Moscow: Tea-kino-pechat', 1930. Small octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 121, [2] pp. Wrappers with corners creased; upper spine splitting; else about very good. A popular science text on contemporary film technology based on a visit to the Kiev film studios, written by the “pioneer of Soviet..... More
![Taina zamka Zendy [The Prisoner of Zenda]. Perevod s angliiskogo N. P. V.; Biblioteka...](/pictures/thumb/P002558_1.jpg?v=1591527423)
Paris; Kaunas: La Source (Rodnik); BUR, 1927. Small octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 4-190, [1] pp. Uncut and unopened copy; wrappers neatly detached from text block and lightly soiled, with some creasing to overlapping edges; a handsome copy nevertheless. Rare translation of Anthony Hope's "Prisoner of..... More
Tallinn: ["Aktsiooni" Kirjastus], 1927-1933. Octavos (16.3 x 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Peet Aren, Märt Laarman and Jaan Vahtra; 28, [4]; 60, [4]; and 63, [I] pp. Very good or better. Antson (1899-1945) was an Estonian teacher, journalist, and writer who participated in the "Aktsioon" ("Action") literary group and..... More
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
Buenos Aires: Izd. Argentinskogo otdela Russkogo Obsche-voinskogo soiuza, 1957. Octavo (19 × 14). Modern quarter cloth over boards with original printed wrappers preserved; 117, [2] pp. Very good. This émigré commemorative volume is dedicated to General Mikhail Alekseev (1857-1918), founder of the White resistance movement. The volume celebrates Alekseev’s centenary..... 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
Brussels: Galerie Regard 17, [1972]. Single leaf of coated stock, folded three times to create a leaflet, [4] pp. of text and one large color reproduction to recto. Very good. An apparently unrecorded program for an exhibition of works by Arnošt Budík, an important younger-generation Czech surrealist who was a...... More
![Pesni Bor’by [Songs of struggle]. Pavel Arskii](/pictures/thumb/50619.jpg?v=1585251255)
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
![Zritel': ezhenedel'no [The Spectator: a weekly], nos. 2, 3, 10, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,...](/pictures/thumb/P004272_1.jpg?v=1590053885)
St. Petersburg: Tip. "Sever", 1905-06. Quartos (ca. 33 × 23 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 8-16 pp. each. Each issue with numerous black-and-white, and some color, cartoons and drawings and a color title illustration. About very good to very good issues, with the occasional light wear, dust-soiling, and light stamps; only..... More
Moscow: Kinopechat' (Kino-Izdatel'stvo RSFSR), 1926-1928. Quarto (30.5 × 23.5 cm). Publisher's staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers (attributed to Gustavs Klucis); 39, [1] pp. Numerous photographs and illustrations. Very good. Early double issue of this important Soviet cinema journal, published by the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography, founded in 1924 with the objective of..... More
Prague: Bedřich Kočí, [ca 1900]. Quarto (28 × 20 cm). Original drawn pictorial wrappers with publisher's device to rear wrapper; XVI pp., 38 leaves of plates on heavy paper stock. Signed and inscribed by Anna Kuberová-Muchová, sister of Alfons Mucha. Good or better; wrappers lightly discolored; binding somewhat shaken. Issued..... More
![Katsaveiki: vizual’nye ritm/into (stikhi) [Katsaveiki: visual rhythm/into (verse)]. Avtograf...](/pictures/thumb/P5374_1.jpg?v=1589982451)
[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
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
[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
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
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
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
![Chem bylo kazachestvo [What were the cossacks?]. Otdel'nyi ottisk statei iz nomerov 82-87 zhurn....](/pictures/thumb/P002968_1.jpg?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
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: 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
![Portretnaia galereia mongol'skoi dinastii [The portrait gallery of the Mongolian dynasty]....](/pictures/thumb/P003518_1.jpg?v=1591526103)
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
![Looming [Creation], I (all published). Richard Roht Barbarus Johannes, Henrik Visnapuu](/pictures/thumb/P6123_1.jpg?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
![Geomeetriline inimene. VI kogu värsse [Geometrical man. 6th book of poems]. Johannes Barbarus,...](/pictures/thumb/P5892_1.jpeg?v=1592502317)
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