[Berlin]: Deutscher Verlag, 1940. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9 3/4"). Unpaginated. [54]pp. Original printed wrappers. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Adolf Hitler. This early WWII propaganda work published in Hungarian in 1940 by Deutscher Verlag (Berlin), praises the achievements of Adolf Hitler since his rise to power in..... More
NP, n/d. Hardcover. 4 volumes. 4to. 1940: 757pp. 1941: 1034pp. 1942: 646pp. 1943: 386,[10],pp. All volumes are in three-quarter cloth over paper-covered gray boards with gilt-stamped Nazi emblem and gold lettering on cover and spine. Gold lettering on spine of 1940 and 1943 volumes faded. Minor discoloration, scuffing and staining..... More
n.p. NP, 1784. First edition, later issue. Hardcover. Octavo. VII, [1], CLIX, [1], 352, VII, [1], 536, VIII, 468pp. Original blond paper boards with gold lettering and borders on spines. Printer's device on each title page. Decorative head-, tailpieces. This work is Necker's attempt to defend his policy when he..... More
Berlin: Verlag "Die Wehrmacht K. G." 1942. First edition. Board_book. Large quarto (8 2/8 x 10 6/8"; Calendar block: 6 6/8 x 7"). [60] leaves. Original decorative cardboard. This striking Nazi illustrated army calendar for the year 1943 was published by "Die Wehrmacht," a German Military magazine published between 1936..... More
London: Printed for T. Snelling, next to Horn Tavern, in Fleet-Street, 1762 / 1763 / 1766. Ex-Library First editions. Hardcover. Folio. (2) 55 (1), 17 plates, (2) iv, 38, 6 plates, (4) 46, 7 plates, 6pp. Original calf with gilt tooling on spine, gilt lettering on label of spine; raised..... More
Bratislava: Vydalo Poverenictvo SNR, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Folio. unpaginated [32]pp. Original color photo-illustrated wraps. Pictorial documentation of the 1944 Slovak uprising against the collaborationist State of Jozef Tiso launched in Banska Bystrica. The striking photographs presented here were taken by Ivan Szekely (62), Jan Krakora (12), Karol Krska (6)..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. IX, 406pp. Gold-lined three-quarter morocco over brown cloth with gold decorations stamped on spine. Gold-tooled raised bands. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom page edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece reproductions of a drawing by T. Dighton, drawn on stone. Scarce and..... More
Москва (Moscow): "Земля и фабрика" [1928]. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 122, [2]. Original illustrated wrappers by Nathan Altman.* "The Face of War" is Ilya Ehrenburg's powerful first hand account of the WWI battlefront. During World War I, Ehrenburg became a war correspondent for the Russian newspapers “Utro Rossii” (Morning..... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1930-1936. First edition. Hardcover. Signed. Complete 4 volume set. 4to. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Translations and transliterations of letters from the Assyrian royal archives. There are two volumes containing 1471 letters, a third volume of commentary and a final supplemental..... More
Berlin: Verlag des Ministeriums für Nationale Verteidigung, 1958. First edition. Paperback. 18, [2]pp (text), 48 loose plates, 2 loose folded maps, as issued. Original photo-illustrated wrap around. Published by the East German Ministry of National Defense on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Red Army, this work features..... More
Budapest: Magyar-Szovjet Társaság Képzömüvészeti Szakosztálya (Egyetemi Nyomda), 1952. First edition. Softcover. Oblong 12mo (6 1/2 x 9 1/2"). 44pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Written by the cartoonist Boris Yefimov, and graphic artist and art critic Mark Lvovich Ioffe, this work is the first Hungarian edition of the history of Kukryniksy, a...... More
[Barcelona]: Gràfiques Delriu, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo (6 3/4 x 9 1/2"). 103, [3]pp. Full olive cloth, with gold lettering to front cover. Commemorative book published to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the Second Spanish Republic founded in 1931. At the time of its publication, the Republicans had..... More
Ellrich, Germany: Self-Published, 1945. First printing. Softcover. Oblong 16mo. Unpaginated. Original pictorial wrappers. Rare and fascinating work being a pictorial story of the author's role and campaigns during World War II. It is profusely illustrated with 60 humorous plates by Anthony Dennison. Minor age-toning along edges of wrappers and on..... More
London: The Amalgamated Press Limited, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 13 vols. published from 1914 to 1919. Original burgundy cloth with black lettering and decor on covers, gilt and black lettering with decor and publisher's device on spine. Most volumes with colored or decorative endpapers. Comprehensive work illustrating the British..... More
Stanislau: 1941. A proclamation by the Nazis pertaining to the Ghetto in the city of Stanislau in German occupied Poland. Dated 16. December 1941. One inch closed tear to upper edge. Two and a half by two inch chip missing on lower left corner. Text in German. 16" x 23.5"..... More
London: 1787. Reprint. Hardcover. "Signed Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald, Deputy Bath King of Arms" on endpaper with ribbon attached (Windsor Herald from 1784–1819). Quarto. viii, 72pp., with original seal of the Windsor Herald depicting a knight in armor, with sword and shield, on his horse, coat of arms on verso..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., ND (ca 1944). First edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. [48]pp. Original illustrated wrappers and title page. "Those Three" (Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo) is a splendid collection of 44 anti-Axis cartoons by Catalan artist Mario Hubert Armengol (1909-1995), published with a foreword by Catalan..... More
London: J. Dodsley, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 303,249,[10],pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and ruling on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. This important volume (the 20th volume of The Annual Register since its creation in 1758) includes, within the 'History' section, a...... More
La Havana: Comite Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Stunning weekly supplement (Resumen semanal) of "Granma,"* the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, announcing in large black letters throughout its front page, the death of Che Guevara, a major figure of..... More
Amsterdam: N. V. De Arbeiderspers, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 105-112pp. Original illustrated wraps protected by modern mylar. This fascinating anti-Nazi socialist weekly was published in the Netherlands, and started as a supplement to the paper Het Volk [The People]. The illustration on front cover is by Albert Hahn, Jr...... More
Praze (Prague): Prumyslova Tiskárna, 1946. 2. vydání (Second edition). Softcover. Large quarto (8 x 11"). Original illustrated wrappers. Splendid collection of 28 b/w anti-Hitler caricatures drawn between 1944 and 1945 by the best Soviet cartoonists of the time, namely, Boris Yefimov and 'Kukryniksy' - a collective name derived from the combined..... More
Wien: Danubia-Verlag, no date. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Inludes 100 photographs. Yellow cloth with title in red on spine in original dust jacket. Minor spotting to boards. Some chipping, creasing and few small closed tears on dj. Usual age browning to outer edges of pages. Magnificent biography of Theodor Körner (1873-1957)..... More
Le Caire (Cairo): Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 1/4 x 11"). [6], xxxi, [1], 280pp (Vol. 1); 281-586pp (Vol. 2). Modern full olive cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Publisher's device to title page. Jean Lesquier's monumental "L'Armée Romaine d'Égypte d'Auguste à Dioclétien" is the first..... More
NP: Rzym, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. [4], 15, [1] leaves. Original illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 15 socioeconomic charts, this scarce Polish pamphlet denounces the Soviet occupation and annexation of Eastern Poland. Immediately after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II..... More
Stuttgart: Gau-Organisationsamt Württemberg-Hohenzollern, 1938. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. 80pp., 1 folding map. Original blue quarter-cloth over illustrated wraps with blue and white lettering on cover. Map on inside front cover. Illustrated title page. Though in small format, the cover design by Hellmensch exudes the desired effect of power. Page three..... More