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
![Etiudy o russkoi poezii [Essays on Russian poetry]. Prof Bitsilli, etr](/pictures/thumb/P6645_1.jpg?v=1591525383)
Prague: Plamia, 1926. Octavo (18 x 12.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [4], 5-284, [4] pp. A very good, largely uncut and unopened copy, in dust-soiled wrappers and with light wear to overlapping wrapper extremities. An important work of Russian emigre literary criticism of the interwar period. Based in Sofia, Petr..... More
![Sborník Literární Skupiny [Anthology of the Literary Group]. Lev Blatný](/pictures/thumb/P6797_1.jpg?v=1595606448)
Výškov na Moravě: Nákladem F. Obziny, 1923. Quarto (26 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 110, [3] pp. Numerous plates, some full-page on coated stock, some tipped-in. Light wear and fraying to lower spine; very minor moisture stains to overlapping wrapper edges; overall still a very good copy. First and..... More
![Tasnerkusy [The Twelve]. Aleksandr Blok, Iurii Annenkov](/pictures/thumb/50595_1.jpeg?v=1583874787)
Tbilisi: Martakoch’, 1925. Quarto (29 × 20.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers using an illustration by Iurii Annenkov; 46, [1] pp. With ten illustrations (some full-page) by Annenkov. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, rebacked and repaired (mounted on paper); internally very good. First translation into Armenian of Alexander Blok’s famous 1918..... More
![Stikhotvoreniia. Kniga vtoraia (1904–1908) [Lyrics. Book Two (1904–1908)]. Aleksandr Blok](/pictures/thumb/P003482.jpg?v=1594201683)
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
![Dvanáct: revoluční epos [The Twelve: a revolutionary epic]. Aleksandr Blok, Bohumil Mathesius](/pictures/thumb/P5097_1.jpg?v=1590054963)
Prague: Plamja, 1925. Quarto (27 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 47, [7] pp. Cover and seven full-page reproductions of ink drawings by Václav Mašek. Very good; wrappers lightly worn, with some fraying to overlapping edges, as usual. This 1925 Czech translation of Russian poet Aleksandr Blok’s “The Twelve” (“Dvenadtsat’”)..... More
![Tormeti. Skvitebi [The Twelve. Poems]. Alexander Blok, Valerian Trans. Gaprindashvili](/pictures/thumb/50303_1.jpg?v=1585571823)
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
![Dvanáct: epos o revoluci [The Twelve: an epos about the revolution]. Alexander Blok, Iurii Annenkov](/pictures/thumb/P003442_1.jpg?v=1587752475)
Prague: Naše vojsko, 1949. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with an illustration by Iurii Annenkov; 66, [2] pp. Fourteen full-page and ten smaller illustrations in the text by Annenkov. Very good; inner front wrapper toned from laid-in newspaper clipping. Uncommon Czech edition of the Russian Symbolist poet..... More
![Pros'vita [Enlightenment], nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11. Board of Education of the Ukrainian National...](/pictures/thumb/50628_1.jpeg?v=1584399184)
Jersey City: Nakladom tov. "Pros'vita" v Ameritsi, 1914-1915. Octavos (18 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on variously colored stock; ca. 60 pp. per issues. About very good. Six of eleven issues for the first year of this Ukrainian educational journal, with information on Ukrainian history, literature, and general knowledge..... More
1923. Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1923. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 197, [1] pp. About very good; uncut and unopened copy; light wear to overlapping edges. First edition of this avant-garde novel by Futurist and member of the Centrifuge group Sergei Bobrov (1899-1971), published by Abram Vishniak at..... More
Brno: [Grafický klub pro Moravu], 1925. Folio (44 × 32 cm). Recent gray portfolio with gilt-tooled title to front board; letterpress-printed title, introductory text, and seven plates of dry point etchings (one duplicate leaf!), some signed in the plate, and six prints signed in pencil by the artist (only duplicate..... More
VII, 578 pp. catalogue and description of treasures housed at the State Armory of the Moscow Kremlin, with detailed text on weapons, armor, helmets, and other military objects, textiles, silver, gold and other metalworks, many elaborately decorative, index of makers' marks, hundreds of illustrations in the text and on plates..... More
Františkové Lázně: Městské muzeum Františkovy Lázně, 1973. Octavo (24.2 × 18.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Twelve black-and-white photographs, some full-page. Very good or better. Scarce catalog for an exhibition of the work of Bohdan Lacina (1912-1971), the Czech surrealist painter, illustrator, and graphic designer associated with..... More
![Persidskaia khristomatiia [A Persian reader], vol. 1. Aleksei Boldyrev](/images/noimage.png)
