![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
![Book ID: 52268 Izhak-myrotvorets': kazka [The hedgehog peacemaker: a fairy tale]. Artem...](/pictures/thumb/52268_1.jpeg?v=1666992010)
Augsburg: self-published (printed by Präbst-Aigner), 1946. Octavo (20.3 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (signed Yu. K.); 39, [1] pp. Eight full page and one smaller illustration, all signed "Yu. K." Creased corner to two pages; owner signature to title; some doodles and partial coloring to images in color..... More
New York City: Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, 1941–44?. Mostly quartos (ca 27.6 × 21.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; generally 16–24 pp. per issue. Some light overall dust-soiling; a few tears and some splitting to spine extremities; old address stamps; two issues with tears to covers; but overall..... 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
Helsinki: Société de literature finnoise, 1882. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 127 pp. Small tape repair to head of spine; else about very good. A history of the Finnish nationalist movement during the relatively liberal reign of Alexander II over the Grand Duchy of Finland, written by..... More
A beautiful and rare album comprising title page, a map showing the location of the naval battle of Kil-Bouroun (Kinburn), and 15 chromolithographic plates depicting mostly maritime scenes after the battle along the ice-bound Dnieper River, including inside the fort, disembarking onto the ice, and ruined fortifications, lithographed and colored..... More
XXIII, 403 pp. history of the French school of pharmacology from its beginnings under royal patronage to the beginning of the 20th century, including its courses of instruction, professors, its renowned gardens, buildings and adminstrative organization, bibliographic notes, facsimiles and plans in text, 26 plates of views of the school..... More
Paris: Ministère de l'Intérieur, Direction Générale de la Sureté Nationale, Préfecture de Police, [1962]. 12mo. (15.7 x 11 cm). Original stapled printed paper wrappers; unpaginated (31 leaves printed recto only). Extremely minor foxing to first three pages, some sunning to front cover, overall very good condition. Together with an OAS..... More
![Book ID: P6721 Chto dali bol'sheviki narodu [What the Bolsheviks gave the people]. Partiia...](/pictures/thumb/P6721.jpg?v=1592500503)
[Petrograd]: Partiia Sotsialistov-Revolutsionerov, 1921. Octavo (19 × 13.6 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 18, [1] pp. Tear to lower front corner, else very good. Rare, apparently unrecorded, and illicitly published pamphlet, most likely issued by the Central Bureau of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. The SR Party also issued a...... More
Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskogo komiteta partii sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov, 1917. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Wrapper lightly chipped else about very good. [Political Literacy for Post-Revolutionary Russia]. Scarce brochure that seeks to educate a literate, but not highly educated, audience about the program of the Socialist Revolutionary..... More
[Mogilev]: V Polevoi Tipografii Glavnogo Shtaba 1-i Armii, 1819. Octavo (17.7 × 11.1 cm). Contemporary patterned calf; all edges gilt; [3], 75, [2], XII pp. Three charts and forms on two folded leaves. Binding rubbed; small private owner labels to front pastedown; else about very good. Second edition of a...... More
Moscow: Izdanie narodnogo komissariata zdravookhraneniia, 1920. Octavo (22 × 19 cm). Publisher's staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 54 pp. Tables and graphs throughout. Slight moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; crease to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Else uncut and unopened; about very good. Second edition (first published in..... More
Paris: B. Barthold (S. P. L'vov), 1910. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original green printed card wrappers; XVI, [3], 187, XVI, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers lightly discolored; spine rubbed and front wrapper nearly detached; internally very good or better, with the tipped-in errata sheet. First edition..... More
2 vols. in 1, 365 pp. commentary on ten works from late 15th century France, including translations of some, bibliographies, index, text illustrations; 309 pp. facsimiles of the ten works, including Molinet, Temple de Mars, Pfettisheim, Guerres de Bourgogne, Traité d'Arras and De La Marche, Le Chevalier Délibéré, illustrations from..... More