A first-hand account of the significant fight on Culp's Hill from the Battle of Gettysburg, unsigned but likely written by Captain C.P. Horton, Assistant Adjutant-General of the 149th New York Volunteers, being a 7-page handwritten letter in which Horton describes the events of the battle; sold together with a large..... More
Small collection of documents pertaining to the Amsterdam branch of the Bureau de Recherches Surrealistes, 10 items in total, including: 'Surrealistische Ontmoetingen", a stapled booklet with five pages of text, printed recto only, containing a text by Her de Vries about an exhibition of Dutch Surrealists held in Leiden, the..... More
![Lettre-journal de Paris: gazette des absents [Letter-newspaper of Paris: gazette of absentees],...](/pictures/thumb/51691_001.jpg?v=1651004404)
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
N.p.: 1872. N.p., [1872], single folded leaves measuring 20.5 × 14 and 19 × 12.5 cm. Very good. Two holograph letters containing a polite request to be introduced to “Her Majesty the Queen” before Tolstoy’s return to St. Petersburg. “N’ayant pas eu le plaisir de vous trouver a à la..... More
![Rváč [Rvach; The Grabber]. Ilja Erenburg, Il'ia Ehrenburg](/pictures/thumb/P002328_1.jpg?v=1591104723)
Prague: Aventinum, 1926. First Czech Edition. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [6], 405, [2] pp. Signed by Erenburg, in pencil, on the front fly leaf, with the former owner's note in ink below indicating that this copy was signed after a lecture at the Umělecká beseda; a...... More
![Cataclismo en los ojos [Cataclysm in the eyes]. Enrique Gómez Correa](/pictures/thumb/P5338.jpg?v=1586859063)
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mandragora, 1942. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed red glazed paper-covered card wrappers; 45 [42 sic!], [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Wrappers lightly sun-tanned; else about very good. First edition of the important Chilean’s book of poems, who has been called the..... More
Hyères, France: February 9, 1948. Single folded leaf, two pages of text written in blue ink; old creases, else very good. An interesting, substantial letter to an unnamed recipient ("Doctor"), concerning a planned exhibition of his works in Prague. Kubín confirms his enthusiasm, inquires about the catalog, and describes the..... More
Paris and Wiesbaden: 1921-23. Eight single leaves, some folded. Very good, with exception of one letter, with tear and some loss to text. The son of Lev Tolstoy, Lev L’vovich Tolstoy was a firm believer in his father’s ideals in his youth, but later became increasingly opposed to his philosophical..... More
![Plusquamperfectum. Poviest' proshedshikh liet [A novella about bygone times]. Mikhail...](/pictures/thumb/50588_1.jpg?v=1587752465)
[Berlin, July 1927]. Quarto. Original blind wrappers; 41 pp. of reproduced typescript to rectos and versos. Occasional corrections in red pencil. About very good. Apparently unrecorded manuscript of a novella by this little known Russian writer and dramaturg (1875–after 1935). Having graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, Popello-Davydov founded the arts..... More
Grodno: 1796. February 22, 1796. Original signed manuscript letter on single sheet of laid paper (ca. 36 x 25 cm), folded once vertically; 4 pp. Additional old fold lines; near fine. Nicholas Repnin was one of the foremost Imperial Russian statesmen of the eighteenth century, second in fame only to..... More
![Mit’ki gazeta [Mit’ki newspaper], no. 9, 1993. "Kinematograficheskii vypusk"...](/pictures/thumb/P5594_1.jpg?v=1593782556)
St. Petersburg: Uchrediteli khudozhniki gruppy Mit’ki, 1993. Quarto (30 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; offset-printed text and images; [12] pp. (consecutive pagination: 085-096). Very good or better. Later issue of this periodical issued by the “Mit'ki” (meet-KEE), the "cinematographic issue," with articles by M. S. Trofimenkov ("Seks, lozh'..... More