Moscow: V Universitetskoi Tipografii, 1826. Octavo (26 × 18.2 cm). Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; 184 pp. Binding somewhat rubbed; wear to upper spine extremity; front hinge starting. The first volume of a textbook of Persian, published in two volumes, the first containing a selection of poems, tales, and historical..... More
![Komu zemlia dostanetsia? [Who will get the land?]. Bonch-Osmolovskii, natolii Iosifovich](/pictures/thumb/P5579_1.jpg?v=1580406423)
1919. Ekaterinburg: Tip. Vr. Tsentr. Voenno-Prom. Komit, 1919. Octavo (18 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. This land reform pamphlet was published during the Russian Civil War (1918–1922) by revolutionary narodnik Anatolii Bonch-Osmolovskii (1857–1930). The author’s political activity began in 1876 when..... More
Rostov-na-Donu: Rostov. Bol’shaia Sadovaia, [1991]. Octavo (20.8 × 15.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 16 pp. Illustrated and designed by Sergei Timofeev. About very good. Scarce example of regional samizdat produced during the last days of the Soviet Union and based on a collaboration between underground poet and illustrator. The..... More
Paris: Les Editeurs Reunis, 1939. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5 cm). Decorative wrappers; 120 pp. Very good; unread and uncut copy; top edge of front wrapper with foxing; some soil to top edge of text block. Contributions by S. Nikulin, N. Nikolaev, P. Boranetskii, K. Chernetskii, N. Barskii, P. Martin..... More
Prague: Ústřední dělnické knihkupectví a antikvariát (A. Svěcený), [1919]. Large octavo (25 × 18.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 120, [8] pp. Frontis portrait of Masaryk and three additional plates. Very good. Single issue of this rare socialist almanac, published by the Czechoslovak Social-Democrat Party. In its present form, it appeared..... More
![Barrandov, 1945-1970 [25 years of the Barrandov Film Studio]. Stanislav Brach](/pictures/thumb/P004089_1.jpg?v=1593528663)
Prague: Barrandov Film Studio, 1971. Oblong octavo (23 × 25.8 cm). Original printed dust wrappers over blind paper wrappers; [92] pp. Dust wrapper lightly discolored; else very good. Photo-illustrated album showcasing twenty-five years of work in the nationalized Barrandov Film Studios in Prague. Full-page black-and-white photographs are interspersed with text..... More
Geneva: Tipografiia gruppy starykh narodovol’tsev, 1899. Small octavo (15 × 11.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Very good or better. Written by one of the first peasant organizations, “The brotherhood for protection of the people’s rights,” this brochure calls for peasants to organize themselves to fight for their..... More
![Maiakovskomu [To Mayakovsky]. Nikolai L. Braun, V. Saianov, Aleksandr A. Prokof'ev, designer...](/pictures/thumb/P6356_1.jpg?v=1589471241)
[Leningrad]: Izd-vo pisatelei v Leningrade, [1931]. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Publisher's black cloth, embossed in silver; 51, [4] pp. Cover, title and half-title designed by Mark Kirnarskii. Boards lightly worn and rubbed; still about very good. First edition. A collection of verse commemorating the death of Vladimir Maiakovsky (1893-1930)..... More
![Chikhi i chukhi [Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe, oder Reich und reich gesellt sich gern]....](/pictures/thumb/P004280_1.jpg?v=1589982303)
Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1936. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original pictorial embossed cloth; 197, [3] pp. Twelve full-page illustrations and thirteen vignettes by Evgenii Kogan, who has signed and inscribed this copy, most likely to the writer Lev Grigorevich Gel’man (1864–1951). Very good. Authorized Russian translation from the German manuscript..... More
80 pp. text on the newly opened slaughterhouse and cattle market of the industrial and commercial center, a river port in Silesia, numerous tables, 28 text illus., hundreds of illus. on 52 plates (some large foldouts) from architectural renderings of the complete facility and the various structures. Front flyleaf lacking..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie Otdela Izobrazitel’nykh Iskusstv Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia, 1919. Folios (64 × 45 cm). Original folded newsprint, printed to rectos and versos; 4–6 pp. Striking suprematist lettering in header. Leaves toned and somewhat brittle, as usual; old creases and nicks to folds, corners, and margins. Still good or better. Five..... More
![Bludnost jedné představy [The deviousness of one idea]. Bohuslav Brouk, designer Karel...](/pictures/thumb/P5043_1.jpeg?v=1580327087)
Prague: self-published, 1941. Small octavo. Original illustrated card wrappers; 20, [1] pp. Some underlining in blue ink in text. Striking photo-illustrated design by Karel Černý. A fine copy. Bohuslav Brouk (1912–1978) was a Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer. He was one of the first promoters of Freud’s work..... More