St. Petersburg: [Zhuravl’], 1914. 126 p.: ill. 22x17 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Covers and spine restored, some soiling, otherwise very good. First and only full edition. One of 750 copies. Cover design features letterpress design by seven-year-old niece of Guro, Marianna Erlich. It is the last..... 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

Tbilisi: Sovetskaya Gruziya, 1961. 477, [4] pp.: ill. 8vo. Original illustrated cardboards. The design of the boards and the illustrations in text are by a collective of three illustrators: O. Kochakidze, A. Slovinski and I. Chikvaidze. The boards are slightly rubbed at the edges. pp. 199-200 are torn..... More

St. Petersburg: Tip. t-va ''Obshchestvennaya pol'za'', 1907. X, [2], 275 pp. 23x16 cm. Original wrappers. Uncut copy. Very good. Few tears of the spine, lacking small piece from the top of the spine. First Russian edition. Morris Hillquit (1869–1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party..... More

Moscow: Sovetsky khudozhnik, 1971. 296 pp.: ill., 10 ill. 22x17,5 cm. Original cloth binding with colored stamping on the front board and on the spine. Boards rubbed. Otherwise a very good to near fine condition. Illustrated throughout with a lot of black and white and colored illustrations. The..... More

Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1941. 44 pp. 22x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Slightly rubbed, with some creases, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. The earliest Soviet identification guide of world’s languages written by eminent Russian linguist, Semitics scholar Nikolai Iushmanov (1896-1946)..... More

Leningrad: Izdanie Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo muzeia, 1928. 76, [4] pp.: ill. Size. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Tears of edges of oversized covers, pencil signature on t.p. was erased. One of 1500 copies. Rare. Catalogue of artworks by Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) located in the Russian State Museum. The book lists..... More

Berlin: Skify, 1922. 56 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with letterpress design. Restored spine, copy faded, otherwise very good. First separate edition. A stunning letterpress design on the front cover was created by El Lissitzky in Berlin period. The crossword motif appeared on several book..... More

Moscow: n.p., 1989. 481 pp.: ill. 20,5x16 cm. In original cardboards. Rubbed and bumped, some ink and pencil marks, otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of 150 copies produced. Very rare. A Soviet typewritten textbook on the basics of system programming, compiled for..... More

St. Petersburg: Obshhestvennaia pol'za, 1911. 172 pp.: ill. 21,5×17,5 cm. In illustrated wrappers, the original front cover preserved. Restored,  some soiling, otherwise good. First edition. Very rare. Cover design and illustrations produced by Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939), the Russian painter and graphic artist whose style was a compromise..... More

St. Petersburg: 1849. IV, 109, [2] pp. 1 portrait (of Sumarokov). 20x16 cm. In contemporary binding, original wrapper is preserved. Good condition. According to Smirnov-Sokolsky who lists this book in his library (#744) this is ''a small but very useful work on the history of Russian theatre. The..... More

Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 16 pp.: ill. 16,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed, tears of the spine, minor fragments of covers lost, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. Design was produced by Feodor Kondratov (1897-1944), graphic and theatrical artist, book illustrator, and member of OST society..... More

[Moscow]: Ogiz. Gospolitizdat, 1941. 36 pp. 19,6x13 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Rusty staples, tears at the bottom of the front wrapper, the soiling of the rear wrapper. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited by I. Smirnov. An interesting propaganda book written at the dawn of the Great..... More