Prague: Městský výbor Socialistická Akademie, 1966. Quarto (28.6 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; spine reenforced with cloth (as issued); 77 pp. of typescript to rectos. Owner signature (?) of Volek to front wrapper. Text lightly toned; about very good. Rare volumes of proceedings of a conference held in 1966..... More

Kraków: Wydawnictwo Myśli Nieinternowanej, 1985. Octavos (19.5 × 14 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched self- wrappers; 12 pp. per issue with numerous illustrations in black and one color (red and blue) throughout, as well as one larger two-page illustration per issue. Light soil to edges; very good. Two issues of this..... More

Soviet Union, ca. late 1960s or early 1970s. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original dark green buckram binding with an amateur illustration to front board and lettering to spine; 217 leaves of xeroxed text. Small trace of private owner stamp and inventory number to first leaf; traces of moistures to..... More

[Warsaw: self-published, 1978]. Printed by Wolna Wałkowo-Walcowa Drukarnia Polowa im. J. P. Quarto (29.3 × 21 cm). Single leaf, printed to recto and verso, with three caricatures and handwritten text mimeographed; verso with mimeographed typescript. Light wear to right margin, with some fraying; upper corner creased and frayed; still good..... More

Bibliotechka gazety “Sovetskaia moral’ka” [Small library series of the newspaper “Sovetskaia moral’ka”], no. 1. Moscow: Liga, 1989. A5 (21 × 14.5 cm). Single folded leaf, printed to rectos and versos, twice folded; 8 pp. Very good. First Russian appearance of Venedikt Erofeev’s brilliant satirical work, which had appeared in Paris..... More

Mariánské Hory: Jaroslav Frič, 1971. Gray folder, blindstamped with the author's initials, containing thirty-eight leaves of A5 format, with typescript to rectos; one linocut and one aluminum etching, signed and numbered. Wrapper split, title page with crease to upper left corner, else very good. Apparently unrecorded Moravian poetic samizdat edition..... More

[1968]. [Brno]: self-published, [1968]. Octavo (21.8 × 14.2 cm). Letter-press printed black wrappers (in gold); eight leaves of original etchings, with calques; each signed, numbered, and labeled by the artists in pencil. With a typewritten introductory text in French and Czech. Signed and inscribed to a co-founder of the Lacoste..... More

[Germany]: self-published, ca. 1982-1987. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original card wrappers with carbon copy typescript to rectos only of a grid-lined notebook; 251 leaves, partially hand-numbered. Very good. A samizdat copy of a postmodernist fable about a failed utopia written by Fazil’ Iskander (1929-2016), one of the best-loved Soviet..... More

Warsaw: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1979. Octavo (20.2 × 14.5 cm). Original decorative side-stapled card wrappers; 116 pp. Light soil to wrappers; spine extremities chipped; still about very good. First edition of this “roman-a-clef of the 1979 political-intellectual scene in Poland” in which the narrator is absurdly invited by fellow dissident..... More

[Poland]: [Wydawnictwo Polskie], 1986. Octavo (21 × 15.5 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers; 104 leaves mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. With nine photographs reproduced by xerox. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1984 by “Głos”) of this list of Polish political prisoners, published by the Confederation of Independent..... 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

Poznań: Witryna Amatorska, 1981. Duodecimo (14 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 28 pp mimeographed to rectos and versos. Very good. An underground edition of a manifesto-style poem by the Polish-American poet, novelist and Nobel laureate, Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004). The poem was written in Washington DC in 1947, where..... More

London: Puls Publications, 1985. 12mo (14 × 9.5 cm). Original printed card wrappers; 291, [2] pp. Very good. First edition. A collected volume of George Orwell’s (1903–1950) critical, philosophical, and political essays spanning his literary career 1931–1949 with many of the essays appearing in Polish translation for the first time..... More