Leningrad: Leningrad: Narkomzdrav SSSR, Medgiz, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1941. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. With 102 anatomical drawings. Some wear to spine extremities and spine stop; diagonal creases and light soil to front wrapper. Erased inscription in blue ink to top of title page. Internally very..... More

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

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

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

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

Moscow: Tip. kn-va "Koshnitsa," 1918. Octavo (17.4 × 12.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 64 pp. Very good; very minor loss to upper wrapper edge, not affecting text; in protective mylar. First volume of poems by Nikolai Sergeevich Berendgof (1902-1963), the Russian expressionist poet and later member of the "Nichevoki"..... 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