Tbilisi: T-vo Sogomonian i Siutch’ian, 1918–1919. Octavos (22.5 × 18 to 26.5 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 76 and 92 pp. Very good. Two issues (of three published) of the short-lived Georgian literary and arts journal, loosely affiliated with Tbilisi acmeists as well as visual artists. Edited by Anna..... More
[Sofia]: "Narodna kniga", 1936. Octavo (18.5 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Pencho Georgiev; 128 pp. Two photographs on better stock. An uncut and unopened copy; wrappers lightly dust-soiled; tiny nick to upper right corner of front wrapper. This rare commemorative volume was published by the writer's friends on..... More
A complete run of 14 issues in 11 fascicules of the French literary journal, each issue 4-8 pp., under the editorial direction of Marcel Alocco with assistance from Jean-Pierre Charles for several issues, each issue featuring prose and poetry from a variety of contributors including Jean-Pierre Charles, Frédérique Laghet, Richard..... More
[Regensburg]: Vydavnytstvo “ukrains’ke slovo", 1946. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with vignette to rear wrapper; [4], 192 pp. illustrations and portraits. Wrappers lightly worn; text toned due to paper stock; front and rear wrappers beginning to detach along crease. [Hemingway’s “Killers” in Ukrainian]. A literary anthology of..... More
8 vols. (all published), 7 vols. each circa 2500 pp., supplement vol. XXVIII, 1375 pp. set of the renowned literature lexicon, illustrated throughout with many color plates. Lg. 8vo. Cloth. Zurich (Kindler Verlag) 1964. More
[Titles, subtitles and numbering vary: Nos. 1-18 subtitled "Notiziario de Cultura Contemporanea"; nos. 56-62 alternately numbered as 1-7; no. 64/65 entitled "Marcazero" with cover title "Marca 3"; no. 66/67 entitled "Marcauno" with cover title "Marca 3"] 66 issues (publisher's serialization lacks a no. 63) in 25 fascicules (many showing multiple..... More
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo pisatelei v Berline, [1922]. Octavo. Original decorative wrappers by Ivan Mozalevskii; 133, [1] pp. Fifteen titles and end decorations by S. Segal'. About very good; spine neatly repaired; hand-written label to spine strip; small stain to front wrapper. With Gleb Alekseev, Aleksei Tolstoi, Vladimir Lidin, Savvatii, O. Savich..... More
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Slovo", 1924. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [4], 428 pp., with [3] pp. of publisher's ads. Very good; spine with a single crease; two small stains to rear wrapper; ca. 10 pp. affected by small scuff to lower (deckle edge) margin, else a very good..... More
Buenos Aires: Porohy, 1952. Quartos (28.8 × 20 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. each. Illustrated from photographs. Text evenly toned; occasional stamps of a Ukrainian youth organization ("M. Y. H. Youth of CDWU, Inc., Branch in Minnesota); else very good. Complete yearly run in six double issues, of..... More
A complete run of 6 issues bound in 5 (160, 160, 131, 120, 156 pp.) of the transatlantic literary and artistic journal, with text in English and German, edited by Carl Laszlo, René Matti, Michael Barfuss, and Michael Heitmann, discussing topics such as art, photography, pop culture, and underground political..... More
St. Petersburg: Izdanie A. F. Marksa, 1893. Octavo (19.5 × 12.8 cm). Publisher's green embossed cloth; 448 pp. Frontis portrait engraved by I. F. Deininger, with protective calque. Front hinge a bit tender; smudge to front board; occasional light foxing; still a very good copy. This attractive volume gathers the..... More
Paris: 1935-1953. Duodecimo (19.2 x 14.2 cm). Original cream printed wrappers with red and black text; some issues paginated consecutively, 416, 303, 72, 96, 95 pp. total. Some very light toning and foxing, very minor chipping and edgewear, overall very good. A complete run in 11 total issues of the..... More
Seven issues, 50-64 pp. each, comprising a complete run of Raphaël Sorin's legendary but short-lived literary review including contributions by and new translations of Bukowski, Kerouac, Olivier Cohen, Jurij Moskvitin, Gérard Guégan, Philippe Delaroche, Alain le Saux, Richard Brautigan, Charles Olson, Raymond Chandler, and others, illustrated throughout with wildly erotic..... More
Prague: Literární umělecký kruh Aktivisté, 1941. Quartos. original staple-stitched self-wrappers; [16] pp. per issue. Illustrations from photographs. Very good. Two issues of a scarce war-time journal by the little-known literary group Aktivisté (Activists), whose spokesman seems to have been Vladimír Kolátor (1903-1986), a theatre director, playwright, and gay rights activist..... More
![Book ID: P002119 Odinochestvo i svoboda [Solitude and Freedom]. Georgii Adamovich,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002119_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591527732)
