![Book ID: 50303 Tormeti. Skvitebi [The Twelve. Poems]. Alexander Blok, Valerian Trans....](/pictures/thumb/50303_1.jpg?v=1585571823)
Tbilisi: 1923. Octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 32 pp. A very good copy; light rust to staple and old bookstore stamp to rear wrapper. First translation into Georgian of Alexander Blok’s famous 1918 long poem “The Twelve,” a poetic response to the October Revolution. The item also..... More
1923. Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1923. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 197, [1] pp. About very good; uncut and unopened copy; light wear to overlapping edges. First edition of this avant-garde novel by Futurist and member of the Centrifuge group Sergei Bobrov (1899-1971), published by Abram Vishniak at..... More
![Book ID: P4417 Zhizn' Arsen'eva: iunost' [The Life of Arsen'ev: Youth]. First complete...](/pictures/thumb/P4417.jpg?v=1593528784)
New York: Izdatel’stvo imeni Chekhova, 1952. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 388 pp. Light soil to wrappers; tiny loss to lower corner of rear wrapper; still about very good. First appearance of the complete text of Ivan Bunin's famous novel, published during the writer's lifetime (1870-1953). "The..... More
Hamburg: bei August Campe (printed by Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig), 1815. Octavo (16 × 10.5 cm). Publisher's pink printed wrappers with decorative border; X, 95, [1] pp. Text within ornamental floral border printed in red; title page set within black ornamental border and double-ruled border in red. A very good copy..... More
Berlin: Petropolis, 1929. Octavo (19.8 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 223, [1] pp. About very good; spine sun-tanned; owner inscription to ffep; light wear to wrapper edges. First edition of Erenburg's documentary novel about the development and peak of the age of the automobile (it was translated as "The..... More
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1922. Octavo (19.3 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 194, [1] pp. Stamp of a private Russian library in Athens, Greece to ffep and title; text toned due to stock; else a very good copy. First edition of Erenburg's only two published plays. A Soviet writer, journalist..... More
![Book ID: 50257 Moia malen’kaia Leniniana [My little Leniniana]. Venedikt Erofeev](/pictures/thumb/50257_1.jpeg?v=1580326983)
Bibliotechka gazety “Sovetskaia moral’ka” [Small library series of the newspaper “Sovetskaia moral’ka”], no. 1. Moscow: Liga, 1989. A5 (21 × 14.5 cm). Single folded leaf, printed to rectos and versos, twice folded; 8 pp. Very good. First Russian appearance of Venedikt Erofeev’s brilliant satirical work, which had appeared in Paris..... More
![Book ID: 52407 Izbrannoe [Selected poems]. Sergei Esenin](/pictures/thumb/52407.jpeg?v=1669831693)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1922. Small octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 115 pp. About very good; light fraying to spine extremities. First publication thus of this anthology of poems by Esenin, the scandalous "peasant poet", which includes a selection from the collections "Radunitsa", "Goluben'", "Preobrazhenie", "Tveriadnitsa", "Mret'", and..... More
![Book ID: P5517 Razgrom: roman [The Rout: a novel].; Nedra: biblioteka ot novi romani...](/pictures/thumb/P5517_1.jpg?v=1589982903)
Sofia: Musala, 1932. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgi Atanasov; 143, [1] pp. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; chip to rear wrapper; still about very good. Bulgarian translation of Soviet writer Aleksandr Fadeev's (1901-1956) important early novel about the Civil War, which chronicles the decimation..... More
![Book ID: 52444 Vybir poezii [A selection of poems]. Fed'kovych, syp Iuriy](/pictures/thumb/52444_1.jpeg?v=1667336709)
Vetsliar (Wetzlar): Vydavnytstvo "Struia", 1920. Small octavo (13.8 × 10.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. Published by the education department of the Ukrainian Military Mission, this volume of poems was published for the benefit of Ukrainian prisoners of war in and near the camp at Wetzlar..... More
Moscow: Izdatel' i knigoprodavets Klavdii Kuz'mich Shamov, 1888. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Quarter-calf over four raised bands; gilt title to spine; pebbled cloth boards; 996 pp. Frontis portrait. Boards and spine rubbed and sun-tanned; a few small nicks to leather; occasional light foxing, else internally very good. Denis Fonvizin..... More
