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
Paris and Wiesbaden: 1921-23. Eight single leaves, some folded. Very good, with exception of one letter, with tear and some loss to text. The son of Lev Tolstoy, Lev L’vovich Tolstoy was a firm believer in his father’s ideals in his youth, but later became increasingly opposed to his philosophical..... More
![Book ID: P003754 Pominki po arlekinu [A wake for Harlekin]. Samizdat edition. Iurii...](/images/noimage.png)
late 1970s or early 1980s. [Moscow]: late 1970s or early 1980s. Bound in hand-labeled paper folder (ink and pencil); [2], 3-42 leaves of easily legible carbon copy typescript to rectos, measuring ca. 29.7 x 21 cm). Folder chipped; text very good. Undated, but early samizdat edition (ca. 1980) of this..... More
Bucharest: Infra-Noir, 1947. Octavos (17.5 × 13 to 28 × 21 cm). Original printed wrappers; ca. 8 pp. per issue. Housed in recent cloth portfolio with leather spine label, in individual archival folders. Fragile, with light soil to wrappers and chipping to spine extremities; labels of a private library to..... More
![Book ID: 50205 Późne wiersze [The late verse]. Osip Mandelstam, Stanisław...](/pictures/thumb/50205_001.jpg?v=1580326958)
Warsaw: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1979. Octavo (19.7 × 14.6 cm). Original side-stapled light blue printed wrappers; 79 pp. Light discoloration to wrappers; else very good. Samizdat reprint of Barańczak's translations of the Voronezh Notebooks of Osip Mandelstam, as well as several poems written in the early 1930s. With a preface..... More
Hauptmann. 220 pp. collection of tributes and essays, by German and Russian contemporaries, on the work of the Nobel-Prize-winning dramatist, novelist, and poet (1862-1946), decorative initials, frontispiece portrait (an original etching by Emil Orlik), 7 other plates showing striking set designs by Hans Leistikow for Hauptmann plays and a Breslau..... More
Martin: Matica Slovenská, 1968. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 245 pp. Text reproduced from typescript, occasional illustrations and reproductions. Spine sun-tanned, with owner's hand-written label; corners very lightly scuffed; still about very good. First edition, published in 500 copies, of an important early bibliography of Slovak surrealist..... More
Michelangelo. Edited by Cesare Guasti. CXXXV pp. introductory text, 367 pp. transcriptions of the poems, copious notes, indices, 2 facsimile plates. 4to. Orig. printed wrpps., somewhat worn and rubbed. Florence (Le Monnier) 1863. The fine, scholarly edition of Michelangelo's poems by the noted historian and critic of Florentine art... More
Bratislava: Slovenská akadémia vied, 1968. Large octavo (23.8 × 16.5 cm). Original white cloth in dust jacket; 422, [1] pp. Numerous black and white plates. Very good; dust jacket with wear to extremities and tears to hinges. First and only edition of the lengthy proceedings of a conference on the..... More
![Book ID: P5807 Cesta k jednoduchosti [The path to simplicity]. i. e. Milena...](/pictures/thumb/P5807_1.jpg?v=1588698664)
Prague: F. Topič, 1926. Octavo (19 × 12.7 cm). Original printed violet wrappers; 90, [3] pp. Wrappers lightly discolored and worn to lower right corner; else about very good. First and only edition of a volume of essays and newspaper editorials by Milena Jesenská, the journalist and translator best known..... More
![Book ID: P6374 Avtomati: neveroiatni razkazi [Machines: incredible stories]. Svetoslav Minkov](/pictures/thumb/P6374_1.jpg?v=1593514683)
Sofia: Izdanie Kazanlushka Dolina, 1935. Second, expanded edition. Small octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak Skitnik; 133, [3] pp. Wrappers with light overall wear; front wrapper beginning to detach; some ink stains to upper edge and rear wrapper; bookstore stamps; still good or better. Second edition..... More
Sofia: Azbuka, [1932]. Small quarto (22.3 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Max Metzger; 109, [3] pp. Poor condition; wrappers worn and chipped; traces of four strips of clear tape across spine; possibly lacking title; in protective mylar. First and only edition of a Bulgarian anthology, containing sixteen essays..... More
![Book ID: 52117 Nabráno z proudu: prozy [Gathered from the stream: prose works]. Karel...](/pictures/thumb/52117_1.jpeg?v=1656423847)
Brno: Družstvo Moravského kola spisovatelů v Brně, 1944. Octavo (20.5 × 13.6 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (front and back); 116, [4] pp. Illustrated with original color lithographs by Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, of which 3 two-page, 7 full page, and 21 partial (integrated with text). Very good. First and only edition of..... More
