Prague: Universita Karlova, 1973. Octavo (21 × 11 cm). Original gilt-embossed white cloth; violet endpapers; 39, [1] pp. Boards very lightly discolored; else very good. Scarce celebratory volume published on the occasion of Fidel Castro’s 1972 visit to Prague, where he was received with great pomp and awarded an honorary..... More
[Bohemia]: ca. 1900. Leporello comprising forty-seven leaves of plaited paper patterns, with between one and three patterns per plate, of white and brown paper strips, in original lettered boards, leaf size 19.5 × 17 cm. Boards a bit rubbed; first leaf with very light damage and soil; else about very..... More
![Kratkii obzor po russkoi istorii [A short overview of Russian history]. N. N. Alennikov](/pictures/thumb/50582_001.jpg?v=1590655271)
Harbin: Izdanie NORR, 1937. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 120 pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings throughout. Very good, partially uncut and unopened. First and only edition of this introduction to Russian history up until the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, intended primarily for young..... More
Prague: A. Storch syn, [1891]. Octavo (21.6 x 16.8 cm). Original pictorial boards; [4], 73, [3] pp. Four color lithographs and six smaller illustrations in the text. A very good copy, boards and corners very slightly scuffed. Rare children's book on collecting beetles, with attractive full-page lithographs and drawings in..... More
Prague: A. Storch syn, [1891]. Octavo (21.6 x 16.8 cm). Original pictorial boards; [4], 1-55 [56-60] pp. Four color lithographs and five illustrations in the text. A very good copy; corners and spine extremities lightly scuffed and one page lightly finger-soiled. Rare children's book on collecting butterflies, with ample taxonomical..... More
Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1929. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Later green clothl front wrapper preserved; 82 pp. Good or better; text toned due to stock; some traces of paper restoration; frequent light annotations in pencil. Scarce anthology on TRAM, an acronym for Teatr Rabochei Molodezhi, or Theatre of Working Youth, which..... 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
Moscow-Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original typographically formatted printed wrappers; 136, [8] pp. Very good. A guidebook for guides of the Russian Pioneer movement, in charge of the physical and athletic development of children and young adults. While acknowledging biological differences between the two sexes, the..... More
![Igrushki iz bumagi [Toys made from paper]. Grechenko., Nauchno-Issledovatel’skii Institut...](/pictures/thumb/50457_1.jpg?v=1590693483)
Moscow-Leningrad: Glavnaia redaktsiia Nauchno-Populiarnoi i Iunosheskoi Literatury, 1936. Octavo (26 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by P. Maslianenko; 37, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout. Light overall wear; fraying to spine lower margin; a few small tears to edges; small owner inscription to title; still good or better. First and only..... More
Kharkiv: DVOU, Vyd-vo "Radians'ka shkola," 1931. Octavo. Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 85, [2] pp. Wrappers discolored; foxing to first and last few pages; else very good. With appealing lettering and a photo-montage in the constructivist style (unattributed), which introduced the theme of the book: the stark differences between the Soviet system..... More
[Odessa]: Izdanie upravleniia ispravitel’no-trudovymi uchrezhdeniiami USSR, 1928. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 182 pp. Lacking rear wrappers; restored and text block slightly resized; wear to front wrapper; internally about very good. The second of four volumes of research on the problem of criminality in the Soviet Union..... More