![Book ID: 52468 ZAGES [e.g. the Zemo-Avchaly Hydroelectric Station]. V. I. Avakov](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52468.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692018541)
Tbilisi: Izdatel'stvo zhurnala "Ekonomist Gruzii", 1927. Octavo (22 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed O. Sh.); VI, 164, [1] pp., [52] leaves of illustrations and drawings bound in. Overall wear; wrappers worn and somewhat crudely restored; still good or better. Scarce photo-illustrated work about the construction of the V...... More
Moscow: Detskii drug, 1905. Octavo. Staple-stitched pink printed wrappers; [3], 25 pp. Light wear and fading to front wrapper; oxidation around staples; small stain to rear wrapper. Originally distributed as a free supplement to the children's journal Detskii drug, this booklet is divided into two parts and contains advice on..... 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
![Book ID: P003853 Iz mirovoi poezii [From the world of poetry]. Konstantin Dmitrievich...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Berlin: Slovo, 1921. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original cloth with paper-covered boards; 209, [5] pp. With a facsimile introduction by the author. Very good. A collection of Russian translations by the Silver Age and Symbolist poet Konstantin Bal'mont (1867-1942), who became famous for his highly experimental, sonorous and musical..... 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
![Book ID: P002968 Chem bylo kazachestvo [What were the cossacks?]. Otdel'nyi ottisk statei...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002968_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593515283)
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1931. 12mo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched blue wrappers; 48, [1] pp. Very minor soil to wrappers; very good or better. Rare Cossack-related publication, issued by the "Vol'noe Kazachestvo" (Free Cossacks) movement when Prague was still a key center of Russian emigre and..... More
![Book ID: 52338 Strófák [Strophes]. György Bálint, Vera Csillag, author, artist](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52338_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677256684)
Budapest: Együtt, 1929. Octavo (24.4 × 16.2 cm). Original wrappers with typographic linocut print to cover by Vera Csillag; 45, [3] pp. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled and foxed; sections uncut and unopened; else very good. First edititon of this collection of poems by György Bálint, who was a writer, publicist, and..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26 × 18.5 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlet with paper spine strip; 23 pp. Rust to staples; last page discolored; else very good, printed on better paper. A short, but highly informative Russian-language description of the history and present makeup of the State Public..... 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
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 17 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vladimir Petrovich in Almaty, Kazachstan in 1959. One page with author's ink correction. About very good; covers with light soil and a few nicks; old bookstore..... More
![Book ID: P6123 Looming [Creation], I (all published). Richard Roht Barbarus Johannes,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6123_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585675869)
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
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
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
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
Lublin: Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, 1987. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; [12] pp. Illustrations. Very good. An illustrated catalog of performances and installations by a central figure of Polish performance art, Janusz Bałdyga (b. 1954), including documentation of his performance “Process and Construction” which he presented in..... More
![Book ID: P5959 Zemlia obietovannaia [The promised land]. Demian Bednyi](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5959_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1592501062)
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
![Book ID: 50240 Satirické verše [Satirical verse]. Karel Bedrna](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50240_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1580326979)
Prague: Nakladatelství V. Vortel a R. Rejman, 1925. Octavo (19 × 12.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by the author; 48, [3] pp. Very good or better; in protective mylar. A fine copy of this volume of satirical poems, which make light of numerous publications and political tendencies of the period..... More
![Book ID: P002446 Finansy i strategiia [Finance and Strategy]. . I. Beliaev, van](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002446_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591527496)
Paris: Izdanie avtora (self-published), 1937. Large octavo. Recent navy cloth boards, original front and back wrappers bound in; pp. IV-VII, 1-157, [1]. Three folding maps; charts and tables. Slightly resized; expert archival repairs to lower and upper wrapper edge and one folding map; very light smudge to front board; internally..... 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
Prague: Melantrich, 1948. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original cloth-backed decorative boards; pictorial dust-jacket; 116, [4] pp. Very good; dust jacket very lightly discolored and age-toned to verso; in protective mylar. Second printing (2000-3000), the hardcover version, of the Czech translation of "La grande épreuve des démocraties. Essai sur les..... More
Prague: Melantrich, 1946. Octavo (20.2 × 13.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 106; [6] pp. Gatherings uncut and unopened; wrappers somewhat dust-soiled; else good. Sixth edition of the partially autobiographical text. The novel, first published in 1936, was made into a film in 1939 under the title "Věra Lukášová" by Devětsil..... More
![Book ID: P003851 Povelitel'nitsa [The Sovereign Queen]. Nina Berberova](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P003851_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634851825)
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
![Book ID: 51796 Arbuz [The watermelon]. Nikolai Berendgof, Viktor Ivanov](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51796_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643373843)
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
Prague: Sfinx Bohumil Janda, 1931. Octavo. Original textured white paper wrappers; 26 pp. Light blue paper guards. Very minor soiling and toning. Biebl was a Czech poet and Communist Party memeber, closely associated with other Czech Communist writers and poets such as Jiří Wolker and Vítězslav Nezval. After being recruited..... More