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
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
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
![Book ID: P002328 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
![Book ID: P5338 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
[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
![Book ID: P5594 Mit’ki gazeta [Mit’ki newspaper], no. 9, 1993. "Kinematograficheskii...](/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