Berlin: “Slovo,” 1922. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original quarter cloth with pictorial paper over boards; 345, [3] pp. Cover illustration by N.D. Millioti. Very good. An émigré publication of collected lyrics of the symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), published shortly after his death. The second volume of a three-volume..... 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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Istanbul: Yeni Kitapçi 1935. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 62, [2] pp. Very good; only very faint wear and discoloration to wrappers. First edition of this volume of poems by Hikmet, with a restrained, but clearly avant-garde-influenced wrapper sign by Ali Suavi. In this cycle of poems Hikmet..... More