![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
![Amerikanskie vpechatleniia [American Impressions]. Georgii Baidukov, Geroi Sovetskogo Soiuza,...](/pictures/thumb/P003615_1.jpg?v=1580499145)
Kuibyshev: “Poligrafkniga” Oblgiz, 1942. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 18 pp. Stamp of the American Russian Institute and library notations to front wrapper. Else very good. This WWII-era positive account of the United States by a Soviet hero pilot captures the complexity of the US-Soviet relations during..... 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
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
![Mladá sovětská lyrika: sborník [Young Soviet lyric poetry: an anthology]. Ilja Bart, designer...](/pictures/thumb/P6873_1.jpg?v=1592580770)
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
České Budějovice: ca. 1925? Three signed woodcut prints by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963), the leading figure of the Linie Group, an avant-garde movement active in České Budějovice after 1931, which embraced cubist and other modernist tendencies in opposition to the dominant local school of traditional landscape painting and decorative arts. Bartuška..... More
České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original linocut print on thin laid paper, measuring 22.4 × 15.5 cm, plate size ca. 10 × 7 cm. Signed in pencil and with Bartuška's stamp to lower left. Very good, save for smudge to upper right corner. Original signed linocut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963)..... More
České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original woodcut print on thin laid paper, measuring 20.8 × 16.5 cm, plate size ca. 8 × 6 cm. Signed in pencil and with Bartuška's stamp to lower left. Very good. Original signed woodcut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963), the leading figure of the Linie Group..... More
České Budějovice: ca. 1925?. Original woodcut print on thin laid paper, measuring 22 × 17 cm, plate size ca. 9.8 × 7.8 cm. Signed in pencil. Very good. Original signed woodcut print by Josef Bartuška (1898-1963), the leading figure of the Linie Group, an avant-garde movement active in České Budějovice..... 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
![Čekání na Godota [Waiting for Godot]. Translated from the original French by Jiří Kolář....](/pictures/thumb/P4727.jpg?v=1589982963)
Prague: DILIA, 1964. Octavo (19.6 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 223, [1] pp. A very good copy. The first appearance of any work by Samuel Beckett in Czech was this translation of the absurdist and existentialist play, distributed for private use by literary and theatre professionals by DILIA, the..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920 [1921]. Octavo (24 × 17.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 53, [1] pp., with thirty-four black-and-white illustrations. Wrappers detached; trace of private library label to upper spine; still good or better. First edition of this work by Yefim Pridvorov (1883–1945), the pro-Bolshevik bard who published his verse..... More
![Zemlia obietovannaia [The promised land]. Demian Bednyi](/pictures/thumb/P5959_1.jpg?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