V.p. 1905-1910. 1. Leone, Enriko [Enrico Leone]. Sindikalizm. [Moscow: Pechatnoe Delo, 1907.] viii,174pp. First Russian edition, published the same year as the first Italian edition, translated by G. Kirdetsoca. Leone, a journalist and economist, was one of the top Italian national syndicalists. His current work outlines the history and theories... More
London: Tate Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm x 23cm). Pictorial glossy card wrappers (paperback); 190pp; illus. Near Fine copy; soiling to textblock; general shelf wear, else fine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism" held 12 February-17 May 2009 at the Tate Modern, London;... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1944]. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket by Kurt Werth; [6],358pp. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, top textblock edge a bit dust-soiled, else Very Near Fine. "A Novel of Russia" (upper jacket panel), by a British author of... More
![Training for the Godless Ministry [Life in Soviet Russia, no. 6]. Paul B. ANDERSON, eds.](/pictures/medium/42690.jpg?v=1540505819)
[Paris: Russian Orthodox Theological Institute, 1934]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 47pp. Minor wear and dust-soil, else Very Good or better. One in a series of portraits of contemporary Soviet life published by the Russian Orthodox Theological Institute in the 1930s. The point of view, as one might... More
San Francisco: Farallon Press, 1931. First, Limited Edition. The author, a hydroelectric engineer, presents the results of his first-hand survey of Soviet electrification projects in 1930. He concludes that Individualism has and will continue to trump Collectivism on the path to progress. Well-illustrated with halftones and three mounted color plates... More
Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1987. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial thick card wrappers; French flaps; 262pp; illus. Spine a trifle sunned (still perfectly legible) else a tight, Near Fine copy free of markings or significant wear. Catalog of a 1987 exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial coth boards, stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 210pp; decorated endpapers; illus. Ownership signature in ink to front endpaper, else a tight, fine, unmarked copy. In an indifferent example of the pictorial dustwrapper, spine-toned, soiled... More
![The Russian Revolution [...] A Narrative and a Guide for Reading. R. Page ARNOT.](/pictures/medium/30091.jpg?v=1529353625)
[London]: Labour Research Department, [1923]. Second Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original green staplebound wrappers; 35pp. Wrappers separated and exceedingly brittle with browning and shallow losses throughout extremities, interior fine. Good only overall. Syllabus Series No. 6. Brief overview of the Revolution from the communist standpoint with a new preface. See SMELE... More
London: Academy Editions, 1995. Revised edition. Quarto; black cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 228pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy in fine jacket. Scholarly monograph, well-illustrated, on Bakst's Art Nouveau set and costume designs for the Ballets Russes. This is a revised and updated edition of Spencer's 1973 work of the same title. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in cream decorative price-clipped dust jacket printed in black and fuscia, top edge stained red; xiii,[5],445pp. Jacket spine toned with narrow 2-inch dampstain, spine ends a bit rubbed, else a Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Historical... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth, spine label printed on orange stock; green pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],275pp. Extremities rather dust-soiled, especially to top textblock edge, jacket spine a hint faded and rather cockled from damp. Very Good in About Very Good jacket... More
![The Twelve [Limited Edition, Signed by the Illustrator]. Alexander BLOK, Babette Deutsch, trans Abraham Yarmolinsky, lithographs George Biddle, trans Abraham Yarmolinsky.](/pictures/medium/27735.jpg?v=1529353555)
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931. First Thus. Deluxe edition of Blok's epic poem of the October Revolution which sold over two million copies in Russia within a year of its publication. This is a revision of the original English translation, first published in The Freeman in 1920. The illustrator... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, n.d. [ca. 1932]. First American Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original blue and red decorative staplebound wrappers; 32pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Fine. Forms part of the Brief Biography Series. Brief biography of the Bolshevik Party leader Yakov Sverdlov (1885-1919). More
New York: Rizzoli International, 1988. First American Edition. Quarto. Black cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 400pp; illus. Tight, fine copy in barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper, very Near Fine. English-language translation of a work that first appeared in France in 1987. Exceptionally well-illustrated monograph. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Quarto. Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xviii, 506pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in bright, unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy, but lacking the publisher's card slipcase. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Quarto. Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xviii, 506pp; illus. Fine copy in bright, unworn dustwrapper and publisher's card slipcase. About as-new. More
New York: Basic Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 251pp. Fine, unread copy in barely edge-rubbed jacket. A new-appearing copy. More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1970. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 64pp. Mild ex-library markings (hand-stamp and accession number to last page), else a Near Fine, unmarked copy. More
New York: Soviet Russia Today, 1939. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 64pp. Bit of external dusting, else a Fine, unmarked copy. Pro-Soviet propaganda following the Finnish invasion of November, 1939. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. Volume in which Eastern and Western scholars "draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this... More
Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1900. First Edition. A massive study of Imperial Russian politics, with much on the Russo-Japanese War, the ascension of Nicholas II, and the growth of Russian nihilism. Illustrated throughout with halftones and relief engravings. A really stunning copy of a book which is typically found in... More
New York: Dial Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi,[2],308pp. Very light wear to jacket extremities, some rather heavy dust-soil to spine and rear panel, else a Very Good or better, quite tight copy. Quite uncommon novel of a White Russian who flees Soviet... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition. "Dispassionate" interpretation of Soviet culture, by a long-time Moscow correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Octavo. Tan cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 321pp. Near fine, unmarked copy in the original dustwrapper, lightly worn at edges; Very... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1931. Staple-bound pamphlet; 18pp. Wear to corners, pencil to cover sunned along edges, else a clean and sound copy. More
Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States, 1919. First American Edition. Probable first printing in America of Trotsky's account of the October revolution. English editions appeared the same year in London and Brooklyn, but it is likely that this German-language version, translated from the Russian by German-American... More
