Moscow: KHSHM zhoghovrdakan kentronakan hratarakch’ut’yun (Tsentrizdat), 1929. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Pencil owner signature to wrapper; else about very good. Scarce edition containing four longer poems by Yegishe Charents: “Bovandakut’yun Im ynker Libon” (“My friend Libo (in memory of Comrade Liparit Mkhchyan”);..... More

Erevan: Petakan Hratarakch'ut'yun (State Publisher), 1932. Octavo (19 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Martiros Saryan; 102 pp. About very good; light overall wear and trace of label to front wrapper. Third book of poems by Norents (1903-1973), pseudonym of V. T. Eritsian, a Soviet Armenian poet who authored..... More

[Moscow]: Izd. MKV-PNR; Tipo-litografiia Gosplanizdata, 1943. Cardboard box with pictorial lid, measuring 6 × 7.5 × 10.5 cm, housing one leaf of rules and 28 tiles made of cardboard, each measuring 6 × 3 cm and with chromolithographs to rectos. The box somewhat worn and rubbed, with old tape repair;..... More

Baku: Izdanie gazety "Vtuzovets", 1937. Small octavo (14.5 × 10.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [16] pp. Text printed in blue ink. Wrappers worn and chipped, with partial restoration to rear wrapper; beginning to detach; contents good. Scarce celebratory songbook published in Baku, the capital of Soviet Azerbaijan, on the twenty-year..... More

Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1932. Octavo (21 × 16.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (not attributed); 32 pp. About very good. Rare translation by Z. Bodiazhina into the Erzya language of the book “Krasin vo l'dakh” by Emilii Mindlin (1900-1981), originally published in Russian. Erzya is the Finno-Ugric language of one of..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Moskovskii rabochii, 1932. Octavo (22.5 × 14.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed); 92, [4] pp. Frequent underlining. Wear to spine extremities; still about good. First and only edition of this anti-religious work, published by the Central Committee of the "League of Militant Atheists" (Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov) a volunteer..... More

Riga: Kniga dlia vsekh, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers (unattributed); [4], 237 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Good or better; light wear to bottom of spine and light soil to front wrapper; internally very good. A rare autobiographical account by a Russian prisoner of war in Germany after..... More

Gräfenhainichen: Izdatel'stvo R. Gerroze (Herrosé's Verl.), 1943. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 255, [1] pp. Overall wear; still good or better. Rare edition of this work by Gogol, issued by a publisher of German technical manuals and presumably aimed at forced laborers from Russia and Ukraine (so-called..... More

Rare volume documenting the principal architectural works executed in Russia and present-day Ukraine between the years 1802 and 1805 by the French architect J.F. Thomas de Thomon, including the Imperial (Bolshoi) Theatre in St. Petersburg, a neo-classical stock exchange building also in St. Petersburg, a theatre in Odessa, a triumphal..... More

Unpaginated (approx. 200 pp.) first and only issue of the artist's book-style avant-garde German periodical on contemporary art and artists, edited by Thomas Niggl, Christian d'Orville, and Heimrad Prem, including some works produced specifically for this publication, which is arranged in an eclectic format with varied fonts, sizes and colors..... More

Various formats and sizes; see detailed list. Frederika Sophia Cohen (1903-1943), known as Fré Cohen, was a prolific Dutch graphic designer. Cohen grew up in a working-class Jewish family in Amsterdam and was self-taught, receiving her first design commissions through her office work at a socialist publishing house. Cohen worked..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva, 1954. Quarto (29 × 22 cm). Original cloth over boards; 152 pp. A photo-album of the “definitive” 1954 version of The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (today known as VDNKh; Vystavka Dostizhenii Narodnogo Khoziaistva), which re-opened in grand Stalinist style shortly after the leader’s death. The album..... More

Paris: [Aleksandr Rubakin], 1920. Octavo (25.5 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Nataliia Goncharova; [6], 54 pp. and nine leaves of plates. Illustrated with full-page lithographs and vignettes by Goncharova. A very good copy, with the usual light wear to the overlapping wrapper edges, but else bright and apparently..... More