St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Kotomina, 1875. XXXII, 448 pp. 26,5x19 cm. In contemporary red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and colored decorative elements on the front cover. Some rubbing and foxing, lack of the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is the..... More

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

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 127 pp.: ill. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original constructivist style wrappers and original illustrated dust jacket with portrait of the author by Hugo Gellert. Near fine, previous owner’s stamp on t.p. and few ink marks, two stains on dust jacket.  First thus edition. One of 7000..... More

Kiev: Goslitizdat Ukrainy, 1956. 74 pp. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Soilings and rubbings of the wrappers, owner's markings. First edition printed in Ukraine (it is in Russian). Printed the same year as the first Russian separate edition (Moscow, 1956). “In 1955, after a period of..... More

St. Petersburg; Moscow: M.O. Volf, [1907]. [4], IV, VI, 296 pp., 1 front., 19 ill. 8vo. Original red cloth gold and black stamped binding, decorated endpapers in black and gold. Restorations to the spine, covers rubbed, some spots and light wear of the pages. This edition with 20 plates..... More

St. Petersburg: tip. A. Transhelya, 1879. XVIII, 110, 192, [3] pp. 20х14 cm. Contemporary half leather with faded gilt-lettering on the spine. Original covers are preserved. Rubbed, private library ink stamps on the front pastedown, cover and last page, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the title page, owner’s markings in text..... More

St. Petersburg: tip. Kukol'-Yasnopol'skogo, 1867. [2], 474, IV pp., 1 port. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding with gilt-lettering and decoration on the spine, decorations on boards in blind. Very good. Rubbed, few spots and owner's ink stamp on the title-page.  First edition. The book is translated from German the year..... More

St.Petersburg: V. Tushnov, 1874. 332 p. 18x13 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Good condition. First edition of John Stuart Mill's autobiography that was printed in Russian the next year after it appeared in English. Grigory Evlampievich Blagosvetov (1824-1880) who translated this book into Russian was the editor in chief..... 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

Translated by R. Wright-Kovaleva. The full text of the novel is extracted from the November issue of Inostrannaya literatura (Foreign Literature) and bound together with other Western novels from the same periodical including W. Faulkner’s The Mansion, Jay Deiss’ Great infidel , Erskine Coldwell’s Jenny (all unfinished). In owner’s 1960s..... More

St. Petersburg: V tip. F. Stellovskogo, 1860. 52 pp. 24x15,5 cm. In modern half-leather binding with marbled covers; gilt lettering on the spine. Title page repared, some soiling, otherwise very good. Facsimile of the translator's signature mounted on the front endpaper. First edition. Very rare. One of the..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 35 pp. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Front cover is separate from the text block, some rubbings of wrappers, slightly rusted staples. Cover design by illustrator D.A. Bazhanov (1902-1946). The story is followed by small vocabulary. More

Moscow: Posrednik, 1903. 82 pp.: port. 20,5x15 cm. In later plain wrappers. Rubbed wrappers, with some soiling and owner's pencil markings in the text, bookshop markings on the inner side of the back cover. Otherwise a very good copy. Thoreau had a major influence on a lot of writers..... More