[Soviet Union]: self-published, ca. 1965–1975. Single sheet of paper with typescript to recto, measuring 29 × 21.5 cm. Folded twice along the vertical and horizontal axis. Additional light creases to corners; edges lightly frayed; small tear along the vertical fold; one correction to the text in blue ink and two..... More

[Warsaw]: self-published, 1984. Quarto (29.8 × 20.8 cm). Original side-stapled pictorial card boards; 16 pp. With additional text and image to recto and verso of front and rear wrapper. A very good copy. In the form of a comic book, this Polish samizdat publication presents the narrative of the first..... More

1965. [Brno]: A. B., 1965. Oblong folio (13 × 21.5 cm). Blue embossed cloth; [14] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and [21] leaves of original photographic prints of Delvaux’s work, apparently taken from the original book publication. Very good; owner inscription to title. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt..... More

Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza „Pokolenie”, 1985. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 54 leaves of text mimeographed to rectos and versos. Illustrations. Very good. First edition printed in Poland. Written by historian, journalist and activist Bohdan Cywiński (b. 1939), who was one of the founders of Solidarnośc (Solidarity)..... More

[Moscow]: self-published, [ca. 1962–1969?]. Octavo (28.5 × 20 cm). Original side-stapled hand-inscribed wrappers; 42 pp. of typescript with occasional handwritten corrections to margins. Very good. An early samizdat collection of poems by the poet, novelist, and essayist Vadim Fadin (b. 1936). Born in Moscow, Fadin graduated from the Moscow Aviation..... More

Warsaw: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1987. Octavo (20 × 14.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 48 and 57 pp. Cover design by Studio Z. Printed dos-à-dos. About very good. Attractive samizdat, printed dos-à-dos, containing the first Polish translations of Havel’s two plays “Largo Desolato”(1984) and “Pokoušení”(1985). By the mid 1980s Václav Havel..... More

Moscow: Informatsionnyi Tsentr Moskovskogo Narodnogo Fronta, 1988. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original side-stapled blind card wrappers: 123 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; some rust to staples. Internally very good or better. This samizdat directory of “amateur socio-political organizations” published by the Moscow People’s Front is a remarkable record of the..... More

[Bratislava]: CAD Press, 1984. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Green card wrappers with cloth spine-strip; perfect-bound xeroxed typescript; [1], 179 pp. With photo-reproductions on front and rear wrapper. A very good copy; a few stains to front wrapper. Rare Czech samizdat anthology published in Bratislava, Slovakia, which contains the full..... More

Warszawa: Rytm, 1986. Octavo (20.3 × 14.4 cm). Original decorative side-stapled wrappers; 53, [3] pp. Illustrations by Masław throughout. About very good; lower spine extremity torn. First edition of the popular political satire of late Communist Poland “Adventures of Mikołajka”. The book was written by the journalist and activist Maryna..... 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

1. Miłosz, Czesław. Miłosz. [n.a.]: KMT, [1980]. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [8] pp. Very good. Includes: Ars Poetica (1968), Moja wierna mowo (1968), Nie więcej (1962), Który skrzywadziłeś (1950). As of April 2022, not in KVK, OCLC. 2. Miłosz, Czesław. Gucio zaczarowany [Gucio Enchanted]. Warsaw..... More

[Kraków]: Wydawnictwo “Odnowa”, [1981?]. Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers; 47, [1] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Small tear to rear wrapper; last page loose. Still about very good. A samizdat collection of critical and literary essays by George Orwell, translated by the Polish political philosopher and historian Marcin..... More

London: Odnowa (Odnova Ltd.), 1974. Small octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (the orange variant); 94, [2] pp. of photo-reproduced text. Very good. Although the translation of "Animal Farm" by Teresa Jeleńska was first published 1947, then again in 1956, this 1974 edition was the one which inspired..... More