Born two-hundred years ago, Lola Montez (1821–1861) was one of the most mystifying figures of her age: a proto-feminist figure, one of the most ‘liberated’ women of her day, and a skilled performer and self-promoter with a taste for fraud, and with the remarkable ability to continually reinvent herself. An..... More
Unpaginated book consisting of a 37-pp. experimental fiction text by Nations, printed recto only, the typed pages interspersed with 14 full-page illustrations by Felipe Ehrenberg, all pages mimeographed. Oblong 8vo. Original wrpps., some very minor staining to front cover, extremely minor creasing, overall very good. Collumpton, Devon, England (Beau Geste..... More
![Book ID: P001908 Nevol'nik chesti: poema [A prisoner of honor: a long poem]. Lidiia...](/pictures/thumb/P001908_1.jpg?v=1591527876)
New York: 1936. Octavo (24.2 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers with a portrait of Pushkin; 67, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author (reproduction of a drawing). Printed on thick coated paper stock. With numerous illustrations pertaining to Pushkin's life. About very good; upper right corner creased and lightly..... More
![Book ID: P000129 Dushka: povest' [Little soul: a novella]. Ivan Novikov](/pictures/thumb/P000129.jpg?v=1593527118)
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo pisatelei v Berline, 1922. Second Edition. Octavo (21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 100 pp. Mostly unopened; text evenly toned; wrappers slightly dust-soiled. Covers by L. Golubev-Bagrianorodnyi. Ivan Novikov (1877-1959) was a novelist and poet who began publishing in 1899 and maintained close ties to modernist writers in Moscow..... More
Buenos Aires: self-published, 1949. Octavo (17.3 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 71 pp. Very good or better. A work of history and sociology with a focus on the development of Ukrainian society. Evhen Onats'kyi (1894-1979) was a Ukrainian scholar, writer, and political figure, who began his career as a...... More
![Book ID: 51552 U Vavylons'komu poloni (spomyny) [In Babylonian captivity: recollections]....](/pictures/thumb/51552_1.jpeg?v=1635628084)
Buenos Aires: self-published, 1948. Octavo (19.7 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 131 pp. Wrappers lightly toned; else very good. Evhen Onats'kyi (1894-1979) was a Ukrainian scholar, writer, and political figure, who began his career as a delegate of the Ukrainian People's Republic at the Paris Peace Conference, and ended..... More
1920. Prague: Nacha rech', 1920. Octavos (19.5 ×14 cm). Original printed wrappers in red and blue, with translucent protective covers; 70, [1] pp. and 123, [1] pp. Owner signature of the Russian-born American painter and graphic artist Louis Lozowick. Text evenly toned due to stock; some light underlining in pencil..... More
![Book ID: 50533 Reizreime [Irritant rhymes]. Nonnendose 3 [Nun can 3]. Peer Brax, pseudoym...](/pictures/thumb/50533_001.JPG?v=1643826246)
[Hamburg: Quer-Verlag], 1966. Single broadsheet, printed to recto, measuring 68 × 13.5 cm, rolled and housed in red paper-covered tube, measuring 15.2 × 4 cm, tan printed label affixed. Minor wear; very good. Very rare book object from the debut publication by Uwe Wandrey (born 1939), a series of "nun..... More
Unpaginated (ca. 116 pp.) artist's book pairing enigmatic prose poems with the author's translations of the same into highly imaginative rebus-like compositions incorporating mathematical symbols, the Hebrew alphabet, musical notation, erotic doodles, sign language and other figurative and non-figurative characters. Paper a bit browned, some minor scattered soiling. 4to. Illustrated..... More
![Book ID: P5765 Tsvety Vozstaniia [The flowers of the uprising]. Aleksandr Pomorskii, born...](/pictures/thumb/P5765_001.jpg?v=1608208564)
St. Petersburg: Biblioteka proletkul’ta, 1919. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on orange stock; 30, [2] pp. Unopened and uncut. Light rust to staples; wrapper edges slightly frayed, else very good. First edition. A collection of “worker poetry” by one of the “key organizers of the first..... More
[Berlin, July 1927]. Quarto. Original blind wrappers; 41 pp. of reproduced typescript to rectos and versos. Occasional corrections in red pencil. About very good. Apparently unrecorded manuscript of a novella by this little known Russian writer and dramaturg (1875–after 1935). Having graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, Popello-Davydov founded the arts..... More
Harbin: Tsentral'nyi Pushkinskii Komitet, 1938. Large octavo (26.6 × 19.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 216 pp. Very good; wrappers lightly worn and just beginning to detach from text. Published by the Central Pushkin Committee in Kharbin (modern day China), this collection of reproductions illustrating Pushkin’s life is a kind of..... More