![Item #1420 [CONCENTRATION CAMP PASS FOR THE MUSIC TEACHER] Lager-Pass [i.e. Camp Passport] #1923](/pictures/thumb/1420.jpg?v=1660731933)
[Aflenz concentration camp, 1945]. 15x10,5 cm. In original printed covers. Some soiling, otherwise very good. Extremely rare document of the wartime. The Aflenz concentration camp (also known as the Graz-Leibniz subcamp) existed from February 1944 to April 1945 in the Austrian town of Aflenz an der Sulm as..... More
![Item #1433 [FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH ANTI-FASCIST COMMITTEE DURING WARTIME] Brat’ia evrei vsego...](/pictures/thumb/1433.jpg?v=1660815822)
[Moscow]: Gospolitizdat, 1941. 34, [2] pp. 20x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, covers tanned and slightly soiled, pale water stain on lower margin throughout copy, otherwise very good internally. Very rare wartime brochure signed for printing on August 28, 1941. This brochure and the meeting..... More
![Item #1317 [PHOTOMONTAGES OF MILITARY ACTIONS] Frontovaia illiustratsiia [i.e. Frontline...](/pictures/thumb/1317.jpg?v=1634132533)
Moscow: Voenizdat NKO SSSR, 1944-1945. Generally, very good. No back cover of #1, 4 for 1945, tears, creases and stains, small fragments of spines occasionally lost. The organ of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army published in 1942-1960. Titled initially as ‘Frontline illustration’, it was issued after..... More
![Item #978 [RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE DESTROYED BY THE NAZIS] Pamiatniki zodchestva, razrushennie...](/pictures/thumb/978.jpg?v=1591793558)
Volumes 1-2 [all published]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Arkhitekturnoe Izdatelstvo Akademii Arkhitektury SSSR, 1942-1944. Vol 1. 1942. 79 pp.: ill. 22,5x17 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. Vol 2. 1944. 72 pp.: ill. 21,7x17,4 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. The edition was prepared by the Academy of the Architecture of..... More
![Item #1295 [WARTIME EPHEMERA] Tabel’-kalendar’ na 1942 [i.e. 1942 Wall Calendar](/pictures/thumb/1295.jpg?v=1634126491)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1941. Brochure in original illustrated wrappers mounted on illustrated cardboard of 28,5x15,5 cm. Creases and soiling of cardboard, with two pin holes in it, some stains and marks in calendar brochure. Ink inscription on rear side of front cover: “To mother and child from a dad’s New Year’s..... More
![Item #1304 [THE CIVIL WAR] Semen Proskakov: Stihotvornye primechanija k materialam po istorii...](/pictures/thumb/1304.jpg?v=1634128237)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1928. 51 pp., 6 ills. 21x14 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine repaired, some stains, minor tears of edges of oversized covers, p. 3-14 detached from text block, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. The book is written by futurist poet..... More
![Item #1040 [WWI FRONTLINE NOTES MADE BY THE SISTER OF MERCY] Narod na voine: Frontovye zapisi...](/pictures/thumb/1040.jpg?v=1601467453)
Kiev: Izdanie Izd. podotdela Komiteta Iugo-zapadnogo fronta Vseros. Zemskogo Soiuza, 1917. 140 pp. 23x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some tears and soiling of covers, the first and last pages faded, otherwise very good. First edition. Cover design and 7 vignettes were produced by artist Eugeniia Pribyl’skaia (1899-1938)..... More
![Item #1034 [WARTIME CHILDREN’S BOOK] Timur i ego komanda [i.e. Timur and His Squad]. A. Gaidar](/pictures/thumb/1034.jpg?v=1595855375)
Sverdlovsk: 1942. 28, 31-80 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Complete edition with printer’s error of page numbering, oversized cut of p. 33-40, some black typographic stains. In a very good condition, a couple of tears around staple. Extremely rare edition printed in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) during the..... More
![Item #1469 [TREBLINKA CAMP] Treblinker genem = Treblinskii ad [i.e. The Treblinka Hell]. V. Grossman](/pictures/thumb/1469.jpg?v=1660907923)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1945. 88 pp.: ill. 14x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of spine and blank leaves lost, some tears, creases and soiling, otherwise very good. First separate edition. One of 15 000 copies. Translated to Yiddish by B. Kotik. One of the earliest Soviet..... More
![Item #1566 [IN BETWEEN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS] Homin zpoza nas: narysy z zhyttya zviryat [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1566.jpg?v=1669216248)
Lviv: Vohni, 1933. 75 pp. 12.2x17.3 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine, slightly worn. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. Printed in 1933, this is a collection of short stories written by Vasil Karkhut and designed by Stepan Lutsyk. Vasil..... More
![Item #1423 [UFA CITY DURING WORLD WAR II] Front [i.e. The Frontline]. O. Korniychuk](/pictures/thumb/1423.jpg?v=1660732683)
Ufa: Bashgosizdat, 1942. 112 pp. 14x11 cm. In original printed wrappers. Occasional stains on covers and the outer edge of pages, fragments of covers and spine lost, tears of t.p. and front cover, pencil signature T. Sattarov (?) dated May 8, 1943 and placed to p.3 , otherwise very good..... More
![Item #1434 [ON A NON-AGGRESSION PACT BETWEEN NAZIS AND THE SOVIET UNION] O ratifikatsii...](/pictures/thumb/1434.jpg?v=1660815928)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1939. 16 pp.: portr. 20x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Near fine. A copy of the first half of a huge printrun of 10 million copies (as credited). Report of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Viacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) given at a session of the Supreme..... More
![Item #152 [REED'S THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE] Vdol' fronta / Per. s angl. I.V. Sablina i V.F....](/pictures/thumb/152.jpg?v=1475072042)
Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika, 1928. 324, [2] pp. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Small tears of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back cover. 1 of 6000 copies. First translation. Cover design by P. Miturich. Pyotr Vasilievich Miturich (1887-1956), Russian artist. In 1910-1920..... More
![Item #1208 [MINSK GHETTO] Mstiteli getto [i.e. The Avengers of the Ghetto]. H. Smolar](/pictures/thumb/1208.jpg?v=1617186220)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1947. 128 pp: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some soiling of the spine, otherwise near fine. The Russian edition of wartime memoirs ‘Fun Minsker geto’ by Hersh Smolar who was one of the leading members of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto and a...... More
![Item #1209 [THE GREATEST POET OF THE HOLOCAUST] Fun Vilner geto = Vilenskoe Getto [i.e. From...](/pictures/thumb/1209.jpg?v=1617186630)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1946. 256 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original cardboards. Good, covers rubbed and chipped, tear of the spine, stains occasionally. One of 10 000 copies. The laconic design of the book was created by Soviet artist Hersh Inger (1910-1995). In 1926-1930 he studied under Marc Epstein..... More
![Item #149 [COLD WAR ARTIFACT] Pamyatka soldatu i matrosu: Deistviya v usloviyakh primeneniya...](/pictures/thumb/149.jpg?v=1475065424)
Moscow: Voyennoye izd-vo Minesterstva Oborony Soyuza SSR, 1955. 128 pp.: ill. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Small tears of the spine. With a printed stamp on the back cover "Not for sale". The small memo is divided into three sections: 'What you need to know about..... More
![Item #992 [JANUARY OF 1942] Prezrenie k smerti [i.e. The Despite Towards The Death](/pictures/thumb/992.jpg?v=1591800201)
Kazan': Sovetskiy pisatel’, 1942. 41, [2] pp. 16x11 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. First edition. Rare. An important collection of short stories by nine Soviet authors. ‘Sovetskiy pisatel’ was one of the main literary publishing houses with several regional branches. This book was prepared by..... More
![Item #991 [JAZZ DURING THE WARTIME] Radost’. Iz repertuara okruzhnogo dzhaza DKA SKVO [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/991.jpg?v=1591799309)
Sochi: Sochinskiy Gosudarstvenniy teatr, 1943. [2] pp. 14x7,5 cm. One stain otherwise very good with the poor quality of paper expected. The program of the jazz concert given in December of 1943, in Sochi (Krasnodar Krai) in the local State Theatre. The program includes the list of the..... More
![Item #1097 [JEWISH WARTIME EDITION] Tsum zig: literarisher zamlbukh = K pobede: Literaturnyi...](/pictures/thumb/1097.jpg?v=1604432993)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. 336 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original cardboards with letterpress design. In very good condition, rubbed, stains on covers and on pages occasionally. First and only wartime edition. One of 7000 copies. Text is printed in Yiddish, the table of contents is in Yiddish and Russian..... More
![Item #529 [NORTH KOREAN ARMY] Koreiskaya Narodnaya armiya [i.e. Korean People’s Army](/pictures/thumb/529.jpg?v=1542802996)
Pyongyang: Izd-vo literatury na inostr. yaz. 1968. [166] pp.: ill. 29x21,5 cm. In original cardboards with photomontage dust wrappers. Dust wrappers with restoration of tears, otherwise very good. A very rare propaganda album in Russian about North Korean People’s Army published for the 20th anniversary of its creation..... More
![Item #993 [SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE] Shkola zhestokosti. Sbornik rasskazov [i.e. The School of...](/pictures/thumb/993.jpg?v=1591800375)
Sverdlovsk: OGIZ, 1942. 85, [3] pp. 16x10,5 cm. One of 25000 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Small tear of the spine and loss of the front cover. Otherwise very good. First edition. Extremely rare edition from the series printed in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) during the German occupation of the European..... More
![Item #1095 [SOVIET-JAPANESE CONFLICTS] Samurai proschitalis’: literaturno-khudozhestvennyi...](/pictures/thumb/1095.jpg?v=1604432495)
Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1939. 482 pp., 15 ills. 22,5x17,5 cm. In original full-cloth with illustrations and silver lettering. Very good, some spots. First and only edition. Very rare with no copies in Worldcat. A curious example of a book design mixing Stalinist parade editions, Krokodil caricatures and chronicles of the..... More
![Item #1043 [WOMEN DURING THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD] Zhenshchiny goroda Lenina: Rasskazy i ocherki o...](/pictures/thumb/1043.jpg?v=1601474301)
Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1944. 181, [3] pp.: ill., 15 ills. 25,5x18 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering and design. Some foxing of plates, ink inscription on the verso of front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare wartime edition printed as soon as the blockade was..... More
![Item #1222 [PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE 1936 EVENTS IN SPAIN] Ispaniia. T. 1: Do 18 iiulia 1936. T. 2:...](/pictures/thumb/1222.jpg?v=1617190111)
Moscow: Izogiz, 1937. Vol. 1: 102 pp.: ill. Vol. 2: 151 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering and debossed design for Vol. 1, lettering and mounted illustration for Vol. 2. Restored, covers slightly soiled, small fragments of outer edge of p. 3-4 lost (Vol.2), spots occasionally..... More
![Item #1083 [LUBOK ABOUT RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR] Chem tebia ia ogorchila! (Plach Iaponii) [i.e. How...](/pictures/thumb/1083.jpg?v=1604425491)
St. Petersburg: Litografiia V. Ivanov i Ko, 1904. 49х37,5 cm. Very good, small fragments of blank edges lost. Very rare lithographic lubok produced during the Russo-Japanese war. The censorship approved it on April 16, 1904. The war started in early February of the same year, and by the time of..... More