![Biuletyn praski [Praga bulletin], Nos. 18, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28](/pictures/thumb/50500_001.jpg?v=1591306205)
Warsawa-Praga: Komenda m. st. Warszawy; drukarna “Do boju!”, 1944. Single leaves, on blue and yellow newsprint, printed recto and verso; measuring 34 × 25.5 cm. One issue with a photograph. Old horizontal creases; three issues with moisture stains to margins; occasional small tears to folds; overall about very good. Six..... 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
Zagreb: Drz̆avni Izvještajni i Promičbeni Ured, 1942. Octavo (20.3 × 15.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers illustrated from an original linocut; 40 pp. of mimeographed typescript and six drawings and vignettes to rectos and versos. Very good. Single issue of a scarce periodical issued by young Yugoslav partisan fighters in..... More
![Powstanie w Warszawie: fakty i dokumenty [The Warsaw Uprising: facts and documents]. Biblioteczka...](/pictures/thumb/50287.jpeg?v=1584391203)
[Warsaw]: Wydawnictwo Oddzialu Propagandy Gl. Zarzadu Polityczno-Wychowawczego Wojska Polskiego, 1945. Octavo. Original side-stapled photo-illustrated wrappers; 29, [3] pp. Very good or better. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, volume documenting the Warsaw Uprising (August 1–October 2, 1944), the largest armed resistance campaign carried out during WWII and a...... More
Prague: Izdanie gazety "Volia Rossii", 1921. Octavo (22.2 × 14.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [5], 183 pp. About very good; some wear to base of spine, with small loss to front wrapper; still an unusually well-preserved copy of a fragile book. Scarce early account of the Kronstadt Rebellion, an unsuccessful..... More
St. Petersburg: Ispolneno v Khudozhestvennoi Fototipii i Tsinkografii A. I. Vil'borg, 1900. Quarto (32 × 23.5 cm). Original string-bound pictorial wrappers; [34] leaves on coated stock, with tissue guards, many of them printed. Color lithographs, as well as photographs in unusual configurations (early photo-montage), with ornamental floral frames in the..... More
![Partizani. 20 crteža Đ. Andrejevića-Kuna [Partisans. 20 drawings by Đ. Andrejević-Kuna]....](/pictures/thumb/51146_1.jpg?v=1610543192)
[Belgrade-Zagreb]: Kultura, 1946. Oblong quarto (21.5 × 28.5 cm). Original pictorial card portfolio with three folding flaps; contains twenty leaves of plates reproducing drawings by the artist. Light wear and one partial tear to flaps; else very good. Twenty striking photozincographic reproductions of drawings reflecting the Yugoslav Partisan experience during..... More
Leningrad: Leningrad: Narkomzdrav SSSR, Medgiz, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1941. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. With 102 anatomical drawings. Some wear to spine extremities and spine stop; diagonal creases and light soil to front wrapper. Erased inscription in blue ink to top of title page. Internally very..... More
Riga: Kniga dlia vsekh, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers (unattributed); [4], 237 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Good or better; light wear to bottom of spine and light soil to front wrapper; internally very good. A rare autobiographical account by a Russian prisoner of war in Germany after..... More
![100 godzin Stalingradu [100 hours of Stalingrad]. Mieczysław Berman](/pictures/thumb/51226_1.jpg?v=1612955233)
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo "Prasa Wojskowa", 1949. Large octavo (26.4 × 18.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated staple-stitched self-wrappers; 31, [1] pp. First leaf with recent tape repair to upper corner; a few nicks; still about very good. Surprisingly scarce account of the Battle of Stalingrad, photo-illustrated and with numerous striking photomontages by Mieczysław..... More
Moreton Paddox, England, 1940. Octavos (19.6 × 16.2 cm). Contemporary (publisher's?) cloth with drawn illustration to front board and special title leaf; 311, [1] pp. of mimeographed typescript and drawings to rectos and versos (continous pagination). Printed on variously colored stock. Each issue with numerous satirical drawings and cartoons. About..... More
Kościan: Powiatowy Wydział Informacji i Propagandy, 1945. Quartos (30 × 21.5 cm). Original folded leaves, some single leaves, printed to rectos and versos; [2-4] pp. per issue. Printed on stock of varying color. Very good. Eight issues of this daily publication by the Red Army, distributed in the last two..... More
