Prague: Václav Petr, 1941. Octavo. Original decorative card wrappers, with the publisher’s original printed wrap-around band; 120, [2] pp. Very good. Wrappers by the painter Karel Černý. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer Bohuslav Brouk, one of the first promoters of Freud’s work..... More

611, (3) pp. history of Russian architecture, by numerous noted scholars, from the earliest examples to the 20th century, notes, indices, bibliographical material, hundreds of illustrations throughout showing photographs, ground plans, line drawings, elevations, folding maps, etc. Some water-staining throughout. 4to. Boards, shaken. Moscow (Gos. Izd-vo Litry po Stroitel'stvu i...... More

[Brno]: self-published, 1968. Single leaf, oblong A5, printed to recto in blue. Very good. An apparently unrecorded New Year’s greeting card by the Lacoste group, a Brno-based association of post-war Czech surrealist artists, who also issued the samizdat art periodical Styx from 1966 to 1969. The leaf contains basic information..... More

Kościan: Powiatowy Wydział Informacji i Propagandy, 1945. Quartos (30 × 21.5 cm). Original folded leaves, some single leaves, printed to rectos and versos; [2-4] pp. per issue. Printed on stock of varying color. Very good. Eight issues of this daily publication by the Red Army, distributed in the last two..... More

New York: Izdatel’stvo imeni Chekhova, 1952. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 388 pp. Light soil to wrappers; tiny loss to lower corner of rear wrapper; still about very good. First appearance of the complete text of Ivan Bunin's famous novel, published during the writer's lifetime (1870-1953). "The..... More

Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1926. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [4], 88 pp. 60 illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers lightly worn, with small nicks and creases; spine ends chipped, with some loss of spine strip; internally very good..... More

Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1930. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched gray wrappers; 174, [1] pp. With two folding maps affixed to rear wrapper (showing Eastern Europe in the 13th-16th centuries). Uncut and unopened copy in very good condition. Isaak F. Bykadorov (1882-1957) was a Don..... More

Prague: Fr. Borový, 1945. Large octavos (24.2 × 16.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 264 pp. (continuous pagination). About very good, uncut and unopened copies, occasional small tears to wrappers. Complete sixth year of this literary and culture journal, the first to appear after the German protectorate period and following the..... More

Shanghai: 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 and..... More

Tbilisi: Tip. Gaz. “Zaria vostoka”, 1927. Octavo (22.8 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 30 pp. Cover illustration by Kirill Zdanevich. Very discrete repairs to wrappers, with professional paper restauration; text evenly toned due to stock; still about very good. First edition of the only collection of poems by Nikolai..... More

Paris: YMCA Press, 1929. Octavo (19 cm). Original printed wrappers, 39 pp. From the personal library of emigre poet Vladimir Smolenskii, with his owner inscription on the front fly leaf. A mostly uncut, unread copy; light wear to wrappers. Vladimir Smolenskii (1901-1961) was born into a Cossack military family and..... More

Melbourne-Adelaide: V-vo "Lastivka", 1954–1993. Octavos (19.8 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; and 127 and 239 pp. Illustrated from photographs. About very good; upper spine extremity of one volume with small tear; private owner signature to one volume and stamp of the "S. Radion Home Library" to the other. First..... More

1965. [Brno]: A. B., 1965. Oblong folio (13 × 21.5 cm). Blue embossed cloth; [14] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and [21] leaves of original photographic prints of Delvaux’s work, apparently taken from the original book publication. Very good; owner inscription to title. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt..... More