St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Shtaba Otd. Korp. Pogran. Strazhi (V. O., u Birzhi), 1914. Octavo (22.8 × 15.5 cm). Original green printed wrappers; 107 pp. Private inventory number to front wrapper; first signature beginning to detach; else about very good. Scarce pamphlet issued to counteract a rising wave of public speculation..... More
Prague: Orbis, 1940. Octavo (19 × 12.2 cm). Original printed boards; 223, [4] pp. In the original brown card slipcase. Tiny nick to spine; else very good or better. First edition of this collection of broadcast speeches by Emanuel Moravec (1893–1945), a Czech soldier, journalist, and a leading collaborator with..... More
Czech Republic: 1977–2000. Various book objects consisting of the artist's binding and leaves of thick hand-made paper, sometimes with boards and pastedowns of the same paper. The book objects in various sizes, ranging from ca. 18.6 × 12.5 to 30 × 20.2 cm. Very good. This group brings together five..... More
St. Petersburg: Tipografiia N. Tiblena i komp., 1866. Octavo (22.5 × 15.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards with gilt tooling and title to spine; 501, [1] pp. Title page lightly toned; boards rubbed, still about very good. First edition. An early ethnographic, linguistic and historical study of the Caucasus..... More
![Kniga o Evreinove [A book about Evreinov]. Vasilii Kamenskii](/pictures/thumb/P6184_1.jpg?v=1589471239)
Petrograd: Izd. “Sovremennoe iskusstvo” , 1917. Octavo (23 × 17 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 110, [1] pp. Cover illustration, frontis portrait, and typographic design by A. K. Shervashidze. Spine discretely rebacked; small tear to lower fold of front wrapper, still about very good. First edition. The first monograph on Nikolai..... More
![Rotondy na Ukraini [Rotundas in Ukraine].; Ukrain'ska arkhitektura [Ukrainian architecture,...](/pictures/thumb/P6062_1.jpg?v=1589982844)
Kyiv: self-published, 1929. Octavo (25.3 × 18 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 32 pp. With fifteen smaller illustrations in the text. Very good. Scarce offprint on rotundas in Ukraine, originally published in the scientific journal of the Historical Section of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Sichynskyi (1894-1962) was a Ukrainian..... More
Prague: Nákladem vlastním (v komissi Cyrillo-Methodějského knihkupectví G. Francl), 1898. Octavo (21.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [2], 398, [1] pp. About very good; light wear to spine extremities and wrapper edges. First edition of this extreme example of anti-Semitic Czech nationalist propaganda, by the priest, politician and journalist..... More
![Piat' chelovek znakomykh [Five acquaintances]. Viktor Shklovskii](/pictures/thumb/P5337_1.jpg?v=1589471239)
Tbilisi: Akts. Obshchestvo Zakkniga, 1927. Octavo (22 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 100 pp. Unopened and uncut. Spine extremities frayed; tiny chip to corner of front wrapper, still about very good. In protective mylar. First edition, and a scarce Georgian printing. A collection of critical essays about five Russian..... More
![Muskul: vtoraia kniga stikhov [The muscle: second volume of poems]. Vladimir Lugovskoi](/pictures/thumb/P5273_1.jpg?v=1589471238)
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Federatsiia", 1929. Octavo (16.4 × 12.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 119 pp. Frontis portrait of the author. About very good; Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; very light wear to spine extremities; small pencil mark to front wrapper. First edition of this volume of poems by Vladimir Lugovskoi..... More
![Biblioteka-chital’nia kooperativa [Reading rooms for co-operative societies]. N. A. Orlov](/pictures/thumb/P5197_1.jpg?v=1589471238)
Petrograd: Knigoizdatel’stvo kooperativnoi literatury Mysl’, 1918. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 64 pp. Wrappers lightly stained; still a very good copy. Scarce guide on establishing and maintaining smaller libraries as part of local co-operative societies, which were popular through the Soviet Union in the 1910s and 1920s..... More
Copenhagen [Riga]: self-published, 1774. Octavo (16.3 × 9.8 cm). Contemporary mottled calf; gilt-tooled spine and red leather spine label; green marbled endpapers; [9], 2-190 pp. Private bookplate to front pastedown. A very good copy. First and only edition of this historical essay on the Russian imperial government from the end..... More
Moscow: 1920. Quarto (24.7 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 52 pp., [23] leaves of plates. About very good; front wrapper lightly stained and with nick to the right edge; one leaf loosened. Attractively produced catalog of engravings by the Russian artist Vasilii N. Masiutin (1884-1955), whose work blended symbolism..... More
