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
Sverkh pamiat‘. Matematicheskaia igra [Super memory. Mathematical game]. Moscow, ca. 1930. Fifteen leaves of mathematical puzzles measuring 7.5 × 5 cm in original pictorial card case. Very good. Kristalinskii, V. with A. Bulatova (illustrator). Veselyi sputnik: zagadoch. kartinki, rebusy, zagadki [The Fun Companion: mysterious pictures, puzzles, riddles]. [Moscow]: Tsentrali`nyi dom detei..... 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
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
Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo "Mysl'", 1924. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 96, 79 pp. Musical scores. Good or better. A handbook on early childhood music pedagogy which combines hands-on advice for conducting lessons with numerous musical scores. The collection includes folk music and dance as well as scores by classical..... More
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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
Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. Izd-vo, 1923-1925. Octavo (17 × 12 cm). Original printed card folder with tie strings containing 14 individual brochures; ca. 30 pp per brochure. Light soil and moisture stain to folder; occasional underlining in pencil and red pen; still about very good. Part of a widespread Soviet literacy..... More
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Moscow: Iuridicheskaia literatura, 1971. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original brown buckram; title to spine and front board; 355 pp. Very good. Edited by Vladimir N. Kudriavtsev, the present volume sought to respond to a demand posed at the 24th Congress of the Communist Party, under the leadership of Brezhnev..... More