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1861 [Revolution in Russia from 1861 to the Latest Events]

1861 [Revolution in Russia from 1861 to the Latest Events]

by [COMMUNISTS] " . - " [pseudonym?]

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New York: [Iskra], 1917. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary exile newspaper. 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, Kiev.
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30 Lat Ludowego Wojska Polskiego w Twórczo ci Plastycznej

30 Lat Ludowego Wojska Polskiego w Twórczo ci Plastycznej

by RUDZINSKI, Andrzej, ed.; Zbigniew Flisowski, text

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Warszawa: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1975. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 8pp. & [80] leaves of plates, many in color. Light edge wear, else Near Fine. Multi-lingual guide to the plates in Russian, French, English, and German laid in. Polish exhibition catalog of artistic representations of the Army.
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America, Italy and the Birth of Yugoslavia (1917-1919) [Inscribed and Signed]

America, Italy and the Birth of Yugoslavia (1917-1919) [Inscribed and Signed]

by ŽIVOJINOVI , Dragan R.

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Boulder: East European Quarterly, 1972. First English Language Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's boards in orange printed dust jacket; 338pp. Boards and jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn, jacket spine significantly sunned with coin-sized loss at foot; Very Good only overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on front flyleaf with recipient's rubberstamp ex libris to front free endpaper.
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Amerikán: Národní Kalendár na rok 1900. S Mnoha Obrázky Vážného i Žertovného Obsahu. Ro...

Amerikán": Národní Kalendár na rok 1900. S Mnoha Obrázky Vážného i Žertovného Obsahu. Ro ník XXIII

by [FOREIGN LANGUAGE IMPRINTS - CZECH]

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Chicago: Tiskem a Nákladem Aug. Geringera, 1899. First Edition. Octavo (26cm.); original color lithograph wrappers; 240pp.; double frontispiece, illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities chipped and a bit dog-eared with loss at both spine ends slightly affecting upper cover, extremities a bit toned, else Good to Very Good. Text entirely in Czech. Czech-American literary almanac, including a daily calendar, cartoons, poetry, jokes, short stories, and articles on major events of the year, in this case the ongoing Dreyfus Affair and the Philippine-American War. Short stories includes tales set among the early Czech settlers of Texas, Nebraska, and Chicago. Uncommon item in the lovely color lithographic wrappers signed "Nádherny" in image.
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Amerikán: Národní Kalendár na rok 1914. Se 105 Vyobrazeními Vázného i Žertovného Obsahu....

Amerikán: Národní Kalendár na rok 1914. Se 105 Vyobrazeními Vázného i Žertovného Obsahu. Rošník XXXVII

by [FOREIGN LANGUAGE IMPRINTS - CZECH]

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Chicago: Nákladem a tiskem Aug. Geringera, 1913. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); original color lithograph wrappers;338,[26](ads)pp.; illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities chipped with shallow one-inch loss to fore-edge of upper cover, spine crown chipped, a few interior leaves dog-eared, else Good to Very Good. Text entirely in Czech. Czech-American literary almanac, including a daily calendar, cartoons, poetry, jokes, short stories, and articles on major events of the year, among these the Great Dayton Flood of 1913. Literary content includes tales set among the early Czech settlers of Texas and the Czech upper crust in New York. Uncommon item in the lovely color lithographic wrappers signed "Nádherny" in image.
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Arizona: Román

Arizona: Román

by PAULIK, Jaroslav Jan; Frantisek Muzika, cover design

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Praha: Aventinum, 1928. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-montaged card wrappers printed in black and green; 159pp. Light shelf wear to wrapper extremities, tiny chip at bottom spine edge of upper cover, minor dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Designed by the prolific Surrealist Czech designer Frantisek Muzika (1900-1974), the art director of Aventinum from 1927 until the publisher's folding in 1934, during which period he would provide the designs for nearly one hundred titles (see Jindrich Toman, Foto-Montáž Tiskem / Photo-Montage in Print (2009), p. 196).
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Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]

Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]

by [ARMENIA] VSKO IL, Kamil (photographs); Ludmila Motalová and Milan Piovar i, text

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Yerevan: Pallas, 1976. First Edition. Quarto. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 131,(2)pp; chiefly illus. Prospectus laid in. Fine copy in slightly edgeworn jacket, still Very Good or better. Photographic survey of the smallest Soviet republic. Text entirely in Armenian, though the Prospectus includes an introduction in four languages including English.
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Banje I Ljecilista - Bosne I Hercegovine [The Spas and Sanatoria of Bosnia-Herzegovina]

Banje I Ljecilista - Bosne I Hercegovine [The Spas and Sanatoria of Bosnia-Herzegovina]

by [GRAPHICS - BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA] Anonymous artist

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Np:nd [Sarajevo?, ca 1940s]. Original machine-lithographed poster in colors, 38" x 27". Horizontal fold at center. On thin paper, toned and slightly weak a centerfold and margins; B. A dramatic and handsome post-war Bosnian poster promoting the health-resorts of the newly-formed state, along with the treatments associated with each. Among the place-names listed are some that would become infamous during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s, such as Srebenice and Sarajevo.
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Bedrichuv Neprítel [Bedrich's Enemy]

Bedrichuv Neprítel [Bedrich's Enemy]

by SHELDON, C.M.

