Irkutsk: Tiskem Informačně-osvětového odboru československéjo vojska na Rusi, 1920. Octavo (18.5 × 11.8 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 22 pp. Very good; text evenly toned. Scarce volume published for Czech Legion troops following their famous anabasis during the Russian Civil War, from 1915 to 1919, just prior to shipping out for..... More

Irkutsk: Tiskem Informačně-osvětového odboru československého vojska na Rusi, 1919. Octavo (17.2 × 10.5 cm). Publisher's printed wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. This pamphlet reproduces the (slightly abridged) stenographic report of the first parliamentary meeting of the free Czechoslovak National Assembly in November of 1918, after it had formally proclaimed independence..... More

West Berlin: Verlag R. Herzog, 1970. Oblong octavo (13.8 × 20.5 cm). Original yellow wrappers with two stickers printed on pink stock affixed to front and rear wrapper; 55 pp, with 34 full-page illustrations. About very good; faint creasing to wrappers; wrapper labels becoming unglued. Apparently translated from English, this..... More

Berlin: [1989]. Folded leaf, measuring 29.8 × 42 cm, folded measurements 29.8 × 21 cm. Very good. This map was evidently published in December 1989 to inform both East and West Berlin residents about the impending integration of the East Berlin transit system into the West Berlin U-Bahn, S-Bahn, and..... More

Various formats and sizes, see complete list for details. Overall about very good. This collection of thirty-five publications and periodical issues (and a total of twenty-three different titles) documents the phenomenon of the Polish “Prasa konspiracyjna,” as the underground press of World War II has become known. Throughout the war..... More

Prague: Jazzová sekce, 1986. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original offset-printed wrappers (printed as A4 with wrap-around illustration); 55, [1] pp. of reproduced typescript. Very good. Issued as Dokumenty (Documents), no. 4, this volume contains a "summary of the results of the questionnaire on the current culture situation and the..... More

[Berlin]: Frauenbefreiungsfront, [probably 1970]. Leaftlet measuring 10.5 × 30.6 cm, printed in red to recto. Very slightly stained; else very good. Presumably a leaflet from the early days of the RAF. It is claimed that the leaflet was distributed during Ulrike Meinhof's funeral. However, we have no reliable sources for..... More

Vilnius: self-published (but printed in St. Petersburg by Akts. Obshch. Tipogr. Diela), [1906 or 1907?]. Octavo (20.5 × 13 cm). Staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; [4], 5-23, [1] pp. With six leaves of plates, one illustration in the text, and one centerfold. Printed on fine paper stock. Trace of wear and light..... More

Rimini, Italy: Vydavnytstvo "Zhyttia v tabori" (Life in the camp); Ukrains'kyi tabor polonenykh, 1946. Octavo (20.7 × 15.3 cm). Original (?) crude linen binding, with pictorial front wrapper affixed to board; mimeographed decorative title leaf, IV, 102 pp., with [4] pictorial mimeographed section dividers. Lacking the final unnumbered leaf with..... More

Group of six catalogs by the Lacoste group, a Brno-based association of post-war Czech surrealist artists, who also issued a samizdat art periodical entitled Styx between 1966 and 1969. See the list below for detailed descriptions. 1. Svědectví prázdného ticha. Leták skupiny Lacoste u příležitosti československé výstavy pařížských surrealistů [Evidence..... More

[Soviet Union]: self-published, ca. 1975–85. Small folios (19–21 × 14–15 cm. each). Original cloth and patterned buckram bindings; [3], 212, [1]; [3], 143; [3], 216, [1]; 20, [1], 14, [1] 17, [2], 52, [1], 20, [2], 19, [3], 15, [2], 14, [2], 12, [2], 12, [2], 14, [2], 14, [2]..... More

Berlin: Eden-Saloon, [1961–62]. Octavo (21 × 14.6 cm). Original staple-stitchd pictorial wrappers; 24 pp. Last leaf lightly stained and creased; else very good. An unrecorded memento of one of the most colorful chapters of post-war West Berlin, this privately published journal was distributed to guests of Rolf Eden's "Eden Saloon,"..... More

Łódź: Pomaranczowa Alternatywa Miasto, 1989. Octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [4] pp. Xerox-illustrated throughout. Very good or better. A punk-inspired zine by the Łódź branch of Pomarańczowa Alternatywa [Orange Alternative], an anti-communist, quasi-political performance art movement which reached its peak of activity in 1985–1989. Issues of the..... More