Collection of 27 mimeographed documents from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center dating from January 1, 1944 to October 17, 1945, spanning most of the time of the camp's operation and comprised mostly of Community Council meeting minutes, together with notes from the first session of the Study Committee for the..... More
[Tallinn: self-published, 1989]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; xerox-reproduced reduced typescript; 14 pp. Very good. An important, anonymously published brochure which summarizes the results of the first meeting of the Baltic Assembly on May 13-14, 1989 in Tallinn, a key step in the independence movement of the..... More
Prague: Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion Prag, [1916 or 1917]. Large quarto (33 × 24 cm). Attractively bound in recent gray boards; [1], 198 leaves of text to rectos only. Pink rubber stamp “Vertraulich” (“Confidential”) to first leaf. Introductory text followed by German-language wanted briefs and photographs. Very good. This..... More
[Paris]: 1957. Oblong quarto (22 × 28). Original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with the imperial heraldry of the Romanov family; 129, [3] leaves, most featuring black and white photoreproductions with Russian captions, printed on coated paper stock throughout. Scarce album of 121 black and white photographs, depicting members of the royal..... More
A remarkable diary kept by Private Thomas P. Wilkinson, of Newark, Delaware, a soldier in the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a Union Army regiment from the Civil War also known as the "Zouaves d'Afrique" which served under Colonel Charles H. T. Collins and were known for their colorful Americanized..... More
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
A beautiful group of 16 examples of early to mid-20th century American sheet music, most 4-8 pp., the covers noteworthy for their bright and colorful patriotic imagery, including Uncle Sam, military figures, war scenes, the Statue of Liberty, and women wearing flags, by a wide range of composers. Some minor..... More
A beautiful and sizable group of approximately 65 examples of World War I-era American sheet music, most 4 pp., the covers noteworthy for their bright and colorful patriotic imagery, including military figures and soldiers, Uncle Sam, stylish women with soldier suitors, images from war bond posters, nurses, flags, Allied powers..... More
A complete run in seven fascicules of the Argentinian cultural and political journal, edited by Luis Aznar and Guillermo Korn, born out of the socialist branch of the Reforma Universitaria, each issue with a specific focus topic and subtitle, celebrating the Reformation as a political-cultural and socialist movement, each issue..... More
New York: K. N. Nikolaev, 1956. Octavo (23.5 × 15.5 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 24 pp. Frontis portrait. Printed on coated paper stock. Very good; uncut and unopened; front wrapper with a diagonal crease and touch of dust-soiling. Rare brochure issued on the anniversary of the last Tsar and his..... More
Printed photograph album commemorating the visit of the Crown Prince to the Karafuto prefecture in the summer of 1925, with preface by Okishima Kamazo and edited by Fujii Shoji, consisting of 20 plates with 73 black and white photographs tracing the Crown Prince's trip including visits to schools, agricultural research..... More
Color-illustrated poster, printed by the newspaper Libre Parole towards the end of the Dreyfus Affair, depicting in four rows of four illustrations each the most essential scenes from the story of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, told with an anti-Semitic and anti-Freemason slant, each cartoon with a lengthy caption underneath. Some mild..... More
A complete run in 22 issues of the newspaper which ran on a daily basis, in addition to the weekly Rouge, during the period of the 1974 Presidential elections, each issue 8 pp., edited by Daniel Bensaid, covering the election and related events. Illustrated profusely throughout from photographs and drawings..... More
Unpaginated (circa 220 pp.) text documenting the life of the Soviet leader, including images of numerous letters and articles written by the leader accompanied by translations into English, the work is a remarkable example of political hagiography, featuring images from the moment of his birth through to his death, heavily..... More
London; New York: 1936; 1937; 1941. Oblong octavo (14 × 21.5 cm). Paper-covered bloth binding; title to spine; bound photostat (Igestat) copies of the original printed material. With pencil marks consisting of minus and plus signs in the margins, as well as very few longer annotations. Very lightly rubbed at..... More
A collection of 58 non-consecutive issues of the newsletter put out by the Safety Department of the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Co. (M.W.A.K.) for its workers, together with a single bonus unnumbered newsletter, edited by Pete Shrauger, most issues approx. 6-12 pp. and printed on various colors of paper, with information including notices..... More
Large album of 60 photographic plates printed on thick paper, published to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, edited by Sakata Yataro, and distributed as a sort of propaganda targeted at a Japanese audience, the plates depicting scenes including the Mukden or..... More
1825. Moscow and St. Petersburg: v Tipografii S. Selivanovskogo; N. Grech, 1825. Octavos (21 × 13.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders, spine blind-stamped and with red label; marbled endpapers; LXVII, [1], 811, [6] and 17 pp. Front hinge starting; boards with light wear and soil; internally very good..... More
Tbilisi: Tipografiia K. P. Kozlovskogo, 1892. Quarto (28.5 × 22 cm). Original embossed silk-covered boards; gilt title to front board; 70, [1] pp. Boards lightly soiled; gilt partially faded; some foxing to end papers, but overall very good. A detailed account of the business of sericulture in the Trans-Caucasus region..... More
Warsaw: Paṅstwowe Wydawnictwo Literatury Politycznej, 1945. Octavo (20.3 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 50, [1] pp. Very good; small owner signature to title. Early volume documenting the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The book was published shortly after the end of WWII in May 1945. Aside from numerous..... More
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[Warsaw]: Wydawnictwo Oddzialu Propagandy Gl. Zarzadu Polityczno-Wychowawczego Wojska Polskiego, 1945. Octavo. Original side-stapled photo-illustrated wrappers; 29, [3] pp. Very good or better. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, volume documenting the Warsaw Uprising (August 1–October 2, 1944), the largest armed resistance campaign carried out during WWII and a...... More
Geneva: Tipografiia "Soiuza", 1900. Octavo (15.5 × 11 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 32 pp. Light foxing to wrappers, else very good. This pre-revolutionary brochure records the workers’ struggle in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk region of Russia (modern day Ivanovo), which had a large textile industry in the late nineteenth century. The..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie Partii Narodnoi Svobody; Leshtukovskaia Parovaia Skoropechatnia "Svoboda", 1917. Octavo (20.5 × 14 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 44 pp. Stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Wrappers lightly discolored; lower spine extremity frayed; text toned due to stock; else about very good. Expressing support for Russia’s continued participation..... More
Kharkov: Izdanie F. I. Kuzmina, [ca. 1915-1916]. Broadside on purple stock, measuring 55 × 35 cm, printed to recto and verso, with decorative header. Old horizontal and vertical creases; light discoloration; pre-revolutionary stamp of the Imperatorskii Moskovskii Muzei (Moscow State Historical Museum); else about very good. This WWI propaganda poster..... More
St. Petersburg: Ispolneno v Khudozhestvennoi Fototipii i Tsinkografii A. I. Vil'borg, 1900. Quarto (32 × 23.5 cm). Original string-bound pictorial wrappers; [34] leaves on coated stock, with tissue guards, many of them printed. Color lithographs, as well as photographs in unusual configurations (early photo-montage), with ornamental floral frames in the..... More