1932. Moscow: IZOGIZ (Agit-massovyi sektor), 1932. Octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [16] pp., of these, eight pages are divided horizontally and freely moveable. Light wear to wrappers; lower right corner creased; still about very good. Catalog issued on the occasion of the first exhibition of work by..... More

[Warsaw]: Galeria Remont, 1976. Quarto (A4). 17 unnumbered leaves of offset-reproduced typescript and drawings, printed rectos only; stapled to upper left corner. About very good. Scarce catalog documenting the video works of Pawel Kwiek, with an artist’s statement, descriptions, and sketches documenting “Video A,” “Video C,” and others. Born in..... More

1921. [Moscow] Revel'?: Ordnas, 1921. Large octavo (26.5 × 17 cm). Original staple-stitched pamphlet; 68 pp. Ownership note of Mark Slonim, Berlin, 1921. Lacking the very fragile printed wrappers; text somewhat toned and water-stained to margins; else about very good. First and only edition of this important treatise about four..... More

1935. Facing title page: Soyuz Sovetskikh Arkhitektorov. 208 pp. compendium of essays on historical and contemporary architectural issues, including city planning, recent developments in the Soviet era, international modernism, the design of the Moscow-Donbass highway, housing problems, and the architectural reconstruction of Moscow, by Nikolai Brunov, Mikhail Alpatov, Vladimir Semenov..... More

1920. Prague: Nákladem časopisu "Sociální demokrat", 1920. Octavo (19.5 × 14.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers signed V. P.; 127, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Lenin. Small nicks to wrapper edges and wear to spine extremities; still about very good. One of the first appearances in Czech of Lenin's key strategic..... More

Moscow: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Zhizn' i znanie", 1918. First Edition. Octavo (20.8 × 14.1 cm). Original printed wrappers; 80 pp. Partly erased private owner signature to front wrapper; old Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper; else very good or better. First edition of Lenin's study of the agrarian question in late nineteenth-century..... More

Moscow-Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Kommunist", 1918. First Edition. Octavo (21.6 × 14.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 135, [1]. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title; a near fine copy. First edition of this important post-revolutionary work by Lenin, which attacks Kautsky and the Mensheviks for their reactionary views. In particular, Lenin criticizes Kautsky’s..... More

late 1970s or early 1980s. [Moscow]: late 1970s or early 1980s. Bound in hand-labeled paper folder (ink and pencil); [2], 3-42 leaves of easily legible carbon copy typescript to rectos, measuring ca. 29.7 x 21 cm). Folder chipped; text very good. Undated, but early samizdat edition (ca. 1980) of this..... More

Warsaw: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1979. Octavo (19.7 × 14.6 cm). Original side-stapled light blue printed wrappers; 79 pp. Light discoloration to wrappers; else very good. Samizdat reprint of Barańczak's translations of the Voronezh Notebooks of Osip Mandelstam, as well as several poems written in the early 1930s. With a preface..... More

Prague: L. Mazáč, 1931. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by J. R. Vávra; 207, [2] pp. About very good; very light wear to lower edge of front wrapper and spine extremities. Jaroslav Raimund Vávra (1902-1990), though far less well-known than Sutnar and Teige, was a designer of numerous accomplished photomontage-illustrated books..... More

Brno: Grafický klub, 1922. Octavo (25.6 × 17.4 cm). Original decorative paper-covered boards; 172, [1] pp. Ten full-page illustrations executed using various printing techniques and one folding plate showing a Vilém Ostwald's color circle. Very good. A near fine copy of this scarce introduction to the graphic arts, with numerous..... More

1920. Harbin: self-published, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98, [1] pp. Very good. First edition of this early memoir of the Tsar and his relatives, by the daughter of their physician, Evgenii Sergeevich Botkin (1865–1918), who was murdered along with the Imperial Family in..... More

Martin: Matica Slovenská, 1968. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 245 pp. Text reproduced from typescript, occasional illustrations and reproductions. Spine sun-tanned, with owner's hand-written label; corners very lightly scuffed; still about very good. First edition, published in 500 copies, of an important early bibliography of Slovak surrealist..... More