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

Tartu: Odamees, 1920. Octavo (21.8 × 17.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Natalie Mei; 69, [1] pp. Wrappers very lightly worn and discolored; very good. First and only volume of this important publication of Estonian modernist art and literature, which marked a radical break with the “Siuru” movement around Marie..... More

Tbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed "O. Bur" in Cyrillic); 278, [3] pp. Wrappers professionally restored preserving part of spine strip; light overall wear; stain to front wrapper; internally very good. First and only edition of the Georgian translation of Henri Barbusse's account of..... 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

St. Petersburg: Izdanie Petrogradskogo Sovieta Rabochikh i Krasnoarmeiskikh Deputatov, 1919. Octavo (21.5 × 14.75 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Extensive publisher’s catalog to front and rear wrapper. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Some browning to wrapper, else very good. Early edition of Bednyi's satirical anti-religious..... More

Prague: Slavianskoe izdatel'stvo, 1921. Large octavo (23.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unsigned); 119, [2] pp. An uncut and unopened copy; wrappers dust-soiled and frayed along spine, small chip to upper right corner of front wrapper. First and only volume of this intended series published by members of the..... More

1927. Prague: R. Rejman, 1927. Small octavo (16 × 11.4 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [40] leaves. A very good copy. Scarce collection of good-natured, but witty parodies of contemporary Czech political life, including the communists, fascists, republicans, workers and bourgeois, as well as leading figures of the Czech avant-garde, such..... More

Berlin: Parabola, 1932. Octavo (18.5 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappesr; 180, [4] pp. Front wrapper torn along upper and lower hinge; spine strip detaching at lower end; text block slightly resized, else internally very good. Berberova (1901-1993) was a Russian writer of poetry, prose, biographies, and literary criticism. She..... More

Moscow: Poligrafichesko-kartonazhnaia F-ka Frunzenskogo Raipromtresta, 1948. Octavo (20 × 16 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; a single leaf printed to rectos and versos, folded into 12 pp. and tipped into rear wrapper. Text and illustrations on each page. Very good. The first and only children’s book by Nikolai Sergeevich Berendgof..... More

Slim 26 pp. volume representing the only work of prose by the Czech poet and writer, with erotic frontispiece by Surrealist painter Jindřich Štyrský. 8vo. Original textured white paper wrpps. with blue paper guards, printing date of 1931 embossed to front and back flaps. Extremely minor soiling and toning. Prague..... More

Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", [1929]. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Mykola Bytyns'kyi; 274, [5] pp. With two folding maps and one folding chart. Very good; wrappers and last few pages a little dusty; else apparently unread. First and only issue of the émigré..... More