Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1932. Octavo (21 × 16.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (not attributed); 32 pp. About very good. Rare translation by Z. Bodiazhina into the Erzya language of the book “Krasin vo l'dakh” by Emilii Mindlin (1900-1981), originally published in Russian. Erzya is the Finno-Ugric language of one of..... More
St. Petersburg: XX Vek, 1902. Octavo (18.3 × 12.3 cm). Contemporary beige cloth; [4], 379 pp. Sixteen photographic portraits on separate leaves; numerous decorative head pieces and vignettes. Original wrappers perished; stamp of a non-existing lending library to title; else about very good. First and only edition of this sensationalist..... More
![Rezchik iz Siuzendzhi [The chiseller from Siuzenji]. Translated from the Japanese by S....](/pictures/thumb/P001878_1.jpg?v=1593527017)
First edition thus. Paperback. Paris: 1928. Octavo (23 cm). Original decorative yellow card wrappers (unattributed); 44 pp. With one black-and-white photograph depicting a scene in the play's first performance. Wrappers slightly dust-soiled; small chips along overlapping edges; text very good. First and only Russian translation of this play by Japanese..... More
![Holý rok [The Naked Year]. Boris Pilňak, Vladimír Vendyš, Pilniak Pil'niak](/pictures/thumb/P6799_1.jpg?v=1592580765)
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
![Vakarų fronte nieko naujo [All Quiet on the Western Front]. E. M. Remarque, designer J. J. Burba](/pictures/thumb/50284.jpg?v=1642709971)
), and the one of Kent State Uni Library (Ohio). Kaunas: "Sakalo" bendrovės leidinys, 1929. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by J. J. Burba; 256 pp. Good or better; wrappers somewhat worn; small nicks and light soil. First edition of Remarque's (Remark) famous pacifist novel, published the..... More
![Armianskie poety [Armenian poets]. S. Ia Sharti, Sergei Iakimovich Mikirtumov](/pictures/thumb/P6452_1.jpg?v=1591346823)
Tbilisi: self-published (Tipografiia "Progress"), 1917. Octavo (19 × 15 cm). Original blue printed wrappers; 123, [4] pp. Light soil to wrappers; tiny tear to front wrapper; text evenly toned due to stock; still very good. Second edition of these translations of Armenian poetry from the seventeenth to the early twentieth..... 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
![Drakula: roman [Count Dracula: a novel], volumes I and II (complete). Bram Stoker, J. F. Khun](/pictures/thumb/P004176.jpg?v=1643036051)
Prague: NakladatelstvÍ Emila Šolce, [1919]. Octavo (18.5 × 13 cm). Rebound in quarter cloth with paper-covered boards; title printed to spine; 3-447, [1] pp. Original wrappers perished; title page mounted on separate leaf and restored to margins; lacking the half-title preceding the second volume and the last leaf of volume..... More
![Imteurgin-ivanema elulugu [Estonian translation of Zhizn' Imteurgina starshego]. Teki Odulok,...](/pictures/thumb/P004267_1.jpeg?v=1645523883)
Moscow: Välismaatööliste Kirjastusühisus NSV Liidus (Association of Foreign Workers in the USSR), 1936. Octavo (20 × 12 cm). Original gray embossed boards; 140, [3] pp. 8 leaves of illustrations by V. Kurdov. Very good. Estonian translation of a novella by one of the first writers of the Russian peoples of..... 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
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
![Poteriannyi million [The Missing Million]. Translated by T.A.I.; Biblioteka sovremennykh...](/pictures/thumb/P002973_1.jpg?v=1591526343)
Riga: Izdatel'stvo "Khronos", 1926. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; [2], 136 pp. Wrappers dust-soiled; small nick to lower spine end; a bit of wear to overlapping wrapper foreedge; overall a very good copy. The first translation into Russian of Wallace's 1923 novel. In 1929, at least..... More
![Hlos hrudy [Voice of the soil]. Óndra Łysohorsky, Erwin Goj](/pictures/thumb/P5881_1.jpg?v=1593514743)
Prague: Družstevní Práce, 1935. Octavo (19.8 × 12 cm). Original embossed ochre cloth, orange dust wrappers by Ladislav Sutnar; [8], 115, [2] pp. Frontis drawing by Ferdiš Duša. Light sun-tanning to spine; else very good or better in very good dust jacket. Scarce third book of poems by this Silesian..... More
![Anarchja: przeklad z wloskiego [Anarchy: translated from the Italian]. Malatesta, rrico](/pictures/thumb/50613_001.jpg?v=1619010545)
London: wydawnictwo Polsko-Rosyjskiej Grupy Anarchistów Komunistów w Londynie, 1906. Octavo (17 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched orange printed wrappers; 51, [1] pp. Good or better; wear to wrappers, especially along spine fold; rust to staples;. First Polish translation of this classic anarchist text by Errico Malatesta (1853-1932), the best-known Italian..... More