![Zodchie russkoi kul'tury [Builders of Russian culture].; Den' russkoi kul'tury [Russian Culture Day](/pictures/thumb/P002999_1.jpg?v=1591526463)
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
Kiev: 1920. Newsprint, measuring 35 × 27 cm; 8 pp. Illustrations throughout. Small discard stamp of the Warsaw Public Library to front page. Spine fold with small tears; old horizontal crease; still about very good. One issue (of ten published) of a communist Polish-language weekly, intended for distribution among the..... More
![Zpěvy o Rusku [Songs about Russia]. From the Russian by Jaroslav Teichmann.; Van, edice krásné...](/pictures/thumb/P5539_1.jpg?v=1585253403)
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
Erevan: TsK MOPR Armianskoi SSR (Central Committee of Soviet Armenia's MOPR, or International Red Aid); “Pet-hrat” publ., 1937. Octavo (24.8 × 16.9 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; VIII, 88 pp. Nine photographs and reproductions throughout the text. Wear to base of spine; two pages with tears to upper right corner slightly..... 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
1978. Arnhem: Gemeentemuseum, 1978. Single leaf of white stock, A4, offset printed to recto. Old crease; still about very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Early announcement of a joint performance (four pieces) by Marina Abramović and her long-time collaborator Frank Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay), who lived and worked together from 1976..... 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
![Odinochestva i svoboda [Solitude and Freedom]. Georgii Adamovich, 1892–1972](/pictures/thumb/P002119_1.jpg?v=1591527732)
New York: Izdatel'stvo imeni Chekhova, 1955. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 316 pp. About very good; gift inscription on endpaper; sun toning to spine. Adamovich (1892-1972) was a leading member of the Russian Acmeist group “Tsekh poetov” in St. Petersburg, which included poets such as Nikolai Gumilev..... 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
![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
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
![Kratkii obzor po russkoi istorii [A short overview of Russian history]. N. N. Alennikov](/pictures/thumb/50582_001.jpg?v=1590655271)
Harbin: Izdanie NORR, 1937. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 120 pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings throughout. Very good, partially uncut and unopened. First and only edition of this introduction to Russian history up until the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, intended primarily for young..... 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
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
![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