Moscow: Redizdatbiuro Mogiza, 1935. Octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 11, [1] pp. Bookstore stamp to rear wrapper. Light foxing to wrappers, still very good. This catalog lists books published on the occasion of the 21st celebration of the International Day of Youth, a Soviet holiday celebrated..... More

Petrograd: “Segodnia,” [1918–1919]. Octavos (ca. 20.3 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched linocut-printed wrappers; [4] pp. (not including wrappers). Linocut-printed publisher’s device to rear wrappers. All with numerous vignettes and larger, sometimes full-page, illustrations throughout the text. Overall very good; a few volumes with light spotting or light wear to spine..... More

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

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

[1928]. 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..... More

1788. Moscow: v Tipografii Kompanii Tipograficheskoi, 1788. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Contemporary calf; red and gilt-lettered spine label; VIII, 323 pp. Bookplate of the distinguished collector Martin Winkler. Boards rubbed; front free end paper lightly soiled; one leaf with small tear to margin, not affecting text; still about very..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gos. Uch.-ped. Izd-vo, 1931. Octavo (19.5 × 13.8 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 72 pp. About very good. Intended for Soviet school-age children, this “production book” was published at the height of first Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) when the Soviet state undertook major industrial reforms. The author makes a case for..... More

Paris: J. Povolozky, [1921?]. Octavo (18.5 × 13.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers pasted over blind self-wrappers (as issued); 8 pp. Wrappers illustrated with a pochoir pattern. Numerous small vignettes in the text. Very good. Russian fairy tale printed for children of Russian émigrés in France, with illustrations by the ten-year-old..... More

Paris: J. Povolozky, [1921?]. Octavo (18.5 × 13.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers pasted over blind self-wrappers (as issued); 8 pp. Wrappers illustrated with a pochoir pattern. Numerous small vignettes in the text. Light wear and fraying to fragile wrapper edges. Russian fairy tale printed for children of Russian émigrés in..... More

Erevan: OGIZ “Molodaia Gvardiia”, 1934. Small octavo (16.5 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 34, [1] pp. Nine illustrations, some full page. Good or better; light wear to spine; private ink inscription to title; a few pencil annotations. Originally published in 1927, this popular book offers a historical overview..... More