At head of title-page: K.K. Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut. 71 pp. text discussing the reconstruction of the Early Christian remains in the city now located in modern-day Croatia, including descriptions of the basilicas and other structures, 158 text illustrations (some full-page), showing reconstructions, floor plans, ornamental details, etc., 3 plates (1..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original typographically formatted printed wrappers; 136, [8] pp. Very good. A guidebook for guides of the Russian Pioneer movement, in charge of the physical and athletic development of children and young adults. While acknowledging biological differences between the two sexes, the..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Glavnaia redaktsiia Nauchno-Populiarnoi i Iunosheskoi Literatury, 1936. Octavo (26 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by P. Maslianenko; 37, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light overall wear; fraying to spine lower margin; a few small tears to edges; small owner inscription to title; still good or better. First and only..... More

Published by Terry Sladden and Ron Shuebrook at the Art Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada. Number 3, August–September 1973. Small octavo (14 × 9 cm). Original rubber-stamped blue wrappers; contents side-stapled; 40 pp. With one insert. Front wrapper faded and with stains; else very good. Special East European..... More

Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1930. Small octavo (14.5 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Very good. First and only edition of a rare brochure documenting the Moscow tour of the Berlin-based "Gruppe Junger Schauspieler" (Group of Young Actors), founded in 1928 by Gerhard Bienert, Reinhold Bernt, Werner Pledath, Adolf..... More

Shanghai: Drakon, [1941]. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 135 pp. About very good. A rare edition by Russian émigrés in China of Nikolai Gumilev’s 1910 collection of poems “Pearls” (Zhemchuga). With a new preface by I. Putsiato. The volume was published as part of a series of..... More

Moscow: ASSR "Pethrat,” 1924. Octavo (21.8 × 16.8 cm). Paper wrappers; tipped-in frontis plate, 11 pp. of text and [16] leaves of full-page illustrations with captions in Armenian. Signed and inscribed by the author in 1925. Good; spine rebacked; possibly later paper wrappers (with part of original front wrapper affixed..... More

Prague: Družstvo "Vlast", 1948. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched printed; [26] pp. of text. Fourteen black-and-white reproductions and a frontis portrait of the author. Signed by three of the four contributors: Lorenc, Kundera, and Tomeš. Very good. Scarce booklet accompanying what appears to be the first solo..... More

Prague: Práce, 1946. Octavo (20.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with design and typography by Karel Teige; 161 [2] pp. Unopened and uncut; in protective mylar; very good or better. A translation of the 1939 text by the British scientist and Marxist J. B. S. Haldane, with cover design..... More

[1968]. [Brno]: self-published, [1968]. Octavo (21.8 × 14.2 cm). Letter-press printed black wrappers (in gold); eight leaves of original etchings, with calques; each signed, numbered, and labeled by the artists in pencil. With a typewritten introductory text in French and Czech. Signed and inscribed to a co-founder of the Lacoste..... More

Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo “Mysl’,” 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; [4], 189 pp. Wrappers lightly creased; small nicks to spine extremities; still good or better. First and only edition, one of many books by Frank Heller (pseudonym of Gunnar Serner, 1886–1947) published in the 1920s, to satisfy the..... More

Toronto: Nakladom studentiv Vil'noi Shkoly im M. Pavlyka, 1918. Large octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 185, [I] pp. With 193 illustrations in the text. Paper toned; overall still a very good copy. Part I of the Ukrainian translation of Hird's "Picture Book of Evolution" (translated by P...... More

Vienna: Nakladom "Soiuza Vyzvolennia Ukrainy", 1916. Octavo (20.7 × 13.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 64, [2] pp. [4] pp. of publisher's ads. Text evenly toned; else a very good copy. First and only edition of this work on the Ukrainian national renaissance in Galicia and the Bukovina, by the Ukrainian..... More