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Pittsburgh: Tiskem "Slavonic and English Printing Co., n.d., ca. 1910s. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's green decorative staplebound wrappers; 29pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Wrappers darkened along extremities with a number of small, shallow losses not affecting text, rear wrapper rather soiled, else Near Very Good, interior about fine. Short Slovak-American moral tale published for the Presbyterian Committee of the Presbytery of Pittsburgh. Apparently unrecorded: we find no copies in OCLC as of July, 2017, nor any in the NUC.
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British Policy Towards Wartime Resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece

British Policy Towards Wartime Resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece

by AUTY, Phyllis and Richard Clogg, eds

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New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket, red topstain; xii,308pp. Minor spotting to top edge of text block, otherwise a clean, unmarked, tight copy. Some shelf wear to jacket and boards, mild soiling to back cover of dust jacket. Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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Budapest Világváros [Text in Hungarian]

Budapest Világváros [Text in Hungarian]

by JALSOVSZKY, Katalin and Em ke Tomsics; Péter Hanák, forew

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Budapest: Helikon, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (29cm); burgundy paper-covered boards, no dustwrapper; 172pp. Some surface wear, mild scratches, dings to boards; interior clean and tight; Near Fine. A chronicle, in text and b/w photo-illustrations, of Austria-Hungary's newly formed capital city Budapest at the turn of the 20th century, and its development into a world city ("világváros") before war and revolution irrevocably altered the landscape both geographically and culturally. All text in Hungarian.
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Caught: The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic

Caught: The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic

by KUEHN, Karl Gernot

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Berkeley: University of California Press, [1997]. First Edition. Small quarto (22.75cm.); original cloth in cream photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[1],305pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit wrinkled and somewhat dust-soiled, more heavily so to rear panel, very slight lean to spine, short closed tear mid-panel not affecting text or image, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket.
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Chicago Blues / Tsikago Blus [Inscribed & Signed]

Chicago Blues / Tsikago Blus [Inscribed & Signed]

by SOFRONIEVA, Tzveta

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Sofia: Divit Books / Free Poetic Foundation, 1992. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.75cm.); publisher's blue pictorial wrappers; 71pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit creased from handling, previous owner's ink notes on last page, else Very Good and sound. Errata slip laid in. Inscribed and signed on half title: "To Professor Hiebert, and for your family, and thank you for who you are, from the author Tzveta / Cambridge, MA 9th of Dec. 1992." Bilingual poetry collection in Bulgarian and English.
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Cholera

Cholera

by [CZECH AVANT-GARDE] DELTAILE, Joseph

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Prague: Jan Fromek; Odeon, 1926. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Illustrated wrappers by Josef Sima; 101pp. Moderate rubbing and wear, with a touch of irregular fading to wrappers; Very Good. Produced in an edition of 1000 copies, with a cover by Josef Sima and a title-page designed by Karel Teige. This was the first of Deltaile's books to appear in Prague, and was the 17th volume in Fromek's "Odeon" series. DANA 22. PRIMUS 39.
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Christian Values and the Settlement of the Minorities Problem

Christian Values and the Settlement of the Minorities Problem

by [SOCIETY OF FRIENDS] CAPPER-JOHNSON, Karlin

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London: Friends Peace Committee, 1945. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper self-wrappers; 16pp. Very Good, with mild spotting to wrappers. "A Christian pacifist comment" on the Yalta Conference and the division of eastern Europe after WW2.
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A Collection of 18 pieces of Yugoslavian nationalist partisan sheet music

A Collection of 18 pieces of Yugoslavian nationalist partisan sheet music

by [SONGBOOKS] [YUGOSLAVIA]

