Argentina (San Andres?): Nakladom Tovarystva Spryiannia UNRadi v Arhentini: V-vo "Rada", 1959. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 30, [2] pp. About very good; duplicate stamp to front wrapper. Rear wrapper with adverts for the publisher. First and only edition of this compilation of reflections on Petliura, taken..... More
Leningrad: Gublit, ca. 1925-1928? Various formats. Three small posters, printed to rectos in blue and red. About very good; small nicks and tears to edges. In protective mylar sleeve. Contains the following slogans: "Kazhdoe novoe sel’sko-khoziaistvennoe tovarishchestvo – zalog uluchsheniia krest'ianskogo khoziaistva (Every new agricultural cooperative plays its part in..... More
Paris: Izdanie soiuza Russkikh dvorian, 1936. Octavo (24 × 16). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 47, [1]. Portraits of Czar Alexander II and six activists of the serfdom reform. Stamps of Gallipoli Veterans in Brno to front wrapper, title and last page. Some soiling and wear to wrappers; vertical crease to..... More
[Ostrava]: Tramp-MěV ČSM, 1966. Quartos (29.5 × 21 cm). Original duplicated (xeroxed?) typescript and illustrations to rectos and versos; 4-20 pp. each. Very good. Six early issues (including one larger issue spanning nos. 11-15) of this Czech journal of the “tramping” movement shortly before the Czechoslovak Prague Spring of 1968..... More
Jíru, Václav. Unpaginated (circa 5 pp.) preface to a presentation of twelve 5" x 7" original photographic postcards showing works by the Czech photographer best known for his magazine work, including landscapes and streetscapes. 8vo. Postcards loose as issued in wrpps. portfolio. Prague (Edice Profily) 1963. More
[Prague]: self-published, 1926. Octavos (ca. 24 × 15.5 cm each). Original staple-stitched printed and mimeographed red wrappers; 15-24 pp. of mimeographed text to rectos and versos each. About very good; wrappers of one issue creased; faint library stamp with duplicate marks. The first three mimeographed bulletins published by the student..... More
Prague: Nakladatelství Pavel Prokop, [1935]. Small octavo (17 × 10.6 cm). Original printed wrappers on yellow stock; 74 pp. Wrappers and first leaf dust-soiled; else very good. An interesting memento of the pro-Soviet sympathies in the Czech interwar Republic, the present volume contains five short satirical plays, by Grigorii Gradov..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (26.7 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed) printed in red and black; 206 pp. Frontis portrait of Lenin. Illustrated throughout from photographs, musical notation, and with drawn section dividers. From the collection of Marcel Bekus, with his small oval stamp (“Ex-libris Marcel..... More
[Moscow]: A. Rerikh, ca. 1900-1903. Oblong folio (25.5 × 35 cm). Original embossed green cloth with gilt title to front board and 25 leaves of photographic plates. Inscription to marbled boards reads: “Presented to F. Lambert by acting Abbot of Solovetsky Monatery, Sept. 20, 1918.” Boards and corners lightly scuffed;..... More
Czechoslovakia: Středočeská galerie, 1968. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Staple-stitched green printed wrappers; [16] pp. Six full-page reproductions. Very good. Exhibition catalog of Skupina 42, with an introduction by Jan Dvořák featuring biographical information on the artists and a list of works exhibited. The Czech post-war artist collective “Skupina 42”..... More
Opava: Galerie Zámek Hradec u Opavy, [1967]. Octavo (23.5 × 17 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Nine black-and-white reproductions. Very good. Scarce exhibition catalog of the Fantasmagie group around Aubin Pasque and the C.I.A.F.M.A. (Centrale International de l’Actualité Fantastique et Magique). Held May-August 1967. Contains poems by..... More
Prague: Prague: Grafia dělnická knihtiskárna, 1928. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 115, [40] pages of reproductions in black-and-white. Spine extremities frayed; wrappers lightly toned; still about very good. Divided into four sections on Czechoslovak art: painting, art on paper, sculpture and architecture. With an added German preface..... More
Bratislava: Odborné učilišťe štátnych pracovných záloh číslo 15, 1955. Large octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original embossed beige cloth; ca. 200 leaves of text to rectos. Title beginning to detach; else very good. Scarce and very appealing Slovak typographic specimen book, published by a state-run trade school in Bratislava, evidently..... More
