![[FIRST BOOK BY JOYCE IN RUSSIAN] Dublintsy. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. E.N. Fedotovoi [i.e. Dubliners. Stories / Translated by E.N. Fedotova]. J. Joyce.](/pictures/thumb/120.jpg?v=1472131826)
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
![[COVER DESIGN BY GAMREKELI] Qurdi [i.e. Thief. Poems]. K. Kaladze.](/pictures/thumb/118.jpg?v=1472316802)
Tiflis: Trud, 1927. 14, [2] pp. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Author’s signature on the first page. Near fine. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Rare. Cover design by Irakli Gamrekeli (1894-1943), Georgian Soviet set designer and one of the founders of Georgian avant-garde stage design influenced by... More
![Raymonda. Ballet en trois acte. Sujet de Lydie Pachkoff et de Marius Petipa [i.e. Raymonda. Ballet in three acts. Libretto by Lidia Paskova and Marius Petipa]. A. K. Glazunov, Alexandre Glazounow.](/pictures/thumb/117.jpg?v=1472130729)
Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff, 1898. 3-167, [1] pp. 35x28 cm. In later cloth. Illustrated front cover preserved. Stains on the boards and some restoration to the cover. Otherwise very good. Inscription by A. Glazunov on the front cover: «To dedicated musician and tireless social activist Boris Iosifovich Narovlyansky for a.... More
![[CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion]. O. M. Brik.](/pictures/thumb/115.jpg?v=1472300061)
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
![[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ARCHIVE ON CROQUET]](/pictures/thumb/114.jpg?v=1472327390)
1. [Croquet. Notebook]. [1870s]. 186 pp. 21x17 cm. Blue cloth with gilt lettering (‘Croquet’) on the front cover. Handwritten in black and colored pencils on the graph paper. Author’s occasional crossings. The notebook consists of paragraphs describing different aspects of croquet: general rules, manual how to set up hoops and..... More
Saint Léger en Yvelines: 1915. 12х14,5 сm. Thank you note on the Pasteur Institute stationery: «Saint Léger en Yvelines, 22 June 1915. Dear Mr. Chairman, Let me express tremendous gratitude to you as the face of Russian Veterinary Society for electing me as honorary member and for wishes on... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON] Kritika prakticheskogo razuma i osnovopolozheniye k metafizike nravov / polnyi perevod s primechaniyami i prilozheniyem Kratkogo ocherka prakticheskoi filosofii sost. N. Smirnov [i.e. Critique of Practical Reason]. I. Kant.](/pictures/thumb/110.jpg?v=1472312469)
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
![[FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON] Kritika chistogo razuma / per. M. Vladislavleva [i.e. Critique of Pure Reason / Translated by M. Vladislavlev]. I. Kant.](/images/noimage.png)
St. Petersburg: tip. N. Tiblena (N. Nekludova), 1867. [4], IV, XXXVIII, XXXIV, 627 pp. 21x14,5 cm. In contemporary quarter leather. Scuffed boards and few pieces are missing, Soviet bookshops’ stamps, previous owner’s ink signature on several pages, pen signature and bookplate on the front endpapers («From books of professor D.S...... More
![[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.](/pictures/thumb/107.jpg?v=1472329642)
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
![[GLINKA & BILIBIN] Ruslan i Lyudmila. Volshebnaya opera v 5 deistviyakh. Syuzhet zaimstvovan iz poemy A. Pushkina. Muzyka M. Glinki / Pod red. M. Balakireva i S. Lyapunova [i.e. Ruslan and Ludmila. A Fairy Opera in 5 acts. The plot is adopted from Pushkin’s poem. Music by M. Glinka / Edited by M. Balakirev and S. Lyapunov].](/pictures/thumb/106.jpg?v=1472300755)
Moscow: P. Yurgenson, 1906. 255 pp.: music. 30,5x24 cm. Contemporary bright red binder’s cloth with title in gold and decoration in color (art nouveau style) on the front board and blind decorative border and binder’s name on the back board. Original illustrated front cover is preserved. Endpapers are of paper..... More
