![CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that Imports Tea and...](/pictures/thumb/228.jpg?v=1485601820)
Prague: Odeon, 1928. 63, [4] pp.: ill. 19x13,1 cm. In later binding. Near fine, clean and sound copy. Without original wrappers. Signed by the author postcard with author’s photograph laid in. Legendary work containing Karel Teige’s full page typography and colored typographical design experiments. The second, but first illustrated..... More
![HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON IN 1850S] Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From...](/pictures/thumb/225.jpg?v=1542898512)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Golovin, 1867. [2], 381, [1] pp. 14x11,5 cm. Period style quarter leather. Title page with a minor restoration on the lower margin, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (The British Library)..... More
![ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i...](/pictures/thumb/220.jpg?v=1485342837)
Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883. viii, 769, 14, xvi, [1] pp. 26,5x18,5 cm. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and four lithographed plates. Period style quarter morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Period pencil markings and mild foxing of the text, otherwise a very good copy..... More
![SYNOPSIS OF TOLSTOY] Kratkoe izvlechenie iz Evangeliya v perevode L.N. Tolstogo [i.e. The Brief...](/images/noimage.png)
1902. Manuscript. 89 pp. 22x17,5 cm. Inscription ‘K. Gorbachev. Moscow. 1902’ on the endpaper. Owner’s contemporary binding. Brass corners on the front cover. Good condition. Handwritten notes to unrelated book at the back. The rare example of the handwritten summary of Tolstoy’s adaptation of Gospels. It was made in..... More
Moscow: Sherer, Nabgolts i Ko. 1894. 16,4x10,8 cm. Fine condition. Most Leo Tolstoy’s photograph portraits in 1880s and 90s were made on Sofia Andreevna’s initiative. For almost quarter of the century photos of Tolstoy’s family were made by the most famous and biggest pre-Revolutionary photo studio «Sherer, Nabgolts i...... More
1880-1890s. [311 leaves]. 22,5x17,5 cm. Manuscript with the extracts of the printed text glued to some pages. Contemporary half-leather binding. Owner’s inscription on the title page ‘Presented to my dear friend Taniechka by M. What is to be done? is the publicistic discourse that Tolstoy wrote in 1884-1886 as..... More
St. Petersburg: 1855. Noch. Vesnoiu 1855 goda v Sevastopole // Sovremennik. Tom LIII [i.e. The Night. Sevastopol in Spring of 1855 // The Contemporary. Vol. LIII]. Pp. 5-30. Rubka lesa // Sovremennik. Tom LIII [i.e. The Cutting of the Forest // The Contemporary. Vol. LIII]. Pp. 35-68. 24x15 cm..... More
![FIRST OF SEVASTOPOL SKETCHES] Sevastopol’ v dekabre mesiatse // Sovremennik. #6 [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/208.jpg?v=1594811040)
St. Petersburg: 1855. Pp. 333-348. 24x15 cm. Modern binding. Original printed wrapper preserved. Some soiling and stains of some pages, pen marks on the front wrapper, occasional foxing. Otherwise very good. First publication. The short story was based on Tolstoy’s first impressions from being in Sevastopol in November 1854..... More
St. Petersburg: 1853. Pp. 93-120. 24x15 cm. Modern binding, two last leaves (Contents) with restoration, one page with small loss of the text (not Tolstoy). Otherwise very good. First publication of 'The Raid' and second publication of anything by Tolstoy. The story is based on Tolstoy’s own experience as..... More
St. Petersburg: v tipografii Eduarda Pratsa, 1852. Pp. 7, [1], 134, 124, 32, 16, 38, 124, [1]. 22,5x15 cm. Contemporary quarter calf, cloth sides, a little surface wear, later endpapers, preserving the original printed wrappers (‘Sovremennik 1852 No. IX, sentiabr’), guarded in the gutter. Without the final leaf from the..... More
London: ca. 1840s. Steel engraving, print size 39x34,5 cm on a large sheet 65,5x48,5 cm. “B.R. Davies direxit., J. Thomson sculpt.” underneath the image. With an engraved title in Russian and Lazarev’s coat of arms engraved on the lower margin. Blank margins with minor repaired tears, creases on the upper..... More
![Fedorino gore [i.e. Fedora’s Grief]. K. Chukovsky](/pictures/thumb/198.jpg?v=1483910467)
Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. [16] pp.: ill. 27,8x21,8 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some restoration of the spine and last page, some general wearing. Otherwise a very good copy. Rare first edition. One of 8000 copies. Illustrated by Vladislav Tvardovsky (1888-1942), Russian Soviet children’s book graphic artist, was working as..... More
![AGRONOMIC PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN] Na vystavku! [i.e. To the Exhibition!]. O. I. Vysotskaya](/pictures/thumb/195.jpg?v=1483909363)
Leningrad: GIZMESTPROM, 1938. 18 pp. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers and illustrations by A.N. Viktorova. Restoration of the spine. The first and only edition. A coloring book. On every turn of the page there’s an image in color and the same image and outline of the same image opposite for..... More
