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

Shanghai: Sklad izdaniia: Russkaia tipografiia “Grafik”, 1933. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 371, [5] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Viktor Porfir’evich Petrov in the year of publication. Wrappers worn to edges; spine with tape repair, retaining part of original spine strip; text toned; still..... More

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

[New York]: George Reavey (The Letter Edged in Black Press, Inc.), 1968. Oblong octavo (14 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [48] pp. Signed and inscribed to title: "Dorogoi Nine s bezotvetnost’iu v liubvi (samoi druzheskoi!), noiabr' 10, 1984, NYC (To Dear Nina, with unrequitedness in love (the most platonic..... More

[Paris]: Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1905. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary half-leather with gilt-tooled red leather spine label; 978, [8] pp. Lacking original wrappers, title, and a first leaf with preface; second leaf with restauration; else a very good copy with wide uncut margins in an attractive..... 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

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

First Russian edition. London: Edinburgh University Press, 1919. First Russian edition. Large octavo. Later cloth with decorative front wrapper preserved; 175, [1] pp. Eight leaves of color plates, one folded. Light soil to wrapper; first few pages slightly spotty; traces of moisture to gutter and lower edges; text and plates..... 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

Tashkent: Izdatel'stvo sredne-aziatskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 1928-1929. Octavos (25 × 16.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 35, 97, and 119 pp. respectively. Illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs. Very good; stamp of the Société asiatique in Paris; some toning and chipping; third volume with tape along spine and rear wrapper. Rare..... More

1924. Tartu: Propeller, 1924. Octavo (24.5 × 16.5 cm). Original wrappers with a constructivist design and typography by Jaan Vahtra; 109, [3] pp. One original woodcut print and fifteen smaller illustrations by Vahtra in the text. Printed on thick paper. A very good copy. One of the most striking publications..... More

Prague: Svaz přátel SSSR (Tisk Václav Palán), 1936. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 61, [3] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy. Scarce anthology of Soviet poetry, divided into four sections: "Spring," "Work," "The third shift," and "Fire and snow." According to the translator and editor's..... More

Riga: Kniga dlia vsekh, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers (unattributed); [4], 237 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Good or better; light wear to bottom of spine and light soil to front wrapper; internally very good. A rare autobiographical account by a Russian prisoner of war in Germany after..... More