[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury, 1956. Octavo (22 × 14.4 cm). Original printed wrappers; 238, [1] pp. Along the top wrapper: Rassylaetsia po spetsial’nomu spisku [Distributed by special list], no. 85. Owner annotation to title; else about very good. First edition in Russian. A Russian translation of a British Marxist critique..... 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

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