Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928. 116 pp.: ill., 5 pl. 20x14 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Very good, small tears of the wrappers and spine. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. Mezzotint plates printed on flat machine of Kempe factory with tints from Poligraf trest. A beautifully executed... More

Tiflis: Gosizdat, 1927. 119 pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. Title in Russian and Georgian. Illustrated with black and white images. In original wrappers. Good condition. Small pieces of the spine lack from the top and bottom. Bleak waterstains on the front wrapper. The book is written by film director Leo... More

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1940. 74 pp.: ill., 1 port.; 22,5x17,5 см. In original illustrated card boards. Covers rubbed, tears and losses to the spine, markings and bookshop labels on the rear pastedown, previous owner's pencil markings and a few drawings in the text (p. 50 and 54). Otherwise very good... More

Moscow: Transpechat’, 1926. 230 pp.: ill. 17x11 cm. In publisher’s photomontage wrappers. Very good. Spine is restored, front cover is rubbed, contemporary owner’s marking on the title page. First and only edition. One of 7080 copies. Very rare. Constructivist cover design by Alexander Rodchenko. The book describes various... More

Baku: Typ. of the Administrat. of the province, 1897. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 184 pp. 20,5x14 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with the original publisher’s printed wrappers pasted on the boards. Occasional ink notes and pencil markings on the first few leaves. Wrappers soiled, title page with minor staining... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Mosk. aktsionernoe izdatel’skoe ob-vo, 1926. 139, [5] pp.: ill. 22x14 cm. In original card boards. Very good, small losses and soiling of the covers, Soviet bookshops’ stamps on the back endpapers. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Volume 6 from the series ‘Encyclopedia... More

[Moscow]: Molodaya gvardiya, 1930. 46, [2] pp. 18x13 cm. 2nd ed. In original illustrated stapled wrappers. Wrappers are loose, with some rubbing. Otherwise very good and clean. Uncut. Very rare. One of 10000 copies. This book is dedicated to agitation in art forms and particularly in theatre and performance... More

[Moscow]: izd. i f-ka iunosheskoi knigi izd-va «Molodaia gvardia, 1937. 114, [6] pp.: ill. 27x17 cm. In original illustrated cloth binding with blind and faded gilt lettering. Near fine, some light rubbing, a couple of pencil underlinings. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Rare. This a.... More

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of N. Grech, 1851. Second edition. Three vols. bound together. [2], vii-xxxvi, [10], 203; [2], 148; [2], 120 pp. 24,5x17cm. With a steel engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved maps at rear. Period half leather with marbled paper boards and a gilt lettered title on the spine... More

Moscow: KOIZ, 1932. 2nd ed. 80 pp.: ill. 24x16 cm. In modern quarter leather, front constructivist cover is preserved in the binding. Small losses of the cover restored with paper, small tears of t.p. One of 15060 copies, yet scarce. With 75 photographs and 18 drawings. This is... More

Tbilisi: Gor. U.P.O. NKVD Gruzinskoi SSR, 1944. 18 pp.: ill. 10x15 cm. Very rare. One of 2000 copies. Lithographed edition. Poems by I. Grishashvili, plot by Z. Pachkoria, illustrations by L. Gilchevskaya. Visual poetic safety regulations for children in Russian (title in Russian and Georgian). Not in the Worldcat. 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: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. 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 less... More