[Paris]: 1957. Oblong quarto (22 × 28). Original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with the imperial heraldry of the Romanov family; 129, [3] leaves, most featuring black and white photoreproductions with Russian captions, printed on coated paper stock throughout. Scarce album of 121 black and white photographs, depicting members of the royal..... More

Berlin: Izdanie Gugo Shteinitsa (Hugo Steinitz Verlag), 1903. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; [5], 80 pp. Publisher's ads inside wrappers. Light fraying to spine extremities; red pencil marks to publisher's catalog on rear wrapper (recto-verso). Tolstoy's exhortation to the working peasants, expressing his deep sympathy and advocating..... More

Southbury, Conn.: Alatas, 1936. Small octavo (18 × 14 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 104, [5] pp. With the signet of the Russian village "Churaevka" on the rear wrapper. Very good; light fraying to wrappers and lower spine extremity; one small chip to overlapping edges. First edition of this novella by..... More

[Krakow]: Teatr Cricot 2 (printed by Wydawnicza im. W. L. Anczyca), [1975]. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers (photo by the actor Andrzej Wełmiński). Very good. Striking publication issued to accompany the second version of this performance by painter and avant-garde theater artist Tadeusz Kantor. His play..... More

Edice Symposion, 32 (series title). Prague: Symposion, 1928. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on red stock; 189, [3] pp. Very good. First Czech translation of Pil'niak's novel "The Naked Year." "It was his novel The Naked Year, a flinchingly honest portrayal of life in post-Revolutionary Russia, that..... More

Sofia: Rossiisko-Bolgarskoe Knigoizdatel'stvo, 1921. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 34, [2] pp. Stamp of George Sabo Slavic Books and ownership stamp of Igor Kersha to last page. Wrappers lightly chipped at corners; spine extremities frayed; old tape repair to spine; text toned due to stock, still..... More

Prague: Družstevní Práce, 1935. Octavo (19.8 × 12 cm). Original embossed ochre cloth, orange dust wrappers by Ladislav Sutnar; [8], 115, [2] pp. Frontis drawing by Ferdiš Duša. Light sun-tanning to spine; else very good or better in very good dust jacket. Scarce third book of poems by this Silesian..... More

Brno: Vydává Kateřina Slavatová, 1937. Octavos (18 × 12.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 30 and 30, [1] pp. Very good copies. Two first issues of this series of anti-semitic pamphlets, containing a re-edition of Jan Neruda's famous "Pro strach židovský" [For the Fear of Jews, originally 1870] and a pamphlet..... More

Munich: Izdatel'stvo Milavida, 1926. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Very good, uncut and unopened copy, with very light fading to wrappers. The first and best-received collection of poems by one of the most active white émigré literary personalities in Paris, Iurii Terapiano (1892-1980). Terapiano..... More

Paris: Vozrozhdenie, 1948. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 257, [1] pp. Upper spine extremity frayed; possibly resized; else about very good. Ivan Shmelev (1873-1950) was one of the most widely read writers of the Russian emigration, known for his conservative orientation. His work celebrates the old traditions..... More

Paris: Knizhn. Delo "Rodnik" ("La Source"), 1930. Large octavo (24 × 18.5 cm). Original blue decorative wrappers by Boris Grosser; 193, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to a fellow translator on the front flyleaf (Sablina). Wrappers lightly worn, edges rubbed; some fading and loss of spine strip..... More

Munich: R. Oldenbourg (Ol'denburg), [1924]. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 11 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of the Grand Duke on coated paper and one chart (The male descendants of Emperor the Nikolai I [sic!]). Oxidation from staples; light wear to wrappers and lower left corner of..... More

Lausanne: L'Age D'Homme, 1979. Octavo. Original illustrated wrappers; 113 pp. Very good; pencil notes on rear end papers. Cover illustration by the author. First edition of this memoir by Aleksandr A. Zinov'ev (1922-2006), the Russian sociologist, mathematician, and dissident. More