Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo kul’turno-prosvetitel’noi literatury, 1951. Oblong quarto (26.5 × 35.5 cm). Contemporary stab-stitched blind card wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Illustrations on 61 pages, some with details printed in red. Lacks original printed front wrapper (rear wrapper preserved); a few pages finger-soiled; still about very good. The present work concerns..... More

[St. Petersburg, 1988-1992]. Octavos (21 × 15 cm). Original illustrated card wrappers; 59, [1] pp. of typescript to rectos and versos. Very good. Two volumes of an unknown samizdat (self-published) journal conceived in St. Petersburg during the last years of the Soviet Union, with the second issue printed after the..... More

1940. Moscow: Izdanie pervoi obraztsovoi tipografii, 1940. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original illustrated card boards, with a single-leaf leporello in [8] pp., printed to front only. Chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Owner inscription in blue ink to front board. Light soil to boards; very discreet repairs to leaf edges; small tears..... More

1971–1976. Brussels: Jacqueline Hondermarcq, 1971–1976. Octavos (20.8 × 13.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 48 pp. each (the double issue 132 pp.). Very good copies; the first issue contains the original wrap-around band. Substantial run of the uncommon Brussels-based journal of surrealist poetry, art, and theory, edited by Budík, Helena..... More

1942. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mandragora, 1942. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed red glazed paper-covered card wrappers; 45 [42 sic!], [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Wrappers lightly sun-tanned; else about very good. First edition of the important Chilean’s book of poems, who has been called..... More

1788. Moscow: v Tipografii Kompanii Tipograficheskoi, 1788. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Contemporary calf; red and gilt-lettered spine label; VIII, 323 pp. Bookplate of the distinguished collector Martin Winkler. Boards rubbed; front free end paper lightly soiled; one leaf with small tear to margin, not affecting text; still about very..... More

late 1970s or early 1980s. [Moscow]: late 1970s or early 1980s. Bound in hand-labeled paper folder (ink and pencil); [2], 3-42 leaves of easily legible carbon copy typescript to rectos, measuring ca. 29.7 x 21 cm). Folder chipped; text very good. Undated, but early samizdat edition (ca. 1980) of this..... More

[Uzhhorod]: “Unio”, 1941. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers over blind wraps; 112 pp. and [16] pages of plates. Fifty-three photo-illustrations in the text. Text detached from wrappers; light chipping to wrapper edges; private inventory number; else about very good. A history of the professional theatre of the Ugro-Russian (Rusyn) people, an..... More

St. Petersburg: Proletkul’t, 1919. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated, staple-stitched wrappers; 37, [2] pp. Wrappers very lightly chipped; paper restoration to spine extremities and wrapper edges. Still about very good. Fifth edition of the debut collection of poetry by one of the early members of Petrograd (St. Petersburg)..... More

Erevan: Pethrat, 1932. Octavo (18.5 × 13.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed; illegible initials to lower left corner); 135 pp. Very good or better. Translation of Lev Ovalov's novel "Boltovnia" (Talk, 1928) by Stepan Elias Zorian (1889-1967), who served as the editor-in-chief of the Armenian State Publishing House in..... More

Erevan: Pethrat, 1930. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 92 pp. Tiny nick to base of spine; a few pencil annotations; still a very good copy. First edition of this long poem by Nairi Zarian (pseudonym of Hayastan Yeghiazarian, 1900-1969), which praises the socialist spirit of the residents..... More

Petrograd: “Segodnia,” [1918–1919]. Octavos (ca. 20.3 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched linocut-printed wrappers; [4] pp. (not including wrappers). Linocut-printed publisher’s device to rear wrappers. All with numerous vignettes and larger, sometimes full-page, illustrations throughout the text. Overall very good; a few volumes with light spotting or light wear to spine..... More

Kaunas: self-published (printed by S. Joselevičiaus), 1926. Octavo (18.7 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jonas J. Burbos; 31 pp. A fine copy, apparently unread. Debut publication of Venclova (1906-1971), the Lithuanian and Soviet poet, writer, and politician. Venclova was the founder and editor of the most important Lithuanian..... More