[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

Prague: Nákladem časopisu Tramp, 1932. Octavo (22 × 15.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated pictorial wrappers; 72, [8] pp. Illustrations throughout. Good or better; overall wear and creasing to wrappers. Scarce document of the "tramping" subculture in interwar Czechoslovakia, which had developed as the local equivalent to the worldwide scouting movement, and..... More

Irkutsk: Tiskem Informačně-osvětového odbobu Ministerstva Vojenství, 1919. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Publisher's printed wrappers; 83 pp. With three folded lithographic plates, loosely inserted, one smaller on regular paper and two larger plates on card stock. Very good. Scarce training manual for the Russian-made "Maksim" machine gun, published by Czechoslovak..... More

Prague: Městský výbor Socialistická Akademie, 1966. Quarto (28.6 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; spine reenforced with cloth (as issued); 77 pp. of typescript to rectos. Owner signature (?) of Volek to front wrapper. Text lightly toned; about very good. Rare volumes of proceedings of a conference held in 1966..... More

[Magdeburg: Evangelische Gemeinde, 1981]. Single leaf, A4, with hectographed text and image to recto and verso. Very good. A scarce survival from the beginnings of East German oppositional activity, much of which emerged from church-related circles. "The position of the Evangelical Church in the GDR permitted East German activists the..... 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

[Berlin: Neues Forum, 1989]. A4, with reproduced computer-printed text to rectos and versos; 12 pp. Very good or better. Very first issue of this rare and influential GDR oppositional bulletin, published in three issues (on November 8, November 31, and December 20, 1989). Founded on September 9–10, 1989 in Grünheide..... 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

Berlin: ad-hoc-Gruppe CDU-Parteitag, 1968. Three single leaves of DIN A4 (30 × 21.5 cm), offset print in brown ink to rectos and versos. Very good. Very uncommon set of three early flyers of the German student protest movement and the so-called APO, or extra-parliamentary opposition, which formed beginning in the..... More

Riga: self-published, 1989. Octavo (19.8 × 14.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 151, 117 pp. (new pagination in reverse order from back). Wrappers lightly worn and soiled; else about very good. Final double issue of the important late-Soviet underground literary and arts-related samizdat journal, published 1987–1989 by Aleksandr Serzhant (born 1953)..... More

Berlin: Dresdner Bank, 1989. Folded map, measuring 63 × 86 cm, folded measurements 31.5 × 21.5 cm. Old creases and light fading to edges; else about very good. Evidently published in November 1989 to welcome East German citizens who were able to visit West Berlin legally after the inner-German border..... More

[Soviet Union]: [self-published], 1970s?. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-cloth over boards, with carbon-copy typescript to rectos and versos: 66, [2] pp. Boards lightly rubbed, else very good or better. A samizdat volume of poems by Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of the best loved poets of the Russian Silver..... 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