardzhou (Turkmenabat): Assotsiatsiia ufologov v g. Chardzhou, 1991. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 55, [3] pp. With thirteen illustrations. Very good. Scarce work by the "ufological" society in modern day Turkmenabat, Turkmenistan, with chapters on the urgency of studying UFOs, the question of contacts between humans..... More
![Book ID: 51818 Rozhdenie Kino [The Birth of Cinema]. Léon Mussinak, S....](/pictures/thumb/51818.jpg?v=1655988876)
Leningrad: "Academia", 1926. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 195, [5] pp. Illustrations. Partially uncut. Small chip to lower spine extremity. Still about very good. First Russian translation of Moussinac’s classic text on the history and theory of American, French, German, and Swedish cinema, originally published as “Naissance..... More
Leningrad: KUBUCh, 1931. Oblong folio (26 × 35.5 cm). Original quarter cloth over boards; 83, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated from architectural designs and projections. Stamps of a technical library to front wrapper and pp. 1, 29, 35. Light water damage and stains to boards; internally very good. Daring experiments in..... More
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
![Book ID: 51383 Nebylo marně žít a umírat [And not in vain did we live and die]....](/pictures/thumb/51383_1.jpeg?v=1625751192)
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 and Slovak men and women who died for..... More
Paris: self-published, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 227 pp. Illustrations. Spine extremities lightly frayed; light wear to wrapper edges; still very good. First and only edition of the memoirs of Maria Nesterovich-Berg (1879-??), a White Russian émigré and one of the leaders of the “Union of..... More
![Book ID: P6435 Bragožda a jiné válečné vzpomínky [Bragožda and other war memories]....](/pictures/thumb/P6435_1.jpg?v=1587490563)
Prague: Odeon, 1928. Octavo (19.8 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, printed in orange and brown on beige cover; 85, [2] pp. Very good. First edition of these war reflections by S. K. Neumann (1875-1947), the Czech poet, publisher, and journalist. Neumann was known for his anarchist leanings, and later..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i Kniga”, 1925. Octavo (22 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 125, [3] pp. Light wear and soil to wrappers; a few nicks to spine; still good or better. The aim of this handbook is to convey the importance of reading within the Soviet education system..... More
New York, [1970]. Broadsheet measuring 55 × 43 cm, offset print to recto and verso. Very light wear to right margin; still very good or better. Two-sided broadsheet advertising the Free New University Conference at NYU, "a bringing together of people alienated and horrified by the elitist structure of our..... More
St. Petersburg: XX Vek, 1902. Octavo (18.3 × 12.3 cm). Contemporary beige cloth; [4], 379 pp. Sixteen photographic portraits on separate leaves; numerous decorative head pieces and vignettes. Original wrappers perished; stamp of a non-existing lending library to title; else about very good. First and only edition of this sensationalist..... More
Harbin: self-published (Khudozhestvennaia tipografiia), 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 13 cm). Contemporary buckram boards; original wrappers perished; 76, [2] pp. Frontis portrait of the author on better paper stock. About very good. First and only Russian edition of this gruesome autobiographical narrative about the horrors of the Civil War in Mongolia..... More
[New York]: 1907. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 192 pp. About very good; some wear and fraying to spine. Scarce anonymously published brochure containing the radically anarchist program of Iakov Kirillovskii, who used the pseudonym Daniil Novomirskii. He was "the foremost anarcho-syndicalist in Russia before being..... More
Petrograd: Leshtukovskaia parovaia skoropechatnaia P.O. Iablonskogo, 1917. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Wrappers and text evenly toned due to stock; upper left corner of wrapper and text chipped; a tear to rear wrapper and one small perforation. Still about very good. An unlikely political..... More
Paris: Obshchestvo revnitelei Kubani, 1931. Octavo (24.7 × 18 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout. Traces of former binding to spine of one issue; holes from binding to both issues; slightly resized to binding; else about very good. Two issues (of the three published) of the highly..... More
![Book ID: 52211 Emihratsiia a nashi zavdannia [Emigration and our tasks].; Rydna...](/pictures/thumb/52211_1.jpeg?v=1662737081)
Ellwangen (Jagst): "Ridna Knyzhechka", 1948. Small octavo (14.5 × 10.3 cm). Staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Text toned due to stock; still very good. Rare pamphlet about the tasks of the Ukrainian post-war emigration (Displaced Persons, or DPs) from a nationalist perspective. The author stresses the importance of Ukrainian..... More
Moscow: self-published, 1924-1925. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original paper wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to V. Arsen'ev in the year of publication. Light wear to wrappers; else very good. Count Iurii A. Olsuf’ev (1878-1938) was a scholar of ancient Russian art and iconography, as..... More
Moscow: self-published, 1924-1925. Octavos (23 × 15 cm). Original paper wrappers; 21, [1] pp. and one plate; 15, [1] pp.; and 23, [1] pp. Text evenly toned due to paper stock; else very good copies. Count Iurii A. Olsuf’ev (1878-1938) was a scholar of ancient Russian art and iconography, as..... More
Paris: izd. Chasovoi, 1931. Octavo (18.5 × 13.5). Original printed wrappers; 170, [6] pp. Illustrations throughout. Very good. In protective mylar. Intended for White émigré military personel, the directory offers an overview of Russian imperial military history, lists the Russian army and naval organisatons operating abroad, their history, locations, and..... More
Petrograd: Knigoizdatel’stvo kooperativnoi literatury Mysl’, 1918. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 64 pp. Wrappers lightly stained; still a very good copy. Scarce guide on establishing and maintaining smaller libraries as part of local co-operative societies, which were popular through the Soviet Union in the 1910s and 1920s..... More
![Book ID: 52174 Ukraintsi, iak narod [Ukrainians as a people]. Subtitle: holos na anketi v...](/pictures/thumb/52174_001.jpg?v=1662736277)
New York: n.p., 1917. Octavo (19.5 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on blue stock; 16 pp. Very good or better. Second edition (first printed in 1907 in Galicia) of this historico-philosophical treatise by Pachovs'kyi (1878–1942), the first chapter of which features the caption "Ukraine – the first modern..... More