Prague: "Nasha rech'", 1922. Small quarto. Original decorative wrappers; 62 pp. [9] leaves of plates featuring black-and-white reproductions of individual actors. With a full-color reproduction of Valentin Serov's portrait of Stanislavsky. Wrappers worn; rear wrapper beginning to detach; private owner stamp to title. A scarce Russian monograph on the Russian..... More

Second edition. Prague: F. Svoboda, 1925, Octavo (21.2 × 13.5 cm). Original photomontage wrappers by Vojtěch TIttelbach (signed); 66, [3] pp. Signed and inscribed by Biebl in 1928. Lower spine with light wear; else about very good. Second editon of this volume of poems by the Devětsil poet Konstantin Biebl..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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