Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Slovo", 1924. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [4], 428 pp., with [3] pp. of publisher's ads. Very good; spine with a single crease; two small stains to rear wrapper; ca. 10 pp. affected by small scuff to lower (deckle edge) margin, else a very good..... More

Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More

Tbilisi: Sakartvelos k’ino (Georgian cinema), 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi; 32 pp. With six illustrations, of which five full-page. Text toned due to stock; rust to staple; else about very good. Early Georgian-language monograph about the popular film actress Nato (Natalia) Vachnadze (1904-1953)..... More

Munich: Vydavnytstvo "Suchasna Ukraina", 1952 and Paris: Vydannia Pershoi Ukrains'koi Drukarni u Frantsii, 1955. Octavos (18.2 × 12.3 and 18.3 × 13.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 31 and 30, [2] pp. Very good. Two volumes of poems by Diamara Oleksiivna Khodymchuk, born 1925. Khodymchuk's parents were actors at the Berezil..... More

ca. 1910. Original woodcut print, plate size 12 × 12 cm, with the artist's initials in pencil. Leaf size 24.5 × 18.7 cm. Matted using adhesive tape; lightly creased; good or better. Original early woodcut print by the Russian painter, graphic artist and printmaker Elizaveta Kruglikova (1865-1941). Alongside Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1927. Octavo (17.3 × 12.9 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Numerous black and white photographs throughout. Very good or better. This fan biography of the Russian and Soviet stage actress Alisa Koonen (1889–1974) aims to distance the actress from her bourgeois roots and her beginnings in decadent..... More

Moscow-Gosizdat RSFSR "Moskovskii rabochii", 1930. Octavo (17.5 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 155, [5] pp. Good or better; some splitting to spine; front wrapper with creases; text toned; largely uncut and unopened copy. First edition of this volume of essays about the socialist transformation of the well-established Trekhgornaia textile..... More

Prague: F. Topič, 1926. Octavo (19 × 12.7 cm). Original printed violet wrappers; 90, [3] pp. Wrappers lightly discolored and worn to lower right corner; else about very good. First and only edition of a volume of essays and newspaper editorials by Milena Jesenská, the journalist and translator best known..... More

Paris: J[ules] Rothschild, 1884. Small quarto (24.1 × 19.5 cm). Later half leather binding with gilt spine title; 104 pages richly decorated with borders and 32 leaves printed on both sides with 64 color lithographs by Emrik and Binger (plates I to LXIV, including title page). Endpapers renewed, leaves partially..... More

N.p. [Amsterdam]: [Stempelplaats], 1970s-1980s. Index cards measure approximately 10.5 x 14.5 cm. Housed in white cardboard box, cards loose. Very good. Willy (Wilhemina) Scholte was one of very few women working at the Stempelplaats workshop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She became involved in the avant-garde mail art..... More

[Moscow, ca. early 1970s?]. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original stab-stapled cloth-backed folder, into which are stapled 28 leaves of typescript to rectos. Occasional corrections in ink. Wrappers worn; internally good or better. A curious artifact, this samizdat gathers two long poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. The first, “The poem of..... More

Berlin: Izdanie Evraziitsev (Petropolis-Verlag), 1934. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers and publisher's mark to rear wrapper by Svetlana Kartsevskaia; 187, [2] pp. Light wear to spine extremities; wrappers somewhat dust-soiled; else about very good. Scarce historical work by one of the leading figures of the Russian Eurasianist..... More