Berlin und Stettin: bey Friedrich Nicolai, 1788. Octavo (15.5 × 9.2 cm). Contemporary half calf; spine richly gilt and with green title lable; edges red; XVI, 347 pp. Frontis engraving by E. Henne. Bookplate of Martin E. Winkler to front pastedown. Boards very lightly rubbed; tiny ink shelfmark to first..... More

[Prague]: 1989; 2012. Sewn balsa wood boards (30.5 × 19 cm), with original linocut sheets mounted to front and back; six gatherings consisting of 2-3 folio sheets. Signed by the author on the colophon. Very good, soft wooden boards with a few light marks. A surreal poetic meditation on time..... More

Prague: Jazzová sekce, 1982. Quarto (26 × 20 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [9], 74 pp. of text and images with [64] leaves of photo-illustrations, including 9 in color. Very good. A commemorative volume for the Czech sculptor Eva Kmentová (1928–1980), a modernist working in post-war Czechoslovakia whose work showed influences..... More

Shanghai: 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 and..... More

New York: Izdanie Kruzhka Russkikh Poetov v Amerike, 1946. Small octavo (17 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 5-95 pp. Printed on laid paper. Very light spotting to front wrapper; crease to upper right corner (and p. 1); else very good or better. Mikhail Chekhonin (1907-1962) was a Russian..... More

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

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

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

Krakow: Nakładca Fr. Dabioch, [1946]. Original red pictorial card portfolio, housing [3] pp. of text followed by twenty-one lithographic plates, measuring 36.5 × 25.5 cm. Light abrasions to spine; lower spine end beginning to split; private stamp to first leaf; contents very good. First and only edition. A collection of..... More

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

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

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

[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