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[ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam Sovremennikov [i.e. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, His Works, Letters and Stories of Him by His Contemporaries]. I. P. Barsukov.

[ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam Sovremennikov [i.e. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, His Works, Letters and Stories of Him by His Contemporaries]

Barsukov, I.P.

Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883. viii, 769, 14, xvi, [1] pp. 26,5x18,5 cm. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and four lithographed plates. Period style quarter morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Period pencil markings and mild foxing of the text, otherwise a very good copy... More

Price: $3,500.00

[LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!]. D. Bedny.

[LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!]

Bedny, D.

Moscow: Commission for Improving Life of Children, 1923. 150 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. 150 illustrations in text by Fyodor Kriger. Mint condition. 1 of 6000 copies. The first edition of the propaganda fables by Demian Bedny – the genre he invented and excelled at in 1920s. Fyodor Kriger was... More

Price: $1,100.00

[UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary school / by V. Shor. H. Beecher-Stowe.

[UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary school / by V. Shor

Beecher-Stowe, H.

Leningrad: State text-book Publishing House, 1954. Second edition. 142, [2] pp.: ill. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, loss of the small fragment of the top left corner of the front cover, Soviet bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the p.1. Cover... More

Price: $150.00

[BELLAMY IN POLISH] W roku 2000 [i.e. In the Year of 2000]. E. Bellamy.

[BELLAMY IN POLISH] W roku 2000 [i.e. In the Year of 2000]

Bellamy, E.

Warsaw: 1890. 332 pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Guilt lettering on the spine. Stamp of the pre-revolutionary library on the title verso. Very good. The first edition in Polish of ‘Looking Backwards: 2000-1887’ by Edward Bellamy. It was translated by Józef Karol Potocki (1854-1898) and became one of the..... More

Price: $550.00

[THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DOSTOEVSKY] F.M. Dostoevskii. Ukazatel' proizvedenii F.M. Dostoevskogo i literatury o nyom na russkom yazyke, 1844-2004 [i.e. F. M. Dostoevsky. Bibliography of works by and about Dostoevsky in Russian, 1844-2004]. S. V. Belov.

[THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DOSTOEVSKY] F.M. Dostoevskii. Ukazatel' proizvedenii F.M. Dostoevskogo i literatury o nyom na russkom yazyke, 1844-2004 [i.e. F. M. Dostoevsky. Bibliography of works by and about Dostoevsky in Russian, 1844-2004]

Belov, S.V.

Saint-Petersburg: RNB, 2011. 755 pp. 31x19 cm. In original binding. Good condition. Small tear of the spine. This is the very first bibliography that contains among everything else all critical literature on Dostoevsky in 160 years. This major work includes such sections as Dostoevsky and Art, Dostoevsky in memories... More

Price: $500.00

[SIBERIAN ARCTIC] Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea]. F. I. Belyavsky.

[SIBERIAN ARCTIC] Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea]

Belyavsky, F.I.

Moscow: Typ. of Lazarevs’ Institute of Foreign Languages, 1833. Xv, iii, 259 pp. 21x13,5 cm. With additional copper engraved title page (decorated with two vignettes), four hand coloured folding lithographed plates (including a frontispiece; two signed and dated by the artist), and a folding copper engraved plate of snow flakes... More

Price: $12,500.00

[THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e. Dust of New York. Stories / Trans. from English by P. Okhrimenko]. K. Bercovici.

[THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e. Dust of New York. Stories / Trans. from English by P. Okhrimenko].

Bercovici, K.

Moscow: Sovremennye problemy, 1926. 148, [12] pp. 17x12,5 cm. 1 of 4000 copies. In original publisher's illustrated cover. The back cover is not attached to the book, lacking two small pieces of the spine, tears of the spine, some soiling of the covers. Otherwise a good copy. First Russian edition... More

Price: $300.00

[THE BOOK THAT ENCOURAGED MARX TO LEARN RUSSIAN] Polozhenie rabochego klassa v Rossii [i.e. The condition of the working class in Russia]. V. V. Bervi-Flerovsky.

[THE BOOK THAT ENCOURAGED MARX TO LEARN RUSSIAN] Polozhenie rabochego klassa v Rossii [i.e. The condition of the working class in Russia]

Bervi-Flerovsky, V.V.

St. Petersburg: N.P. Polyakova, 1869. [6], II, 494 pp. 1 map (carefully restored). 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather. Good condition. First edition. Vassily Vasilievich Bervi-Flerovsky’s (1829-1918) main work was nicknamed the Russian Das Kapital; its description of Russian economic reality was thoroughly Marxist. In turn, it influenced Marx himself. He... More

Price: $5,000.00

[RUSSIAN WOODEN CLASSICISM] Kaluzhsky derevyannyi ampir [i.e. Wooden Empire Style of Kaluga]. S. V. Bezsonov.

