Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia V. S. Balasheva, 1882. [1], 53 pp. 22,5 × 12,5 cm. In original printed wrappers.Tears of spine with small fragments lost, ink and pencil marks on front cover, its small corner lost, wrappers soiled, edges of covers and some pages chipped, stamp of Societe de Linguistique de..... More

Leningrad: Kubuch, 1925. 344, [2] pp.+ IV pp. of ads 18x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, with few tears of covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. First Russian edition. One of 6000 copies. Rare. Cover design was created likely by G. Lvov, who is..... More

Moscow: Obschestvo evreiskoy muziki; Pechatnoe iskusstvo, 1919. [4] p. 35x26 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor stains to the spine, otherwise in good condition. Jewish sheet music piece, the wrapper is designed by Lazar (EL) Lissitzky. Text in Yiddish and Russian. Joel Engel, an influential figure in the Jewish art..... More

The Hague: De Baanbreker Servire, 1932. 68 pp. 22x13,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Valentina Kulagina. The spine in chipped, edges of the wrappers rubbed, but otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. Text in Dutch. An intriguing edition featuring a striking constructivist wrapper by the noted Soviet..... More

Leningrad: Mysl’, 1927. 168 pp. 17,5 × 13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and edges of covers restored, otherwise very good and clean. First Russian edition of the work and early publication of James Joyce in the USSR. One of 5000 copies produced. Very rare in this condition..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: B. i. Detizdat, 1937. 47 pp: ill. 13.5x19.2 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the small pieces of the spine, previous owner’s inscription on the title page (O. Japaridze. 1937-XII-15), insignificant damp stains throughout the copy. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First..... More

Leningrad: Izogiz, 1932. 42 pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A. Gliukov. Spine is carefully restored. Good clean copy. First and only edition. One of 4500 copies. Constructivist cover design impressively represents avant-garde spirit of one Soviet art organisation and the general view of their grandiose..... More

Leningrad: Izdanie avtora, [1920s]. 4 pp.: music score. 36x27,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of edges, corners chipped, some pale water stains, two Leningrad and Tbilisi bookstore stamps on back cover, otherwise good. One of 1000 copies. An early Soviet sheet music brochure with an excellent cover design..... More

Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika, 1928. 324, [2] pp. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Small tears of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back cover. 1 of 6000 copies. First translation. Cover design by P. Miturich. Pyotr Vasilievich Miturich (1887-1956), Russian artist. In 1910-1920..... More

Tbilisi: Nakdauli, 1969. 373, [2] pp. ill., 8vo. Original cloth in good condition. No dust-jacket was printed. Several illustrations by T.Mirzashvili. The second edition of the first translation into Georgian of this collection of Salinger’s stories. First printed in 1963 (earlier than the first Russian book edition) by..... More

Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1965. 254, [2] pp., 1 portrait. Original illustrated cardboards. Very good. The first edition in Russian of The Catcher in the Rye which had first appeared in serial form in Inostrannaya Literatura five years earlier. As a devotee to the Kashkin school of translation, Rita Rait-Kovaleva..... More

[Moscow]: Partizdat, 1937. 120 pp: portrait. 12x8,4 cm. In original publisher’s red cloth. Near fine. Text in Russian. Extremely rare miniature propaganda edition of Stalin’s pivotal speech delivered at the joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the VKP(b) in 1928 and titled “On..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1940. 504 pp.: ill., 1 front. (ill.). 20x13,5 cm. Illustrations by L. Brodaty. In original publisher's illustrated card boards. Covers slightly rubbed, owner's signature on the front endpaper, owner's ink book stamp on the title page, pp. 17, 41, 504; a small wormhole on the lower side of..... More