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: Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1991. 156, [4] pp. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Lemekhov. Very good / near fine. 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..... 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

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

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

Leningrad: Mysl’, 1927. 3-168 pp. 18x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by Georgy Fitingof. Lacks half-title, small tears of the spine and few damp stains. Otherwise a very good copy. This is the first separate edition of anything by Joyce in Russian. First almost full edition of Dubliners (without..... 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

Riga: Literatura, 1927. 3-190, [2] pp.: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Restored spine and wrappers, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the verso of back cover, few pages restored (near the spine or the edges). Very rare. Moscow edition was published the same year, and it's hard to say..... 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: Krasnaia Nov’, 1923. 315, [1], 4 pp. 23,5x15,5 cm. Original illustrated wrappers by Sergei Chekhonin. A few small bits of the spine missing, the front wrapper is restored (the right bottom corner is missing, not affecting the image). Overall a very good copy. First edition. Extremely rare..... More

St. Petersburg: Kom. po ustroistvu dobrovolnogo flota, 1878. VIII, 490 pp. 25x18 cm. Later cloth binding. Owner's signature on the last page, very rare light foxing. Otherwise a near fine crispy copy. First edition. Interesting book regarding the influence of American navy on Russian naval system. Raphael Semmes..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1940. 504 pp.: ill., 1 front. (ill.). 20x13,5 cm. Illustrations by L. Brodaty. In original publisher's illustrated card boards. Covers slightly rubbed, owner's signature on the front endpaper, owner's ink book stamp on the title page, pp. 17, 41, 504; a small wormhole on the lower side of..... More

Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1946. 136 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine. Tiny tears of the spine. Most of the poems are translated into Russian for the first time. Translations of American poets: Philip Freneau, William Bryant, Ralph Emerson, Henry Longfellow, John Whittier, James Riley, Walt Whitman..... More