[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
Berlin: ad-hoc-Gruppe CDU-Parteitag, 1968. Three single leaves of DIN A4 (30 × 21.5 cm), offset print in brown ink to rectos and versos. Very good. Very uncommon set of three early flyers of the German student protest movement and the so-called APO, or extra-parliamentary opposition, which formed beginning in the..... More
Collection of posters, broadsheets, and ephemera pertaining to the Latvian-Jewish community in Riga, Daugavpils and Jūrmala in the 1920s and 1930s. Please inquire for a detailed list of contents and further images. The vibrant cultural, political and religious life of the community is captured in theater posters, announcements of political..... 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
Sofia: [Headquarters of the Don Cossack Corps], 1931. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original illustrated self-wrappers; 48, [2] pp. Gift inscription, apparently to General A. P. Arkhangel’skii (1872–1959). Slightly resized; else about very good. The final special issue of the annual White émigré publication “Kazaki zagranitsei”, dedicated to the newly..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Posev, ca. 1950-1956. Single leaf, once folded, printed to rectos and versos, measuring 13.5 × 10 cm. Very good. [Covert Anti-Soviet Broadcasts by Russian Emigres in Post-War Germany]. This special issue of the semi-clandestine magazine Posev (The Sowing), published by NTS (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists), an..... More
Geneva: Izdanie G. A. Kuklina, 1903. Octavo (17 × 11 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 14, [4] pp. Publisher’s catalog to wrappers and one leaf. Hoover Institute duplicate stamp to wrapper. Wrapper lightly discolored; wrapper edges chipped; some underlining in pencil throughout, still good or better. A pamphlet about the..... More
Geneva: Izdanie G.A. Kuklina, 1903. Octavo (16.75 × 11 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Wrappers lightly discolored; wrapper edges chipped, else about very good. Documenting one of many splinterings within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP), this brochure records..... More
Moscow: Izdanie vsesoiuznoi knizhnoi palaty, 1960–1961. Octavos (20 × 13 and 22 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers and boards; 135 and 459, [1] pp. Spine extremities of one volume very lightly chipped; light moisture stain to rear wrapper, else very good. Printed by the publishing house of the Ministry..... More
Berlin: self-published, 1982. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Staple-stitched yellow printed wrappers; [6] pp. Very good. A camouflage brochure listing all squats, or illegally occupied houses, in Kreuzberg, Berlin in 1981-82, along with the number of occupants or apartments filled, as well as the owners of the buildings. The book..... More
Warsaw: K.O.P.R. [Komisja Propagandy Biura Informacji i Propagandy KG AK, 1943. Original pictorial self-wrappers; 8 pp. The last leaf slightly stained and with tears to edges; else about very good. Second issue of this series of independence-minded poetic volumes, published clandestinely by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the..... More
Xinjiang: Xinjiang Maarip Nexriyati, 1976. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; [2], 307 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. About very good. Third chapter (presumably a third-year text book) of this Chinese history textbook in Uighur, ranging from the first capitalist period to Mao Zedung. In Uighur, printed..... More
[Paris]: Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1905. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary half-leather with gilt-tooled red leather spine label; 978, [8] pp. Lacking original wrappers, title, and a first leaf with preface; second leaf with restauration; else a very good copy with wide uncut margins in an attractive..... More
![Moia malen’kaia Leniniana [My little Leniniana]. Venedikt Erofeev](/pictures/thumb/50257_1.jpeg?v=1580326983)
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
![Doktor NO (James Bond – agent 007) [Dr. No]. WITH: Fleming, Ian and R. Vladimír Minařík....](/pictures/thumb/P6099_1.jpg?v=1585318693)
[Prague]: Svobodné slovo, 1968-1969. Small octavos (15 × 11 cm). Contemporary blind card wrappers; 204 and 292 pp. The second text with nine reproductions of original drawings, signed M. Novák. Text probably slightly resized to binding; else about very good. First appearance of any work by Ian Fleming in Czech..... More
![Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet Distributed by Air Balloon]. Svobodná Evropa [Free...](/pictures/thumb/P6897_1.jpg?v=1580327121)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954-1956]. Single leaf, measuring 14.5 × 57 cm, folded four times to create a pamphlet with ten pages of text and images. Very good. Scarce anti-communist flyer in Czech, printed in Germany by Free Europe Press and distributed over Czechoslovakia via balloon from 1954 to 1956..... More
![Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet]. "V jednotě síla. Všem členům Československé...](/pictures/thumb/P6877_1.jpg?v=1580327120)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954]. Single folded leaf, measuring 20.8 × 14.6 cm, printed to recto and verso, and when folded resembling a US airmail envelope. With one duplicate copy; laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags, with the text "The American people greet the..... More
![Idei [Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand]. Henrich Heine, I. V. Mainov](/pictures/thumb/P4884_1.jpg?v=1591347183)
Neapoli [i.e. Bern]: Presso Giacomo Palpiri [i.e. V. I. Bakst], 1863. Octavo (17.8 × 11 cm). Recent paper-covered card binding; part of front wrapper affixed to front board; [5], 109 pp. Internally very good. First complete Russian translation of Heine's "Das Buch Le Grand" (1927). The work had been previously..... More
[Prague]: Historický ústav ČSAV v Praze, 1968. Octavo (20.4 × 15 cm). Original printed black wrappers over blind white wraps; [6], IV, [1], 35, 37–54, [1 blank], 55–494 pp, and fifty-six unnumbered pages with photographic reproductions interspersed. Good; wrappers worn and creased; binding shaken but intact. First edition of this..... More
![Stikhi [Poems]. Arbat 89. Samizdat edition. Aleksandr Kanin](/pictures/thumb/P6052_1.jpg?v=1589982603)
Moscow: self-published, 1989. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled pamphlet; illustrated xeroxed wrapper, reproducing a drawing by F. Zverev, and 8 leaves of text to rectos only; xeroxed photo-reduced typescript. Signed and inscribed by the author on the first page. Private bookplate to front wrapper verso. Wrappers and text..... 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
Berlin: Trowitzsch und Sohn, 1866. Octavo (19 × 10.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers with brown paper spinestrip and title vignette; 16 pp. Paper evenly toned due to stock, else very good. Illegally published pamphlet urging Czech independence from Austro-Hungary. Published anonymously in Berlin during the Austro-Prussian War (1866), it was..... 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
![Późne wiersze [The late verse]. Osip Mandelstam, Stanisław Barańczak, Mandelsztam](/pictures/thumb/50205_001.jpg?v=1580326958)
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
![Nutnost revidovati process Polenský [On the need to revise the Polná legal case]. Prof. T. G....](/pictures/thumb/P4917_1.jpg?v=1591525682)
Prague: Nákladem "Času", 1899. Octavo (24.6 × 16.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. A very good copy; small chip to upper right corner of front wrapper. Scarce Czech edition of a pamphlet, later confiscated, through which Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk sought to intercede in the Hilsner Affair, which provoked..... More