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

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

[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

[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

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., 1933-1937. 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

Harbin: Elektro-Tipografiia M. L. Levitina, 1919. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [4], 80 pp. Wear to wrappers and spine extremities; still good or better. We were unable to determine anything about this poet of the Far Eastern Emigration, who appears to have been inspired largely by Russian..... More

Tbilisi: 1925. Quarto (30.5 × 22.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers with a cubist-inspired portrait by Iraklii Gamrekeli; 23, [1] pp. Numerous photographs. Disbound from volume, with small nicks to spine and some resizing; else about very good. Issue 22 of the second iteration of the most influential and well-respected Georgian..... More

Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Literatura", 1921. First Edition thus. 12mo (15 × 10 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [2], 87 pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Light soil to wrappers; text fragile. Uncommon Berlin edition of Vsevolod Garshin's (1855-1888) tale about a "fallen" woman. Garshin, a master of the novella, was most famous for..... More