Moscow: Knigoizdatel’stvo “Tvorchestvo”, 1918. Quarto (31.5 × 24.9 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with a woodcut by Nikolai Kupreianov, printed in black and green; 15, [1] pp. About very good. First issue, of seven published, of this early Soviet journal of literature and the arts, which appeared in 1918–1922 and..... More
![Book ID: P003853 Iz mirovoi poezii [From the world of poetry]. Konstantin Dmitrievich...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png)
Berlin: Slovo, 1921. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original cloth with paper-covered boards; 209, [5] pp. With a facsimile introduction by the author. Very good. A collection of Russian translations by the Silver Age and Symbolist poet Konstantin Bal'mont (1867-1942), who became famous for his highly experimental, sonorous and musical..... More
Berlin: “Slovo,” 1922. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original quarter cloth with pictorial paper over boards; 345, [3] pp. Cover illustration by N.D. Millioti. Very good. An émigré publication of collected lyrics of the symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), published shortly after his death. The second volume of a three-volume..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Large octavo (26 × 21 cm). Original orange paper-covered boards, incorporating an illustration by Mikhail Larionov; 26 pp. With six illustrations by Larionov throughout. Recent professional repair to spine; moisture damage to boards; very light traces of moisture to plates; still good or better. First..... More
![Book ID: P003442 Dvanáct: epos o revoluci [The Twelve: an epos about the revolution]....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P003442_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1587752475)
Prague: Naše vojsko, 1949. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with an illustration by Iurii Annenkov; 66, [2] pp. Fourteen full-page and ten smaller illustrations in the text by Annenkov. Very good; inner front wrapper toned from laid-in newspaper clipping. Uncommon Czech edition of the Russian Symbolist poet..... More
![Book ID: 52407 Izbrannoe [Selected poems]. Sergei Esenin](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52407.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669831693)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1922. Small octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 115 pp. About very good; light fraying to spine extremities. First publication thus of this anthology of poems by Esenin, the scandalous "peasant poet", which includes a selection from the collections "Radunitsa", "Goluben'", "Preobrazhenie", "Tveriadnitsa", "Mret'", and..... More
![Book ID: 52202 N. Rerikh [N. Roerich]. Mantel', leksandr](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52202_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1680080904)
Kazan': Izd-vo knig po iskusstvu, 1912. Quarto (27.5 × 21 cm). Original pictorial stiff boards designed by Dmitrii Mitrokhin; 68 pp. and 11 leaves of plates. Frontis by Ernest Lanceray. Additional tipped-in reproductions throughout. Boards with traces of water damage; a reproduction on page 11 is missing. In protective mylar..... More
![Book ID: P002014 Tam, gde byla Rossiia [Where Russia used to be]. Andrei Sedykh, Iakov...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002014_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666022645)
Paris: Ia. Povolotskogo (J. Povolozky), 1930. Octavo (19 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 139, [5] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Aleksandr Abramovich Poliakov on the front fly leaf (undated). Wrappers worn; front wrapper detached but present; chipping to overlapping edges; tears and loss of spine strip;..... More
![Book ID: P6288 Tiazhelaia dusha [A difficult soul]. Vladimir Zlobin](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6288_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591109315)
Washington, DC: Viktor Kamkin, 1970. Octavo (19.3 × 13.2 cm). Original perfect-bound printed wrappers; 140, [4] pp. Wrappers stained; else about very good. First edition of the memoirs of Vladimir Zlobin (1894-1967), a poet and prose writer of the Russian emigration, who was the longtime secretary and literary executor of..... More