Turn-of-the-century German Jugendstil tabletop game using elements of shuffleboard or billiards, the contents comprising two hinged pieces of wood which are connected to form the play area, a wooden cue with curved piece of wood for pushing at one end, and two sets of color-coded wooden disks with felt bottoms..... More

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

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (26.7 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed) printed in red and black; 206 pp. Frontis portrait of Lenin. Illustrated throughout from photographs, musical notation, and with drawn section dividers. From the collection of Marcel Bekus, with his small oval stamp (“Ex-libris Marcel..... More

Moscow: Poligrafichesko-kartonazhnaia F-ka Frunzenskogo Raipromtresta, 1948. Octavo (20 × 16 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; a single leaf printed to rectos and versos, folded into 12 pp. and tipped into rear wrapper. Text and illustrations on each page. Very good. The first and only children’s book by Nikolai Sergeevich Berendgof..... 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

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

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

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

Kharkiv: Glavpolitprosvet, Izdatel'stvo "Put' prosveshcheniia" pri narkomprose U.S.S.R., 1924. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 68 pp. and [2] pp. of musical notation. Wrappers professionally restored; some spotting to wrappers; else very good. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Scarce anthology intended for use in..... More

Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. Izd-vo, 1923-1925. Octavo (17 × 12 cm). Original printed card folder with tie strings containing 14 individual brochures; ca. 30 pp per brochure. Light soil and moisture stain to folder; occasional underlining in pencil and red pen; still about very good. Part of a widespread Soviet literacy..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. Octavo (18.8 × 14.4 cm). Original staple-stitched chromolithographed wrappers; 11, [1] pp. including wrappers. A striking chromo-lithographed Russian children’s book by the Russian poet Sergei Nel’dikhen (1891–1941), who is today largely unknown. Nel’dikhen was a kind of outsider of the literary establishment: he was part of..... More

Augsburg: Vydaiet'sia nakladom "Rekord" (Drukarnia Dmytra Sazhnyna), 1946. Oblong octavo (14.5 × 21 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed V. Z.); 29 illustrations, with captions in Ukrainian, English, German. About very good; some rubbing and creasing to wrappers. Uncommon work on popular dance in Ukraine, published by and for the Ukrainian..... More

First edition. Berlin: Izdatel'stvo A. S. Zaks; Izd-vo Ol'ga D'iakova, 1921. Octavo (19 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 82, [2] pp. With four full-page illustrations by Ia. Shtiren and the publisher's catalog on two pages. Wrappers lightly spotted; text evenly toned, but printed on thick, durable paper stock and..... More