St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1770-1772. Small quartos (24.6 × 18.3 cm). Later polished calf with spine in six compartments and gilt titles; marbled endpapers; red edges; 460 and 438, a-e, 460 pp. (lacking pp. 461-763). Decorative initials, headpieces, and etched allegorical vignette with a small portrait of Peter..... More
Berlin: Trowitzsch und Sohn, 1866. Octavo (19 × 10.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers with brown paper spinestrip and title vignette; 16 pp. Paper evenly toned due to stock, else very good. Illegally published pamphlet urging Czech independence from Austro-Hungary. Published anonymously in Berlin during the Austro-Prussian War (1866), it was..... More
Toronto: Nakladom studentiv Vil'noi Shkoly im M. Pavlyka, 1918. Large octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 185, [I] pp. With 193 illustrations in the text. Paper toned; overall still a very good copy. Part I of the Ukrainian translation of Hird's "Picture Book of Evolution" (translated by P...... More
New York: Vydanie Ukraïnsʹkoï federatsiï Komunïstychnoï partiï v Amerytsï (Ukrainian Federation of the Communist Party in America); "Robitnyk" printer, 1919. Octavo (23 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 58 pp. Publisher's ads. Two very small chips to rear wrapper; a very good copy. First Ukrainian edition of this work by..... More
[Munich]: Nakladom OUN na chuzhyni, 1946. Octavo (21.2 × 15 cm). Original self-wrappers, loosely folded gatherings of mimeographed text to rectos and versos; 33, [1] pp. Text evenly toned; else a very good copy. Rare theoretical treatise for members of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), a radical anti-Soviet organization..... More
Osterhofen: Whiteruthenian Magazine "Sakavik", 1948. Small octavo (14.2 × 10.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed G. L.); 96 pp. Ink number to title page; last two pages with small tear; overall a very good copy. A book of verse by the Belarusian emigre writer Ales Salavei, which traces his dislocations..... More
Berlin: Spil'ne vydannia "Ukrains'koi Narodn'oi Biblioteky" i "Ukrains'koho slova", 1922. Octavo (23 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (gilt and black); VIII, [I], 239 pp. Numerous small portraits and illustrations in the text. Very good, save for light toning to wrappers and rust stain to staple. Part one of this..... More
New York: Nakladom Ukrains'koi Knyharni im. T. Shevchenka, 1921. Octavos (ca. 20.5 × 13 cm each). Original printed wrappers; 95 pp. Three copies, each featuring a variant pictorial wrapper printed on different color paper. Very good; one copy with damp stain to rear wrapper and a few margins. This play..... More
Munich-Regensburg: Vydannia Iuriia Iudym-Levkovycha, 1945. Octavo (20.4 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 27, [1] pp. With one full-page illustration by Konstantin Kuznetsov. Publisher's ads announcing further publications of Gogol's works. Good or better; wrappers somewhat brittle, with small nicks to spine extremities. An early publication by Ukrainian Displaced Persons..... More
New York: 1920. Octavo (18.8 × 12.4 cm). Original printed wrappers; 16 pp. Very good, uncut and unopened copy. A scarce play set at the Ukrainian communist newspaper "Proletar" in the United States, with characters including "Varenik", the editor of the newspaper, the editorial committee and Pelekh, a printer's employee..... More
Vienna: Nakladom "Soiuza Vyzvolennia Ukrainy", 1916. Octavo (20.7 × 13.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 64, [2] pp. [4] pp. of publisher's ads. Text evenly toned; else a very good copy. First and only edition of this work on the Ukrainian national renaissance in Galicia and the Bukovina, by the Ukrainian..... More
Augsburg: Literaturna sektsiia spilki ukrains'kykh pys'mennykiv v Avhsburzi , 1946. Octavo (20.2 × 14.7 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 47, [1] and 42, [2] pp. Light chipping to wrappers and spine strip; text evenly toned; still about very good. The first two (of four published) issues of this Ukrainian-language literary monthly..... More
Geneva-Prague: 1929. Quarto (27 × 18 cm). Original staple-stitched orange wrappers; [2], 3-43, [13] pp. With sixteen black-and-white photographs. Rear wrapper soiled; rust to staple; internally very good. A furious appeal to the international community regarding the destruction of Ukrainian schools, cultural organizations, a bookbindery and a union building, supposedly..... More