![Naše pjesme: svezak II [Our songs: volume II]. Natko Devčić, Vladimir Popović](/pictures/thumb/51142_1.jpg?v=1612278663)
[Split?]: Izdanje Kulturno-umjetničkog odjela Ministarstva prosvjete Narodne vlade Hrvatske (Štamparija Oblasnog N.O.O. Dalmacije), 1945. Small octavo (14.7 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 39, [1] pp. Fifteen small in-text vignettes. Signed and inscribed by one female partisan to a friend in July of 1945. Very good or better. Scarce..... More
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo "Slovo", 1922. Second edition (izdanie vtoroe). Large octavo (24 × 19.2 cm). Publisher’s decorative printed wrappers; 225, [3] pp. Text toned due to paper stock; else about else very good. Volume two of the important and scarce compendium of materials pertaining to the Russian Revolution, published by White..... 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
[Warsaw, but actually Moscow?], 1981. Broadside, measuring 60 × 43 cm., printed to recto. Folded along the horizontal and vertical axis. Very light wear to edges; still about very good. An original poster announcing the introduction of Martial Law in December 13, 1981, which was hung in the streets and..... More
Chicago: National Alliance of Czech Catholics, 1949. Octavo (26 × 14.5 cm). Publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers; 88, [1] pp. Small tear to wrapper; pencil note to title (gift of author); else very good. English translation of this anti-communist account of the 1948 takeover, which appeared in Czech the same year..... More
![Na putiakh k konfederatsii Kavkaza [Towards a confederation of the Caucasus]. Vano Kavtaradze](/pictures/thumb/P6904.jpg?v=1580327122)
Warsaw: self-published (P. Szwede), 1937. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; XIII, 133, [1] pp. Light wear to wrappers and overlapping edges; front wrapper beginning to tear along spine extremities; first chapter with pencil annotations in Russian; overall still about very good. First and only edition of a...... More
1919. Knižnica "Slovenských Hlasov," vol. 8. Irkutsk: Československá Tlačova Kancelárie, 1919. Small octavo. Original printed wrappers; 44 pp. Folding map tipped to title page. Very good. Scarce work in Slovak on the history, culture, and architecture of the Oravska, Liptovska, and Zvolenska regions in northern Slovakia. Published by the printing..... More
Brno: Zář, 1946. Octavo (20.7 × 14.7 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers by Antonín Jero; 307, [5] pp. of text, [13] pp. of photographic reproductions on coated stock; [8] pp. of end matter. Very good, in protective mylar. Curious photomontage cover by Antonín Jero (1907-1981), the Brno-born art educator, typographer, graphic..... 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
Paris: Jacques Povolozky & Cie., [1921?]. Octavo (24 × 16.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 142, [2] pp. Eight plates of illustrations. Partially unopened and uncut. Spine extremities frayed; light wear to wrapper edges; text evenly toned due to stock. About very good. First edition. Part memoir, part work of documentary..... More
Irkutsk: Izdanie Informatsionno-prosvietitel'nogo otdiela chekhovoisk (Tip. Bielogolovogo), 1919. Small octavo (16.5 × 10.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Frontis photograph of Masaryk. Also laid in is a folded chromolithographed map of Central Europe, measuring 16.8 × 19.6 cm. Very good. Rare publication in Russian about the Czechoslovak Legion..... More
[Frankfurt am Main]: 1814. Octavo (18.5 × 11.5 cm). Sewn brochure with ochre paper spine strip; 15 pp. Old shelf mark to title verso; else a very good copy. Scarce pamphlet reproducing the text of an appeal to the German people by Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1845-1813), one of the..... More
![Nezabiješ: k svědomí vládnoucích [Though shalt not kill: a note for those in power]. Emanuel...](/pictures/thumb/P6398_1.jpg?v=1587549543)
Prague: Družina čsl. legionářů, [1923]. Large octavo (24.3 × 17.2 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 106, [4] pp. of text in lithographed border. Very good. Signed by the author. First edition of this collection of fictionalized accounts of the Czech Legion soldiers' suffering during their Siberian anabasis, issued as a powerful..... More