A first-hand account of the significant fight on Culp's Hill from the Battle of Gettysburg, unsigned but likely written by Captain C.P. Horton, Assistant Adjutant-General of the 149th New York Volunteers, being a 7-page handwritten letter in which Horton describes the events of the battle; sold together with a large..... More

Kharkov: Izdatel’stvo “Proletarii”, 1926. Octavo (16.3 × 14.6 cm). Original sewn pictorial wrappers by Aseev (?); 102, [1] pp. Light wear to spine and corners; overall about very good. First and only editon of these poems by Aseev, which includes three cycles, entitled “Romantsero,” “Dni,” and “Pesni.” Although best known..... More

Moscow: Izd-vo "Imazhinisty", 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 48 pp. Unopened and uncut. Wrappers detached; light foxing to wrappers; text evenly toned to stock, internally very good. First Russian language publication of Charles Vildrac (1882-1971) and Georges Duhamel’s (1884-1966) 1910 “Notes sur la Technique poétique,” translated..... More

Kraków: Instytut wydawniczy "Niezależnych," 1922. 12mo (14 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically illustrated peach-colored wrappers; [30] pp. Text printed in green. Fifteen drawings incorporating typographic elements. Fragile wrappers beginning to separate along lower spine; else very good. First edition of this work of Futurist poetry by Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945)..... More

Pardubice: Osvobození života, 1927. Octavo (19 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 127 pp. With fourteen original linocut vignettes and full-page illustrations. About very good, uncut and unopened; spine strip lightly toned. A highly eclectic interpretation of Czech modernist art and literature by this relatively unknown Czech writer, publisher, and..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original typographically formatted printed wrappers; 136, [8] pp. Very good. A guidebook for guides of the Russian Pioneer movement, in charge of the physical and athletic development of children and young adults. While acknowledging biological differences between the two sexes, the..... More

Petrograd: Izd. “Sovremennoe iskusstvo” , 1917. Octavo (23 × 17 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 110, [1] pp. Cover illustration, frontis portrait, and typographic design by A. K. Shervashidze. Spine discretely rebacked; small tear to lower fold of front wrapper, still about very good. First edition. The first monograph on Nikolai..... More

Kiev: Izdatel’stvo Akademii Arkhitektury Ukrains’koi SSR, 1952. Oblong quarto (23 × 30 cm). Original green card boards, embossed title to front board; 108 pp. and [10] leaves of plates, as well as numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text, some in color. Boards lightly discolored and scuffed to..... 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

St. Petersburg: Tipografiia N. Tiblena i komp., 1866. Octavo (22.5 × 15.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards with gilt tooling and title to spine; 501, [1] pp. Title page lightly toned; boards rubbed, still about very good. First edition. An early ethnographic, linguistic and historical study of the Caucasus..... More

Warsaw: nakł. Związku Zawodowego Pracowników Kolejowych Rzplitej Polsk., 1937. Octavo (20.5 × 14.7 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. First and only edition of this volume of poems based on the life of Polish railwaymen, by the Polish proletarian socialist writer and political activist Edward Szymanski (1907–1943)..... More

Khar'kiv: Vseukrains'ke Tovarystvo Kul'tzv'iazku z zakordonom, sektor mystetstva Narkomosvity USRR; Rukh, 1931. Small octavo (16.3 × 13 cm). Original decorative printed wrappers; 27 pp. and [8] leaves of plates. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; moisture stains to overlapping wrapper edges, not affecting text; still about very good. Rare illustrated..... More