Harbin: Izdatel’stvo M. V. Zaitseva, [1936?]. Octavo (21.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial card boards; 11 pp. Numerous illustrations, including two full-page color plates. Card wrappers and pages somewhat creased, but still about very good. Rare illustrated children's book about the adventures of three dogs who go hunting, published for..... More
Moscow: ca. 1958–1961. Oblong folio (21 × 31 cm). Light blue buckram photo-album, with illustration of Leningrad to front board; twenty unnumbered card leaves with handwritten text to rectos and versos in blue ink, with painted red and blue headings and collaged images, newspaper text, and original photographs. Some browning..... More
![Karmil ts'iler: mankakan amsagir [Red sprouts: a children's magazine], vol. IX, no. 3–4](/pictures/thumb/50077_001.jpg?v=1580326912)
Tbilisi, 1931. Large octavo (25.6 × 17.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 66 pp. Text block somewhat curved; still very good. Single issue of the scarce Armenian communist children's journal, published in Tbilisi, Georgia from 1923 to 1941. A bibliography of the journal, as well as the books published by the..... More
![Karmil ts'iler: mankakan amsagir [Red sprouts: a children's magazine], vol. IX, no. 6](/pictures/thumb/50079_001.jpg?v=1580326914)
Tbilisi, 1931. Large octavo (25.6 × 17.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 34 pp. Text block somewhat curved; still very good. Single issue of the scarce Armenian communist children's journal, published in Tbilisi, Georgia from 1923 to 1941. A bibliography of the journal, as well as the books published by the..... More
![Kratkii obzor po russkoi istorii [A short overview of Russian history]. N. N. Alennikov](/pictures/thumb/50582_001.jpg?v=1590655271)
Harbin: Izdanie NORR, 1937. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 120 pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings throughout. Very good, partially uncut and unopened. First and only edition of this introduction to Russian history up until the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, intended primarily for young..... More
Moscow: Detskii drug, 1905. Octavo. Staple-stitched pink printed wrappers; [3], 25 pp. Light wear and fading to front wrapper; oxidation around staples; small stain to rear wrapper. Originally distributed as a free supplement to the children's journal Detskii drug, this booklet is divided into two parts and contains advice on..... More
Prague: A. Storch syn, [1891]. Octavo (21.6 x 16.8 cm). Original pictorial boards; [4], 73, [3] pp. Four color lithographs and six smaller illustrations in the text. A very good copy, boards and corners very slightly scuffed. Rare children's book on collecting beetles, with attractive full-page lithographs and drawings in..... More
Prague: A. Storch syn, [1891]. Octavo (21.6 x 16.8 cm). Original pictorial boards; [4], 1-55 [56-60] pp. Four color lithographs and five illustrations in the text. A very good copy; corners and spine extremities lightly scuffed and one page lightly finger-soiled. Rare children's book on collecting butterflies, with ample taxonomical..... More
![Rodina. Sbornik dlia detei i iunoshestva [The motherland. An anthology for children and youth].;...](/pictures/thumb/P002789_1.jpg?v=1591527302)
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
Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1927. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 111, [1] pp. Publisher's ads for the emigre journal "Perezvony" inside rear wrapper. Numerous illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers very lightly creased from use; else very good..... More
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo A. S. Zaksa, [1931]. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 65, [1] pp. Illustrations. Publisher’s ads. Wrappers very lightly soiled; sturdy pages toned due to paper stock; one page with small closed tear; a very good copy. Rare translation of one of the most famous works..... More
Hamburg: bei August Campe (printed by Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig), 1815. Octavo (16 × 10.5 cm). Publisher's pink printed wrappers with decorative border; X, 95, [1] pp. Text within ornamental floral border printed in red; title page set within black ornamental border and double-ruled border in red. A very good copy..... More
Prague: Alois Lapacek, 1922. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5). Original staple-stitched photographic wrappers; 1-22, [1] pp. With nineteen black-and-white photographs in the text. Wrappers lightly soiled; still a very good copy. Rare publication by the émigré instantiation of Zemgor, or United Committee of the Union of Zemstvos and the Union..... More