![[DICKENS IN ARMENIAN] Dawit Kopperfild : kensagrakan vep, patkerazard [i.e. David Copperfield. The biographical novel]. Part 1 [and all] / translated from English by Pilippos Vaedanyan. Charles Dickens.](/pictures/thumb/105.jpg?v=1472301030)
Tiflis: Armenian publishing house number 9; Azanyants typography, 1912. [4], IX, 458, [1] pp., 1 port., 15 ill. 8vo. Contemporary binding with modern spine. Good and clean copy. Rare. Illustrated edition – the pictures apparently have been taken from an English edition of the time. 20 chapters from David... More
![[THOREAU IN RUSSIAN] Filosofiya estestvennoi zhizni. Izbrannye mysli Genri Davida Toro / S angl. perevel I. Nakashidze [i.e. The Philosophy of a Natural Life. Selected Thoughts of Henry David Thoreau / Translated by I. Nakashidze]. H. D. Thoreau.](/pictures/thumb/104.jpg?v=1472302866)
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
![[BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like the Sun. The Book of Symbols]. K. D. Balmont.](/pictures/thumb/102.jpg?v=1528812957)
Moscow: Knigoizdatelstvo Skorpion, 1903. [2], 290 pp. 8vo. The copy is in exceptionally fine contemporary half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers and gilt lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper illustrated by Fidus (the famous German symbolist artist Hugo Hoppener) preserved. A fine copy. First edition. This is... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN BIOGRAPHY OF BEECHER STOWE] Uchitel vzroslykh i drug detei: Bicher-Stou. Biografichesky ocherk [i.e. A Teacher of Adults and A Friend of Children: Beecher Stowe. Biographical Essay]. I. I. Ivanov.](/pictures/thumb/101.jpg?v=1450242574)
Moscow: Yunaya Rossiya, 1914. 126, [2] pp.: port. 19,5x15 cm. Later owner's binding. Cut edges, narrow piece of paper glued between pp. 4-5. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Uncle Tom's Cabin was very popular in Russia. It was first published in 1857 in Russia in periodical. Soon after... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN KEROUAC] Na doroge [i.e. On the Road]. J. Kerouac.](/pictures/thumb/100.jpg?v=1450242574)
Moscow: Inostrannaya literatura, 1960. Na doroge // Inostrannaya literatura. 1960. №10. Pp.195 [i.e. On the Road // Foreign Literature]. 318, [2] pp.: ill., 6 ill. 25,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed and shaken, tears of the spine, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the back cover and p. 318, soiling on the last... More
![[RUSSIAN COLLECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN OBJECTS] Otdel Severnoi Ameriki: Putevoditel' po Muzeyu antropologii i etnografii [i.e. North America Department. Guide to Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography]. S. A. Ratner-Shternberg.](/pictures/thumb/98.jpg?v=1450214702)
Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1929. 102, [10] pp.: ill., 1 map. 20х14 cm. In original publisher's wrappers. Some browning of the wrappers, chipped crown, closed tear of the front cover and tears of the lower spine and extremities. Otherwise a very good clean copy. 1 of 1500 copies. First edition... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN STEINBECK] Grozdiya gneva / Perevod s angl. N. Volzhinoi [i.e. The Grapes of Wrath / Translated from English by N. Volzhina]. J. Steinbeck.](/pictures/thumb/97.jpg?v=1450212613)
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
![[ON AMERICAN LIBRARIES] Sovremennye biblioteki v Amerike. Ocherki i statyi / Per. s nem. pod red. i v obrabotke B.O. Borovicha [i.e. Modern Libraries in America. Essays and Articles / Translation from German made and edited by B.O. Borovich]. H. Escher.](/pictures/thumb/96.jpg?v=1450242572)
