Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo “Mysl’,” 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; [4], 189 pp. Wrappers lightly creased; small nicks to spine extremities; still good or better. First and only edition, one of many books by Frank Heller (pseudonym of Gunnar Serner, 1886–1947) published in the 1920s, to satisfy the..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo inostrannoi literatury, 1948. Octavo (19 × 12.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 37, [3] pp. Very good or better. Russian translation in pamphlet form of an article on Soviet nuclear power by Hogerton and Raymond, "When will Russia Have the Atomic Bomb?" (published in Look, March 16..... More

Moscow: Informatsionnyi Tsentr Moskovskogo Narodnogo Fronta, 1988. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original side-stapled blind card wrappers: 123 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; some rust to staples. Internally very good or better. This samizdat directory of “amateur socio-political organizations” published by the Moscow People’s Front is a remarkable record of the..... More

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 12mo (14 × 11 cm). Original staple stitched pictorial wrappers; 14, [2] pp. Illustrations. Wrappers detached from block; else about very good; light rubbing to spine fold. Soviet fan biography of the American silent cinema star Corinne Griffith (1894–1979) co-written by the young Sergei Iutkevich (Yutkevich; 1904–1985)..... More

Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1928. Octavo (26 × 17.5 cm). Original photographic wrappers; 30, [2] pp. Illustrated wrappers by V. A. Filippov. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout the text. Wrappers lightly worn and creased; internally very good. First edition of this monograph on Viktorina Kriger (1893-1978), the famous Russian ballet dancer, who performed..... More

Munich-Toronto: Spilka Vyzvolennia Ukrainy, 1953. Octavo (20.6 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers on red stock; 112, [2], [28] leaves of plates, [1] pp. Very good. This volume discusses the Great Famine, or Holodomor, in the Krynychansky region in central Ukraine, based on original government documents saved and smuggled to..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 141, [1] pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; original spine strip lacking and sections of the text beginning to detach; text evenly toned; still good or better. First edition. This curious mix of the history and ethnography..... More

Kharkiv: Glavpolitprosvet, Izdatel'stvo "Put' prosveshcheniia" pri narkomprose U.S.S.R., 1924. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 68 pp. and [2] pp. of musical notation. Wrappers professionally restored; some spotting to wrappers; else very good. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Scarce anthology intended for use in..... More

Moscow: Izdatel’stvo vsesoiuznogo obshchestva Politkatorzhan i SS.-Poselentsev, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 24 pp. Light soil to wrappers; slight wear to wrapper edges else very good. A brief history of political prisoner protests staged in Czarist Russia in the lead up to the 1905 Revolution..... More

Kiev: self-published (Kyiv-Druk), 1927. Large oblong octavo (17 × 26 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, not preserving original decorative wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light moisture stains to leaves; text evenly toned due to stock; good or better. Scarce commercially published album intended as a guide for lettering of..... More

First edition. Dresden, 1952. Two original typescripts, one on green stock (seven stapled leaves of typescript to rectos and versos) and one on regular stock (13 pp. of typescript to rectos and versos, with trace of paper clip to upper left corner), both with occasional corrections in ink. With a...... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1928. Octavo (22.3 × 15.2 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers by Aleksandr Rodchenko; 47, [1] pp. With two leaves of plates, featuring for example photographs and pictures of stage designs by A. Rodchenko to recto and verso, on somewhat thicker paper stock. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled and with traces..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. Octavo (22.3 × 15.2 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers by Aleksandr Rodchenko; 48 pp. With two leaves of plates, featuring photographs by Rodchenko to recto and verso, on somewhat thicker paper stock. Wrappers with occasional very faint spotting; torn at the fold; front cover with contemporary, very..... More