![Ne mogu molchat’: o smertnykh nakazaniiakh [I cannot be silent: about the death penalty]....](/pictures/thumb/P6538_1.jpg?v=1591525323)
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
![Tserkov' i gosudarstvo i drugiia stat'i [Church and State and other essays]. Tolstoi, ev, ikolaevich](/pictures/thumb/P002473_1.jpg?v=1592580749)
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
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
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
![Bednaia Liza (Belgradskie siluety) [Poor Liza (Belgrade sketches)]. Pavel Tutkovskii](/pictures/thumb/P002782_1.jpg?v=1594378023)
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
Buenos Aires: Vydavnytstvo Mykoly Denysiuka, 1952. Octavo (16 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by B. Kriukov; 32 pp. Very good. First edition thus of this play by Iurii Tys, published as vol. 1 of "Teatral'na biblioteka" led by Mykola Denysiuk, a Ukrainian publisher in Buenos Aires. Tys was..... More
[Czech Republic], 1977. Nine cards with offset-printed typewritten haiku, laid into original white card folder, measuring 14.5 × 10.2 cm. Signed and numbered by Valoch. Fine. Collection of eight “haiku drawings” consisting of all possible combinations of the two verbalized colors green and yellow (e.g. “green / green / yellow”..... 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
![Stikhi [Poems]. Samizdat edition. Aleksei Venzhik, 1961–2011](/pictures/thumb/P6053_1.jpg?v=1589982603)
[Moscow]: self-published, [1990]. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled pamphlet; pictorial wrapper reproducing a drawing by F. Zverev; [16] pp. of text to rectos and versos; the rear wrapper reproduces a drawing of the author; xeroxed photo-reduced offset-printed text and typescript. Private bookplate tipped in between first two leaves..... More
126 pp. volume documenting a year's literary and visual art contributions from the landmark artistic movement, the volume edited by Max Mell, with literary contributions by Peter Altenberg, Franz Blei, Max Brod, Franz Theodor Czokor, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Arthur Roessler, and with graphic contributions from Josef..... More
![Nova pantologija pelengirike [New Panthology of New Serbian Pelengyrics]. Stanislav Vinaver](/pictures/thumb/50538_1.jpg?v=1602571218)
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
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
Tartu: Odamees, 1920. First edition. Octavo (17.8 × 13.0 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Natalie Mei (or Mey); 102 pp. Printed on thick wove paper; with a small frontis illustration printed in the flesh color used on the front wrapper, and nine small black and white illustrations in the text..... More
![V západu slunce: básně [In the sunset: verse]. Miloš Votík](/pictures/thumb/P5423_1.jpg?v=1587488465)
Plzeň: Nákladem Slovanského knihkupectví, 1929. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, 47, [1] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to title. Hand-written title to spine; small tear to left edge of front wrapper; else about very good. Scarce book of Czech verse published in the Western..... 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
![Litíce: povídky o vojně [The Furies: stories about the war]. Signed and inscribed by the...](/pictures/thumb/P5011.jpg?v=1587488643)
Prague: Aventinum, 1928. Octavo (19.3 × 12.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 159, [5] pp. Signed and inscribed by Weiner on the half title. Wrappers very lightly sun-toned and creased; still a highly attractive copy, very good or better. Second edition of Weiner's first book of prose, considered to be the..... 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
![Tiazhelaia dusha [A difficult soul]. Vladimir Zlobin](/pictures/thumb/P6288_1.jpg?v=1591109315)
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
![Iskateli [The seekers]. Iurii Mandel'shtam](/pictures/thumb/50920_001.jpg?v=1610550783)
Shanghai: Izdatel'stvo "Slovo", 1938. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Contemporary half-cloth binding; wrappers not preserved; 233 pp. Title somewhat creased and with tear to corner, not affecting text; else about very good. First and only edition of this volume of literary essays by the Russian poet and critic of the..... More
[Warsaw]: Rekontra, [1985]. Small quarto (27 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with a large drawing, printed in green and black; 44 pp. Offset-reproduced drawn comics to rectos and versos. One page supplied by the artist, Maciek Bialy in original ink. Text detached from lower staple; else about very..... More
![Doktor Zhivago: roman [Doctor Zhivago: a novel], in two volumes. Boris Pasternak](/pictures/thumb/51897_1.jpeg?v=1646766723)
Paris [e.g. Washington, DC]: Societe d'Edition et d'Impression Mondiale, 1959. 12mos (15 × 9 cm). Original printed wrappers on light yellow stock; 634 pp. (continuous pagination). Both volumes in fine condition. The third edition of Pasternak's novel (after the appearance of the Michigan and Milan editions), reportedly financed by the..... More
![Zoo, pis'ma ne o liubvi ili tret'ia Eloiza [Zoo, Or Letters Not about Love, or the Third Eloise]....](/pictures/thumb/51620_1.jpeg?v=1635272404)
Berlin: Gelikon, 1923. Octavo (21.3 × 16 cm). Original typographically illustrated wrappers; 109, [1] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy, with only light toning to foreedge. First edition of Shklovsky's acclaimed novel, which continued the montage technique developed in his memoir "A Sentimental Journey" and was written after..... More
Tbilisi, 1925-1926. Large octavos (26 × 17 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 126 and 201, [1] pp. Portraits. Private bookplate to front wrapper verso; wrappers with recent spine repair; light overall wear and creasing to wrappers; still good or better. Scarce anthology of Georgian women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth..... More
![Tvář: kulturní měsíčnik [The face: a cultural monthly]. Alternate subtitle: literatura,...](/pictures/thumb/51953_1.jpeg?v=1648733943)
Prague: Svaz čs. spisovatelů, 1964–1965 and 1968–1969. Square octavos and octavos (ca. 19 × 20.5 to 24 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; ca. 48 pp. per issue. A few issues with minor wear to wrappers; overall very good. Complete run in twenty-eight issues (in twenty-six fascicles) of this short-lived..... More
![Khosum e radio-Alzhire: satirapoem [Radio Algieria speaking: a satiropoem]. Russian title:...](/pictures/thumb/51328_1.jpeg?v=1634916760)
Erevan: GIZ SSR Armenii (Pethrat), 1931. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Tajat Khvachvanqyan; 38 pp. Light wear and creasing to wrappers; still very good. First and only edition of this futurist-inspired "satiropoem" by Vshtuni (1894-1958), who was one of the co-signers (along with Yegishe Charents..... More