Petrograd: Izdanie khudozhestvenno-graficheskogo zavedeniia "Union", [1916]. Octavo (23 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 60 pp. Light moisture damage, affecting margins of first and last few leaves; some wear to spine extremities; still good or better. Catalog of the forty-fourth exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, known as..... More

Prague: Plamia, 1926. Small quarto (26 × 21 cm). Original printed wrappers with a portrait of Pushkin; [6], 102, [2] pp. Very good, uncut and unopened copy; wrappers lightly dust soiled. Scarce collection of biographical sketches for key representatives of Russian literature, arts, sciences, government and other areas, issued on..... More

1946. V Hlučíně: Slezské tisk., nakl. a knihk. družstvo, 1946. Octavo (21 × 15.3 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers by Zdeněk Rossmann; 43, [3] pp. About fine. Scarce undocumented regional, Silesian avant-garde publication with a striking, spare wrapper design by Zdeněk Rossmann, an important Czech architect and graphic designer who..... More

[Geneva]: Tipografiia partii Sotsialistov-Revoliutsianerov, 1903. Octavo (16.5 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 54 pp. Light soil to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; bottom left corner of front wrapper chipped, still good or better. First edition. А critical pamphlet about agrarian reform proposed by Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP)..... More

Paris: self-published, 1935. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Includes maps. Partially unopened and uncut. Light foxing to wrappers and along the fore edge, else very good. A WWI testimony, this pamphlet describes the devastating “victory” in the battle for Trysten’ of the Keksgol’m battalion..... More

Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More

Moscow: Izdanie T-va "Mir", 1917. Large octavo (25.5 × 18 cm). Later red cloth, part of original wrapper affixed to front board, title printed on spine; [1], 2-226, [1] pp. With thirteen plates of portraits on coated paper. Small ink stain to p. 79, else very good. Trained as a...... More

Soviet Union, ca. December 1962–1963. Six leaves of typescript to rectos (A4). Old horizontal creases; else very good. Six-page typewritten copy of Akhmatova’s “Requiem,” formerly owned by the family of Soviet scientist Vladimir Fok (1898–1974) and his wife Alexandra Lermontova, Akhmatova’s neighbours in the suburban town of Komarovo. Included with..... 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

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

Moravská Ostrava: Lidová knihtiskárna O. Štěpanek a spol., 1934. Octavo (21.3 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 20, [1] pp. About very good; light soil and foxing to wrappers. Scarce undocumented regional avant-garde design, with a striking title page and appealing typographic design throughout (continued on front and rear wrapper..... More

Vienna: Izdanie russk. knizh. mag. J. Persky, 1922. Second Edition (fifth to tenth thousand). 12mo (14 × 10 cm). Original illustrated wrappers: [2], 72 pp. Publisher’s ads. Very light moisture stain to lower margin, just barely touching text; pages evenly toned; some oxidation to staples; else a very good, apparently..... More

Prague: B. Pschürer, 1924. Large octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers by Vojtěch Tittelbach; 16 pp. About very good; light wear to wrappers and small nick around staple; text toned. Rare first issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of..... More