Sofia: Proletizdat Alfa, 1931. Octavo (23.2 × 15.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, signed "K. K."; 48 pp. Very light wear; small postal address label to rear wrapper; very good. Double issue of the Bulgarian socialist journal, which was initially subtitled a "monthly journal for workers' education, organization, and struggle." It..... More
[1907]. St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo “Shipovnik”; tip. “Delo”, [1907]. Octavo (22.6 × 15.9 cm). Contemporary half-calf binding with gilt tooling and title to spine, original wrappers not preserved; 382, [1] pp. Twelve leaves of illustrations. Lacking the index (XXVIII pp.); binding rubbed at spine extremities; old Latvian bookstore stamp; still good..... More
Tbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed "O. Bur" in Cyrillic); 278, [3] pp. Wrappers professionally restored preserving part of spine strip; light overall wear; stain to front wrapper; internally very good. First and only edition of the Georgian translation of Henri Barbusse's account of..... More
![Book ID: P003763 Slaviane i vostok [The Slavs and the East]. No. 1 (all published). V. E....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P003763.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591527003)
Prague: Slavianskoe izdatel'stvo, 1921. Large octavo (23.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unsigned); 119, [2] pp. An uncut and unopened copy; wrappers dust-soiled and frayed along spine, small chip to upper right corner of front wrapper. First and only volume of this intended series published by members of the..... More
Geneva: Tipografiia gruppy starykh narodovol’tsev, 1899. Small octavo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Very good or better. Written by one of the first peasant organizations, “The brotherhood for protection of the people’s rights,” this brochure calls for peasants to organize themselves to fight for their..... More
Moscow: Vserossiiskii Proletkul’t, 1924. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 109, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; crease to front wrapper; text toned due to stock; occasional underlining in pencil; about good or better. First edition. This polemical pamphlet argues for tightening the political positions of the Russian..... More
Vladivostok: Tipo-litografiia Iosif Korot, 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-cloth over boards, with original wrappers not preserved; 70 pp. 21 photo-illustrations. Ownership stamp to title page. Slightly resized, about very good. First edition. Filled with rare photographs of the destruction brought on by the Russian Civil War in..... More
Geneva: Izdanie rossiiskoi sotsialdemokraticheskoi rabochei partii, 1904. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 40 pp. Stamp of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-democratic Worker’s Party to title and front wrapper. Light fading to wrapper; wrappers starting to detach from block, still about very good. First edition..... More
![Book ID: P5563 Umiraiushchee obshchestvo i Anarkhiia [The Dying Society and Anarchy]. Jean...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5563.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591525479)
[New York]: Izd. A.K.G.S.Sh., 1921. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 178, [2] pp. Cover lightly worn; cancelled library stamps from the University of London; still about very good. This text by the French anarchist Jean Grave was published in Russian in the United States (most likely in..... More
![Book ID: P4635 Odna ili dve palaty? [One or two chambers?]. Svobodnyi narod, no. 14. N. A....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P4635_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1592501343)
Moscow: Tip. T-va “Zadruga”, 1917. Octavo (22.5 × 14.8 cm). Original sewn printed wrappers; 14 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled and creased; damp stains to margin; good or better. One of at least two pamphlets published on the issue of whether the future Soviet legislative system should consist of one or..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 141, [1] pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; original spine strip lacking and sections of the text beginning to detach; text evenly toned; still good or better. First edition. This curious mix of the history and ethnography..... More
London: Izdanie Gruppy Russkikh Kommunistov-Anarkhistov, 1902. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over five raised bands; marbled boards and endpapers; gilt-tooled title to spine; 295 pp. Boards very lightly rubbed; wrappers not preserved; rear hinge barely starting; still very good. First Russian edition of the key work by Prince..... More
![Book ID: P003873 Anarchistická morálka [Anarchist Morality].; Mezinárodná knihovna,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P003873_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1587487683)
New York: Časopis "Volné Listy" (Tisk L. Cimlera)., 1907. Octavo (23.5 × 15 cm). Original stapled printed wrappers; 40 pp. With a list of other publications by the publisher and a full-page advertisement for the Czech anarchist journal "Volné Listy". Tiny nick to front wrapper, else very good. The first..... More
[Paris?]: Izdanie federatsii Anarkhistov-Kommunistov, 1913. Octavo (18.5 × 12 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 8 pp. Unopened and uncut; wrappers detached and lightly chipped at corners. Good. A rare pamphlet on radical socialism written by Petr Kropotkin, a Russian revolutionary, activist, and one of the central philosophers of international anarcho-communism..... 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
Petrograd: Zhizn' i znanie, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (21.2 × 14.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title (and his annotation in pencil to front wrapper?); a very good, uncut and unopened copy; tiny Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper. First edition of Lenin's in..... 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
Moscow: Sotsial-demokraticheskoe izdatel'stvo “Dielo”, 1917. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original folded self-wrappers (single folded sheet); 15 pp. Publisher’s catalog to rear wrapper. Partially unopened. Some fraying to edges, else very good. [The Land Question in 1917]. This brochure outlining land reforms proposed by the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party..... More
St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Shtaba Otd. Korp. Pogran. Strazhi (V. O., u Birzhi), 1914. Octavo (22.8 × 15.5 cm). Original green printed wrappers; 107 pp. Private inventory number to front wrapper; first signature beginning to detach; else about very good. Scarce pamphlet issued to counteract a rising wave of public speculation..... More
Paris: 1907. Octavo (20.5 × 13 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 96 pp. Light soil to wrappers, wrappers chipped at corners. Good or better. First and only compilation (of an intended series) containing the documents of far-left Russian terrorist and political organizations Narodnaia volia (People’s Will) and the later Partiia..... More
Paris: self-published, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 227 pp. Illustrations. Spine extremities lightly frayed; light wear to wrapper edges; still very good. First and only edition of the memoirs of Maria Nesterovich-Berg (1879-??), a White Russian émigré and one of the leaders of the “Union of..... More
![Book ID: P6435 Bragožda a jiné válečné vzpomínky [Bragožda and other war memories]....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6435_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1587490563)
Prague: Odeon, 1928. Octavo (19.8 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, printed in orange and brown on beige cover; 85, [2] pp. Very good. First edition of these war reflections by S. K. Neumann (1875-1947), the Czech poet, publisher, and journalist. Neumann was known for his anarchist leanings, and later..... More
[New York]: 1907. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 192 pp. About very good; some wear and fraying to spine. Scarce anonymously published brochure containing the radically anarchist program of Iakov Kirillovskii, who used the pseudonym Daniil Novomirskii. He was "the foremost anarcho-syndicalist in Russia before being..... More
Petrograd: Leshtukovskaia parovaia skoropechatnaia P.O. Iablonskogo, 1917. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Wrappers and text evenly toned due to stock; upper left corner of wrapper and text chipped; a tear to rear wrapper and one small perforation. Still about very good. An unlikely political..... More