Leningrad: Gosudartsvennyi Ermitazh, 1934. [2], 70, [2], [2] pp.: ill., 15 pl. 17x12 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, small tears of the spine and wrappers rubbed in general, pen marks on the front cover and t.p. Otherwise a good and internally clean copy... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1939. XII, 302 pp., СХХIV ill.: ill. 34.6x27.2 cm. In original publisher’s full cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Edges slightly bumped with the tear to the lower right edge of the front board, two last pages are slightly..... More

Pictorial plan. Běijīng Yíhé Yuán – Wànshòu Shān – niǎokàn [i.e. Beijing Summer Imperial Palace – Longevity Mountain – with Bird’s Eye View]. 52,5x76,5 cm. Brochure. Yíhé Yuán = Ikheiuan’ (byvshii Letnii imperatorskii dvorets) [i.e. Summer Palace]. Beijing, 1954. 7 pp. 22x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In original..... More

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 8 pp.: ill. 17x26 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Mint, minor tear and crease of upper corner of front cover. A libretto brochure for the silent Uzbek film “The Second Wife” (1927) propagating liberation of Central Asian women. In this picture, Jewish actress Rachel Messerer (1902-1993)..... More

Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent..... More

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1950. 85, [30] pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 23x18 cm. In original illustrated cardboards and original blank dust wrappers with lettering on spine. Dust jacket with tears and stains, some fragments of edges lost. Slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Signed by author on front flyleaf. First and only..... More

Shanghai: 1930. [6], 317 pp. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A.A. Yaron. Very good/near ne condition. The spine is very carefully fixed. Extremely rare. First and only edition. Lev Grosse (1906-1950), writer and son of Viktor Grosse (1869-1931), Russian diplomat, one of the active members of the..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1931. 70, [1] pp. 15х12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Rubbed and bumped, pencil signature on half-title, otherwise very good and clean. Second edition of first collection. In all, the author published two collections under one title: the second book came out in 1933, later..... More

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water..... More

St. Petersburg: Nash svet, 1914. 86 pp.: ill. 24x17 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the eagle over the mountains: the metaphor of Russian Empire spreading its influence across the region. Minimal restoration of the spine, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. The work by the young historian..... More