Moscow: Izdanie "Nauchnago slova", 1911. Large octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original wrappers; [5], II-L, [1], 265, + [2] pp. publisher's ads. With eighteen plates of portraits on coated paper. Signed and inscribed by the author (undated), with a pen correction also in the author's hand to the publisher's announcement..... More

Paris: YMCA-Press, 1963. Octavo (27 × 21.5 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 40 pp. of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. A very good copy. Scarce edition of Akhmatova’s poems, hardly encountered in commerce and containing a selection of her poems reproduced mimeographically. According to the diary of Georgii Glekin..... More

Berlin: Slovo, 1925. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 410 pp. Ink ownership inscription to the top of the title; a few occasional pencil remarks on margins; small chips along edges; some slight staining to the rear wrapper; minor loss at corner tips and spine extremities. First..... More

1914. Paris: Izdanie K. Vitenberga, 1914. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed red wrappers; 78 pp. Supplement printed in gold on thick red stock; one photograph on coated stock. Wrappers worn and front wrapper beginning to detach; text toned due to stock; else good or better. This pamphlet was..... More

Vienna: Laguny; Tipografiia Mekhitaristov v Vene; Russkii knizh. magazin J. Persky, 1922. 12mo (16 × 11 cm). Original string-bound pictorial wrappers: [4], 32 pp. Text evenly toned due to stock, else near fine, in the original fragile blind wrappers, slightly nicked along spine fold. This book by Ukrainian poet M...... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennaia Akademiia Khudozhestvennykh Nauk (GAKhN), 1930. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 149, [6] pp. With 27 leaves of plates. Spine professionally rebacked preserving spine strip (small loss to lower extremity); light wear to wrapper edges; old bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; else good or better..... More

Tbilisi: Sakartvelos k’ino (Georgian cinema), 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi; 32 pp. With six illustrations, of which five full-page. Text toned due to stock; rust to staple; else about very good. Early Georgian-language monograph about the popular film actress Nato (Natalia) Vachnadze (1904-1953)..... More

Prague: J. Jíra and Josef Koza, 1925. Large octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Publisher's typographically illustrated and pictorial self-wrappers; 15, [1] pp. including wrappers. About very good. Rare early issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of the Czech avant-garde period, with..... More

Paris: Tanais, 1966. Octavo (25 × 16.5 cm). Original decorative boards; 227, [5] pp. Illustrations throughout. Some hand coloring of medals (likely by Pavel Pashkov) on pp. 29–33, 45, and 199. Very good. First edition of Serge Andolenko’s work on Russian medals. The introduction to the text indicates that the..... More

[Belgrade-Zagreb]: Kultura, 1946. Oblong quarto (21.5 × 28.5 cm). Original pictorial card portfolio with three folding flaps; contains twenty leaves of plates reproducing drawings by the artist. Light wear and one partial tear to flaps; else very good. Twenty striking photozincographic reproductions of drawings reflecting the Yugoslav Partisan experience during..... More

Geneva: George & Cie, 1903. Octavo (19.5 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 480 pp. Unopened and uncut. Light soil and moisture stain to wrappers; wrapper edges chipped. Internally very good. A socially and politically liberal philosophical tract, focusing on the reign of Alexander III in Russia (1881–1894), this text..... More

Moscow: Tea-kino-pechat', 1930. Small octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 121, [2] pp. Wrappers with corners creased; upper spine splitting; else about very good. A popular science text on contemporary film technology based on a visit to the Kiev film studios, written by the “pioneer of Soviet..... More

Tallinn: ["Aktsiooni" Kirjastus], 1927-1933. Octavos (16.3 x 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Peet Aren, Märt Laarman and Jaan Vahtra; 28, [4]; 60, [4]; and 63, [I] pp. Very good or better. Antson (1899-1945) was an Estonian teacher, journalist, and writer who participated in the "Aktsioon" ("Action") literary group and..... More