Moscow: self-published, 1915. Octavo (22.2 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 83, [3] pp. Text in Russian and Italian on facing pages. Good; wrappers marked and lightly soiled; corners scuffed and front wrapper beginning to detach. Scarce, privately published bilingual volume of poems, which presents literal translations into Italian of..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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