1937. Moscow: Muzgiz, 1937. Quarto (30.5 × 23 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 13 pp. Very good; very small stamp "Printed in Soviet Union" to lower front wrapper. First edition. A collaboration between Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and Agniia Barto (1906–1981), one of..... More

Warsaw: self-published, [1988]. Octavo. Single leaf, printed recto and verso, folded to create eight leaves (uncut); [16] pp. Numerous large photographic illustrations. Very good. Photo-illustrated catalog of this independent gallery in Warsaw, for an exhibition of “photosynthetic” work by Krzysztof Pruszkowski (born 1943), which explores the modern oversaturation with images..... More

Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo., 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 56, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. Focusing on Pushkin’s political poetry, this collection is an early post-revolutionary attempt at creating a “Soviet Pushkin.” This volume was edited by one of the founders of Russian Symbolism..... More

Stara Zagora: Knigoizdatelstvo Vezni, [1919]. Octavo (15 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak Skitnik; [3] pp., [8] leaves of plates, of which three in color. Very good. Rare album of eight reproductions of work by Stoian Rainov (or Raynov), one of the founders of the Bulgarian school of..... More

Berlin: Parabola, [1936]. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5). Modern red quarter-leather binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine, with original printed wrappers preserved; 311, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vera Nikolaevna and Ivan Aleksandrovich (Alekseevich) Bunin, “In memory of..... More

Paris: self-published, 1922. Octavo (24.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 132 pp. Light foxing to wrappers; tiny nick to spine; else very good. A report on the activities of the Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee (Zemgor), a humanitarian organization aiding Russian refugees during and after the Russian Civil War..... More

342 pp. survey including 170 pp. text, 10 pp. bibliography, 90 ground plans in the text, and 169 photographic plates showing Russian architecture from the Middle Ages through the recent past. Some minor foxing here and there. Large 4to. Orig. dec. bds., slightly warped. Moscow 1950. More

1882. Kostroma: Tipo-litografiia A. Fal'k, 1882. Small quarto (23 × 15.6 cm). Contemporary pebbled boards; gilt title to front board; 98 pp. Two folding maps, partially in color. Spine recently re-backed; corners scuffed; faint Soviet bookstore stamps to rear pastedown; still about very good. Rare provincial imprint, which argues against..... More

Prague: Večernice, 1923, Octavo (19.3 × 14 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Otakar Mrkvička. 61, [1] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy, with very faint discoloration to wrappers. First editon of the second volume of poems by Nobel Prize winning Czech writer and poet Jaroslav Seifert. In 1922..... More

New York: American-Armenian Progressive Union, 1940. Octavo (22.8 × 15.4 cm). Numerous photographs and illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers; 112 pp. Light wear to wrappers; about very good. Scarce work documenting the achievements of Soviet Armenian during its first twenty years, apparently issued by the American-Armenian Progressive League. The organization..... More

1927. Tartu: Pallas-Verlag, 1927. Octavo (21.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (front and back), and one title vignette, by Jaan Vahtra; 120, [2] pp. Numerous reproductions, many full-page, and smaller vignettes. Light abrasions to overlapping wrapper edges; front wrapper with light creases and profesionally repaired tear; still about very..... More

1924. Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. Octavo (18.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed); 234, [3] pp. Light wear to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; text evenly toned due to stock, still about very good. Owner signature dated 1925 to title page. First edition. An early novel by the prolific Soviet..... More

Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1928. Octavo (16.7 × 11.5). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. First edition of this rare collection of cinema-themed feuilletons by Shershenevich, one of the co-founders of the Ego-Futurist group and later a noted theoretician and propagator of Russian Futurism, who edited numerous almanacs and collections of..... More