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

[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

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

Tbilisi, 1925-1927. Octavos (26 × 18 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 32-40 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil and foxing to wrappers, else very good. Four issues of a Georgian communist periodical for children, with poetry, musical notes, puzzles, photographs, drawings, and vignettes throughout. Issue 1 (1927) of "Nakaduli" contains two..... 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

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

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

St. Petersburg: V drukarniakh Tiblena i komp. i Kulisha, 1864. Large octavo (26 × 17 cm). Recent half-calf binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine and marbled edges; [VII], [1], 2-304, [1], [II-XVII] pp. Owner signature to title page (Zinovii Bilenko). Occasional markings in pen in the..... 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

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

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

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