Berlin: Petropolis, 1929. Octavo (19.8 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 223, [1] pp. About very good; spine sun-tanned; owner inscription to ffep; light wear to wrapper edges. First edition of Erenburg's documentary novel about the development and peak of the age of the automobile (it was translated as "The..... More
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1922. Octavo (19.3 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 194, [1] pp. Stamp of a private Russian library in Athens, Greece to ffep and title; text toned due to stock; else a very good copy. First edition of Erenburg's only two published plays. A Soviet writer, journalist..... More
![Book ID: P002328 Rváč [Rvach; The Grabber]. Ilja Erenburg, Il'ia Ehrenburg](/pictures/thumb/P002328_1.jpg?v=1591104723)
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
![Book ID: 50257 Moia malen’kaia Leniniana [My little Leniniana]. Venedikt Erofeev](/pictures/thumb/50257_1.jpeg?v=1580326983)
Bibliotechka gazety “Sovetskaia moral’ka” [Small library series of the newspaper “Sovetskaia moral’ka”], no. 1. Moscow: Liga, 1989. A5 (21 × 14.5 cm). Single folded leaf, printed to rectos and versos, twice folded; 8 pp. Very good. First Russian appearance of Venedikt Erofeev’s brilliant satirical work, which had appeared in Paris..... More
![Book ID: 52407 Izbrannoe [Selected poems]. Sergei Esenin](/pictures/thumb/52407.jpeg?v=1669831693)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1922. Small octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 115 pp. About very good; light fraying to spine extremities. First publication thus of this anthology of poems by Esenin, the scandalous "peasant poet", which includes a selection from the collections "Radunitsa", "Goluben'", "Preobrazhenie", "Tveriadnitsa", "Mret'", and..... 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
Revel' (Tallinn): Knigoizdatel'stvo "Bibliofil", 1921. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original illustrated wrappers by A. Vabbe; 108, [4] pp. Publisher's ads. A fine copy; uncut and unopened. First edition of this play by Symbolist director and playwright Nikolai Evreinov, which was staged all throughout Europe during the 1920s and translated..... More
![Book ID: P6557 Zombi [Zombie]. Vladimir Evsev’ev, Natalia Evsev’eva-Gromova](/pictures/thumb/P6557_001.jpg?v=1580327105)
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
![Book ID: P5517 Razgrom: roman [The Rout: a novel].; Nedra: biblioteka ot novi romani...](/pictures/thumb/P5517_1.jpg?v=1589982903)
Sofia: Musala, 1932. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgi Atanasov; 143, [1] pp. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; chip to rear wrapper; still about very good. Bulgarian translation of Soviet writer Aleksandr Fadeev's (1901-1956) important early novel about the Civil War, which chronicles the decimation..... More
![Book ID: 50989 Stikhi [Poems]. Vadim Fadin](/pictures/thumb/50989_01.jpg?v=1601633932)
[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
![Book ID: 52444 Vybir poezii [A selection of poems]. Fed'kovych, syp Iuriy](/pictures/thumb/52444_1.jpeg?v=1667336709)
Vetsliar (Wetzlar): Vydavnytstvo "Struia", 1920. Small octavo (13.8 × 10.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. Published by the education department of the Ukrainian Military Mission, this volume of poems was published for the benefit of Ukrainian prisoners of war in and near the camp at Wetzlar..... More
![Book ID: 51209 Kino v rabochem klube [Film in the worker’s club]. M. Filippov, oris](/pictures/thumb/51209_1.jpg?v=1639745643)
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
![Book ID: P6099 Doktor NO (James Bond – agent 007) [Dr. No]. WITH: Fleming, Ian and R....](/pictures/thumb/P6099_1.jpg?v=1585318693)
[Prague]: Svobodné slovo, 1968-1969. Small octavos (15 × 11 cm). Contemporary blind card wrappers; 204 and 292 pp. The second text with nine reproductions of original drawings, signed M. Novák. Text probably slightly resized to binding; else about very good. First appearance of any work by Ian Fleming in Czech..... 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
Prague: Plamia, 1924. First Edition thus. Small octavo. Original illustrated wrappers; 114, [5] pp. (including [3] pp. publisher's ads). Very good; uncut and unopened copy; very light wear to wrappers; spine toned and light spotting to top edge. An interesting example of collaboration between the Swedish Russian-language publisher "Severnyie ogni"..... More
[Prague]: [1973]. Printed on thick wove paper measuring ca. 30 × 21 cm, plate measurements 14.5 × 10 cm. Signed and numbered (22 of 27). Fine. Gross was an early member of the Czech post-war artist collective “Skupina 42” (Group 42), formally founded in 1940, during the German Protectorate. The..... 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
![Book ID: P6897 [Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet Distributed by Air Balloon]....](/pictures/thumb/P6897_1.jpg?v=1580327121)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954-1956]. Single leaf, measuring 14.5 × 57 cm, folded four times to create a pamphlet with ten pages of text and images. Very good. Scarce anti-communist flyer in Czech, printed in Germany by Free Europe Press and distributed over Czechoslovakia via balloon from 1954 to 1956..... More
![Book ID: P6877 [Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet]. "V jednotě síla. Všem...](/pictures/thumb/P6877_1.jpg?v=1580327120)
[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
![Book ID: 51298 Svobodná Evropa [Free Europe]. Group of twenty-one issues: nos. 17, 18,...](/pictures/thumb/51298_1.jpeg?v=1620395287)
[Munich?]: [Free Europe Press], [1954-1956]. Single leaves, measuring ca. 14.5 × 57 cm, folded several times along the horizontal axis to create a pamphlet; later issues regular pamphlets with 8 pp. of text and images. A few issues and flybills with wear or tears, but overall about very good. Significant..... 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: self-published, 1899. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original green boards with silver lettering; XV, 55 pp. Forty-eight full-page reproductions on thick card stock, some with protective tissue guards; artist signatures are also reproduced, in the text. A very good copy. First and only Czech edition of this catalog of the important..... 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
![Book ID: P6744 Listy pro umění a kritiku [Pages for the arts and criticism], vols. I,...](/pictures/thumb/P6744_1.jpeg?v=1618423636)
Prague: Melantrich a.s., 1933-1937. Large octavos and small quartos (ca. 25.7 × 18 to 26 × 20 cm). Original printed wrappers; 640, 456, and 490, [2] pp. (continuous pagination). Overall very good copies; occasional light wear to wrappers. Three complete years, comprising twenty issues each, in the original printed wrappers..... 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