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
![Siluety russkikh pisatelei [Silhouettes of Russian Writers]. Vypusk I [Volume 1]. S 18-iu...](/pictures/thumb/P002376_1.jpg?v=1593515103)
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
![Siluety russkikh pisatelei [Silhouettes of Russian Writers]. Vypusk II [Volume 2].; Izdanie...](/pictures/thumb/P002399_1.jpg?v=1593515105)
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
![50 stikhotvorenii [50 poems]. Anna Akhmatova](/pictures/thumb/50229_1.jpg?v=1580326976)
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
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
![Chortov most [The Devil’s Bridge]. Mark Aldanov](/pictures/thumb/P4425_1.jpg?v=1593528308)
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
![Turnir poetov [Tournament of poets; first edition]. Aleksei Kruchenykh, Igor' Terent'ev,...](/pictures/thumb/50994_1.jpeg?v=1603979643)
Moscow: Izdanie Gruppy Lefovtsev, 1929. Oblong octavo (17 × 21.5 cm). [18] leaves of hectographed holograph text to rectos. Lacking front wrapper; occasional light stains and small tears; some professional restoration. Copy number 9 from an edition of 150 copies. With Igor Terent’ev’s portrait of Aleksei Kruchenykh on page 6..... 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
![Metel' lepestkov: chetvertaia kniga stikhov [Snow storm of petals: fourth book of verse]....](/pictures/thumb/P002885_1.jpg?v=1591526282)
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
![Raspiataia Rossiia: Povest' v dvadtsati glavakh [Crucified Russia: A tale in twenty chapters]. V....](/pictures/thumb/P002424.jpg?v=1597924838)
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
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
Geneva: self-published (Tipografiia Bunda), 1905. Octavo (18.7 × 11.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 56 pp. Wrappers lightly faded; spine beginning to split; private stamp to title ("Shukman Collection"); else internally very good. First edition of this impassioned treatise on the role of women in the Russian liberation movement, which..... More
![Nata Vachnadze: k’rebuli [Nata Vachnadze: an album]. Nikoloz Amiraghov](/pictures/thumb/50861_001.jpg?v=1606316668)
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
![Trn: satirický časopis studentů [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 1, no. 1...](/pictures/thumb/50792_1.jpg?v=1591981625)
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
![Trn: satirický časopis studentů [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 2, no. 9...](/pictures/thumb/50794_1.jpg?v=1591981626)
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
![Trn: satirický časopis studentů [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 3, no. 12...](/pictures/thumb/P6255_1.jpg?v=1591812373)
Prague: 1924-1932. Large octavo (26.2 × 17.5 cm). Publisher's typographically illustrated self-wrappers; [16] pp. including wrappers. Very good; stamp of the famous architect Václav Roštlapil; very faint vertical crease. Single early issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of the Czech avant-garde..... More
![Trn: satirický časopis studentů [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 3, no. 11...](/pictures/thumb/P6256_1.jpg?v=1591812374)
Prague: 1924-1932. Large octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Publisher's typographically illustrated self-wrappers; [16] pp. including wrappers. Very good; spine fold somewhat rubbed; very faint old vertical crease. Single early issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of the Czech avant-garde period, which..... More
![Trn: satirický časopis studentů [The thorn: a satirical student journal]. Vol. 3, no. 1...](/pictures/thumb/P6445_1.jpg?v=1591812381)
Prague: 1924-1932. Large octavo (25.4 × 17.7 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. as well as text to wrappers. Very good or better. Single early issue of this astonishingly rich -- in text, image, and typographic design -- satirical journal of the Czech avant-garde period, which features uncredited typographic layout..... More
![Nagrudnye znaki russkoi armii [Medals of the Russian Military]. Andolenko, erge](/pictures/thumb/P6314_1.jpg?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
![Ne ubii: drama v piati deisviiakh [Thou Shalt Not Kill: a drama in five acts]. Leonid Andreev](/pictures/thumb/P003856_1.jpg?v=1593527643)
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
![Partizani. 20 crteža Đ. Andrejevića-Kuna [Partisans. 20 drawings by Đ. Andrejević-Kuna]....](/pictures/thumb/51146_1.jpg?v=1610543192)
[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
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