Petrograd: "Elektropechatnia" Ia. Kovitskogo, 1917. Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on pink stock; 16 pp. Light soil to wrappers; toned due to stock, else very good. Published between the February and October Revolutions of 1917, this ephemeral collection of revolutionary "freedom songs" was released during a period of unprecedented freedom of..... More

Kharkov: Izdanie F. I. Kuzmina, [ca. 1915–1916]. Broadside on purple stock, measuring 55 × 35 cm, printed to recto and verso, with decorative header. Old horizontal and vertical creases; light discoloration; pre-revolutionary stamp of the Imperatorskii Moskovskii Muzei (Moscow State Historical Museum); else about very good. This WWI propaganda poster..... More

St. Petersburg: Tip. "Sever", 1905–06. Quartos (ca. 33 × 23 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 8-16 pp. each. Each issue with numerous black-and-white, and some color, cartoons and drawings and a color title illustration. About very good to very good issues, with the occasional light wear, dust-soiling, and light stamps; only..... More

Prague: Naše vojsko, 1949. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with an illustration by Iurii Annenkov; 66, [2] pp. Fourteen full-page and ten smaller illustrations in the text by Annenkov. Very good; inner front wrapper toned from laid-in newspaper clipping. Uncommon Czech edition of the Russian Symbolist poet..... More

Geneva: Tipografiia gruppy starykh narodovol’tsev, 1899. Small octavo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Very good or better. Written by one of the first peasant organizations, “The brotherhood for protection of the people’s rights,” this brochure calls for peasants to organize themselves to fight for their..... More

Vienna: Peter Gruder and Verein der Freunde der Zeitschrift Liberte, 1980–84. Quartos (30 × 21). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (no. 3 not stapled); 28; 31, [1]; [32]; 32; 32; 32; 31, [1]; 32; 32; 32; 35, [1]; 35, [1]; 23, [1]; 19, [1] pp. (incl. wrappers) with numerous illustrations. Very..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 141, [1] pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; original spine strip lacking and sections of the text beginning to detach; text evenly toned; still good or better. First edition. This curious mix of the history and ethnography..... More

New York: Časopis "Volné Listy" (Tisk L. Cimlera)., 1907. Octavo (23.5 × 15 cm). Original stapled printed wrappers; 40 pp. With a list of other publications by the publisher and a full-page advertisement for the Czech anarchist journal "Volné Listy". Tiny nick to front wrapper, else very good. The first..... More

Irkutsk: Izdanie Informatsionno-prosvietitel'nogo otdiela chekhovoisk (Tip. Bielogolovogo), 1919. Small octavo (16.5 × 10.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Frontis photograph of Masaryk. Also laid in is a folded chromolithographed map of Central Europe, measuring 16.8 × 19.6 cm. Very good. Rare publication in Russian about the Czechoslovak Legion..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel´stvo, 1929. Small octavo (16.5 × 10.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated pictorial wrappers; 90, [5] pp. Spine extremities lightly chipped; small chip to lower corner of front wrapper; light margin markings in pencil to some pages; else still about very good. An anniversary publication of speeches given by Lenin..... More

Moscow-Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Kommunist", 1918. First Edition. Octavo (21.6 × 14.7 cm). Original printed wrappers; 135, [1]. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title; a near fine copy. First edition of this important post-revolutionary work by Lenin, which attacks Kautsky and the Mensheviks for their reactionary views. In particular, Lenin criticizes Kautsky’s..... More

Moscow: Sotsial-demokraticheskoe izdatel'stvo “Dielo”, 1917. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original folded self-wrappers (single folded sheet); 15 pp. Publisher’s catalog to rear wrapper. Partially unopened. Some fraying to edges, else very good. This brochure outlining land reforms proposed by the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) was written by the..... More

Paris: self-published, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 227 pp. Illustrations. Spine extremities lightly frayed; light wear to wrapper edges; still very good. First and only edition of the memoirs of Maria Nesterovich-Berg (1879-??), a White Russian émigré and one of the leaders of the “Union of..... More