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Soviet Union, 1970-1980s. Octavo (22 × 15.5 cm). Original paper-covered boards, with original drawn label affixed to front board; 19 leaves of typescript to rectos. Very good. Typewritten samizdat edition (first copy) of Akhmatova’s “Requiem.” LIke most samizdat versions of the narrative poem, the present edition is based on the.....

MoreRekviem (1935-1940) [Requiem

Kharkiv: Narodnyi komisariiat lehkoi promyslovosty USRR, 1932. Oblong quarto (22 × 29.5 cm). Original string-bound embossed cloth over boards, with constructivist design; 104 unnumbered leaves of illustrations. In Ukrainian and Russian. Very good. A richly-illustrated promotional album for the achievements of the first five-year plan in Ukraine, a period of.....

MoreNovi mashyny ta novobudovy promyslovosty USRR; Novye mashiny i novostroiki promyshlennosti USSR...

[London or Stockholm?], 1918. Octavo (21.5 × 13.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; [8], iii, 40 pp. Wrappers somewhat creased and worn to upper edge; still about very good. Russian translation of "Meine Londoner Mission, 1912-1914," prepared and with a preface by N. Nordmann, as well as with a short biographical.....

MoreMoia missiia v Londone, 1912-1914 g.g. Vospominaniia kniazia Likhnovskago, byvshogo germanskogo...