Vienna: Gedruckt und in Commission der Mechitaristen-Congregations-Buchhandlung, 1836. Quarto (25.8 × 19.7 cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; spine gilt-tooled, with black spine label; engraved frontis portrait, xxi, [1], 441, [3] pp. abd 72 [i.e. 71] leaves of plates (two double-folded and double-numbered). Boards and spine rubbed; corners somewhat scuffed;..... More
![Doloi negramotnost’: bukvar’ dlia vzroslykh [Down with illiteracy: a primer for adults]....](/pictures/thumb/50116_1.jpg?v=1580326928)
Nizhnii-Novgorod: Izd. Vserossiiskoi chrezvychainoi komissii po likvidatsii bezgramotnosti, 1921. Large octavo (single folded sheet); 32 pp. A fine copy. Early provincial edition, and a fine copy, of the first mass-produced Soviet primer for illiterate adults, published by the newly formed All-Russian Emergency Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia..... More
Prague: Plamia, 1924. First Edition thus. Small octavo. Original illustrated wrappers; 114, [5] pp. (including [3] pp. publisher's ads). Very good; uncut and unopened copy; very light wear to wrappers; spine toned and light spotting to top edge. An interesting example of collaboration between the Swedish Russian-language publisher "Severnyie ogni"..... More
![Prazdnik [The holiday]. Olga Gur'ian, Kazimirovna Borovskaia, nna](/pictures/thumb/P6045_1.jpg?v=1580327096)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, [1928]. Quarto (28.5 × 22 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. With seventeen large chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Light rust to staples, else very good or better. Second edition (first published in 1927). Striking illustrations and simple verse..... More
The first edition of this children's book, 191 pp., telling the story of a young immigrant, featuring illustrations by Lea Grundig. Scattered illustrations throughout, including a number of visually arresting full-page illustrations. Minor browning, scattered foxing, spine slightly shaken, repair to front endpaper and flyleaf. 8vo. Original decorative cloth binding..... More
![Igrushka gor'kovskogo kraia [Toys of the Gorky Region]. Iakubovskaia, aria Petrovna](/pictures/thumb/P5895_1.jpg?v=1591347003)
Gor'kii: Gor'kovskoe kraevoe izdatel'stvo, 1934. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative paper-covered boards, with decorative endpapers; 85, [3] pp. With four leaves of chromolithograph illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Light soil to spine; else very good. This history of the handcrafted toy industry of the Gorky..... More
![Chinka-bichi (samavshvo motkhrobebi) [Chinka boy: children’s stories]. Leo Kiacheli, pseud. of...](/pictures/thumb/P4609_001.jpg?v=1602571223)
Tbilisi: Gamomtseli T. Chikvanaia, 1925. Octavo (24 × 16.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 42, [1] pp. with illustrations throughout. The fragile wrappers possibly mounted to thicker stock; light wear and soil; light moisture stain to edges; still about very good. A celebration of communist rule for children, written by the..... More
![Gimtinės žiburėliai, ketvirtoji knygute [The Lights of Our Homeland, volume four]. Juozas...](/pictures/thumb/P5595_1.jpg?v=1592920939)
Hanau: Išleido Hanau LTB Švietimo Skyrius, 1947. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers; 42, [2] pp. of mimeographed text and illustrations. Trace of label to upper spine and stamp of a Baltimore Lithuanian organization to front wrapper; else about very good. Scarce final volume of this illustrated..... More
![Razskazy dlia detei [Stories for children].; Biblioteka zelenoi palochki. Aleksandr Kuprin](/pictures/thumb/P001844.jpg?v=1590767942)
First edition. Paris: Russkoe knigoizdatel'stvo "Sever", 1921. First edition. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 227, [1] pp. A near fine, uncut and unopened copy; text evenly toned. This edition of children's stories by the popular Russian writer Alexander I. Kuprin (1870-1938) was printed by the editors of..... More
Vršovice (Prague): self-published, 1922. Small quarto (26 × 21 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on blue wove paper; [4], 18, [8] pp. Fifteen linocut prints; printed on thick laid paper. Title signed by Macková. Very good. A striking sampling of Macková’s work, this children’s book was printed in only thirteen copies..... More
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo S. Efron, 1923. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original illustrated boards; 87, [1] pp. With 22 vignettes and smaller illustrations and 11 full page illustrations by the author. Very good or better; boards very slightly distended; else in apparently unread condition. Russian edition of the first book of..... More
Leningrad: Raduga, 1929. Octavo (19.2 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [10] pp. Light wear; soil to rear wrapper; spine splitting. Charmingly illustrated Soviet children's book of rhymed humorous poems about various animals and children playing games. As of November 2019, not in KVK or OCLC. More