Sofia: [Headquarters of the Don Cossack Corps], 1931. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original illustrated self-wrappers; 48, [2] pp. Gift inscription, apparently to General A. P. Arkhangel’skii (1872–1959). Slightly resized; else about very good. The final special issue of the annual White émigré publication “Kazaki zagranitsei”, dedicated to the newly..... More

Geneva: Tipografiia "Soiuza", 1900. Octavo (15.5 × 11 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 32 pp. Light foxing to wrappers, else very good. This pre-revolutionary brochure records the workers’ struggle in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk region of Russia (modern day Ivanovo), which had a large textile industry in the late nineteenth century. The..... More

Geneva: Izdanie soiuza russkikh sotsial’demokratov, 1901. Octavo (15 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 23 pp. Stamp of Hoover Institution B.I. Nicolaevsky Collection to front wrapper. Very good. This Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP) brochure explains the place of the worker in the political structure of the Russian Empire..... More

[Geneva]: Tipografiia partii Sotsialistov-Revoliutsianerov, 1903. Octavo (16.5 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 54 pp. Light soil to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; bottom left corner of front wrapper chipped, still good or better. First edition. А critical pamphlet about agrarian reform proposed by Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP)..... More

London: 1902. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 16-48 pp. per issue. Good to very good, with one issue unopened and uncut. Five issues (of twelve published) of the political supplement to the literary and political journal “Zhizn’” (Life), founded in St. Petersburg in 1897. Literary works by..... More

Moscow: Tip. T-va “Zadruga”, 1917. Octavo (22.5 × 14.8 cm). Original sewn printed wrappers; 14 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled and creased; damp stains to margin; good or better. One of at least two pamphlets published on the issue of whether the future Soviet legislative system should consist of one or..... 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

Paris: B. Barthold (S. P. L'vov), 1910. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original green printed card wrappers; XVI, [3], 187, XVI, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers lightly discolored; spine rubbed and front wrapper nearly detached; internally very good or better, with the tipped-in errata sheet. First edition..... More

Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Ogni", 1917. First edition. Octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 108, [4] pp. of advertisements. A fine copy. Early edition of this work about World War I by the Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918), published as part of a series titled "The citizen's..... More