[Poland]: [Wydawnictwo Polskie], 1986. Octavo (21 × 15.5 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers; 104 leaves mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. With nine photographs reproduced by xerox. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1984 by “Głos”) of this list of Polish political prisoners, published by the Confederation of Independent..... More

[Leningrad, late 1970s]. Original amateur pictorial card binding, with photographs of cats inside wrappers; spine covered with brown tape; 12, [1] leaves of typescript to rectos. About very good. A curious homemade samizdat volume containing the long-form poem "By right of memory" by Aleksandr T. Tvardovskii (1910–1971). Although a party..... More

Wydawnictwo im. Odwilży Pażdziernikowej, [1986?]. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original illustrated side-stapled wrappers; 167 leaves mimeographed to rectos and versos. Very good. An early Polish underground edition of the 1982 novel “Homo Sovieticus”, by the controversial thinker, philosopher, sociologist, novelist and political commentator Aleksndr Zinov’ev (1922–2006). A public intellectual..... More