Moscow: Izdanie sviazi tsentral’no promyshlennoi oblasti, 1929. Octavo (27.5 × 20 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [26], XCIV, 564. Good or better; some wear and creasing to wrappers. A Moscow telephone book with alphabetical listings of private and business subscribers including many famous personalities, such as Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Meyerkhol’d, Aleksandr..... More

Leningrad: Izdanie Leningradskoi Telefonnoi Direktsii, 1937. Octavo (27 × 20 cm). Original printed wrappers; [467] pp. Good or better; wear and creasing to wrappers. A telephone book for all of Leningrad with alphabetical listings of private and business subscribers. Includes a guide on using the telephone, instructions for placing orders..... More

Moscow: Izdanie vsesoiuznoi knizhnoi palaty, 1960–1961. Octavos (20 × 13 and 22 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers and boards; 135 and 459, [1] pp. Spine extremities of one volume very lightly chipped; light moisture stain to rear wrapper, else very good. Printed by the publishing house of the Ministry..... More

Paris: Izdanie soiuza Russkikh dvorian, 1936. Octavo (24 × 16). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 47, [1]. Portraits of Czar Alexander II and six activists of the serfdom reform. Stamps of Gallipoli Veterans in Brno to front wrapper, title and last page. Some soiling and wear to wrappers; vertical crease to..... More

A complete run in 6 issues, each issue 32-48 pp., of the provocative satirical 60's Czech journal under the editorial direction of Jan Jirasek, published during the brief period of political liberalization leading up to the Prague Spring of 1968, with political satire, erotic and literary humor, and innovative typographic..... More

Konstantinopol’ (Istanbul): self-published (printed by Brat’ia Zellich), 1920. Octavo (19.8 × 13.9 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 12 pp. Cancelled library stamp of the Russian State Lenin Library; else very good. A scarce and highly interesting manifesto by the “Ukrainian National Committee” in exile in Constantinople, which envisions Ukraine as..... More

[Prague]: self-published, 1926. Octavos (ca. 24 × 15.5 cm each). Original staple-stitched printed and mimeographed red wrappers; 15-24 pp. of mimeographed text to rectos and versos each. About very good; wrappers of one issue creased; faint library stamp with duplicate marks. The first three mimeographed bulletins published by the student..... More

[Moscow]: A. Rerikh, ca. 1900-1903. Oblong folio (25.5 × 35 cm). Original embossed green cloth with gilt title to front board and 25 leaves of photographic plates. Inscription to marbled boards reads: “Presented to F. Lambert by acting Abbot of Solovetsky Monatery, Sept. 20, 1918.” Boards and corners lightly scuffed;..... More

Opava: Galerie Zámek Hradec u Opavy, [1967]. Octavo (23.5 × 17 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers; 23, [1] pp. Nine black-and-white reproductions. Very good. Scarce exhibition catalog of the Fantasmagie group around Aubin Pasque and the C.I.A.F.M.A. (Centrale International de l’Actualité Fantastique et Magique). Held May-August 1967. Contains poems by..... More

Bratislava: Odborné učilišťe štátnych pracovných záloh číslo 15, 1955. Large octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original embossed beige cloth; ca. 200 leaves of text to rectos. Title beginning to detach; else very good. Scarce and very appealing Slovak typographic specimen book, published by a state-run trade school in Bratislava, evidently..... More

Frankfurt am Main-Sossenheim: Possev-Verlag, ca. 1955. 12mo (13.5 × 10 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. Rare brochure advertising the clandestine radio station “Svobodnaia Rossiia” (Free Russia), published by the NTS (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists), an anti-communist organization of Russian émigrés. Small enough to fit into..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatels'tvo, 1928. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Light toning and creases to wrapper; stamp of a regional trade office of the state publisher; still about very good. Intended for party officials and organizations, librarians, as well as reading groups, this catalog provides..... More

Belgrade: Izdanje centralnog odbora Antifašističkog fronta žena Jugoslavije (Shtamparija "Kultura"), [1945]. Quarto (26.5 × 21.3 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated self-wrappers; [48] pp., largely of black-and-white photographs with captions. Tiny nick to front wrapper; else very good. This profusely illustrated volume, published shortly after the end of the war, highlights the..... More