London: Kruh priatel'ov československej knihy (printed by S. Sidders & Son, Ltd., Kilburn), 1944. Octavo (18 × 12.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 117, [2] pp. About very good; very light overall wear and soil to wrappers. Second of two volumes of poetry from the Slovak anti-Nazi resistance during World War..... 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

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

Vienna: Laguny; Tipografiia Mekhitaristov v Vene; Russkii knizh. magazin J. Persky, 1922. 12mo (16 × 11 cm). Original string-bound pictorial wrappers: [4], 32 pp. Text evenly toned due to stock, else near fine, in the original fragile blind wrappers, slightly nicked along spine fold. This book by Ukrainian poet M...... 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

Budapest: Együtt, 1929. Octavo (24.4 × 16.2 cm). Original wrappers with typographic linocut print to cover by Vera Csillag; 45, [3] pp. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled and foxed; sections uncut and unopened; else very good. First edititon of this collection of poems by György Bálint, who was a writer, publicist, and..... More

Prague: Svaz přátel SSSR (Tisk Václav Palán), 1936. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 61, [3] pp. A very good, uncut and unopened copy. Scarce anthology of Soviet poetry, divided into four sections: "Spring," "Work," "The third shift," and "Fire and snow." According to the translator and editor's..... More

Prague: Nakladatelství V. Vortel a R. Rejman, 1925. Octavo (19 × 12.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by the author; 48, [3] pp. Very good or better; in protective mylar. A fine copy of this volume of satirical poems, which make light of numerous publications and political tendencies of the period..... 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

Berlin: “Slovo,” 1922. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original quarter cloth with pictorial paper over boards; 345, [3] pp. Cover illustration by N.D. Millioti. Very good. An émigré publication of collected lyrics of the symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), published shortly after his death. The second volume of a three-volume..... More

Tbilisi: Tip. Gaz. “Zaria vostoka”, 1927. Octavo (22.8 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 30 pp. Cover illustration by Kirill Zdanevich. Very discrete repairs to wrappers, with professional paper restauration; text evenly toned due to stock; still about very good. First edition of the only collection of poems by Nikolai..... More

Kraków: Gebethner i Wolff (Drukarna "Czasu"), 1922. Octavo (22.3 × 15.2 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 3-41 pp. Very good or better. Fine copy of this volume of futurist poems by Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945), the Polish painter, Futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. In 1917, together with the brothers Zbigniew and..... More

Munich: Vydavnytstvo "Suchasna Ukraina", 1952 and Paris: Vydannia Pershoi Ukrains'koi Drukarni u Frantsii, 1955. Octavos (18.2 × 12.3 and 18.3 × 13.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31 and 30, [2] pp. Very good. Two volumes of poems by Diamara Oleksiivna Khodymchuk, born 1925. Khodymchuk's parents were actors at the Berezil..... More