Prague: Plamia, 1924. First Edition thus. Small octavo. Original illustrated wrappers; 114, [5] pp. (including [3] pp. publisher's ads). Very good; uncut and unopened copy; very light wear to wrappers; spine toned and light spotting to top edge. An interesting example of collaboration between the Swedish Russian-language publisher "Severnyie ogni"..... More
Prague, 1928. Quartos (30.5 × 22.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 173, [3] pp. (consecutive pagination). Illustrated from photographs and caricatures. About very good; occasional nicks and tears to the fragile paper. Complete yearly run of the Czechoslovak cultural and political journal founded by F. X. Šalda and Otokar Fischer, which..... More
![Book ID: P004114 Lítost. Josefu Galíkovi. [Contrition. Dedicated to Josef Galík]....](/pictures/thumb/P004114_1.jpg?v=1590655202)
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
![Book ID: P6005 Mulchalivi geroi [Silent heroes]. Two parts in one (all published). Dora...](/pictures/thumb/P6005_1.jpg?v=1591102877)
Sofia: Khemus, [1931]. Octavo (22.3 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak-Skitnik (?); 109, [3], 110, [3] pp. Wrappers rebacked; restorations; a few nicks to wrappers; still good or better; in protective mylar. First edition of this account of the life of Soviet military leader and veteran of the..... More
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Literatura", 1921. First Edition thus. 12mo (15 × 10 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [2], 87 pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Light soil to wrappers; text fragile. Uncommon Berlin edition of Vsevolod Garshin's (1855-1888) tale about a "fallen" woman. Garshin, a master of the novella, was most famous for..... More
St. Petersburg: Pri imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk (Imperial Academy of Sciences), 1794. Second edition (“Vtorym tisneniem”). Large 12mo (15.3 × 9.8 cm). Contemporary full calf, spine tooled in black and with red title label; edges red; 1–124 and 125–249 pp. (consecutive pagination). Professional restoration to edges of boards; small paper repairs..... More
![Book ID: P5338 Cataclismo en los ojos [Cataclysm in the eyes]. Enrique Gómez Correa](/pictures/thumb/P5338.jpg?v=1586859063)
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 the..... More
![Book ID: P003461 Skazki. Märchen. [Tales]. Maksim Gor'kii, pseud. of Aleksei M. Peshkov](/pictures/thumb/P003461_1.jpg?v=1591526859)
Berlin: J. Ladyschnikow Verlag, [1911]. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original stiff cream wrappers; [4], 5-24 pp. With publisher's catalog on rear wrapper verso. Very good; wrappers lightly dust-soiled; original price of 50 Pfennig struck through and replaced by "Mk. 1" One of the earliest appearances of any part of..... More
Southbury, Conn.: Alatas, 1927. Octavo (22.5 × 18 cm). Decorative wrappers; 123 pp. Very good; unread and uncut copy; light soil to front wrapper. Unnumbered copy, one of 1000 printed, of the fourth of seven parts of the Churaevy epos. Georgii Grebenshchikov (1883-1964), the prominent Russian writer and cultural activist..... More
Southbury, Conn.: Alatas, 1928. Small octavo (18.5 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 188, [4] pp. Very good; small nick to spine; else an unusually well-preserved copy. First edition of this novel by Georgii Grebenshchikov (1883-1964), the prominent Russian writer and cultural activist, best known for founding the Russian village..... More
![Book ID: P002064 Kupava: roman odnogo khudozhnika [Globeflower: an artist's novel]....](/pictures/thumb/P002064_1.jpg?v=1593527523)
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
Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1967. Octavo (19.5 × 10 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 249, [5] pp. About very good; wrappers beginning to detach from text block. Important anthology of post-war text on the arts and avant-garde, published shortly before the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion of 1968, which would significantly..... More
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo “Mysl’,” 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; [4], 189 pp. Wrappers lightly creased; small nicks to spine extremities; still good or better. First and only edition, one of many books by Frank Heller (pseudonym of Gunnar Serner, 1886–1947) published in the 1920s, to satisfy the..... More
Istanbul: A. Halit Kitaphanesi, 1932. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 48 pp. Very good, save for very light wear to edges. Second edition of Hikmet’s first book of poetry, originally published in 1929, but issued with a striking cover designed by Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who Suavi..... More