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V.p., 1946-1947. 18 volumes, all large quartos. Very Good to Fine. Includes titles from the songbook series "Partizanske Pjesme: (nos. 1-8, all located in the British Library only in OCLC) and "Nova Pjesma" (see nos. 10-16, uniformly bound in red pictorial wrappers; none located in OCLC). 1. Hercigonja, Nikola. Partizanska [with] Budi Se Istok I Zapad. Zagreb: Nakladni Zavod Hrvatske, 1946. Second edition. Bifolium; grey pictorial upper cover. 2. Krnic, Boris. Eto Ide Omladina. Zagreb: Nakladni Zavod Hrvatske, 1946. Second edition. Bifolium; brown pictorial upper cover. 3. Hercigonja, Nikola. Naša Pjesma [text in Cyrillic] Nasha Pesma. Ruski prevod S. Bolotina - Obradba G. Šneerson. Zagreb: Nakladni Zavod Hrvatske, 1946. Bifolium; blue pictorial upper cover lettered in navy blue. 4. Saka , Branimir. Zdignete brati [with] N. Hercigonja. Selja ka. Zagreb: Nakladni Zavod Hrvatske, 1946. Bifolium; orange pictorial upper cover lettered in brown. 5. Hercigonja, Nikola. Crveni Makovi. Obradio,… Read More
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Commemorative Photo Album of the 50th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
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Commemorative Photo Album of the 50th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution

by [PHOTOGRAPHY - EASTERN EUROPE / SOVIET BLOC]

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Druskininkai, Lithuania, 1968. Large oblong folio (30x41.50cm.); commemorative postbound photo album of brown blind-embossed cloth; [29] grey card leaves to which are mounted 30 original photographs measuring ca.15x24cm (or the inverse) to 30x24cm, all captioned in neat manuscript Russian, though the opening statement on front pastedown in manuscript Lithuanian of the same hand. Corners a bit bumped, pastedown endpapers starting to peel from boards, light occasional soil to leaves, else Very Good, the photographs all in fine condition. Collection of neatly compiled but rather amateurish photographs taken during the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution celebration in the Lithuanian spa town of Druskininkai, featuring members of both the military, the Young Leninists (Komsomol), and the Pioneers. The earliest photos show the visit of Anna Vasil'evna, mother of the fallen hero Petr Naboichenko at the company with which he served, her face shown weeping before an oversized portrait of her son.… Read More
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Complete Set of Twenty World's Fair Souvenir Postcards from the Exhibition The Glorious Days of...
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Complete Set of Twenty World's Fair Souvenir Postcards from the Exhibition "The Glorious Days of the Polish-American Fraternity

by [GRAPHICS] SZYK, Arthur

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[Kraków: Drukarnia Narodowa, 1939]. First Edition. Twenty color postcards all measuring 15x10.5cm or the inverse; all in Fine, postally unused condition. Explanatory text printed on versos in English and Polish. The set reproduces twenty of the artist's twenty-three miniature paintings commissioned by the Polish foreign office for the Polish pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Each image, including portraits of George Washington and Woodrow Wilson, conveys "Polish-American connections...and contributions of Polish people in America" (Ansell, p. 101). The collection is comprised of the following pieces (in approximate chronological order, though beginning with the lead painting, the portrait of George Washington):. 1. "George Washington." 2. "Jan z Kolna." 3. "The Polish pioneers in Virginia in the 17-th Century." 4. "Olbracht Zaborowski (Zabriskie)." 5. "Karol B aszkowicz." 6. "Tadeusz Ko ciuszko." 7. "Ko ciuszko constructing the fortifications of Saratoga." 8. "Felix Miklaszewicz." 9.… Read More
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Con L'Armata Rossa / Pri Rde i Armadi [With the Red Army] - Three Early Underground Printings...
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Con L'Armata Rossa / Pri Rde i Armadi [With the Red Army] - Three Early Underground Printings from Slovenian Partisan Presses

by DJILAS, Milovan

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V.p., v.i., [1944]. Three separate underground printings - two in Slovenian, one in Italian - of Djilas's propagandistic homage to the Soviet Red Army, written in the final months of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. The essay was originally published in Serbo-Croatian, as Sa Crvenom Armijom. Uniform minor wear and age-toning; all three Very Good or better. 1. Djilas. Con L'Armata Rossa. [Strojenika pri Storpniku: Doberdob, 1944]. Octavo (20.5cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 20pp. Front wrapper with linocut illustration in three colors. Italian-language translation. Text printed from type. 2. Djilas. Pri Rde i Armadi. [near Idrija, Gorenjsko, Slovenia: Špik, 1944]. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 30pp. Linocut illustration to front wrapper, printed in red ink. Text mimeographed. 3. Djilas. Pri Rde i Armadi. Place of publication unknown [but Slovenia: ca 1944]. Octavo (20cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 28pp. Front wrapper illustrated by stencil… Read More
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A Concise History of Poland

A Concise History of Poland

by LUKOWSKI, Jerzy and Hubert Zawadzki

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo. Pictorial paper covered boards; xvii, 317pp. Minor foxing to top edge of textblock, trivial shelf wear to boards, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Fine. In publisher's series "Cambridge Concise Histories.
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