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

Moscow: Teakinopechat, 1930. 120, [2] pp.: ill. 23x16 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good. Signed by the author on the t.p. (‘To Kolya Travin, an old friend, master of a sharp word on stage. Author. 20/ VIII-1930’). Some rubbings, numbers on the front cover and t.p. (ink), occasional markings..... More

Vol.1: [52 leaves: 1924-1936]. Vol.2: [52 leaves: 1937-1938]. 384 images. 29,5x21,5 cm. Cardboards with leather labels on spines with gilt lettering. Bindings with rubbings, occasional foxing, one clipping is lacking fragment. Otherwise very good. Handmade albums of Efimov’s caricatures that were printed in Izvestia and other newspapers during these..... More

Moscow: GIZ, 1922. 159 pp.: ill. 18x14 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine is slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 2000 copies. Illustrated throughout by modernist artist Dmitriy Mitrokhin (1883-1973). The first edition of the famous poem by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1932), the poem was based on..... More

St. Petersburg: A. Transhel, 1876. Parts 1-3. [2], 247, [2], 184, [2], 277 pp. 21x14 cm. Contemporary half leather. The ticket of Borodin’s bindery in Saint Petersburg on the rear endpaper. Gilt lettering on the spine. Very good, some foxing. First edition. The fourth of the ‘Dostoevsky’s big..... More

The clippings originate from newspapers ‘Pravda’, ‘Krasny Putilovets’, ‘Leningradskaya Pravda’, ‘Pravda Severa’, ‘Bolshevistskaya Borozda’, ‘Sovetskoe Iskusstvo’, ‘Teatr i dramaturgiya’, ‘Separator’, etc. Some of the papers are provincial like the newspaper ‘Podporozhskaya Pravda’ (printed in Podporozhie, a small town close to Finland) or ‘Bolshevistksaya borozda’ (printed in Okulovka near Novgorod)... 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

Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1838. 8, 263 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 23,5x17 cm. Text in Ottoman Turkish within a double border, first page decorated with traditional geometric ornaments. A small ink note on verso of the last leaf. Period Ottoman brown half sheep with black papered boards and gilt..... More

Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890. 2 vols. 16x23 cm (oblong large octavo). Vol. 1: t.p., 28 leaves, with 16 double-page and 17 singlepage woodblock illustrations in text.; Vol. 2: 28 leaves, with 19 doublepage and 13 single-page woodblock illustrations in text. Text and illustrations within single border. Original Japanese fukuro toji..... More

Yokohama, Kikuya Ichibei, ca. 1860s. Coloured woodblock print. 37x25 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp, names of the publisher and the block cutter, title in the upper right and lower left corners. Paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good print. A colourful print showing a scene in a geisha..... More

Moscow: Typ. of Lazarevs’ Institute of Foreign Languages, 1833. Xv, iii, 259 pp. 21x13,5 cm. With additional copper engraved title page (decorated with two vignettes), four hand coloured folding lithographed plates (including a frontispiece; two signed and dated by the artist), and a folding copper engraved plate of snow flakes..... More

Tver': Oktiabr, 1923. 48, [2] pp.: ill. In original wrappers with portrait. Very good, extremities chipped, generally slightly rubbed. First and only edition. One of 1500 copies. Very rare. The book design by G.I. Noskov, the local Tver’ artist, who attempted to follow some of leftist typescript designs..... More

Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1945. 131, [1] pp.: ill. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tiny tears of outer edges of extended yapped wrappers. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. The guide book includes thorough description of all 26 halls with historic details on the side. Even more valuable are black..... More