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
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
Niu Iork [New York]: Izdatelskoi Komissii pri Rabochem Soiuze "Samoobrazovanie"], 1923. First American Edition. First American edition of what Kropotkin's editor Lebedev called “the swan song of the great humanitarian scientist and revolutionist-anarchist, [constituting] as it were, the crowning work and the résumé of all the scientific, philosophical, and sociological..... 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
![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
![Text in Russian] Agitatsionno-Massovoe Iskusstvo: Oformlenie Prazdnestv. I. M BIBIKOVA, N. I....](/pictures/medium/45246.jpg?v=1564697651)
[Moskva: "Iskusstvo" 1984]. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo and oblong octavo (24.5x17cm and the reverse); publisher's cloth lettered in silver foil and orange, housed in pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 289pp. & unpaginated volume of color plates. In Fine condition, housed in a rather worn slipcase. Text almost entirely in Russian, save..... 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 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 York: Basic Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 251pp. Fine, unread copy in barely edge-rubbed jacket. A new-appearing copy. 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
Moskau: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1932. First German Language Edition. The author, an old guard Bolshevik, served as People's Commissar of Enlightenment, stating during the Great Purge that enemies of the Soviet Union should be "squashed like vile vermin" only to be himself arrested and executed in 1937..... 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: Libreria Rossa, N.d. [ca 1919?]. First Edition. Communist tract, issued shortly after the Russian revolution, calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy, with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders (to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie); and the "management of the new society through a...... 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
Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1933. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. 12mo, pictorial wrappers; 48pp. Minor edge-soil; Near Fine. Workers' safety, industrial hygiene, and working hours in Soviet production plants. Striking graphic cover in Social Realist style. More
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, [1928]. First Edition. Small octavo. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 415pp. Covers dusted; text somewhat tanned (not brittle); shallow loss at bottom edge of upper cover; Good or better. Complete record of the XV Congress, with transcripts of speeches by Kyrov, Bukharin, Stalin..... More
![1861 [Revolution in Russia from 1861 to the Latest Events]. COMMUNISTS,...](/pictures/medium/28639.jpg?v=1554414990)
New York: [Iskra], 1917. First Edition. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute account, for Ukrainian-American readers, of events in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917. Unlocated in OCLC or KVK; not held by the State or National Libraries, Moscow; we find a single institutional copy only at the Ukrainian National Library..... More
New York: Various Publishers, Various Dates. 1. N. Lenin (pseud. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov). Zadachi proletariata v nashei revoliutsii : proekt platformy proletarskoi partii (“Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution. A Project of the Party”). N’iu-Iork [i.e. New York]: Russkoi Sotsialisticheskoi Federatsii, 1919. First American printing of a seminal Lenin..... More
Chicago: Charles H Kerr, 1926. First Edition. Positively glowing account of a 1925 tour of the Soviet Union, which the author calls "the most interesting place at the most interesting time of all history." Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 153pp. Fine..... More
