![V bor’be s bol’shevikami. Vospominaniia [In battle against the Bolsheviks. A memoir]....](/pictures/thumb/P6724_1.jpg?v=1593529683)
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
![Bragožda a jiné válečné vzpomínky [Bragožda and other war memories]. Stanislav Kostka...](/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
![Kul'turnaia rabota v rabochei biblioteke [Cultural work in the workers' library]. V. A. Nevskii](/pictures/thumb/P4809_1.jpg?v=1590179206)
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
![Iz programmy sindikal'nogo anarkhizma [From the anarcho-syndicalist program]. Novomirskii, Iakov...](/pictures/thumb/P5154_1.jpg?v=1591525622)
[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
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
Berlin: Deutscher Zweig der Internationalen Frauenliga für Frieden und Freiheit, 1929]. Octavo (24 × 15.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 74, [4] pp. Wrappers worn, chipped to corners; front wrapper re-attached; else internally good or better. Scarce proceedings of the first public conference held in Germany against opium and other drugs..... More
![Armiia i flot: voennyi spravochnik [The army and the navy: a military directory]. V. V. Orekhov,...](/pictures/thumb/P6705_1.jpg?v=1580327115)
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
![Biblioteka-chital’nia kooperativa [Reading rooms for co-operative societies]. N. A. Orlov](/pictures/thumb/P5197_1.jpg?v=1589471238)
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
Artist's book, unpaginated, published in conjunction with Oursler's 1975 exhibition of the same name, held at Rome's Galleria's Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, with foreword by Italo Mussa in Italian and English, the exhibition catalogue comprised of reproductions of appropriated black and white photographs, each accompanied by a reproduced handwritten caption in..... More
A complete set of 20 colorful propaganda postcards, uncirculated, the postcards issued by the short-lived Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain, the Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, and its associated workers' union, the Unió General de Trebelladors, with text in Catalan, the images of which were sometimes available..... 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
![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
![Bezgosudarstvennyi kommunizm i sindikalizm [Stateless communism and syndicalism]. Pereval, pseudonym](/pictures/thumb/P6688_1.jpg?v=1592500754)
[New York?]: Izdanie A. K., ca. 1919. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 32 pp. Stamp of Hoover Library to front wrapper. Small creases to wrapper edges; spine extremities frayed; else about very good. A rare publication of the Soiuz Russkikh Rabochikh (Union of Russian Workers in..... More
St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1770-1772. Small quartos (24.6 × 18.3 cm). Later polished calf with spine in six compartments and gilt titles; marbled endpapers; red edges; 460 and 438, a-e, 460 pp. (lacking pp. 461-763). Decorative initials, headpieces, and etched allegorical vignette with a small portrait of Peter..... 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