Kharkiv: Trud, 1927. 93, [2] pp. 17x12,5 cm. In original publisher's wrappers. Lower part of the spine chipped, some stains on the front cover, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the back cover, tiny owner's label with number on the inner part of the front cover. Otherwise a near fine clean copy. 1... More
![[RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA] V strane svobody i truda: Rasskaz iz amerikanskoi zhizni [i.e. In the Country of Freedom and Labour: The Story of American Life]. S. A. Pospelov.](/pictures/thumb/95.jpg?v=1450242572)
St. Petersburg: A.F. Devrien, 1907. [2], II, 227 pp.: ill. 19x14,5 cm. In original publisher's illustrated card boards. Loose, rubbed copy lacks front free end-paper, the material on the spine is partly detached, markings on the front cover, title-page and few other pages, pre-revolutionary stamp on the title-page and few... More
![[USA HISTORY BY FIRST RUSSIAN LIBRARIAN IN AMERICA] Istoriya Severo-Amerikanskikh soedinyonnykh shtatov. V 2 t. [i.e. The History of Northern-American United States. In 2 vols]. A. V. Babin.](/pictures/thumb/94.jpg?v=1450207535)
St. Petersburg: tip. Trenke i Fyusno, 1912. V.1: 1607-1826. [8], 493 pp. V.2: 1829-1910. [4], 471 pp., 1 map. 20,5x13,3 cm. In two modern half-leather bindings. Original front wrappers preserved. Cut, light foxing of the covers. Otherwise a fine crispy copy. Rare. First edition. First thorough history written by... More
![[USE OF AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR RUSSIANS] Zaboty o prosveshchenii v Soedinyennykh Shtatakh [i.e. Education in the United States of America]. W. F. Russell.](/pictures/thumb/93.jpg?v=1450328964)
New York: New Section of Foreign Language Information Service of American National Red Cross, 1920. 110 pp. 8vo. In original publisher's wrappers. Few tears and losses of the spine, owner's label on the front cover, light soiling of the wrappers. First edition. Text in Russian. Added title page, foreword, table... More
![[THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA] Kreiserstvo Semtera i Alabamy. Per. s angl. Sost. po lichnomu dnevniku i prochim materialam kap. R. Semza i drugikh ofitserov ekipazha [i.e. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter. Translated from English. Compiled from Personal Diary and Other Documents of Captain R. Semmes and Other Crew Officers]. R. Semmes.](/pictures/thumb/90.jpg?v=1450415364)
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
![[FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT BYRON] Zapiski o lorde Bairone [i.e. Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron]: [In 2 vols]](/pictures/thumb/89.jpg?v=1450415363)
St. Petersburg: tip. N. Grecha, 1835. Vol.1. [4], VIII, 197 pp., [1] front.; Vol.2. [4], 153 pp. 8vo. Lord Byron's portrait on the frontispiece. Two volumes in contemporary quarter-leather bindings, with gilt-lettering on spines. Labels on spines, some rubbings to covers, pre-revolutionary library stamps (Tallinn), foxing. Rare, especially with... More
![[ONE OF THE FIRST ANTI-NAZI CARICATURES OF THE WWII] Ogonyok [i.e. The Twinkle]](/pictures/thumb/88.jpg?v=1450190185)
Moscow. No.18. 25 of June 1941. 24 pp. 32x25 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. This issue of 'Ogonyok' was the first one printed after Germany began the war against Soviet Union on the 22 of June 1941. Boris Efimov's iconic caricatures on the front wrapper... More
![[GEORGIAN AVANT-GARDE THEATRE] Teatr Rustaveli [i.e. The Rustaveli Theatre]. A. Duduchava.](/pictures/thumb/87.jpg?v=1450189712)
Tiflis: Gosizdat, 1930. 79 pp. 19x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original wrapper illustrated by Irakly Gamrikeli. Illustrations of the decorations from different performances throughout the text. Very good. Some tears at the edges of the wrapper. Very rare. The book is dedicated to the main Georgian... More