Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 400 pp.: ill., 1 folding table, 3 ills. 24,5x17 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering on spine, emblems on the front cover and spine; in original illustrated, constructivist style dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped, with small fragments of spine lost, some pale water stains on lower..... More

St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov, 1896. 4, 158, 2 pp. 19,5х13,5 cm. In contemporary half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettering on the spine (the title and owner's initials). Soviet bookshop's stamp on the free back endpaper, slightly rubbed, pencil scribbles on two pages. Otherwise a very good clean copy..... More

Warsaw: Zwiazek Nar. Polskej Młodz. Akad. 1926. [4], 80 pp., [3] tabl.: ill. 21x16 cm. Added title page in French (Lettres de Frederic Chopin a Jean Bialoblocki). Original publisher’s printed wrappers. Few tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. First edition of Frederic Chopin’s (1810-1849) letters to..... More

Petrograd: Svobodnoe iskusstvo, 1917. 120 p.: ill. 19×14,5 cm. Original cardboards with later spine. Overall in very good condition. First edition. The book came out in the series of illustrated monographs produced by ’Svobodnoe Iskusstvo’. The book by one of the main figures in Russian pre-revolutionary theatre, Fyodor Komissarzhevskiy..... More

Moscow: Vsesoiuznoe kooperativnoe ob’edinennoe izdatel’stvo, 1944. 64 pp.: ill., 3 ills. 21,5x14,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine repaired, tiny tears along it, corners of covers and some pages repaired, foxing, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. This manual on various-material Christmas tree decorations..... More

St. Petersburg: tip. M.M. Stasyulevicha, 1899. XIV, [2], 106 pp. Contemporary quarter-leather. Rubbed spine, worn edges, otherwise internally clean copy. Scarce. First edition of the second translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Translated from German by S. Nani. Bilingual edition in German and Russian. With the translator’s foreword. Original printed..... More

Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1922. 392 pp. 24x16 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, marks on front cover, stamp of private library on t.p., otherwise very good and clean. First and only Russian edition of Richard Pettigrew’s ‘Triumphant Plutocracy: The Story of American Public Life from 1870 to 1920’..... More

Moskva; Leningrad: Gizlegprom, 1932. 58, [2] pp. 19.9x13.1 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine, loss of the small pieces at the lower right corner of the front wrapper and title page, loose. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. Translated from English by S. Elina. This interesting book..... More

New York: [Iskra], 1917. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary..... More