![Izbrannye rasskazy [Selected short stories, two volumes] and P'esy i shutki [Plays and farces]....](/pictures/thumb/P004170_1.jpg?v=1591528442)
New York: [1st Russian Publishing Corporation], ca. 1917. Octavos (20 × 13.5 cm). Original beige and blue printed wrappers, decorative border; 65-96, 97-128; and 129-192 pp. Very good copies; book store label of Jacques Povolozky (Povolotskii), the emigre bookseller, publisher, and gallerist in Paris, inside front wrappers. A very attractive..... More
![Pis’ma: Stikhi [Letters: Verse]. Kolau Cherniavskii](/pictures/thumb/P6183_001.jpg?v=1592580758)
Tbilisi: Tip. Gaz. “Zaria vostoka”, 1927. Octavo (22.8 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 30 pp. Cover illustration by Kirill Zdanevich. Very discrete repairs to wrappers, with professional paper restauration; text evenly toned due to stock; still about very good. First edition of the only collection of poems by Nikolai..... More
Paris: YMCA Press, 1929. Octavo (19 cm). Original printed wrappers, 39 pp. From the personal library of emigre poet Vladimir Smolenskii, with his owner inscription on the front fly leaf. A mostly uncut, unread copy; light wear to wrappers. Vladimir Smolenskii (1901-1961) was born into a Cossack military family and..... More
Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1929. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Later green clothl front wrapper preserved; 82 pp. Good or better; text toned due to stock; some traces of paper restoration; frequent light annotations in pencil. Scarce anthology on TRAM, an acronym for Teatr Rabochei Molodezhi, or Theatre of Working Youth, which..... More
Paris: Izd-vo "Mech", 1937. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 42 pp. Wrappers lightly creased and spotted; still about very good. First and only edition of this harsh polemic by a pro-Ukrainian member of the Russian diaspora, writing under the pseudonym A. Chigirin. The book critiques the..... More
Moscow: Vserossiiskii Proletkul’t, 1924. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 109, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; crease to front wrapper; text toned due to stock; occasional underlining in pencil; about good or better. First edition. This polemical pamphlet argues for tightening the political positions of the Russian..... More
![Průvodce Prahou [A guide to Prague]. Čeněk Chyský](/pictures/thumb/50906_1.jpg?v=1597073763)
Prague: Svaz československých dělnických turistů, [1934]. Octavo (18 × 12.1 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers by L. Šmíd; 145, [2] pp. About very good; light overall wear and nick to upper spine extremity. Scarce guidebook to Prague issued by the Czechoslovak Union of Proletarian Tourists, which sought to turn tourism, hiking..... More
1965. [Brno]: A. B., 1965. Oblong folio (13 × 21.5 cm). Blue embossed cloth; [14] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and [21] leaves of original photographic prints of Delvaux’s work, apparently taken from the original book publication. Very good; owner inscription to title. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt..... More
![Fabiánský socialismus [Fabian socialism]. G. D. H. Cole, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/P6440_1.jpg?v=1587490564)
Prague: Klub socialistické kultury ("Práce"), 1947. Octavo (22.8 × 14.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Karel Teige; 156, [2] pp. Front wrapper with light dust soil; else very good, in protective mylar. First edition of this translation by M. Haluza, with an understated but effective late typographic wrapper design by..... More
Prague: Alois Lapacek, 1922. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5). Original staple-stitched photographic wrappers; 1-22, [1] pp. With nineteen black-and-white photographs in the text. Wrappers lightly soiled; still a very good copy. Rare publication by the émigré instantiation of Zemgor, or United Committee of the Union of Zemstvos and the Union..... More
N.p.: 1872. N.p., [1872], single folded leaves measuring 20.5 × 14 and 19 × 12.5 cm. Very good. Two holograph letters containing a polite request to be introduced to “Her Majesty the Queen” before Tolstoy’s return to St. Petersburg. “N’ayant pas eu le plaisir de vous trouver a à la..... More
Leningrad: Nauchnoe knigoizdatel’stvo, 1925. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 154, [6] pp. With forty-nine smaller drawings in the text. Small nick to front wrapper; spine extremities very lightly frayed; text evenly toned; still about very good. First edition in Russian. This early film history, oriented toward industry..... More
Moscow: Gramatizdevneeciba "Prometejs", 1931. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [2], 237 pp. Very good. Rare example of Latvian modernist publishing in Moscow, Russia. The design of the Latvian first edition resembles the Russian original (Fabrika Rable, 1928), which also features a vertical red rectangle abutted by two..... More
