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
Moscow: Detskii drug, 1905. Octavo. Staple-stitched pink printed wrappers; [3], 25 pp. Light wear and fading to front wrapper; oxidation around staples; small stain to rear wrapper. Originally distributed as a free supplement to the children's journal Detskii drug, this booklet is divided into two parts and contains advice on..... 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
Prague: Alois Lapacek, 1922. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5). Original staple-stitched photographic wrappers; 1-22, [1] pp. With nineteen black-and-white photographs in the text. Wrappers lightly soiled; still a very good copy. Rare publication by the émigré instantiation of Zemgor, or United Committee of the Union of Zemstvos and the Union..... 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
![Igrushka gor'kovskogo kraia [Toys of the Gorky Region]. Iakubovskaia, aria Petrovna](/pictures/thumb/P5895_1.jpg?v=1591347003)
Gor'kii: Gor'kovskoe kraevoe izdatel'stvo, 1934. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative paper-covered boards, with decorative endpapers; 85, [3] pp. With four leaves of chromolithograph illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Light soil to spine; else very good. This history of the handcrafted toy industry of the Gorky..... More
St. Petersburg: [Tipografiia M. Stasiulevicha], 1880. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original printed wrappers with engraving to rear wrapper; X, [7], 140, [7], 283 pp. Wrappers lightly discolored and soiled; small private shelf number to upper left corner; moisture stain to inner margin not affecting text. Partially unopened and uncut;..... 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
Prague: Izdatel'stvo "Volia Rossii", 1921. Octavo (18.4 × 12.8 cm). Green cloth with gilt spine title; wrappers perished; [7], 9-71, [1] pp. Light soil to rear board; pencil marks on title page by Andrei Savine. Rare pamphlet about the fate of children under Bolshevik rule, with alarming statistical data about..... 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