![GIGANTIC TURNIP BY SIMONOVICH-EFIMOVA] Skazka Repka [i.e. The Gigantic Turnip](/pictures/thumb/194.jpg?v=1483909032)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1937. [12] pp.: ill. 24,5x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the extremities. Otherwise very good. Lithographed edition. Covers and illustrations by Nina Simonovich-Efimova (1877-1948), Russian Soviet artists, who worked in etching and autolithography techniques; one of the creators of the professional puppet theater in Russia..... More
![MATCH AND CANDLE] Spichka I svechka. Iz nauchnykh skazok Byurgelya [i.e. A Match and a Candle....](/pictures/thumb/193.jpg?v=1483908745)
Moscow: G.F. Mirimanov, 1924. 15 pp.: ill. 30x21 cm. In original illustrated lithographed wrappers. Some wearing, Georgian stamp on the title page, tear of the back cover. Overall very good. Rare. One of 10000 copies. Illustrated by Anatoly Andronov (1869-1947), graphic artist. Studied in Repin class at Higher Art..... More
St. Petersburg: V tipografii Eduarda Pratsa, 1846. [4], 560 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half leather binding. Some light foxing, corners worn, spine rubbed with a couple of small abrasions, but sound; early ink ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, later bookplate of A.V. Leont’ev to front pastedown. First edition..... More
![SOVIET POSTER FOR 8½] Film poster for 8½ by I. Maistrovskii](/pictures/thumb/190.jpg?v=1483904148)
Moscow: Reklamfilm, 1987. 86,5x55 cm. Fine. In this year the film by Fellini was widely distributed in Soviet cinemas for the first time. More
![THE FIFTH COLUMN IN RUSSIAN] Pyataya kolonna i pervye tridtsat’ vosem’ rasskazov / Per. s...](/pictures/thumb/187.jpg?v=1494607124)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. 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 less..... More
![REMEMBERING REVOLUTION] Revoliutsia 1905 goda v Zakavkazii [i.e. Revolution of 1905 in...](/pictures/thumb/184.jpg?v=1483900863)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1930. 72 pp. 17,5х12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrapper design by Mayakosvky. Tears of the spine, owner’s signature on the title page. Otherwise very good. Rare. 1 of 5000 copies. Front-cover is illustrated with one of ROSTA’s images by Vladimir Mayakovsky. No copies in Worldcat. More
![BOR-RAMENSKY] Pamyatka krasnoarmeitsa: 1901-1902 [i.e. Memo for Red Army Man](/pictures/thumb/181.jpg?v=1483894676)
Tiflis: Zakkraikom RKSM, 1924. 192 pp.: ill., 1 map. 17,5х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A couple of light cracks on the spine (no damage to the general condition), rusty staple is visible on the title page, red pencil mark on the front wrapper. Otherwise a very good sound and..... More
![LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!]. D. Bedny](/pictures/thumb/180.jpg?v=1483894502)
Moscow: Commission for Improving Life of Children, 1923. 150 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. 150 illustrations in text by Fyodor Kriger. Mint condition. 1 of 6000 copies. The first edition of the propaganda fables by Demian Bedny – the genre he invented and excelled at in 1920s. Fyodor Kriger was..... More
![MALEVICH ON SUPREMATISM] Ot Sezanna do suprematizma [i.e. From Cezanne to Suprematism]. K. S....](/pictures/thumb/179.jpg?v=1483894002)
Moscow: Otd. izobraz. iskusstv Narkomprosa, 1920. 16 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Wrappers rubbed, bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, previous owner’s label on the recto of the front cover and initials on the title page, markings in text. Very rare. Kazimir Malevich’s (1879-1935) work on the essence of suprematism and..... More
![RUSSIAN FOLK LEGENDS] Narodnye russkiye legendy, sobrannye Afanasievym [i.e. Russian Folk Legends...](/pictures/thumb/178.jpg?v=1528814777)
Moscow: N. Shchepkin i K.Soldatenkov, 1859. XXXII, 204, II pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary half leather binding. Very good, rubbed binding, loss of a few small pieces of the spine, no free leaf of the back endpapers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back pastedown. First edition. Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasiev (1826-1871)..... More
Moscow: Grif, 1905. 135, [9] pp. 20x16 cm. Contemporary half leather. The publisher’s original wrapper is preserved under the boards. Very good clean copy. Rare. 1 of 1200 copies printed. One of the most important Russian poetry books of the period. First edition of Alexander Blok’s (1880-1921) first book..... More
![GEORGIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER] Plamia [i.e. The Flame. The Supplement to Zarya Vostoka](/pictures/thumb/172.jpg?v=1483913421)
Tbilisi: Zarya Vostoka, 1924. No. 5. 24 pp.: ill. 32x24 cm. Original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. A very good copy with light rubbing of the wrappers. On the rear wrapper Constructivist in Rodchenko style photomontage advertisement with a poem agitating to subscribe to 'Zarya Vostoka' [i.e. The Day-spring of The East]..... More