[RUSSIAN WOODEN CLASSICISM] Kaluzhsky derevyannyi ampir [i.e. Wooden Empire Style of Kaluga]

Bezsonov, S.V.

Kaluga: kollektiv nauchnykh rabotnikov pri G.O. Rabprosa, 1928. 30 pp., [2] pp.: ill., [10] pl. 22x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, small tears of the spine. First and only edition. One of 600 copies. An extremely rare provincial edition. This is the first book on wooden... More

Price: $950.00

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that Imports Tea and Coffee. Poetry. 1926-1927]. Konstantin Biebl.

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that Imports Tea and Coffee. Poetry. 1926-1927].

Biebl, Konstantin

Prague: Odeon, 1928. 63, [4] pp.: ill. 19x13,1 cm. In later binding. Near fine, clean and sound copy. Without original wrappers. Signed by the author postcard with author’s photograph laid in. Legendary work containing Karel Teige’s full page typography and colored typographical design experiments. The second, but first illustrated... More

Price: $1,900.00

[HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It]. G. M. Boltiansky.

[HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It]

Boltiansky, G.M.

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 75 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Some wear of the wrappers, loss of the small piece of the rear cover, Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear cover, very rare foxing in text, otherwise very good. Rare. First edition of the second book... More

Price: $1,000.00

[SEAL BREEDING] Kotkovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding]. L. Boytsov.

[SEAL BREEDING] Kotkovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding]

Boytsov, L.

Moscow: Vneshtorgizdat, 1934. 195 pp. 20x14,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Fine condition. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. A very interesting and unique in its kind publication on the northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus). The title of the book suggests that the content is... More

Price: $750.00

[WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i Amerike [i.e. Modern Woman. Her Status in Europe and America]. B. F. Brandt.

[WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i Amerike [i.e. Modern Woman. Her Status in Europe and America].

Brandt, B.F.

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

Price: $500.00

[CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion]. O. M. Brik.

[CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion].

Brik, O.M.

Moscow: LEF, 1923. 36 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. One of 3000. Very rare. Constructivist cover designed by Anton Lavinsky (1893-1968), Soviet artist and designer, member of LEF and artist for LEF magazine. He was close with Mayakovsky and the group of artists of Institute... More

Price: $900.00

[FIRST BULGAKOV ’ S FATAL EGGS] Rokovye yaitsa, povest’ [i.e. The Fatal Eggs, A Tale] // Literaturno-khudozhestvennye sborniki Nedra. Kinga shestaya [i.e. Literary and Art Collections. Book Six]. M. A. Bulgakov.

[FIRST BULGAKOV ’ S FATAL EGGS] Rokovye yaitsa, povest’ [i.e. The Fatal Eggs, A Tale] // Literaturno-khudozhestvennye sborniki Nedra. Kinga shestaya [i.e. Literary and Art Collections. Book Six].

Bulgakov, M.A.

Moscow: Nedra, 1925. Pp. 79-148. 23,5x15 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. Rubbed wrappers with small tears, a copy is a bit loose and some pages are detached, couple of pages with a small tear of the margin (text not touched). Otherwise very good. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. First... More

Price: $1,500.00

[THEORY OF PROBABILITY] Osnovania matematicheskoy teorii veroyatnostey [i.e. Foundations of the Mathematical Theory of Probability]. V. Y. Bunyakovsky.

[THEORY OF PROBABILITY] Osnovania matematicheskoy teorii veroyatnostey [i.e. Foundations of the Mathematical Theory of Probability]

Bunyakovsky, V.Y.

St. Petersburg: v tipogra i Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk, 1846. [4], XVII, [3], 478, [2] pp., 1 table. Modern half leather. Very good, foxing throughout. First edition. Rare. Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (1804-1889) was a celebrated Russian mathematician of Ukrainian descent. He got his Bachelor degree from the Sorbonne in... More

Price: $4,500.00

[PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s angliiskogo V. Boshniaka [A novel. Translated from the English by Vladimir Boshniak]. Anthony Burgess.

[PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s angliiskogo V. Boshniaka [A novel. Translated from the English by Vladimir Boshniak]

Burgess, Anthony

Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1991. 156, [4] pp. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Lemekhov. Good condition. The first Russian edition of A Clockwork Orange, published in May 1991 (the month before the collapse of the Soviet Union). The challenge for the translator was to handle Burgess’s unique fictional register... More

Price: $400.00

[RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER CATHERINE THE GREAT] İcmal-i eva’il-i ahval-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi [i.e. General Overview of the History of the Russian Empire [or] The History of Catherine]. Jean Henri Castéra, Iakovos Argyropolous, transl.

[RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER CATHERINE THE GREAT] İcmal-i eva’il-i ahval-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi [i.e. General Overview of the History of the Russian Empire [or] The History of Catherine]

Castéra, Jean Henri & Argyropolous, Iakovos [transl.]

Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1830. Second edition. [9], 225 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 27x17 cm. Text in Ottoman Turkish within a double border, first text page decorated with traditional floral ornaments. Occasional pencil notes in Turkish in text. Contemporary Ottoman green quarter leather, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and... More

Price: $2,500.00
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[CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous Fractions]. Pafnuty Chebyshev.

[CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous Fractions].

Chebyshev, Pafnuty

St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1866. 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1873. 32 pp. 25x16 cm. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous... More

Price: $3,500.00

New Georgian Book Design, 1920s-30s. P. V. Chepyzhov.

New Georgian Book Design, 1920s-30s

Chepyzhov, P.V.

Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2018. 312 pp.: ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. This amply illustrated reference book on Georgian book design in the 1920s and ’30s is based on a broadly representative private collection of a hundred works. It traces the main trends and developments in Georgian book design at... More

Price: $59.00

[FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe: nekotorye zamechaniya, kasayushchiyesya sobstvenno tekhnicheskoy chasti okhoty... [i.e. Notes of a Hunter from Eastern Siberia (1856-1863), Including: Some Notes Regarding the Technical Part of Hunting; Description of Different Animals Inhabiting the Spanless Forests and Steppes of Eastern Siberia, and Methods of Hunting in All Possible Ways, with the Demonstration of the Hunting Devices, and Some Notes on Siberian Nature and Siberian Hunters, their Everyday Life, Superstitions and Habits]. A. A. Cherkasov.

[FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe: nekotorye zamechaniya, kasayushchiyesya sobstvenno tekhnicheskoy chasti okhoty... [i.e. Notes of a Hunter from Eastern Siberia (1856-1863), Including: Some Notes Regarding the Technical Part of Hunting; Description of Different Animals Inhabiting the Spanless Forests and Steppes of Eastern Siberia, and Methods of Hunting in All Possible Ways, with the Demonstration of the Hunting Devices, and Some Notes on Siberian Nature and Siberian Hunters, their Everyday Life, Superstitions and Habits]

Cherkasov, A.A.

St. Petersburg: S.V. Zvonaryov, 1867. [4], iv, [4], 707 pp. 23,5x16,5 cm. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary quarter leather with original pebbled papered boards; rebacked in style. Title page with a minor loss on the blank outer margin neatly repaired, some mild foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy... More

Price: $2,500.00

[SOVIET MURALS] Tekhnika stennykh rospisei [i.e. The Technique of Murals]. N. M. Chernyshev.

[SOVIET MURALS] Tekhnika stennykh rospisei [i.e. The Technique of Murals].

Chernyshev, N.M.

Moscow: Khudozhestv.-izdat. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 114, [2] pp.: ill. 19x13 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. A very good internally clean copy, signature on t.p. (pencil), rubbed wrappers, small tears and losses of the spine, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear cover and last page. First and only edition..... More

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[CHOPIN'S LETTERS IN POLISH] Listy Fryderyka Chopina do Jana Białobłockiego / oprac. Stanisław Pereświet-Sołtan [i.e. Letters of Frederic Chopin to Jan Białobłocki / compiled by S. Pereswiet-Soltan]. Frederic F. Chopin.

[CHOPIN'S LETTERS IN POLISH] Listy Fryderyka Chopina do Jana Białobłockiego / oprac. Stanisław Pereświet-Sołtan [i.e. Letters of Frederic Chopin to Jan Białobłocki / compiled by S. Pereswiet-Soltan].

Chopin, Frederic F.

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

Price: $250.00

Fedorino gore [i.e. Fedora’s Grief]. K. Chukovsky.

Fedorino gore [i.e. Fedora’s Grief]

Chukovsky, K.

Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. [16] pp.: ill. 27,8x21,8 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some restoration of the spine and last page, some general wearing. Otherwise a very good copy. Rare first edition. One of 8000 copies. Illustrated by Vladislav Tvardovsky (1888-1942), Russian Soviet children’s book graphic artist, was working as... More

Price: $2,000.00

[KABARDINO-CIRCASSIAN LANGUAGE] Doktor Aibolit [i.e. Dr. Aibolit]. Korney Chukovsky.

[KABARDINO-CIRCASSIAN LANGUAGE] Doktor Aibolit [i.e. Dr. Aibolit]

Chukovsky, Korney

Nalchik: Kabardinobalkarskoe GIZ, 1940. 110, [2] pp.: ill. 26x19 cm. Original illustrated cardboards. Bleak stains on the title page, remains of a label on the spine, tears and small losses of boards extremities. One of 3000 copies. First translation to Kabardino-Circassian language. The book originally published in 1936... More

Price: $700.00

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