![Werble wolności [Drums of freedom], no. 2 (of five published in total](/pictures/thumb/50198_1.jpg?v=1607528644)
Warsaw: K.O.P.R. [Komisja Propagandy Biura Informacji i Propagandy KG AK, 1943. Original pictorial self-wrappers; 8 pp. The last leaf slightly stained and with tears to edges; else about very good. Second issue of this series of independence-minded poetic volumes, published clandestinely by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie khudozhestvenno-graficheskogo zavedeniia "Union", [1916]. Octavo (23 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 60 pp. Light moisture damage, affecting margins of first and last few leaves; some wear to spine extremities; still good or better. Catalog of the forty-fourth exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, known as..... More
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatels'tvo, 1928. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Light toning and creases to wrapper; stamp of a regional trade office of the state publisher; still about very good. Intended for party officials and organizations, librarians, as well as reading groups, this catalog provides..... More
![Zaklad pravoslavnago khrama v Zheneve [The founding of the Orthodox Church in Geneva]. WITH:...](/pictures/thumb/P6316_1.jpg?v=1593776822)
Moscow: Tip. V. Gotie, 1863. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 5 pp. Binding reinforced with paper; foxing throughout. About good. Geneva: Russkaia tipografiia, 1939. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 16, [1] pp. Five leaves of illustrations. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Two..... More
Kiev: 1920. Newsprint, measuring 35 × 27 cm; 8 pp. Illustrations throughout. Small discard stamp of the Warsaw Public Library to front page. Spine fold with small tears; old horizontal crease; still about very good. One issue (of ten published) of a communist Polish-language weekly, intended for distribution among the..... More
![Zpěvy o Rusku [Songs about Russia]. From the Russian by Jaroslav Teichmann.; Van, edice krásné...](/pictures/thumb/P5539_1.jpg?v=1585253403)
1946. V Hlučíně: Slezské tisk., nakl. a knihk. družstvo, 1946. Octavo (21 × 15.3 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers by Zdeněk Rossmann; 43, [3] pp. About fine. Scarce undocumented regional, Silesian avant-garde publication with a striking, spare wrapper design by Zdeněk Rossmann, an important Czech architect and graphic designer who..... More
[Geneva]: Tipografiia partii Sotsialistov-Revoliutsianerov, 1903. Octavo (16.5 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 54 pp. Light soil to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; bottom left corner of front wrapper chipped, still good or better. First edition. А critical pamphlet about agrarian reform proposed by Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP)..... More
1978. Arnhem: Gemeentemuseum, 1978. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset printed to recto. Old crease; still about very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Early announcement of a joint performance (four pieces) by Marina Abramović and her long-time collaborator Frank Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay), who lived and worked together from 1976..... More
Paris: self-published, 1935. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Includes maps. Partially unopened and uncut. Light foxing to wrappers and along the fore edge, else very good. A WWI testimony, this pamphlet describes the devastating “victory” in the battle for Trysten’ of the Keksgol’m battalion..... More
![Odinochestva i svoboda [Solitude and Freedom]. Georgii Adamovich, 1892–1972](/pictures/thumb/P002119_1.jpg?v=1591527732)
New York: Izdatel'stvo imeni Chekhova, 1955. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 316 pp. About very good; gift inscription on endpaper; sun toning to spine. Adamovich (1892-1972) was a leading member of the Russian Acmeist group “Tsekh poetov” in St. Petersburg, which included poets such as Nikolai Gumilev..... More
Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More
![Siluety russkikh pisatelei [Silhouettes of Russian Writers]. Vypusk I [Volume 1]. S 18-iu...](/pictures/thumb/P002376_1.jpg?v=1593515103)
Moscow: Izdanie "Nauchnago slova", 1911. Large octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original wrappers; [5], II-L, [1], 265, + [2] pp. publisher's ads. With eighteen plates of portraits on coated paper. Signed and inscribed by the author (undated), with a pen correction also in the author's hand to the publisher's announcement..... More