Prague: Bratří Šulcové, ca. 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Single folded leaf, [4] pp. With striking photo-montage compositions to first and last page, and advertising text to pp. 2 and 3. Lower right corner very lightly creased; else very good. Scarce leaflet announcing BSA motorcycles, with urban streetscapes evocatively..... More
Archive of original KKK ephemera and memorabilia, approximately 40 pieces total, including: four issues of "Fiery Cross: Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Freedom", printed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the 1970s; three copies of the flyer "The Fiery Cross Bulletin: An Introduction to the United Klans of America, Inc./Knights of..... More
Russia: 1915-1918. Original printed announcements; various sizes, max. 45 × 16 cm. Rather good, with occasional nicks to margins only. Seven announcements for concerts held during WWI in three famous resort cities of the North Caucasus, WWI: Piatigorsk, Essentuki, and Kislovodsk. These cities, made famous in the Romantic era of..... More
Kōbe (Japan), Meiji period, ca. 1890-1900. Original string-bound pamphlet in card wrappers, measuring 17.5 × 13.5 cm, with two printed labels affixed to front wrapper; twenty-five leaves containing 500 tipped-in matchbox labels, predominantly color-printed, measuring ca. 3.5 × 5 to 4.2 × 6.5 cm. Light soil and wear to wrappers;..... More
Zagreb, 1966. (59.5 × 42 cm). Single leaf folded five times horizontally and once along the vertical axis. With numerous small reproductions. In English and Croatian. Very good. An exhibition poster for the SC (Student Center) Gallery in Zagreb in 1966, illustrated with the work of seventeen Yugoslav artists including..... More
Milan: Galleria Pontaccio Brera, [1966]. Oblong card on glossy stock, measuring 21.2 × 10.4 cm, with rounded corners. Fine. Invitation for an exhibition involving works by Bariona, Budík, Borga, Cali, Cherchi, Chiales, D'Amore, Danlee, Eusebi, Faucon, Giltaix, Keunen, Martinetti, Meltzeid, Molinari, Nervo, Rastelli, Sanders, Scanavino, Turati. Among them is the..... More
Moscow: Tipo-litografiia I.E. Shchekina E. A. Martynova, 1909. 12mo (15 × 11 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 21 pp. Laid in are two folded tables. Very good. An ephemeral catalog of the Riabov paper manufacturing company, with a list of goods and their selling prices for the year 1909. The..... More
[Bohemia]: ca. 1900. Leporello comprising forty-seven leaves of plaited paper patterns, with between one and three patterns per plate, of white and brown paper strips, in original lettered boards, leaf size 19.5 × 17 cm. Boards a bit rubbed; first leaf with very light damage and soil; else about very..... More
[Moscow]: Tip. UPP MID, 1960. Single leaf measuring 77 × 22.5 cm, printed in columns to recto only, folded several times to create a small pamphlet. About very good; a few creases; some corrections and additions in pencil. Printed for internal use of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this..... More
Two postcards, each an original photographic print, measuring ca. 8.8 × 13.6 cm. Overall very good; one with text in pencil to verso, but not sent. In mylar sleeves. Two striking Czechoslovak postcards, each using photo-montage to depict a different theme, including the Báťa Hotel in Zlín and another Báťa-themed..... More
Havana, Cuba: Imp. "Marti", 1941. Octavos (23 × 15.5 cm). Single folded leaves, printed to rectos and versos; [4] pp. each. Very good. Three programs for performances in Cuba of the Original Ballet Russe, a ballet company established in 1932 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as successor..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26 × 18.5 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlet with paper spine strip; 23 pp. Rust to staples; last page discolored; else very good, printed on better paper. A short, but highly informative Russian-language description of the history and present makeup of the State Public..... More
[Berlin]: Bolsevik Partizan, 1985. Single leaf of yellow paper (21.5 × 30 cm), photocopied typescript to recto and verso (4 pp). Old vertical crease; edges lightly faded; still about very good. Rare flyer calling for solidarity during the hunger strike of imprisoned members of RAF in 1984-85 (involving, among others..... More
Moscow: Tip. “Sovremennaia kul’tura”, 1928. Single leaf printed to recto (with partial text to lower verso), once folded, measuring 35 × 21 cm. Very good. This prospectus, addressed to heads of public educational institutions and educational inspectors, announces the new subscription year of two chief publications of the League of..... More
![Ostre sledovane vlaky [Closely Watched Trains]. Promotional leaflet for Jiří Menzel's film,...](/pictures/thumb/50929_1.jpg?v=1596539884)
First edition. Prague: Propagační odd. Ústřední půjčovny filmů, [1966]. Quarto (29.7 × 20.8 cm). Single sheet, printed to recto and verso, folded three times to created a folding leaflet of [8] pp. Very good or better. Rare promotional brochure for one of the finest examples of Czechoslovak New Wave film..... More
![Slovar’ rifm [A dictionary of rhymes]. Sergei Andreevich Kushel](/pictures/thumb/51192_1.jpg?v=1612955583)
Moscow, 1920. Octavos (23 × 19 cm). Notebook comprising 46 pp, hand-written text in pencil and brown ink. Front wrapper signed and dated by the author. Light overall wear; still good or better. A unique manuscript of a Russian rhyme dictionary, organized according to syllable and rhyme types. The brief..... More
Paris and Wiesbaden: 1921-23. Eight single leaves, some folded. Very good, with exception of one letter, with tear and some loss to text. The son of Lev Tolstoy, Lev L’vovich Tolstoy was a firm believer in his father’s ideals in his youth, but later became increasingly opposed to his philosophical..... More
Leningrad: Leningradskoe obshchestvo kollektsionerov, 1989. Octavo (21.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 19 pp. Signed and inscribed by the compiler to a fellow collector. Very good. First edition of this directory, which lists Soviet collector circles by type (such as phalerists, numismatists, as well as collectors of postcards and..... More
36 pp. printer's salesman sample-type album of approximately 270 elaborate and gold-embossed cigar bands of varying dimensions, printed chiefly for the Spanish and French markets. Tall narrow 4to. Original publisher's cloth. Rheydt, Germany (Hermann Schött Actiengesellschaft) n.d. (circa 1900). A visually arresting collection of cigar bands. Based on the text..... More