Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ, 1934. XXXVI, 324 pp., 1 ill. (front). 23x15 cm. Original publisher’s cloth. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Bumped and slightly rubbed, some soiling of the covers, minor tear of the title page, otherwise very good and clean internally. One of 10,000 copies. Rare. Lev..... More

21 black and white photographs depicting Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s triumphant return to his homeland after 20 years of exile. 1994. Each photo 6,7x9 cm. Fine. First and only edition. One of 150 copies produced. Very rare. Eager to reacquaint himself with a country “altered beyond recognition,” Solzhenitsyn landed..... More

Moscow: Kras. nov’, 1923. [4], 194, [1] pp.+ 5 pp. of ads. 23x15,5 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Good. Fragments of the spine and front cover edges lost, pale water stains on the covers, a private library’s paper sticker on the front cover, a signature on the front cover and..... More

St. Petersburg: Akme [printed at the author’s expense by Iu. Mansfeld], 1913. [2], 34 pp. 21x14 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, some pale stains on the covers, few pencil marks, otherwise very good. A good copy of the first edition of the first book by..... More

Odesa: Knigoizd-vo «Odespoligraf», [1925]. 141, [2] pp.: ill., 6 ills. 21,5x17,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated cardboards; illustrated endpapers. Binding worn, with creases and small fragments of illustrated paper lost, upper outer corner of the front cover lost (letterpress design not affected), stains on the back cover, soiling of pages..... More

Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo izobrazitel’nykh iskusstv, 1936. [2], XX, 71, [1], 72-82, [2], 83-86 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 29x30 cm. In original cloth binding with a flap of the back cover, with silver lettering and blind debossed image on the front cover, silver design on the spine; publisher’s blind logo on..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929. 24 pp.: ill. 30x21 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A small tear of the spine, some soiling of the back cover, otherwise very good and clean copy. Edited by the old revolutionary Samuil Chudnovskii (1889- 1937) who later became a victim of the Great Purge. An..... More

Leningrad: Izd. Leningradskogo soiuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov, 1935. [6], 272, [10] pp.: ill. 30,5x24,5 cm. In original cloth with blind debossed lettering and a colored image on the front cover, blind embossed lettering on the spine. Tears of the spine, chipped, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. One of 3,600..... More

Petrograd: Parus, 1917. 48 pp. In original publisher’s wrappers. Front cover detached from block, otherwise very good and clean copy. The first separate edition of Mayakovsky’s poem The War and The World, which became the culmination of the author’s anti-war pathos. The outburst of World War I received..... More

St. Petersburg: Nash svet, 1914. 86 pp.: ill. 24x17 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the eagle over the mountains: the metaphor of Russian Empire spreading its influence across the region. Minimal restoration of the spine, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. The work by the young historian..... More

Tiflis: 41°, 1919. 32 p. 17×14 cm. In publisher’s illustrated cover designed by Ilia Zdanevich. Printed on pink paper. The block is clean. The illustration on p. 16 was also used in the collection Sofia Georgievna Melnikova. Fantasticheskiy kabachiok [i.e. To Sofia Georgievna Melnikova. Fantastic Tavern]. Some rust on the..... More

Paris: La Parade, cop. 1950. [16], 116 pp., 8 ills. 18x11,5 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with title in Russian mounted on the spine. Spine faded, otherwise near fine. A screenplay of the French experimental film Orpheus (1950). The edition is supplemented with photographs by Roger Corbeau (1908-1995) printed..... More

Vyg., 1835. 175 ff. 13,5x10,6 cm. A manuscript. 14 lines. Black and copious red ink. Each chapter starts with vyaz - a calligraphic script with ornamentation. Eleven decorated headpieces. Eight chapters have decorated endings that include birds and flowers in compositions. Gold is used in all of the headpieces and..... More