Antwerp: Ça ira, January 1923. Octavo (22 × 14.1 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers; pp. 195-210, [4] pp. With full-page linocut print by Lajos Kassák titled "Bildarchitektür" [Image architecture] and 2 small linocut prints by Karel Maes. Rust to staples; wrappers detached, leaves slightly browned, last leaves with crease; else very..... More

Riga: self-published (izdanie avtora), 1935. Small octavo (13.2 × 9.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 192, [2] pp. Very good. Basic introduction to Esperanto grammar followed by a simple dictionary, which excludes complex technical terms and derivative words. The rear wrapper contains announcements for various other related publications, such as "Kliuch..... More

[Brno]: 1968. Broadside, 30 × 21.5 cm, with mimeographed (?) text and illustration to recto, text in Czech and French. With horizontal fold, else very good. An apparently unrecorded broadside by the Lacoste group, a Brno-based association of post-war Czech surrealist artists, who also issued a samizdat art periodical entitled..... More

Paris: “Vozrozhdenie”, 1948. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 223, [1] pp. Small chips to spine extremities; splitting to edges; still good. First edition. The second novel in a tetralogy “Puteshestvie Gleba” (Gleb’s Journey) by Boris Zaitsev (1881–1972), a prominent literary figure of the Russian Silver age. Starting..... More

Riga: Knigoizdatel’stvo Russkikh Pisatelei, 1921. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 120, [1] pp. Very good. First edition. The first literary collection of short stories written by the prominent émigré journalist, writer and translator Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942). Written in the immediate post revolutionary moment in 1917-1919, it captures..... More

Prague: Grégr, 1945. Octavo (20.8 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers; [20] pp. Six full-page reproductions, and artists’ signatures reproduced on front wrapper. Very good. Catalog of a very early exhibit of Skupina 42 (Group 42) held in 1945 at Poš Gallery in Prague. With an introduction by Jiří..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1920. Octavo (24 × 13.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. First leaf soiled; else good or better. An interesting pamphlet reviewing the failures and successes of the new Soviet state in the three years since the October Revolution. Reminding the workers of their achievements, the author..... More

New York: Podval, 1984. Quarto (25.3 × 20.2 cm). Original photographic wrappers; [111] pp, [16] pp. of plates. Only very light wear to wrappers; one leaf of photographs with crease; else a very good copy. Very scarce first and only edition of this book of highly stylized reminiscences ("interview with..... More

Rostov-on-Don: N. E. Paramonov, [1905]. Octavo (20.5 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 55 pp. Light soil to front wrapper; else very good. First edition. KVK, OCLC show copies at Bern University, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, British Library, Columbia, Harvard, Hoover, IISG, Ohio State, Polish National Library. More

Prague: Izdatel'stvo "Nasha rech'", 1921. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Aleksandr Arnshtam (signed A. A.); [6], 191, [1] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy; wrappers lightly dust-soiled and upper spine extremity with small chip. Uncommon collection of theatre and literary criticism and essays on..... More

New York: All-Slavic Publishing House (Vseslavianskoe izdatel'stvo), 1962. Octavo (22.5 × 15.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 213 pp. With sixteen photographic reproductions on coated paper stock. Front wrapper partially discolored; some soiling to spine; bottom edge of front wrapper a bit scuffed; else very good, internally bright and clean. Memoirs..... More

Grosser, Boris. Paris: Dom Knigi, 1938. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original illustrated wrappers (by Boris Grosser); [10], 99 pp. Very good; light wear to wrappers and some faint discoloration to the front wrapper; gift inscription in pencil on title page. An entertaining, non-scholarly study of Alexander Pushkin's 1823-24 stay..... More

Paris: Ia. Povolotskogo (J. Povolozky), 1930. Octavo (19 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 139, [5] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Aleksandr Abramovich Poliakov on the front fly leaf (undated). Wrappers worn; front wrapper detached but present; chipping to overlapping edges; tears and loss of spine strip;..... More