![Pros'vita [Enlightenment], nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11. Board of Education of the Ukrainian National...](/pictures/thumb/50628_1.jpeg?v=1584399184)
Jersey City: Nakladom tov. "Pros'vita" v Ameritsi, 1914-1915. Octavos (18 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on variously colored stock; ca. 60 pp. per issues. About very good. Six of eleven issues for the first year of this Ukrainian educational journal, with information on Ukrainian history, literature, and general knowledge..... More
1923. Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1923. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 197, [1] pp. About very good; uncut and unopened copy; light wear to overlapping edges. First edition of this avant-garde novel by Futurist and member of the Centrifuge group Sergei Bobrov (1899-1971), published by Abram Vishniak at..... More
1920. Harbin: self-published, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98, [1] pp. Very good. First edition of this early memoir of the Tsar and his relatives, by the daughter of their physician, Evgenii Sergeevich Botkin (1865–1918), who was murdered along with the Imperial Family in..... More
Paris: self-published, 1921. Small octavos (11 × 7.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. each. Very good. Two versions of the “Zemgor” (Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee) charter, printed in French and Russian. The pamphlets lay out the purpose and bylaws of this humanitarian organization. Founded in Paris..... More
Prague: Izdanie Prazhskogo Zemgora, 1931 (printed in France). Octavo (24 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 135, [2] pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers, else very good. Jubilee publication marking ten years of the Prague “Zemgor” (Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee), a Czech branch of one of the..... More
Prague: Izdanie ekonomicheskogo kabineta, 1926. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 26 pp. Very good. A five-year (1921–1926) account of the complex relationship between the League of Nations and the Russian refugee organizations during the period immediately following the Russian Civil War (1918–1922). The author advocates for..... More
![Antologiia russkoi poezii XX stoletiia [An anthology of twentieth-century Russian poetry],...](/pictures/thumb/P6558_1.jpg?v=1580327106)
1920. Prague: Nacha rech', 1920. Octavos (19.5 ×14 cm). Original printed wrappers in red and blue, with translucent protective covers; 70, [1] pp. and 123, [1] pp. Owner signature of the Russian-born American painter and graphic artist Louis Lozowick. Text evenly toned due to stock; some light underlining in pencil..... More
[Harbin]: Tip. N. A. Frenkelia, [1930]. Oblong quarto (19 × 26.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 26 pp. Spine repaired with tape, possibly re-stapled; a few small pen annotations in ink; small tear to front cover; overall still about very good. Scarce photo-illustrated volume gathering song lyrics of tunes popular among..... More
![Iz Perezhitogo, 1907-1918 [From my life, 1907-1918]. Vols. 1 and 2 (all published). Rein, eorgii,...](/images/noimage.png)
Berlin: Parabola, [1936]. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5). Modern red quarter-leather binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine, with original printed wrappers preserved; 311, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vera Nikolaevna and Ivan Aleksandrovich (Alekseevich) Bunin, “In memory of..... More
Paris: self-published, 1922. Octavo (24.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 132 pp. Light foxing to wrappers; tiny nick to spine; else very good. A report on the activities of the Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee (Zemgor), a humanitarian organization aiding Russian refugees during and after the Russian Civil War..... More
![Nauka v sovetskoii Rossii [The sciences in Soviet Russia]. Boris Sokolov](/pictures/thumb/P004249_1.jpg?v=1580925008)
Berlin: Russkoe universal’noe izdatel’stvo, 1921. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; scant underlining in pencil to text, still about very good. An overview of work in the Soviet natural sciences, published during the period of massive institutional reorganization and emigration of..... More
![Lebedinyi stan: stikhi 1917-1921 g.g. [The encampment of the swans: poems 1917-1921]. Marina...](/pictures/thumb/50599_1.jpeg?v=1584716709)
Munich, 1957. Octavo (20.8 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 62, [2] pp. A fine copy. First appearance in print of Marina Tsvetaeva's epic poetic cycle about the October Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, which the poet experienced first-hand in Moscow before emigrating in 1922. The poems were..... More
![Pro Lisu i Kolobok. Russkaia skazka [About the Fox and the Runaway Bun: A Russian Fairy Tale].;...](/pictures/thumb/P5142_1.jpg?v=1584952922)
Paris: J. Povolozky, [1921?]. Octavos (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. Tiny nick to lower right corner; upper edge very lightly frayed; internally very good. Russian fairy tale printed..... More
![Pro Lisu i Kolobok. Russkaia skazka [About the Fox and the Runaway Bun: A Russian Fairy Tale].;...](/pictures/thumb/P5631_1.jpg?v=1584953102)
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
![Pro Lisu i Kolobok. Russkaia skazka [About the Fox and the Runaway Bun: A Russian Fairy Tale].;...](/pictures/thumb/P5633_1.jpg?v=1584953103)
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; tiny chip to upper right corner; good or better. Russian fairy tale printed for children of..... More
![Pro Lisu i Kolobok. Russkaia skazka [About the Fox and the Runaway Bun: A Russian Fairy Tale].;...](/pictures/thumb/P5634_1.jpg?v=1584953103)
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
Paris: Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee, [1927]. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 30, [2] pp. Photo-illustrations throughout. Very good. Published as part of a fundraising effort, this brochure of the All-Russian Zemstvos and Towns Union is focused on the education of Russian refugee children who..... More
Sofia: Pridvornaia tipografiia, 1922. Octavo (25.5 × 18.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 146, 15, [2] pp. Wrappers detached and chipped to spine; two perforations through block; internally about very good. A comprehensive report of the activities of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Zemstvos Union, a humanitarian organization aiding Russian..... More
![Povest’ ob odnoi materi [A story of one mother]. Zhemchiuzhnaia, inaida Nikolaevna](/pictures/thumb/P002663.jpg?v=1580499143)
Tientsin (N. China): “Nashe znanie”, [1939]. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 131, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. An example of White émigré literary production in China, this epistolary novel was written by the novelist and memoirist Zinaida Zhemchiuzhnaia (1887-1961). The novel tells the story of..... More