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

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

6 pp. introductory text on the life and work of Wit Stwosz (c. 1445 - 1533), the Polish-born sculptor active in Germany, scholarly notes, and critical list, and 13 excellent gravure plates showing the etchings, a few with side-by-side views of different states. Sm. folio. Cloth-backed boards. Berlin (Bruno Cassirer)..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prague: B. Stýblo, 1945. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 79, [3] pp. Illustrated with a drawing by Kamil Lhoták. A very good copy; stain to rear wrapper. First edition of these poems written by Blatný during and shortly after the war. With the appealing understated wrapper design..... More

Berlin: “Slovo,” 1922. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original quarter cloth with pictorial paper over boards; 345, [3] pp. Cover illustration by N.D. Millioti. Very good. An émigré publication of collected lyrics of the symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), published shortly after his death. The second volume of a three-volume..... More

Tbilisi: 1923. Octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 32 pp. A very good copy; light rust to staple and old bookstore stamp to rear wrapper. First translation into Georgian of Alexander Blok’s famous 1918 long poem “The Twelve,” a poetic response to the October Revolution. The item also..... More