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
![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
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
![Prazdnik [The holiday]. Olga Gur'ian, Kazimirovna Borovskaia, nna](/pictures/thumb/P6045_1.jpg?v=1580327096)
[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
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
![Dvum [For two]. Mikhail Kuzmin, Ekaterina Turova](/pictures/thumb/50566_1.jpg?v=1581696105)
Petrograd: Segodnia, [1918]. Octavo (20.3 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched linocut-printed wrappers; [4] pp. (not including wrappers). Publisher's device to rear wrapper (linocut print). Front wrapper partially colored (in yellow) by the artist. About very good; small stain to front wrapper; old Soviet bookstore label to inside of rear wrapper..... 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
1921. Berlin: Slovo, 1921. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original cloth-backed printed boards; 181 pp. Frontis portrait of the author; five leaves of plates featuring black-and-white lithographs by Polina Khentova. Very light soil to upper edge of front board; else very good. Laid in is the original publisher's catalog of..... 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
Olomouc: Nákladem R. Prombergra, ca. 1908. Small octavo (15 x 15 cm). Original pictorial red cloth; 78, [1] pp. Color illustrations. A very good copy, printed on coated paper stock, possibly part of a preferential print run. Signed and inscribed by Vysko il in 1908. Minka, or Minnie, Podhajská was..... More
![Herragir [The telegram]. Armenian translation of "Telegramma." Boris Zhitkov, Tsekhanovskii, ikhail](/pictures/thumb/50301_1.jpeg?v=1580327003)
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