Stepniak Sergey (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The final book by the Russian anarchist, assassin and political agitator. Stepniak's views had evolved from advocating violence toward peaceful agitation to achieve political reform. Second edition. Both volumed bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the corners and spine ends, a couple of drip marks on the rear board of volume 1. Spines cocked, binding a bit loose.…

Hardback. Printed pages: 651. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. Maroon cloth binding. Light stain to rear board. Light foxing and browning to page edges. Tanning to free endpapers. Good solid binding. Clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.5 x 7.75 inches (13.5 x 20 cm).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reissue. 1905 'new edition' of the work first published in 1888. Boards lightly soiled, lightly foxed on edges and throughout, ink gift note on front endpaper, minimal ink marginalia on a few pages only. 651 pp. An account of the Russian proletariat, by the revolutionary and advocate of democracy who served as editor for 'Zemlia i Volia' (Land and Liberty), the print shop which lent its name to the clandestine political organization. He gained notoriety for assassinating General Nikolai Mezentsov, the chief of Gendarme corps and head of Russia's secret police. He wrote several books on revolutionary Russia. This edition was translated into English by Victor Adler, founder of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers Party. Contents include: The Russian Agrarian Question; The Moujiks and the Russian Democracy; Paternal Government; Hard Times; Popular Religion; The Rascol; Rationalistic Dissent; Modern Sectarianism; The Tragedy of Russian History - Conclusion.…

First Edition. 8vo, pp.[1 (blank)], 253, [3 (blank)]; a very good copy in the original publisher's printed red cloth, without dustjacket; a little rubbed with a few small marks.Scarce first American edition in Yiddish of Stepniak's first and most influential book. Written in Italian during exile in Switzerland following his assassination of Nikolai Mezentsov, chief of Alexander II's secret police, Underground Russia was published in 1882 and translated into English the following year. Comprising introductory essays on nihilism, propaganda, and terrorism, followed by biographies of early Russian revolutionaries and accounts of revolutionary incidents, the work was widely translated and influential in anti-Tsarist circles in Europe and America. Published in the wake of the Revolution, this translation is by Abraham Frumkin, one of the leading translators of mainly political literature into Yiddish and contributor to the daily New York paper Yiddishe Welt. This is the second Yiddish translation we have been able to trace, preceded only by an even rarer edition published by Shapiro in London in 1897 (issued in '17 Hefte', according to the New York Public Library). The text is here prefaced by a short biography of Step niak. Language: Other.…

Condition: Very Good. New York: Max Maisel, 1921. First Yiddish-Language Edition, translated by Frumkin. Octavo. 253pp. Text in Yiddish. Red pebbled cloth lettered in black. Bookplate of Cincinnati Rabbi Samuel Wohl to front pastedown. Patchy wear along spine; corners bumped. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. Uncommon Yiddish edition of Stepniak's survey of radicalism in Imperial Russia, originally published in 1882 and featuring Sophia Perovskaya, Peter Kropotkin, and Hesya Helfman.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Max Maisel, 1921. First Yiddish-Language Edition in a later dust jacket, translated by Frumkin. Octavo. 253pp. Text in Yiddish. Printed dust jacket with later date (1929), presumably a later issue, though we have been unable to locate any other copy in dust wrapper for comparison. Red pebbled cloth lettered in black. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn with chip to base of spine and several closed tears. Light wear to spine ends of boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good. Uncommon Yiddish edition of Stepniak's survey of radicalism in Imperial Russia, originally published in 1882 and featuring Sophia Perovskaya, Peter Kropotkin, and Hesya Helfman.…