Russia, 1910–1916. Various sizes, both posters and single folded leaves with [4] pp. of text, attractively set in a variety of decorative typefaces and printed on different stock. A sizeable collection of 125 handbills, small posters, and advertising programs for silent film theaters across the Russian Empire, which captures the..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1929. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 103 pp. About very good; light overall wear to wrappers. Uncommon anthology gathering translations of poems by Conrad Aiken, T. E. Hulme, Langston Hughes, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale..... More

[East Berlin, 1990]. Single leaf of A4, with offset-printed text in green ink to recto. Very good. Early broadside of this important appeal, probably printed in East Germany in January 1990 (judging from a printer's mark at lower left). The declaration states the key goals of the eponymous group, which..... More

Petrograd (St. Petersburg): Izdanie pravleniia Obshchestva arkhitektorov khudozhnikov, 1914. Quarto (30 × 20 cm). Original decorative cloth-backed wrappers; 1–52; 156; 53–100 pp. on coated stock. Illustrations, including some color plates. Light soil and fading to wrappers; spine shaken and starting at lower left corner; else good. Single volume of a...... More

St. Petersburg: Izdanie pravleniia Obshchestva arkhitektorov khudozhnikov, 1913. Quarto (30 × 20 cm). Original decorative cloth-backed wrappers; 1–56; 251; 57–106 pp. on coated stock. Illustrations, some in color. Light soil and fading to wrappers; creases to upper right corner; binding shaken; starting at extremities; still good. Single volume of a...... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe uchebno-pedagogicheskoe izd-vo, 1931. Octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers 38, [2] pp. with 41-47, [1] pp. With an 8-pp. dictionary supplement folded and laid in as issued. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; some chipping to corners of wrappers; still about very good. Intended for the..... More

[Czech Republic]: Historický ústav ČSAV, 1968. A4, loosely inserted mimeographed typescript text to rectos and versos, in black paper folder, as issued; [2], III, 464 pp. Very good. Apparently a samizdat reproduction of the banned documentation of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which put a sudden end to..... More

Berlin: various publishers, 1976–83. Various formats, octavos to folios (21 × 10 to 47 × 31.5 cm). Overall good or better. This group gives insight into how the city administration and rent-political organizations deal with the activism and political demands of the squatter scene in Berlin. It contains issues of..... More

Berlin: self-published, [1973–74]. Folios ( 43 × 31 cm). Two original pictorial wrappers, one of them staple-stitched; 10; 8 pp. With Illustrations. Horizontal crease; upper and lower margins perforated; paper somewhat toned; else very good. Very rare document of the Berlin squatter scene. What is striking is the plain design..... More

Berlin: self-published, 1981. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Single leaf, printed recto and verso. With Illustration. Slightly stained; else good or better. The TUWAT congress ("tuwat" colloquially stands for the call to do something) followed three years after the TUNIX congress ("tunix" colloquially stands for the call to do nothing)..... More

Berlin: Oktoberdruck, 1981. Square octavo (18.9 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [2], 118 pp. With numerous photographic illustrations. Very good. This publication juxtaposes reports from squatters with articles in the press, documenting conflicts with the police. In this way, the book is an extensively annotated press anthology on the..... More

Prague: Český fond výtvarných umění, 1964. Octavo (20.5 × 15 cm). Staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [12] pp. Very good; final leaf lightly creased. Exhibition catalog of Bohdan Lacina with seven reproductions, a prose poem by the surrealist writer Ludvík Kundera and a preface by Jan Tomeš. The artist was an early..... More

Sofia: Proletizdat Alfa, 1931. Octavo (23.2 × 15.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, signed "K. K."; 48 pp. Very light wear; small postal address label to rear wrapper; very good. Double issue of the Bulgarian socialist journal, which was initially subtitled a "monthly journal for workers' education, organization, and struggle." It..... More