![Noc-dzien: mechaniczny instynkt elektryczny [Night-day: Mechanical electrical instinct]. Tytus...](/pictures/thumb/50134.jpeg?v=1584393964)
Krakow: Gebethner i Wolff (Drukarna "Czasu"), 1922. Octavo (22.3 × 15.2 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 3-41 pp. Very good or better. Fine copy of this volume of futurist poems by Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945), the Polish painter, Futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. In 1917, together with the brothers Zbigniew and..... More
London: 1902. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 16-48 pp. per issue. Good to very good, with one issue unopened and uncut. Five issues (of twelve published) of the political supplement to the literary and political journal “Zhizn’” (Life), founded in St. Petersburg in 1897. Literary works by..... More
[Geneva]: Tipografiia Russkikh Sotsialdemokratov, 1897. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original tan staple-stitched printed wrappers; 48 pp. Very good. A pamphlet discussing regulation of work hours in factories of the Russian Empire, with the new law of June 2nd 1897 limiting the work day to 11 hours for men and..... More
’s-Hertogenbosch: Museum Het Kruithuis, 1978. Octavos. Original saddle-stitched wrappers printed in black and white; 32 pp. each (consecutive pagination). Very good; light wear to covers and faint staining to rear wrapper of second volume. A complete set of these two exhibition catalogs focusing on concrete poetry from Eastern Europe. Issued..... More
![Filmová dramata [Drames de cinéma]. Louis Delluc, designer Karel Teige](/pictures/thumb/50549_1.jpg?v=1581695283)
Prague: Ladislav Kuncíř, 1925. Octavo (19.7 × 12.3 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Karel Teige; 77, [3] pp. About very good. First and only edition of these works by the French film critic and director, with a striking photomontage cover by Teige. Jindřich Toman notes that "Cover designs made by..... More
Král. Vinohrady (Prague): self-published, 1912. Quarto (25 × 18 cm). Original woodcut-printed wrappers; 51 pp. With a front wrapper design, decorations, and eleven original color woodcuts by Váchal (frontispiece, title, nine plates with tissue guards, and the original woodcut illustration to front wrapper). Very good or better. First edition of..... More
![Jinošství [Adolescence: a novel]. Ribemont Dessaignes, designer Josef Hesoun](/pictures/thumb/50547_1.jpg?v=1581695281)
Prague: Česká grafická unie, 1930. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Josef Hesoun; 342, [1] pp. About very good; erased ownership signature to title and light wear to front wrapper. First edition of this translation from the French, with striking photomontage wrappers by Hesoun (1903-1965), a modernist..... More
![Almanakh Literaturen Glas [Almanach Literary Voice]. Dimitar B. Mitov, designer Georgi Atanasov](/pictures/thumb/P003199_1.jpg?v=1591011062)
Sofia: Azbuka, 1931. Octavo (23 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgi Atanasov; 112 pp. Decorative head piece by Em. Rakarov and typographic dividers between contributions. Wrappers somewhat worn; some fraying to spine extremities; lower right corner of first three pages creased; still good or better, in protective mylar..... More
149 pp. monograph (in Serbian) on the 13th-century monastery church in the district of Novi Pazar in western Serbia and its outstanding wall paintings, notes, summary in English, list of illus. in Serbian and English, over 25 text illus. incl. plans, inscriptions, etc., 19 pp. of schematic drawings with bilingual..... More
Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo "Mysl'", 1924. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 96, 79 pp. Musical scores. Good or better. A handbook on early childhood music pedagogy which combines hands-on advice for conducting lessons with numerous musical scores. The collection includes folk music and dance as well as scores by classical..... More
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo Ol'ga D'iakova, [1929]. Octavo (20.3 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with publisher's mark to rear wrapper; 218, [1] pp. Wrappers worn and creased; tape repair to spine; internally good. Nikolai Rominskii (1868-1943), who used the pseudonym Donets, was a Russian painter, graphic artist, pedagogue and writer who..... More
![Granitnyi lug [A granite meadow]. Second, expanded edition. Ivan Doronin](/pictures/thumb/P5292_1.jpg?v=1589982964)
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Krasnaia nov'", 1924. Octavo (19.4 × 13.3 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 150 pp. About very good; Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; text toned. Second (but only recorded) edition of this volume of proletarian poetry. Doronin was a member of the "Workers' Spring" [Rabochaia vesna] and "October" [Oktiabr']..... More