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
![Ai, ra uk'ves sakartvelos: p'ublitsist'uri nark'vevi [Voici ce qu'on a fait de la Géorgie]....](/pictures/thumb/P6002_001.jpg?v=1598366583)
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
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
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
![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
![Satirické verše [Satirical verse]. Karel Bedrna](/pictures/thumb/50240_1.jpeg?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
![Slaviane i vostok [The Slavs and the East]. No. 1 (all published). V. E. Belanovich-Zubov, A. E....](/pictures/thumb/P003763.jpg?v=1591527003)
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
![Finansy i strategiia [Finance and Strategy]. . I. Beliaev, van](/pictures/thumb/P002446_1.jpg?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
![Sdelai sam bumazhnyi zmei [Make a paper kite yourself]. From the series "Sdelai sam" [Make it...](/pictures/thumb/51091_002.jpg?v=1606316601)
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgii Echeistov; 7, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout. About very good. First and only edition of this delightful Soviet children's book, part of a series instructing young readers to create basic toys and everyday use items with simple materials..... 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
Moscow: "Nikitinskie subbotniki", 1927. Octavo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Telingater; 249, 1] + [2] pp. publisher's ads. Uncut and unopened copy; very light dust-soiling to wrappers; crease to lower right corner of front wrapper. Part one of the novel Moscow, published as a trilogy from 1926 to 1931. Andrei..... More
![Velká zkouška demokracii [La grande épreuve des démocraties; the great trial of democracies]....](/pictures/thumb/P6865_1.jpg?v=1592580768)
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
![Tsel' smelykh: stikhotvoreniia, 1917-1918 [The goal of the brave: poems]. N. S. Berendgof](/pictures/thumb/50433_1.jpeg?v=1580327055)
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
![Pyl' N'iu-Iorka [Dust of New York]. Konrad Berkovichi, Bercovici](/pictures/thumb/50938_001.jpg?v=1606316596)
Moscow: K-vo "Sovremennye problemy", 1926. Octavo. Original printed wrappers with an unattributed cover illustration; 147, [1] + [10] pp. of publisher's ads with extensive reviews of works by Sherwood Anderson and David Garnett. About very good. First Russian printing of the second book by Bercovici (1882-1961), the Romanian-born American writer..... More