[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
[Aboard the USS General A.E. Anderson between Karachi and New York]: Information and Education Office (U.S. Navy), October 22–November 8, 1945. Tall quartos (33 × 20.5 cm). Single sheets, with mimeographed typescript and decorative elements to rectos and versos; [2] p. per issue. About very good, save for occasional light..... 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
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
Gilgil internment camp in Kenya and Asmara detention camp in Eritrea, 1947–48. Hebrew and some Yiddish. Varying size and formats; condition overall good or better. Group of twenty-seven items formerly owned by Moshe Mariel (Marienberg), a member of the Lehi (Stern Gang), who was imprisoned by the British authorities in..... 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
Stokholmo (Stockholm): 1936–1937. Quartos (31 × 22 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 4–8 pp. per issue. Light wear and minor chipping along top edge of issue no. 22, tear to last page of no. 27; else very good. 13 issues of the scarce Esperanto-language newsletter edited by Adrian Persson, dating to..... More
Paris: Damase Jouaust, November 4, 1870–January 24, 1871. Octavos (21 × 13.5 cm). Original sheets bound in contemporary quarter-calf green paper-covered boards; each issue a single double-sided sheet of text with by an additional sheet of handwritten text, 4 pp. total. Some old tears and losses; some stamps removed; the..... 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
[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
[South Germany], 1945. Broadsheet newsprint; first and last issues each 2 pp. (single folded sheet), the others 4 pp. Old creases; one issue with small tear; else very good copies. Complete run of this photo-illustrated informational newspaper published from May to July 1945 and aimed at French citizens in Germany..... 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
L'viv: Izdanie “Talergofskogo komiteta,” 1930–1932. Large octavo (23.7 × 18.3 cm). Later red cloth over boards with the original wrapper illustration affixed to front board; 156 and 158, [2] pp. Light foxing and toning to text due to stock; annotation in marker to first leaf; one leaf detached; occasional small..... More
Warsaw: Państwowe Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych, 1971. Single leaf printed in color, with vertical and horizontal folds, measuring 60 × 48 cm. In Polish, Russian, French, English and German. Scale 1:1 500 000. Light soil to recto; still about very good. A stark pictogram map of Nazi atrocities and war crimes..... 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](/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
![Book ID: 52311 Ze Śmiercią na ty [On familiar terms with death]. Michał Maksymilian...](/pictures/thumb/52311_1.jpeg?v=1663704673)
Warsaw: Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza, 1946. Octavo (17 × 11.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 80 pp. Partially unopened and uncut. Signed and inscribed by the author to Tadeusz Kwiatkowski. Very good. First edition. A collection of poems by the Polish-Jewish writer, activist, historian, and Holocaust survivor Michał Borwicz (1911–1987). The first part..... 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
![Book ID: 51142 Naše pjesme: svezak II [Our songs: volume II]. Natko Devčić,...](/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