New York: Izdatel'stvo imeni Chekhova, 1955. Octavo (19.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 316 pp. About very good; gift inscription on endpaper; sun toning to spine. Adamovich (1892-1972) was a leading member of the Russian Acmeist group “Tsekh poetov” in St. Petersburg, which included poets such as Nikolai Gumilev..... More
![Book ID: 50229 50 stikhotvorenii [50 poems]. Anna Akhmatova](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50229_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1636391001)
Paris: YMCA-Press, 1963. Octavo (27 × 21.5 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 40 pp. of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. A very good copy. Scarce edition of Akhmatova’s poems, hardly encountered in commerce and containing a selection of her poems reproduced mimeographically. According to the diary of Georgii Glekin..... More
![Book ID: P4425 Chortov most [The Devil’s Bridge]. Mark Aldanov](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P4425_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593528308)
Berlin: Slovo, 1925. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 410 pp. Ink ownership inscription to the top of the title; a few occasional pencil remarks on margins; small chips along edges; some slight staining to the rear wrapper; minor loss at corner tips and spine extremities. First..... More
Moscow: self-published, 1915. Octavo (22.2 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers; 83, [3] pp. Text in Russian and Italian on facing pages. Good; wrappers marked and lightly soiled; corners scuffed and front wrapper beginning to detach. Scarce, privately published bilingual volume of poems, which presents literal translations into Italian of..... More
Tartu: Odamehe Kirjastus (Odamees), 1921. Small octavo (14.5 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Ado Vabbe; [6], 94 pp. With a frontis illustration by Rudolf Paris and Ado Vabbe's publisher's signet to colophon. A fine copy. A collection of expressionist verse by August Alle, a member of the bohemian..... More
Berlin: J. Ladyschnikow Verlag GmbH, [1913]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 94, [4] pp. Added German title: Du sollst nicht töten … drama. About very good; text block lightly resized; owner inscription to ffep. Leonid Andreev (1871-1919) was a writer, reporter and photographer who enjoyed literary success..... More
![Book ID: P002558 Taina zamka Zendy [The Prisoner of Zenda]. Perevod s angliiskogo N. P....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002558_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591527423)
Paris; Kaunas: La Source (Rodnik); BUR, 1927. Small octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 4-190, [1] pp. Uncut and unopened copy; wrappers neatly detached from text block and lightly soiled, with some creasing to overlapping edges; a handsome copy nevertheless. Rare translation of Anthony Hope's "Prisoner of..... More
St. Petersburg: Tipografiia A. S. Suvorina, 1900. Octavo (23.5 × 16.5 cm). Contemporary dark red half-leather binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine and marbled edges; [IV], V-XXII, [3], 4-658, [I-V] pp. With a frontis portrait and facsimile of the author's handwriting. Very good, only hinges and..... More
![Book ID: 52189 Semis sur le ciel [Seedlings in the sky]. Noel Arnaud, e g. Raymond...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52189_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658871844)
Paris: Les Editions des Reverberes, 1940. Octavo (20 × 14.4 cm). Original printed wrappers on thick bluish wove paper; 62, [1] pp. Very good. Rare volume of poems published by the neo-Dadist group Les Réverbères, which was founded in December 1937 by Michel Tapié, Jean Marembert, Jacques Office, Pierre Mine..... More
![Book ID: 50619 Pesni Bor’by [Songs of struggle]. Pavel Arskii](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50619.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1585251255)
St. Petersburg: Proletkul’t, 1919. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated, staple-stitched wrappers; 37, [2] pp. Wrappers very lightly chipped; paper restoration to spine extremities and wrapper edges. Still about very good. Fifth edition of the debut collection of poetry by one of the early members of Petrograd (St. Petersburg)..... More
![Book ID: 50607 Shatakhosut’yun: vipak [Communion: a novel]. L. Avalov, Stepan Elias...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50607_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1636387401)
Erevan: Pethrat, 1932. Octavo (18.5 × 13.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed; illegible initials to lower left corner); 135 pp. Very good or better. Translation of Lev Ovalov's novel "Boltovnia" (Talk, 1928) by Stepan Elias Zorian (1889-1967), who served as the editor-in-chief of the Armenian State Publishing House in..... More