Harbin: Club of Natural Science and Geography, 1941. Quarto (26 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers. pp. 101-106, eleven black and white illustrations on six leaves of plates. Old vertical creases; small nick to lower right corner; alse about very good. Rare Russian-language offprint from "News of the Club of..... More

Prague: Plamja, 1925. Quarto (27 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 47, [7] pp. Cover and seven full-page reproductions of ink drawings by Václav Mašek. About very good; wrappers lightly worn, with some fraying to overlapping edges. This 1925 Czech translation of Russian poet Aleksandr Blok’s “The Twelve” (“Dvenadtsat’”) features..... More

Moscow: V Universitetskoi Tipografii, 1826. Octavo (26 × 18.2 cm). Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; 184 pp. Binding somewhat rubbed; front hinge starting; wear to head of spine. The first volume this Russian-language textbook of Persian, published in two volumes, the first containing a selection of poems, tales, and historical..... More

Shanghai: self-published, 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913..... More

Kyiv: Vydannia "Robitnychoi Gazety", 1918. Octavo (22.6 × 14.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 75 pp. General wear and foxing to wrappers; rust to staples; some fraying to spine; overall good or better. First Ukrainian edition of this important work by Kautsky (1917), translated from the second German edition by Mykhailo..... More

Olomouc: Index, 1938. Octavo (21.2 × 14.7 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 105, [4] pp. Wrappers very lightly worn; upper spine nicked; else very good. First Czech translation of Mehring's first publication in exile, which appeared in Paris in 1934, and contains poems from his books burned by the Nazis, as..... More

Prague: Družstevní Práce, 1935. Octavo (19.8 × 12 cm). Original embossed ochre cloth, orange dust wrappers by Ladislav Sutnar; [8], 115, [2] pp. Frontis drawing by Ferdiš Duša. Light sun-tanning to spine; else very good or better in very good dust jacket. Scarce third book of poems by this Silesian..... More

Moscow: V Sinodal'noi Tipografii, 1837. Third Edition. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers; VII, [2], 95 pp. Good or better; light soil to first two pages; binding starting; wrappers torn along spine. Third edition of this famous anti-Semitic treatise, a medieval Christian apologetic purportedly written in the eleventh..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoe Izdatel'stvo, 1932. Octavo (22.8 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 79, [1] pp. Numerous illustrations, maps, drawings throughout. Uncut and unopened copy; light wear to wrapper edges; scuffing to lower left and upper right corners; partial loss to lower spine strip. Translation into Komi-Permyak language of this..... More

Prague: Nákladem Jana Laichtera, 1904. Octavo (15.2 × 11.3 cm). Original patterned olive cloth; XVI, 316, [3] pp. Spine sun-tanned; a few tiny stains to front board; overall very good. First Czech translation of Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", one of several European translations to appear in the..... More