Harbin: Izdatel’stvo M. V. Zaitseva, [1936?]. Octavo (21.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial card boards; 11 pp. Numerous illustrations, including two full-page color plates. Card wrappers and pages somewhat creased, but still about very good. Rare illustrated children's book about the adventures of three dogs who go hunting, published for..... More
Commercial souvenir album of 120 gelatin silver prints, each 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in., of Peking, with printed captions identifying the subjects, the first 98 photos primarily concerned with architecture and ornament, providing detailed exterior views of the city's most famous sites including The Temple of Heaven, the Universal..... More
Xinjiang: Xinjiang Maarip Nexriyati, 1976. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; [2], 307 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. About very good. Third chapter (presumably a third-year text book) of this Chinese history textbook in Uighur, ranging from the first capitalist period to Mao Zedung. In Uighur, printed..... More
Shanghai: Sklad izdaniia: Russkaia tipografiia “Grafik”, 1933. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 371, [5] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Viktor Porfir’evich Petrov in the year of publication. Wrappers worn to edges; spine with tape repair, retaining part of original spine strip; text toned; still..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26 × 18.5 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlet with paper spine strip; 23 pp. Rust to staples; last page discolored; else very good, printed on better paper. A short, but highly informative Russian-language description of the history and present makeup of the State Public..... More
![Portretnaia galereia mongol'skoi dinastii [The portrait gallery of the Mongolian dynasty]....](/pictures/thumb/P003518_1.jpg?v=1591526103)
Harbin: Club of Natural Science and Geography, 1941. Quarto (26 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers. pp. 101-106, eleven black and white illustrations on six leaves of plates. Old vertical creases; small nick to lower right corner; alse about very good. Rare Russian-language offprint from "News of the Club of..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 17 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vladimir Petrovich in Almaty, Kazachstan in 1959. One page with author's ink correction. About very good; covers with light soil and a few nicks; old bookstore..... More
![Liudi – idioty. Budut li Liudi kak Bogi [L’Homme Stupide. Will Men Be Like Gods]? Owen...](/pictures/thumb/P003867.jpg?v=1591527183)
Shanghai: 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 and..... More
![Chuzhoe nebo [Foreign Sky]. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works]. Nikolai Gumilev](/pictures/thumb/50515.jpeg?v=1582572188)
Shanghai: Drakon, [1941]. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 66, [6] pp. Publisher's ads on p. [72]. About very good. A rare re-edition by Russian émigrés in China of Nikolai Gumilev’s 1912 collection of poems “Foreign Sky.” Published as part of a series of collected works that included..... More
![Zhemchuga [Pearls]. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works]. Nikolai Gumilev](/pictures/thumb/50516.jpeg?v=1582572189)
Shanghai: Drakon, [1941]. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 135 pp. About very good. A rare edition by Russian émigrés in China of Nikolai Gumilev’s 1910 collection of poems “Pearls” (Zhemchuga). With a new preface by I. Putsiato. The volume was published as part of a series of..... More
Beijing (Peking): Tipo-litografiia Russkoi Dukhovnoi Missii, 1919. Octavo (23.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed paper over boards; 265 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light fading and soil to wrappers; edges and corners slightly rubbed. Internally very good. First edition outside of Russia. A Russian émigré publication of a classic textbook on ancient..... More
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 Ekaterinburg..... More
![Tainstvennaia natsiia (Iaponiia) [The mysterious nation - Japan; An Unknown Nation]. Juji Nakada,...](/pictures/thumb/P4450.jpg?v=1593529683)
Harbin: Mech Gedeona, [1933]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 119 pp. Very good; text evenly toned due to stock; very discrete repairs to spine extremities. Russian translation of this 1933 work by Nakada, a Japanese protestant minister and the first bishop of the Japan Holiness Church. Influenced..... More
Beijing: Tipo-litografiia Russkoi Dukhovnoi Missii, 1919. Octavo. Recent full-leather binding with gilt title in Cyrillic to front board; lacking original wrappers; 501 pp. With all eight folding maps. Occasional light wear and nicks to margins; else a very good copy. A Russian history textbook intended for the quickly expanding Russian-speaking..... More
Shanghai: Tipografiia izdatel’stva “Slovo”, 1937. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by M. Iafshits; 568, IV pp. Wrappers somewhat worn and with partial loss to cover illustration; text toned; else about very good. First and only edition of this idiosyncratic work on sociology and politics, by Vladimir Sheremetev..... More
Harbin: Printing-Office Chinese Eastern Railway, 1926. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed blue wrappers; [3], 4-50 pp. With a 2 pp. bibliography of the author's works. Three plates of illustrations, featuring traditional Taoist subjects and one painting by the author, on better stock. About very good; wrappers lightly creased..... More
![Put' izgnannika [The exile’s path]. Ol'ga Skopichenko, designer N. K. Sokolovskii](/pictures/thumb/51010_001.jpg?v=1604343423)
Shanghai: Sklad izd. Russkoi Tip. “Grafik”, 1932. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers by N. K. Sokolovskii; 165, [6] pp. Signed and inscribed by Skopichenko to Viktor P. Petrov. Wrappers chipped; tape repair to spine; still good or better. First edition of this book by Russian émigré poet..... More
VIII, 71 pp. text on the ancient Chinese bronze mirrors in the collection of the Hanoi Museum, including examples from the Han through Ts'ing dynasties, as well as others from Japan and Siam, with appendices, bibliography, and illus. on 71 plates. 4to. Wrpps., edges somewhat rubbed. Paris (Ecole Française D'Extreme-Orient)..... More
Harbin: Izdanie KVZhD, 1933. Quarto (25 cm). Original printed wrappers in gray and green; pp. [1], 137, [2], 2-15, [9] (adverts). Light toning to wrapper edges; ca. 4 cm. loss of spine strip at bottom; text toned; else very good in the rare, attractive wrappers. Rare journal published by the..... More
![Iskateli [The seekers]. Iurii Mandel'shtam](/pictures/thumb/50920_001.jpg?v=1610550783)
Shanghai: Izdatel'stvo "Slovo", 1938. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Contemporary half-cloth binding; wrappers not preserved; 233 pp. Title somewhat creased and with tear to corner, not affecting text; else about very good. First and only edition of this volume of literary essays by the Russian poet and critic of the..... More