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
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
!["Demokratyzm" Stalina ta ioho Kominternu [The "Democratism" of Stalin and his Comintern]. M....](/pictures/thumb/P5970_001.jpg?v=1580327093)
Saskatoon: Nakladom Ukrains'koho Natsional'noho Obiednannia Kanady, 1939. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 31 pp. Fine. First and only edition of this brochure, which aims to expose Stalin's "Red" Russia as an extremely anti-democratic state and inhuman dictatorship. It describes the Ukrainian People's Republic, a most democratic..... More
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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
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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
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
![Biulleten' vremennogo glavnogo komiteta [Bulletin of the interim committee ], nos. 1-2 (all...](/pictures/thumb/P5022_1.jpg?v=1581352987)
Constantinople (Istanbul), 1921. Quartos (32 × 20 cm). Original sewn pamphlets with cloth spine strip; mimeographed or hectographed wrappers; mimeographed text to rectos; 56 and 152 leaves. Numerous charts, diagrams (affixed to leaves), and additional printed ephemera bound with the text. Worn; front wrapper and first page of one issue..... 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
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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