Vetsliar (Wetzlar): Vydanne Soiuza Vyzvolennia Ukrainy (Union for the Liberation of Ukraine), 1917. Duodecimo (14.2 × 10.9 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 43 pp. Wrappers separated and split along spine, some pages loose, handwritten ink notations to front cover and several internal pages; ex-libris of Prof. A. A. Granovsky to inside..... More

Paris: self-published, 1947. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Very good, with light soil to rear wrapper and a bit of creasing to overlapping wrapper edges. Text toned. A Georgian legend, ostensibly based on the tales of an old Georgian woman, researched and written by..... 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

[Moscow, ca. late 1970s]. Quarto (31 × 22 cm). Original blue stab-sewn buckram binding with hand-written label to front board; 235 pp. of original and carbon copy typescript to rectos and versos (in black and red ink), from at least two different sources (differences in type). Occasional corrections in ink..... 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

Berlin: J. Ladyschnikow verlag, 1903. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 45, [4] pp. Publisher’s catalog to rear wrapper. Wrappers lightly discolored; still very good. The first foreign edition of Tolstoy’s banned anti-death penalty essay, written in response to an announcement of the execution of twenty peasants in..... More

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, [1921]. Octavo (18.5 × 12 cm). Original card boards; paper label; 79, [1] pp. Good or better; corners lightly scuffed; stain to front board; owner inscription to ffep. Rare Russian edition of the famous Insel-Bücherei, a well-designed series of publications by the important Insel Verlag, founded 1901..... More

Belgrade: Sklad izdaniia Vseslavianskii knizhnyi magazin, 1925. 12mo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers; 47, [1] pp. Text toned and brittle; first few pages and front wrapper chipped. A libretto for a comedic operetta about the life and sorrows of the Russian White émigré community in Belgrade. The..... More

Munich (Augsburg?): Vyd-vo "Vovcheniata" (Buch- und Kunstdruckerei Hanns Lindner), 1946. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [16] pp. of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Good; spine with old tape repair; trace of private labels. First publication of this folk tale for children of the Ukrainian Displaced Persons..... More

London: Writers Forum , 1971. Octavo (21 × 14.6 cm). Original side-stapled xeroxed wrappers; xeroxed text on Chinese-style folded leaves; [19] pp. Very good. English edition of “poems in the language ga realisated (sic!) especially for this collection, dedicated to bob cobbing ladislav novak henri chopin barnard heidsieck francois dufrene..... More

Belgrade: Biblioteka "Misao"; Stamparija "Mirotocivi", 1922. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 176 pp. Stain to rear wrapper; else a very good copy. First edition of a volume of literary parodies by Vinaver, the translator, literary critic, and poet, who was the author of a "Manifesto of..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: "Zemlia i fabrika", 1927. Octavo (17.2 × 13.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Konstantin Eliseev; 30, [2] pp. Light wear to wrappers; stain to front wrapper; still about very good. According to the preface, which situates Wodehouse in the traditon of Swift and Dickens, this is the first..... More

Kharkov: Derzhavne Vydavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1928. Octavo (17.7 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by L. Kaplan; 17, [2] pp. Good; light overall wear with some chipping to spine; stains along wrapper edges; internally clean and unmarked. First edition thus of four humorous short stories by the popular Ukrainian Jewish writer..... More