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

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

Berlin: Heinrich Caspari Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1920? Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [5], 55 pp. Publisher's ads inside wrappers. Light tears to overlapping wrapper edges; text lightly toned; wrappers beginning to detach along spine head; still a very good, uncut and unopened copy. First edition thus. An émigré publication..... More

4 vols., 289, 336, 319, 355 pp. scholarly text on sentimentality and the expression of feeling in 18th-century literature (Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, St. Pierre, Rétif de la Bretonne, et al.), ext. notes, bibliographies, 23 plates. 8vo. Wrpps. Paris (Boivin) 1931-1933. More

Buenos Aires: Vydavnytstvo Mykoly Denysiuka, 1952. Octavo (16 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by B. Kriukov; 32 pp. Very good, small chip missing to top right cover corner. First edition thus of this play by Iurii Tys, published as vol. 1 of "Teatral'na biblioteka" led by Mykola Denysiuk..... 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

Berlin: Ol'ga D'iakova, [1923]. Octavo (20.5 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed); 268, [1] pp. Wrappers worn and lightly creased; soil to rear wrapper; still about very good, with the attractive pictorial front wrapper well preserved. First Russian emigre edition of Vladimyr Vynnychenko's psychological novel about the life 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

2 vols. in 1: I. 1650-1799. II. 1800-1820. 239 pp. (con't. paginated) bibliography of some 1,379 items, indices, dual frontispieces showing title pages from notable titles. 8vo. Leatherette. New York (Smith) 1930. More

Werkman. 75 pp. text (in Dutch and English) of the the avant-garde writings of Werkman from September 1923 to November 1926, biographical chronology, notes, bibliography, 22 text illus. incl. 2 photo-portraits, accompanied by 10 color facsimiles of the 9 printed "Next Call" pamphlets and one manifesto. Text fasc. (4to., Illus..... More

Washington, DC: Viktor Kamkin, 1970. Octavo (19.3 × 13.2 cm). Original perfect-bound printed wrappers; 140, [4] pp. Wrappers stained; else about very good. First edition of the memoirs of Vladimir Zlobin (1894-1967), a poet and prose writer of the Russian emigration, who was the longtime secretary and literary executor of..... More