[Moscow: Tipo-lit. T-va I. N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1902. Oblong folio ( 35 × 26 cm). Original pebbled brown calf with gilt title to front board; silk moire pastedowns and flaps; single leaf with title to recto and table of contents to verso, text pamphlet of 9, [1] p. and..... More
6-page typed and mimeographed bulletin printed on board the USS General A.W. Brewster, titled "Welcome Aboard" and intended to introduce new crew members to life on the ship, with information such as the day's schedule including meal times, inspections, and recreational activities, opening hours for the ship's barber shop and..... More
Single leaf, measuring 27.8 × 20.3 cm, printed to recto. Evenly toned; else very good. Apparently unrecorded broadside announcing a concert of Ukrainian songs, under the direction of Professor Iu. Kyrychenko, to be held at Washington Irving High School in New York City, on March 9, 1947. Interestingly, the bill..... 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
London: Kruh priatel'ov československej knihy (printed by S. Sidders & Son, Ltd., Kilburn), 1944. Octavo (18 × 12.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 117, [2] pp. About very good; very light overall wear and soil to wrappers. Second of two volumes of poetry from the Slovak anti-Nazi resistance during World War..... More
Ljubljana: Milan Vrtovec, 1940. Octavo (24.5 × 16.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Wrappers toned and lightly discolored; else about very good. Scarce anti-communist pamphlet published in Slovenia, issued as part of the periodical "Za resnico" (For the truth), this being vol. 7 in the series. With an..... More
![Book ID: 51321 Nachrichten für die Truppe [News for the troops], nos. 12, 20, 34, 36, 43,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51321_002.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682714404)
N.p. [London]: [Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force], 1944. First six issues in this collection single leaves, others folded sheets, quartos (measuring 33 x 23.2 cm). Original self-wrappers; 2-4 pp. of text and images. Some very light toning and chipping, overall about very good. Collection of..... More
Moscow: Upravlenie glavnogo nachal’nika snabzheniia R.K.K.A., 1922. Octavo (22 × 18 cm). Contemporary brown cloth, with original decorative wrappers preserved; 147 pp. with 13 leaves of illustrations to rectos and 5 fold-out patterns, some in color. Catalog to inside rear wrapper. Pre-war library stamp of a military book store to..... More
Valencia: Eldono de Grupo Laborista Esperantista, 1936–1939. Quartos (31 × 21.8 cm). Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards; 4–8 pp. per issue. Occasionally illustrated from photographs, drawings, and caricatures. About very good. Nearly complete run, lacking only six issues, of the rare Esperanto journal published in Valencia during the Spanish..... More
[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
[United States]: Z drukarni "Ameryky", 1946. Octavo (20.3 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 31 pp. Text block lightly bent; else very good. Scarce overview of the goals and achievements of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee based in Philadelphia. Illustrated with photographs and from drawings, which show scenes..... More
London: Union Deutscher Sozialistischer Organisationen in Großbritannien, [1945]. Octavo (20.4 × 16.6 cm). Five folded leaves, with mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos; unstapled as issued; 19 pp. Very light overall wear; very good. Scarce mimeographed publication, apparently issued shortly prior to the end of World War II, with the..... More
[Germany], 1946. Oblong octavo (15.2 × 21 cm). Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers; [43] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. With forty-three mimeographed drawings. Good or better; wrappers detached and separated along spine; text block sewn; rust to staple and overall wear and chipping to edges. Rare mimeographed publication..... More
[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
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo “Leto-pechat’", [1915]. Folio (36 × 27 cm). Original printed card folder with three flaps, housing eight leaves of color lithographs to rectos, with simpler sketches lithographed to rectos. Signed and inscribed by the artist to flap (addressee's name illegible). With a small note in ink noting that the..... 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
![Book ID: 51226 100 godzin Stalingradu [100 hours of Stalingrad]. Mieczysław Berman](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51226_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
![Book ID: 51526 Literatura v obozie [Literature in the camp]. Michał Borwicz](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51526_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1678450869)
Kraków: Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy C.K. Żydów Polskich - Oddział w Krakówie, 1946. Octavo (15.5 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by cartoonist and satirist Karol Ferster; 76, [8] pp. Numerous illustrations and decorative initials throughout. Light chipping to spine; evenly discolored; still very good. This collection of essays..... 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
Buenos Aires, 1957. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Stamp of the Union San Alejandro Newsky, a defunct private diaspora library, on title page, faint outline of a previously attached price sticker on the upper left-hand corner of the wrapper. Some light signs of wear; else..... More
![Book ID: 51142 Naše pjesme: svezak II [Our songs: volume II]. Natko Devčić,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51142_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
Warsaw, printed ca. 1945 or 1946. Various sizes, see list below. Very good. Group of vintage prints of photographs by Eugeniusz Haneman, mostly taken in 1944 and early 1945, and printed in 1945 or 1946, shortly after the war, and largely with the artist’s own captions to rectos in blue..... More