![Mednyi vsadnik: peterburgskaia povest' [The Bronze Horseman: a Petersburg tale]. A. S. Pushkin,...](/images/noimage.png)
Berlin: Knigoistavel'stvo Neva, 1922. Folio (32 × 24.5 cm). Original decorative quarter-cloth by Vasilii Masiutin; 39, [2] pp. Frontis and title printed in black and red. Eight full-page woodcut illustrations by Masiutin. Good or better; soil to front board two leaves lightly creased to lower corner. Scarce illustrated edition of..... More
![Stikhotvoreniia o svobode [Verse about freedom]. Narodnaia biblioteka No. 140. A. S. Pushkin, ed....](/pictures/thumb/P5494_1.jpg?v=1580499149)
Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo., 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 56, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. Focusing on Pushkin’s political poetry, this collection is an early post-revolutionary attempt at creating a “Soviet Pushkin.” This volume was edited by one of the founders of Russian Symbolism..... More
Berlin: Parabola, [1936]. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5). Modern red quarter-leather binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine, with original printed wrappers preserved; 311, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vera Nikolaevna and Ivan Aleksandrovich (Alekseevich) Bunin, “In memory of..... More
![V rozovom bleske [In the pink glow]. Aleksei Remizov, 1877–1957](/pictures/thumb/P4411.jpg?v=1593529623)
New York: Izdatel’stvo imeni Chekhova, 1952. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 419 pp. Very good, save for fading to spine. First edition of this late novel by Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957), one of the most versatile and idiosyncratic Russian writers of the twentieth century, known for his complex..... More
Vienna: werkstatt aspekt, 1964–1972. Quartos (29.7 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched and spiral-bound printed and pictorial wrappers; 20, 32, and 52 pp. Variously printed in black, purple, and brown ink. The first issue with single leaf supplement, with mimeographed text to recto. The third issue with a five- and a...... More
![Proboiem: chasopys pidkarpats'koi molodi [a journal of the Subcarpathian youth]. Vol. III, nos....](/pictures/thumb/52000_1.jpeg?v=1650371823)
Prague: self-published (Tiskárna František Loos), 1936. Octavos (23.8 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; ca. 16 pp. per issue (continuous pagination). Old postal stamps; owner signature of A. A. Granovsky as well as his exlibris on one of the issues; occasional light underlining; still about very good. Scarce Ruthenian..... More
![Sarkastický smích [Sarcastic laughter].; Edice "Linie", svazek 3 [Linie Series, vol. 3]....](/pictures/thumb/P5850_1.jpg?v=1587489285)
Prague: Linie, 1930. Octavo (19.6 × 14.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 102, [8] pp. Fine, uncut and unopened copy. Scarce third volume published by Edice Linie (Linie Series), with a striking, unattributed avant-gardistic wrapper design. Rozner (1905-1991) was a Czech poet, writer, and journalist from Liberec, who published numerous books..... More
![Pushkinskii sbornik [Pushkin almanac]. Russkii institut v. Prage, The Russian Institute in Prague](/pictures/thumb/P4713_1.jpg?v=1591525803)
Prague: Tipografiia Politika, 1929. Large octavo (26 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers; 303 pp. Mostly unopened and uncut. Some moisture damage to rear wrapper and last few pages not affecting text. Still about very good. A white émigré publication, this collection of scholarly articles on Alexander Pushkin is one..... More
![Tan'ka: roman [Little Tania: a novel]. Savvatii, Dionisiia Ignat'evna Potapenko](/pictures/thumb/P004264.jpg?v=1593515584)
Berlin: Ogon'ki, 1923. Large octavo (20 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Aleksandr Arnshtam; 123, [2] pp. Very good; uncut and unopened copy; light soil to wrappers and spine only. First and only edition of this novel by Potapenko, a writer, dancer, musical critic, and journalist about whom not..... More
Prague: Otto Girgal, 1929–1930. Small quartos (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; consecutive pagination, 135, [6] pp. Occasional illustrations. Small loss to lower right corner of first issue (not affecting text); the other issues in fine condition, in protective mylar. Complete run of this Czech avant-garde theatre journal, which..... More
United States [i.e. New York?]: 1947. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 87 pp. Light foxing to wrappers; slight water damage to rear wrapper, still about very good. First and only edition. A curious work of “utopian sociology,” this text was likely self-published by a Russian émigré in..... More
![Crème des Violettes (izbrannye poezy) [selected poesos]. Igor' Severianin, Igor' V. Lotarev](/pictures/thumb/P4359.jpg?v=1592503365)
Tartu: Odamees, 1919. Octavo (21.6 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 124 pp. Wrappers worn and soiled; text block beginning to detach; internally very good. First edition of this volume of poems by the popular Russian Ego-Futurist writer, who settled in Estonia after the October Revolution, where he died during..... More
