Prague: Aventinum, 1926. First Czech Edition. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [6], 405, [2] pp. Signed by Erenburg, in pencil, on the front fly leaf, with the former owner's note in ink below indicating that this copy was signed after a lecture at the Umělecká beseda; a...... More

New York: Izdatel’stvo imeni Chekhova, 1955. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 412 pp. Very good; sun fading to the spine and partly wrappers. First edition, published posthumously, of the great Russian theatre director, producer, and theoretician Nikolai N. Evreinov (1879–1953). Published by a New York-based Russian diaspora..... More

1991. Leningrad: “Sovetskii kompozitor”, 1991. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 293, [3] pp. Illustrations throughout. Some underlining and notes in blue ink to pp. 8-11, else very good. First edition. The first published collection of short stories by the writer and artist duo Vladimir Evsev’ev and Natalia..... More

[Moscow]: self-published, [ca. 1962–1969?]. Octavo (28.5 × 20 cm). Original side-stapled hand-inscribed wrappers; 42 pp. of typescript with occasional handwritten corrections to margins. Very good. An early samizdat collection of poems by the poet, novelist, and essayist Vadim Fadin (b. 1936). Born in Moscow, Fadin graduated from the Moscow Aviation..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1926. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Numerous graphs, charts, and illustrations. Light wear and soil to corners; wrappers very lightly spotted; still about very good. Intended for political educators, this handbook is a practical guide for organizing cultural and educational events around..... More

Moscow: Izdatel' i knigoprodavets Klavdii Kuz'mich Shamov, 1888. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Quarter-calf over four raised bands; gilt title to spine; pebbled cloth boards; 996 pp. Frontis portrait. Boards and spine rubbed and sun-tanned; a few small nicks to leather; occasional light foxing, else internally very good. Denis Fonvizin..... More

[Soviet Union, ca. 1923-1925]. Small oblong quarto (18 × 26.5 cm). String-bound self-made pamphlet comprising seventeen originally blank leaves with hand-drawn bars and musical notation in ink of various colors, to rectos and versos. Worn from use; with creasing, soil, and occasional small tears, especially to first leaf; a few..... More

Prague: Galerie V. Hořejš, 1945. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original printed wrappers; [20] pp., with 5 pp. of text and 6 full-page black and white reproductions on better stock. Very good. Rare catalog. With an introductory essay by František Bárta and a poem by Vítězslav Nezval read at the..... More

[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954]. Single folded leaf, measuring 20.8 × 14.6 cm, printed to recto and verso, and when folded resembling a US airmail envelope. With one duplicate copy; laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags, with the text "The American people greet the..... More

Moscow–Berlin: Mezhrabpom, 1924. Octavo (17 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photomontage design by Petr Galadzhev; XXV, 117 pp. With one map. About very good; light wear to wrapper edges and spine extremities. Early Soviet fascination with Western industrialization is captured in the unattributed Constructivist wrapper design of..... More

Prague: Melantrich a.s., 1933-1934. Small quartos (26 × 20 cm). Original printed wrappers; 640 pp. (continuous pagination). Overall very good; occasional light wear to wrappers. Complete first year, comprising twenty issues, in the original printed wrappers, of this Czechoslovak journal for the arts, literature, and criticism. The first two years..... More

Prague, 1928. Quartos (30.5 × 22.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 173, [3] pp. (consecutive pagination). Illustrated from photographs and caricatures. About very good; occasional nicks and tears to the fragile paper. Complete yearly run of the Czechoslovak cultural and political journal founded by F. X. Šalda and Otokar Fischer, which..... More

Łódź: Wolna drukarnia MSW, [1988]. Single sheet, xerox-printed to recto, measuring 36 × 25.5 cm. About very good; old creases. Apparently unrecorded poster for a series of “manic” political happenings slash performances held at the Galeria Działań Maniakalnych in Łódź, a branch of the Pomarańczowa Alternatywa (Orange Alternative), an originally..... More