Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. A public health and hygiene pamphlet published during the Typhus epidemic unleashed by the privations of the Russian civil war, which followed the Bolshevik Revolution (1918-1923). A massive public education campaign..... More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i Kniga”, 1925. Octavo (22 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 125, [3] pp. Light wear and soil to wrappers; a few nicks to spine; still good or better. The aim of this handbook is to convey the importance of reading within the Soviet education system..... More

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 12mo (14 × 11.5 cm). Original staple stitched pictorial wrappers; 15, [1] pp. Illustrations. Very good. Second edition. Soviet fan biography of the American silent cinema star Priscilla Dean (1896–1987), with numerous portraits and a filmography of the actress to last page. Little is known about the..... More

Moscow: self-published, 1924-1925. Octavos (23 × 15 cm). Original paper wrappers; 21, [1] pp. and one plate; 15, [1] pp.; and 23, [1] pp. Text evenly toned due to paper stock; else very good copies. Count Iurii A. Olsuf’ev (1878-1938) was a scholar of ancient Russian art and iconography, as..... More

Moscow: Izdanie narodnogo komissariata zdravookhraneniia, 1920. Octavo (22 × 19 cm). Publisher's staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 54 pp. Tables and graphs throughout. Slight moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; crease to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Else uncut and unopened; about very good. Second edition (first published in..... More

Edice Symposion, 32 (series title). Prague: Symposion, 1928. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on red stock; 189, [3] pp. Very good. First Czech translation of Pil'niak's novel "The Naked Year." "It was his novel The Naked Year, a flinchingly honest portrayal of life in post-Revolutionary Russia, that..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1920. Octavo (24 × 13.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. First leaf soiled; else good or better. An interesting pamphlet reviewing the failures and successes of the new Soviet state in the three years since the October Revolution. Reminding the workers of their achievements, the author..... More

Tashkent: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury UzSSR, 1958. Quarto (26.7 × 21.3 cm). Publisher's embossed yellow buckram; 290, [2] pp. With 144 photographic reproductions, many of them full-page. Pinted on better paper stock. Lacks the original dust wrapper; else very good. Well-produced overview of rich heritage of Uzbek architectue, covering the..... More

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

Moscow-Leningrad: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, [1934]. Oblong quarto (17.2 × 25.6 cm). Original blue cloth with title in yellow and small printed vignette affixed to front board; decorative endpapers with the Russian logo of the theatre; 95, [1] pp. Last signature in French, rather than German. Good or..... More

Erevan: Editions de l’Academie des Sciences de la R.S.S. de l'Arménie, 1969. Large octavo. Original brown cloth with title to spine and front cover; 468, [4] pp. Hinges lightly shaken; else about very good. Extensive bibliographical reference of publications on Armenia in languages other than Armenian and Russian, including English..... More

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. Octavo (18.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed); 234, [3] pp. Light wear to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; text evenly toned due to stock, still about very good. Owner signature dated 1925 to title page. First edition. An early novel by the prolific Soviet writer..... More

Berlin: Russkoe universal’noe izdatel’stvo, 1921. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; scant underlining in pencil to text, still about very good. An overview of work in the Soviet natural sciences, published during the period of massive institutional reorganization and emigration of..... More