![Book ID: 50861 Nata Vachnadze: k’rebuli [Nata Vachnadze: an album]. Nikoloz Amiraghov](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50861_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1636387803)
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
![Book ID: P6314 Nagrudnye znaki russkoi armii [Medals of the Russian Military]. Andolenko,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6314_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1592502243)
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
Berlin: J. Ladyschnikow Verlag GmbH, [1913]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 94, [4] pp. Added German title: Du sollst nicht töten … drama. About very good; text block lightly resized; owner inscription to ffep. Leonid Andreev (1871-1919) was a writer, reporter and photographer who enjoyed literary success..... 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
Prague: L. Mazáč, 1938. Octavo (20.3 × 14 cm). Original cloth with original pictorial dust jacket by František Muzika; 238, [4] pp. Front endpaper and title with stamp of a private library ("d. Mikysky"); else about very good. Although less well-known than Teige, Štyrský, and Sutnar, Muzika (1900–1974) was a...... 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
Two postcards, each an original photographic print, measuring ca. 8.8 × 13.6 cm. Overall very good; one with text in pencil to verso, but not sent. In mylar sleeves. Two striking Czechoslovak postcards, each using photo-montage to depict a different theme, including the Báťa Hotel in Zlín and another Báťa-themed..... 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
![Book ID: P002558 Taina zamka Zendy [The Prisoner of Zenda]. Perevod s angliiskogo N. P....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002558_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591527423)
Paris; Kaunas: La Source (Rodnik); BUR, 1927. Small octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 4-190, [1] pp. Uncut and unopened copy; wrappers neatly detached from text block and lightly soiled, with some creasing to overlapping edges; a handsome copy nevertheless. Rare translation of Anthony Hope's "Prisoner of..... More
St. Petersburg: Tipografiia A. S. Suvorina, 1900. Octavo (23.5 × 16.5 cm). Contemporary dark red half-leather binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine and marbled edges; [IV], V-XXII, [3], 4-658, [I-V] pp. With a frontis portrait and facsimile of the author's handwriting. Very good, only hinges and..... More
London: Izdanie Russkoi Pravoslavnoi-Zarubezhnoi Tserkvi, 1949. Octavo (19 × 14.5 cm). Side-stapled printed wrappers; 39, [1] pp. Photographic frontis; seven leaves of plates. A very good copy; wrappers lightly creased and soiled, with small chip to lower right corner. Scarce saint's life of John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), one of the..... More
Buenos Aires: Izd. Argentinskogo otdela Russkogo Obsche-voinskogo soiuza, 1957. Octavo (19 × 14). Modern quarter cloth over boards with original printed wrappers preserved; 117, [2] pp. Very good. This émigré commemorative volume is dedicated to General Mikhail Alekseev (1857-1918), founder of the White resistance movement. The volume celebrates Alekseev’s centenary..... More
Brussels: Galerie Regard 17, [1972]. Single leaf of coated stock, folded three times to create a leaflet, [4] pp. of text and one large color reproduction to recto. Very good. An apparently unrecorded program for an exhibition of works by Arnošt Budík, an important younger-generation Czech surrealist who was a...... More
![Book ID: 50619 Pesni Bor’by [Songs of struggle]. Pavel Arskii](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50619.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1585251255)
St. Petersburg: Proletkul’t, 1919. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated, staple-stitched wrappers; 37, [2] pp. Wrappers very lightly chipped; paper restoration to spine extremities and wrapper edges. Still about very good. Fifth edition of the debut collection of poetry by one of the early members of Petrograd (St. Petersburg)..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo “Leto-pechat’", [1915]. Folio (36 × 27 cm). Original printed card folder with three flaps, housing eight leaves of color lithographs to rectos, with simpler sketches lithographed to rectos. Signed and inscribed by the artist to flap (addressee's name illegible). With a small note in ink noting that the..... More
Prague: Bedřich Kočí, [ca 1900]. Quarto (28 × 20 cm). Original drawn pictorial wrappers with publisher's device to rear wrapper; XVI pp., 38 leaves of plates on heavy paper stock. Signed and inscribed by Anna Kuberová-Muchová, sister of Alfons Mucha. Good or better; wrappers lightly discolored; binding somewhat shaken. Issued..... More
Moscow: Detskii drug, 1905. Octavo. Staple-stitched pink printed wrappers; [3], 25 pp. Light wear and fading to front wrapper; oxidation around staples; small stain to rear wrapper. Originally distributed as a free supplement to the children's journal Detskii drug, this booklet is divided into two parts and contains advice on..... More
Leningrad: Leningrad: Narkomzdrav SSSR, Medgiz, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1941. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. With 102 anatomical drawings. Some wear to spine extremities and spine stop; diagonal creases and light soil to front wrapper. Erased inscription in blue ink to top of title page. Internally very..... More
Špilberk Castle, Brno: between 1841 and 1855. Wooden box, measuring 27 × 18.5 × 10 cm. A contemporary manuscript paper ticket (3 × 7 cm), mounted to interior of lid, reads: “Eine Sträflings-Arbeit von dem berühmten Räuber Babinskӱ (früher Wachtmeister bei den Uhlanen) verfertigt. Er wurde wegen seinen Mordthaten und..... More
Berlin: Slovo, 1921. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original cloth with paper-covered boards; 209, [5] pp. With a facsimile introduction by the author. Very good. A collection of Russian translations by the Silver Age and Symbolist poet Konstantin Bal'mont (1867-1942), who became famous for his highly experimental, sonorous and musical..... More
Havana, Cuba: Imp. "Marti", 1941. Octavos (23 × 15.5 cm). Single folded leaves, printed to rectos and versos; [4] pp. each. Very good. Three programs for performances in Cuba of the Original Ballet Russe, a ballet company established in 1932 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as successor..... More
![Book ID: P002968 Chem bylo kazachestvo [What were the cossacks?]. Otdel'nyi ottisk statei...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002968_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593515283)
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1931. 12mo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched blue wrappers; 48, [1] pp. Very minor soil to wrappers; very good or better. Rare Cossack-related publication, issued by the "Vol'noe Kazachestvo" (Free Cossacks) movement when Prague was still a key center of Russian emigre and..... More
![Book ID: 52338 Strófák [Strophes]. György Bálint, Vera Csillag, author, artist](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52338_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677256684)
Budapest: Együtt, 1929. Octavo (24.4 × 16.2 cm). Original wrappers with typographic linocut print to cover by Vera Csillag; 45, [3] pp. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled and foxed; sections uncut and unopened; else very good. First edititon of this collection of poems by György Bálint, who was a writer, publicist, and..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26 × 18.5 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlet with paper spine strip; 23 pp. Rust to staples; last page discolored; else very good, printed on better paper. A short, but highly informative Russian-language description of the history and present makeup of the State Public..... More
Harbin: Club of Natural Science and Geography, 1941. Quarto (26 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers. pp. 101-106, eleven black and white illustrations on six leaves of plates. Old vertical creases; small nick to lower right corner; alse about very good. Rare Russian-language offprint from "News of the Club of..... More