Leningrad: Gospolitizdat, 1945. 128 pp.: ill., 9 ills. 27,5x18,5 cm. In original full cloth with gilt lettering on front cover, and gilt and colored lettering on spine. No dust jacket. Rubbed, minor spots on p. 61/62 and insert near. Otherwise very good. First and only wartime edition. One of..... More

Moscow: Posrednik, 1931. 55 pp., 1 ad.: ill. 21x14.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers by Nikolay Troshin. Soiling of the wrappers, small stains on the front wrapper and the title page, spine with tears, previous owner’s ink inscription of the verso of the front wrapper. Otherwise in good condition..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Doloy negramotnost’, 1927 [1926]. 40 pp. 21x14 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Rubbed spine, vertical fold mark throughout the copy, Soviet bookshop stamp on the rear wrapper, but otherwise in a very good condition. Second edition. First edition published a year earlier. 1 of 8,000 copies. Foreword..... More

Vol.1: [52 leaves: 1924-1936]. Vol.2: [52 leaves: 1937-1938]. 384 images. 29,5x21,5 cm. Cardboards with leather labels on spines with gilt lettering. Bindings with rubbings, occasional foxing, one clipping is lacking fragment. Otherwise very good. Handmade albums of Efimov’s caricatures that were printed in Izvestia and other newspapers during these..... More

Kharkiv: Literatura i mystetstvo, 1932. 206, [2] pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, otherwise very good and clean uncut copy. First and only edition. One of 5200 copies produced. First Ukrainian edition of “Jahrgang 1902” by Ernst Glaeser (1902–1963). The book was published soon..... More

Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. Near fine. This is the first edition of the play The Fifth Column and anthology of the writings by Ernest Hemingway (first published in 1938). The original edition was of forty-nine stories which was also the title. A few..... More

Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1934. 266, [5] pp., 1 ill. 19,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Bumped, stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First separate edition of Hemingway in Russia. One of 8000 copies. This is a collection of Hemingway’s stories published along with an article by Ivan Kashkin, the major..... More

Grozny: Elektro-tipogr. Ia.N. Orlova, 1913. 31 pp. 26x17 cm. In original printed wrappers. Tears of spine, small fragments of spine and covers lost.Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Terek Branch of the Imperial Russian Technical Society (1913, No. 2). Without title page, as issued. The author dwells..... More

Moscow: Gizlegprom, 1934. 45, [3] pp.: ill. 15x11 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. Very good, light foxing of the covers near the spine. First and only edition. One of 5175 copies. From the series “Masters of Soviet Porcelain and Faience”. Ivan Efimov (1878-1959) was a Russian sculptor. Efimov painted and sculpted..... More

Kharkiv: Na varti, 1931. 174, [2] pp.: ill. 17x14 cm. Publisher’s illustrated Constructivist wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed, a few bleak stains on the rear cover, small tear of t.p. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Very rare. In Ukrainian. This beautiful edition dedicated to..... More

Tbilisi: Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia, 1989. 48 p. 16,5x21 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Minor tears of the spine, otherwise in very good condition. First edition. Illustrated by Roman Makharadze. A great late-Soviet guide into the understandings of the three Georgian scripts – the oldest one..... More

[Buenos Aires]: Rab. izd. gruppa v Respublike Argentina, 1922. 32 pp. 17,9x13 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Loss of the fragments of the spine, but otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Text in Russian. An extremely rare Russian émigré book published by Russian anarchists in Buenos Aires and..... More

29, [2] pp., 9 pl. 22x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears and rubbings of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Extremely rare. One of 1150 copies. First and only edition. Published by History Society of Kaluga..... More