Moscow: AKhR, 1929–1932. Quartos (29.5 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative and pictorial wrappers; 16–64 pp. per issue. Numerous illustrations in the text and on plates, including several full-page color plates as well as folding plates. A few issues with light soil and wear to spine; overall a very good set..... More

Kuibyshev: “Poligrafkniga” Oblgiz, 1942. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 18 pp. Stamp of the American Russian Institute and library notations to front wrapper. Else very good. This WWII-era positive account of the United States by a Soviet hero pilot captures the complexity of the US-Soviet relations during..... More

Tartu: Odamees, 1920. Octavo (21.8 × 17.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Natalie Mei; 69, [1] pp. Wrappers very lightly worn and discolored; very good. First and only volume of this important publication of Estonian modernist art and literature, which marked a radical break with the “Siuru” movement around Marie..... More

Tbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed "O. Bur" in Cyrillic); 278, [3] pp. Wrappers professionally restored preserving part of spine strip; light overall wear; stain to front wrapper; internally very good. First and only edition of the Georgian translation of Henri Barbusse's account of..... More

České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original linocut print on thin laid paper, measuring 22.4 × 15.5 cm, plate size ca. 10 × 7 cm. Signed in pencil and with Bartuška's stamp to lower left. Very good, save for smudge to upper right corner. Original signed linocut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963)..... More

České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original woodcut print on thin laid paper, measuring 22 × 17 cm, plate size ca. 9.8 × 7.8 cm. Signed in pencil. Very good. Original signed woodcut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963), the leading figure of the Linie Group, an avant-garde movement active in České Budějovice..... More

Prague: DILIA, 1964. Octavo (19.6 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 223, [1] pp. A very good copy. The first appearance of any work by Samuel Beckett in Czech was this translation of the absurdist and existentialist play, distributed for private use by literary and theatre professionals by DILIA, the..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstennoe sel’skokhoziaistvennoe izdatel’stvo “Novaia derevnia”, 1929. Small octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Illustrated with sixteen drawings and photographs. About very good. First and only edition of this pamphlet, not found in KVK or OCLC, which introduces the method of constructing fire-proof roofing..... More

Paris: YMCA-Press, [1933]. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers, 23 pp. Unread copy in fine condition. Berdiaev here presents a vigorous rebuttal to Soviet anti-religious propaganda, in particular the claim that Christianity breeds passivity and submission. In an interesting take, he deconstructs the supposed "activity" underlying Soviet industrialization..... More

Second edition. Prague: F. Svoboda, 1925, Octavo (21.2 × 13.5 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Vojtěch TIttelbach (signed); 66, [3] pp. Signed and inscribed by Biebl in 1928. Lower spine with light wear; else about very good. Second editon of this volume of poems by the Devětsil poet Konstantin Biebl..... More

[Soviet Union]: self-published, ca. 1965–1975. Single sheet of paper with typescript to recto, measuring 29 × 21.5 cm. Folded twice along the vertical and horizontal axis. Additional light creases to corners; edges lightly frayed; small tear along the vertical fold; one correction to the text in blue ink and two..... More

Prague: Plamja, 1925. Quarto (27 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 47, [7] pp. Cover and seven full-page reproductions of ink drawings by Václav Mašek. Very good; wrappers lightly worn, with some fraying to overlapping edges, as usual. This 1925 Czech translation of Russian poet Aleksandr Blok’s “The Twelve” (“Dvenadtsat’”)..... More

Prague: Naše vojsko, 1949. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with an illustration by Iurii Annenkov; 66, [2] pp. Fourteen full-page and ten smaller illustrations in the text by Annenkov. Very good; inner front wrapper toned from laid-in newspaper clipping. Uncommon Czech edition of the Russian Symbolist poet..... More