Eastern Europe / Soviet Bloc from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Trade issue. Octavo; textured, printed card wrappers; 29pp. Publisher's prospectus laid in. A Fine, apparently unread copy. Poems translated from the Lithuanian. Geda, who died in 2008, was one of Lithuania's most prolific 20th century poets as well as a leading spokesman for Lithuanian independence. There was a simultaneous limited… Read more about this item

North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 2002. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 224p. Fine. In original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $24 on front flap), Fine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1961. First American. and First Edition in English. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Turquoise cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 272pp. A tight, straight copy, just about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap); lightly rubbed at extremities and with a few spots of foxing to lighter portions,… Read more about this item

New York: The Hour Publishers, 1952. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 16pp. Mild external soil; Very Good or better. Exposé of one of the major intelligence leaks of the early Cold War, which resulted when Major General Robert W. Grow, at this time the Military Attaché to the U.S. Embassy at Moscow, allowed his… Read more about this item

Chicago: Nakladem Narodne Socialni Besedy J.V. Fri [National Socialist Educational Club J. V. Fric] / Jaroslav T. Tittelbaum, N.d. (ca 1916). 16mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 32pp. Slight toning and wear; Very Good. Jaroslave V. Tittelbaum listed as agent on rear wrapper. Collection of patriotic songs honoring the Czechoslovak Legion in the First World War.Text entirely… Read more about this item

Moscow: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländerischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1934. First Edition. Tall octavo (25cm). Four issues bound in taupe library buckram, titled in gilt; original card wrappers bound in; 617,[1]pp; publisher's ads at rear of each issue. Text in German. Sound and clean, with slight rubbing to corners: Very Good or better. German-language issues of the Soviet theoretical… 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.

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.

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1954. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 15pp. Ex-Yakima Valley Junior College with their usual markings, extremities a bit worn, upper cover toned to grey; Good to Very Good overall. Transcript of an NBC radio discussion on the history of immigration in America by George Bobrinskoy, Peter Hryhorowycz,… Read more about this item

Moscow: Progress Publishers, [1972]. First English Language Edition. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's olive wrappers lettered in black and white; 116pp. Light shelf wear, rear cover a bit toned along extremities, else Very Good overall. "This pamphlet tells how Ota Šik revised the basic categories of Marxist-Leninist political economy...and how this revision was used by the Right forces as a… Read more about this item