Eastern Europe / Soviet Bloc from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: by the Company, N.d. [ca 1924]. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 32pp; illus. Slight aging and wear, mostly to exterior; small scuff into printed area on one text page; one gathering pulled loose from staples, but present. Complete, Good or better. 1924 date stamped at bottom margin of p.12. Text entirely in Russian cyrillic. … Read more about this item

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.

[San Francisco: P.P. Tornich, ca 1922]. Three vintage silver-gelatin prints, approx. 7-1/2" x 9-1/2" (one slightly smaller) on commercial mounts, ca 11" x 14." The prints show mild surface wear but are clean and retain excellent contrast; moderate soiling to mounts; Near Fine. One mount printed with the photographer's address (110 Congo Street, San Francisco) at lower right; one… Read more about this item

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xx,487pp; illus. Translated from the the Hebrew by Ina Friedman. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy in a lightly worn dustwrapper; Near Fine.

London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 376pp. Fine in jacket; inscribed "To Roberto," dated 2013.

Bombay: The Modren [sic] India Publications / Navrashtra Press, N.d. [ca 1948]. Edition and printing not stated. 12mo (15cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 36pp. Mild external wear; text paper toned but not brittle; Very Good. Institutional de-accession stamp at base of final leaf (no other institutional markings). Anti-Stalin analysis of the Eastern European political situation post-WW2, issued by… Read more about this item

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 531pp. Near Fine in lightly toned and edgeworn jacket, VG+. Day-by-day account, by an American journalist, of the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Belgrade: Syndicats Yougoslaves, 1962. 12mo. Staple-bound printed card wrappers; 87pp. Near Fine, with a hint of rubbing to wrappers. Yugoslavian Communist Party pamphlet. Text entirely in French.

London: The British-Polish Society, [1947]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers, 8pp. Text paper age-toned, else Very Good. Statements by two British trade unionists on the state of post-war Polish labor, reported from the 1947 Congress of Technicians, Katowice.

London: I.B. Tauris, 2018. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Paper covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 579pp; illus. Tight, fine and unmarked. In the pictorial dustwrapper, which has a small puncture at upper corner of front panel, otherwise Fine.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1947. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 47pp. Clean and unmarked; brief pencil date to cover, else Near Fine.

Edmonton: Black Cat Press, 1979. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial staple-bound wrappers; 12pp. Near Fine, with old price sticker affixed to front wrapper. On the June, 1976 Protests in Poland, interpreted here as a model for "anti-authoritarian revolutionaries everywhere.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. First English Language Edition. Octavo (23cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; x,284pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy in unworn dustwrapper; appears new. First English-language edition; the work was originally published in Russian in 1950.

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.

[Paris: De l'Imprimerie du Magazin Encyclopédique, n.d., ca. 1795]. First French Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 24pp. Uncut margins a bit worn and toned, else Very Good and sound. Plaintive letter addressed to the Polish exiles in France in the wake of the Third Partition of Poland, which ended Polish-Lithuanian sovereignty and an independent Polish state until World War… Read more about this item

New Haven: Don't Hold Back, N.d. [1980]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 50pp. Illus. Account of the 1980 Gdansk strike and the birth of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement.

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.

Prague: Orbis, 1947. Third edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 63pp. Slight external wear and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Very Good.

Belgrade: Publicisti ko-Izdava ki Zavod "Jugoslavija, 1961. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; card wrappers; 45,(3)pp. Text slightly age-toned, else Very Good. Socialist wage policy in Tito-era Yugoslavia.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); 149pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy, near-new.