![Puti nebesnye: roman, tom II-i [The ways of heaven: a novel], part II. Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev](/pictures/thumb/P003858_1.jpg?v=1593527583)
Paris: Vozrozhdenie, 1948. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 257, [1] pp. Upper spine extremity frayed; possibly resized; else about very good. Ivan Shmelev (1873-1950) was one of the most widely read writers of the Russian emigration, known for his conservative orientation. His work celebrates the old traditions..... More
Berlin: Skify (A. Shreider, also: Partiia levykh sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov), 1921. Quarto (31 × 22 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Polina Khentova; 24 pp. About very good. Rare first issue, one of only two published, of this Berlin journal by the SR (Socialist Revolutionary) Party, edited by Aleksandr Shreider (1895-1930), a...... More
Tbilisi: Shroma, 1913. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original printed green wrappers; 395 pp. Light overall wear; about very good. Scarce anthology containing translations into Georgian of works by Henryk Sienkiewicz ("The writer Zołzikiewicz" - evidently a part of his "Sketches in Charcoal"), Knut Hamsun ("Victoria"), Arthur Schnitzler ("Dying"), and..... More
St. Petersburg: Izdanie "Kol'tso Poetov," 1922. 12mo (13.8 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. About very good; private inventory stamp to front wrapper verso; small Soviet bookstore stamps to rear wrapper. Third volume of poems by Boris Viktorovich Smirenskii (1900-1970), who would go on to become..... More
Nice: self-published [printed in Tartu, tip. K. Mattissna]., 1933. Octavo (23 × 16.5). Original illustrated wrappers by Boris Grosser (?); 79 pp. Uncut and unopened copy, with upper edge of text bent and lightly frayed; wrappers lightly dust-soiled; pp. 24-25 toned due to laid-in piece of ephemera. One of 1500..... 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
![O tekh, kto ishchet: cheshskie siluety [About those who seek. Czech silhouettes]. Boris Sokolov,...](/pictures/thumb/51416.jpeg?v=1630515828)
Prague: Plamja, 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers by Václav Špála; 221, [2] pp. Several illustrations by Špála. A very good, uncut and unopened copy, with only very light dust-soiling to wrappers and spine. First edition of these sketches by the prominent Russian émigré Boris Sokoloff (1889-1979)..... More
![Shkola dlia durakov [A school for fools]. Sasha Sokolov](/pictures/thumb/51820_1.jpg?v=1646697496)
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1976. Octavo (18.5 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative card wrappers: 169, [1] pp. Owner inscription in black ink to inside wrapper; light sunning to base of spine; else a fine, apparently unread copy. First edition. A cult classic of Russian postmodernism, this first novel of the Soviet-Canadian..... More
![Gumová pevnost: válka budoucnosti [The rubber fortress: the war of the future]. Three volumes...](/pictures/thumb/P003112_1.jpg?v=1588695763)
Ostrava: self-published (Expedice lidových romanu "Svět" M. Ostrava V.-Hulváky, 1935-36. Octavos. Original pictorial wrappers on paper of various colors; 336, 320 and 418 pp. per volume. Mostly very good; a few wrappers lightly soiled and with nicks to spine extremities. A bizarre Czech dystopia depicting an epic worldwide war, the..... More
![Žena, která milovala: romanová črta [The woman who loved: a novellistic sketch]....](/pictures/thumb/P6433_1.jpg?v=1587490563)
Prague: self-published (printed by Graf & Stricker), 1929. Octavo (20 × 13.8 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers (anonymous), printed in red and green; 125 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good; in protective mylar sleeve. Scarce book of prose, with a striking avant-gardistic wrapper design (unattributed). Little is..... More
Paris: Knizhn. Delo "Rodnik" ("La Source"), 1930. Large octavo (24 × 18.5 cm). Original blue decorative wrappers by Boris Grosser; 193, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to a fellow translator on the front flyleaf (Sablina). Wrappers lightly worn, edges rubbed; some fading and loss of spine strip..... More
![K rabochemu narodu [To the working people]. Prilozhenie. I. Proekt Iaponskogo obshchestva...](/pictures/thumb/P002475_1.jpg?v=1597926723)
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
![Ispoved' [A Confession]. Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoy, ev, ikolaevich](/pictures/thumb/P002383_1.jpg?v=1591527565)
Moscow: Izdanie knigoizdatel'stva "Posrednik", 1907. Moscow: Izdanie knigoizdatel'stva '”Posrednik”, 1907. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; [5], 6-83 pp. A very good copy, partially uncut; light foxing to wrappers; spine extremities and corners lightly scuffed; wrapper beginning to separate from text block along spine. Tolstoy's famous account of..... More