Paris: Izdanie Tsentral’nogo Komiteta (A. Gnatovskii), 1909. Octavo (20.7 × 14.5 cm). Original orange printed wrappers; 484 pp. In later red cloth portfolio, with gilt title to front board. Wrappers somewhat discolored; tear to first leaf; else very good. First edition of speeches and other proceedings from the Congress, which..... More

Geneva: Tipografiia gruppy starykh narodovol’tsev, 1899. Small octavo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Very good or better. Written by one of the first peasant organizations, “The brotherhood for protection of the people’s rights,” this brochure calls for peasants to organize themselves to fight for their..... More

Geneva: Izdanie "Soiuza Russkikh Sotsial'demokratov"; Mr. Rabkine, 1901. 12mo (15.5 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 34 pp. Stamps of the Boris Nicolaevsky Collection (Hoover), with duplicate deaccession stamp. Light soil to wrappers; some pencil marks to margins, else very good. This pamphlet captures the complex politics within the..... More

St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Shtaba Otd. Korp. Pogran. Strazhi (V. O., u Birzhi), 1914. Octavo (22.8 × 15.5 cm). Original green printed wrappers; 107 pp. Private inventory number to front wrapper; first signature beginning to detach; else about very good. Scarce pamphlet issued to counteract a rising wave of public speculation..... More

Petrograd: Leshtukovskaia parovaia skoropechatnaia P.O. Iablonskogo, 1917. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Wrappers and text evenly toned due to stock; upper left corner of wrapper and text chipped; a tear to rear wrapper and one small perforation. Still about very good. An unlikely political..... More

Paris: izd. Chasovoi, 1931. Octavo (18.5 × 13.5). Original printed wrappers; 170, [6] pp. Illustrations throughout. Very good. In protective mylar. Intended for White émigré military personel, the directory offers an overview of Russian imperial military history, lists the Russian army and naval organisatons operating abroad, their history, locations, and..... More

Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskogo komiteta partii sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov, 1917. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Wrapper lightly chipped else about very good. [Political Literacy for Post-Revolutionary Russia]. Scarce brochure that seeks to educate a literate, but not highly educated, audience about the program of the Socialist Revolutionary..... More

Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Ogni", 1917. Octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 15, [1] pp. A fine copy. First brochure-form publication of an important essay by the Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918), published as part of a series titled "The citizen's library" (Biblioteka grazhdanina). Plekhanov uses writings..... More

Geneva: Izdanie "Soiuza Russkikh Sotsial'demokratov", 1896. 12mo (15.3 × 10.5 cm). Original staple-stitched beige wrappers; 16 pp. Publisher's catalog to wrappers. Stamps of the Boris Nicolaevsky Collection (Hoover), with duplicate deaccession stamp. Very good, save for tear to lower right corner. А report presented by the Union of Russian Social..... More

Petrograd: Biblioteka svobodnoi Rossii, [1917]. Octavos (20 × 12 cm). Original pink printed wrappers; 15, [1] and 16 pp. Very good; one volume uncut and unopened; the other with trace of a book distributor stamp and private inventory number to front wrapper. Two attractive popular pamphlets issued in the days..... More

Paris: Oliver de Serres, 1930. Octavo (24 × 16). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 36, [1] pp. Stamps of Union Des Jeunes Russes Bibliotheke to front wrapper and first page. Front wrapper detached; some light markings in pencil throughout, else about very good. The first publication (one of only two published..... More

Ekaterinoslav: Burevestnik, 1917. Octavo (17 × 12 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers; 23 pp. Some stains and tears to wrappers; rear wrapper detached from block; internally good or better. A satirically intoned brochure exposing the injustice of land and labor distribution in the Russian Empire, written by the Russian revolutionary..... More