Harbin: Izdanie NORR, 1937. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 120 pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings throughout. Very good, partially uncut and unopened. First and only edition of this introduction to Russian history up until the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, intended primarily for young..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1927. Octavo (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 163 pp. Light wear to wrappers; about very good. Uncommon volume reflecting the shift of bibliography from the sphere of personal collecting to a matter of key importance for the young Soviet state and its libraries, trade union..... More

Mariánské Hory: Jaroslav Frič, 1971. Gray folder, blindstamped with the author's initials, containing thirty-eight leaves of A5 format, with typescript to rectos; one linocut and one aluminum etching, signed and numbered. Wrapper split, title page with crease to upper left corner, else very good. Apparently unrecorded Moravian poetic samizdat edition..... More

Kraków: Instytut wydawniczy "Niezależnych," 1922. 12mo (14 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically illustrated peach-colored wrappers; [30] pp. Text printed in green. Fifteen drawings incorporating typographic elements. Fragile wrappers beginning to separate along lower spine; else very good. First edition of this work of Futurist poetry by Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945)..... More

Ulan Bator, Mongolia: Mongol'skaia tipografiia, 1927. 12mo (15.3 × 12.5 cm). Original side-stitched red printed wrappers; [4], 284 pp. In recent red clipcase. Light overall wear; wrappers rebacked and rear wrapper replaced; small professional paper repairs; still a good copy of a fragile publication. Extremely rare first edition of Book..... More

Tbilisi, 1923. Quarto (29.5 × 22.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Kirill Zdanevich, a lithograph printed in black and red; 32 pp. Numerous illustrations throughout. About very good; tiny hole to upper right edge; rust to staples. Final issue of this rare and important Georgian avant-garde journal of literature and..... More

Kiev: Izdatel’stvo Akademii Arkhitektury Ukrains’koi SSR, 1952. Oblong quarto (23 × 30 cm). Original green card boards, embossed title to front board; 108 pp. and [10] leaves of plates, as well as numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text, some in color. Boards lightly discolored and scuffed to..... More

Stalingrad: Oblastnoe knigoizdatel’stvo, 1937. Octavo (21.5 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 43, [1] pp. A small tear to upper right corner of the wrappers and text block; rear wrapper restored with tape, still about good or better. This brochure for political agitators was published during the Stalinist Purges..... More

[Moscow]: self-published, [1990]. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled pamphlet; pictorial wrapper reproducing a drawing by F. Zverev; [16] pp. of text to rectos and versos; the rear wrapper reproduces a drawing of the author; xeroxed photo-reduced offset-printed text and typescript. Private bookplate tipped in between first two leaves..... More

[New York]: George Reavey (The Letter Edged in Black Press, Inc.), 1968. Oblong octavo (14 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [48] pp. Signed and inscribed to title: "Dorogoi Nine s bezotvetnost’iu v liubvi (samoi druzheskoi!), noiabr' 10, 1984, NYC (To Dear Nina, with unrequitedness in love (the most platonic..... More

Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1936. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original pictorial embossed cloth; 197, [3] pp. Twelve full-page illustrations and thirteen vignettes by Evgenii Kogan, who has signed and inscribed this copy, most likely to the writer Lev Grigorevich Gel’man (1864–1951). Very good. Authorized Russian translation from the German manuscript..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original typographically formatted printed wrappers; 136, [8] pp. Very good. A guidebook for guides of the Russian Pioneer movement, in charge of the physical and athletic development of children and young adults. While acknowledging biological differences between the two sexes, the..... More

L'viv: Naklad vydavnychoi spilky "Novi shliakhy", 1929-1932. Octavos (25.3 × 17 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Sviatoslav Hordyns'kyi; 208; 178-376, [4]; and 103, [1] pp. Occasional illustrations and caricatures. Extensive publisher's ads, for the journal "Novi shliakhy" as well as books published by the editors. Light wear to first two..... More