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

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

Prague – Prešov: Ceskoslovenská grafická Unie, 1935. Octavo (24.5 × 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 13 pp. of text, color frontis, 29 black-and-white and three more color plates. Very good. The first monograph on Ľudovít Fulla (1902–1980), the Slovak painter and graphic artist. Fulla's work was crucial to the development..... More

Tbilisi: Gosizdat Gruzii, 1930. Octavo (19 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Irakli Gamrekeli; 79 pp. With photographs showing Gamrekeli's designs for the stage. Light overall wear to wrappers; front wrapper somewhat spotted; rust to staple; still about very good. First and only edition of this Russian-language monograph on..... More

Prague: Volné vydání spolku českých bibliofilů (Society of Czech Bibliophiles), 1911. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original full brown pigskin binding by Ludvík Bradáč, embossed to spine, with marbled endpapers; in the original card slipcase; 350, [5] pp. With 160 reproductions of typographic designs. Signed by the author below the..... More

Vladivostok: Tipo-litografiia Iosif Korot, 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-cloth over boards, with original wrappers not preserved; 70 pp. 21 photo-illustrations. Ownership stamp to title page. Slightly resized, about very good. First edition. Filled with rare photographs of the destruction brought on by the Russian Civil War in..... More

Nizhnii-Novgorod: Izd. Vserossiiskoi chrezvychainoi komissii po likvidatsii bezgramotnosti, 1921. Large octavo (single folded sheet); 32 pp. A fine copy. Early provincial edition, and a fine copy, of the first mass-produced Soviet primer for illiterate adults, published by the newly formed All-Russian Emergency Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1925. Small octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by M. Ushakov-Poskochin; 93, [2] pp. About very good. Russian translation of the first and only collection of poems by the German worker poet Gerrit Engelke (1890–1918), who had published a few poems in journals before his..... 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

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

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

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