Moscow: Gosstroyizdat, 1934. 192 p.: ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. 1 of 4000 copies. Original cloth binding. No dust-jacket. Some soiling, but otherwise very good. Contemporary owner’s inscription on the title page (A. Molokin, 1931). Provenance: the book belonged to the well-known Kharkiv-based architect professor Alexander Molokin (1880-1951), the contributor..... More

Kiev: Der hamer, 1917. 38, [2] pp. 21x14 cm. No covers. In a good condition, the lower inner corner chipped. Second edition of the major work by a leading member of the Labor Zionist movement, Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917). The first edition was published in Vilna in 1906. In..... More

Moscow: Omonus, 1917. Pp. 1-15. The single issue of the children’s periodical in Yiddish. Original illustrated wrapper is preserved under a modern binding. Pre-1941 stamps of zionistic society. Small holes throughout the block have been carefully restored. Extremely rare issue of the important Yiddish periodical, printed two days before..... More

Leningrad: Vremia, 1925. [16] pp. 26x21 cm. One of 8000 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Few small tears to the spine, few millimeters cut from the top of the block. Coupe of small stains on p. [3]. Otherwise very good. Legendary rarity. No paper copies located in Worldcat..... More

Moscow: Der Emes, 1946. 256 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original cardboards. Good, covers rubbed and chipped, tear of the spine, stains occasionally. One of 10 000 copies. The laconic design of the book was created by Soviet artist Hersh Inger (1910-1995). In 1926-1930 he studied under Marc Epstein..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Kinopechat’, 1927. 32 pp.: ill. 17.9x13.3 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. The spine is slightly rubbed. Soviet bookshop stamp on the recto of the rear wrapper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Art-nouveau style wrapper design with Mikhoel’s portrait by the..... More

Tel-Aviv: Cinema ‘Eden’, 1930. 62,7x47,5 cm. In a very good condition, tears restored, creases, pale water stains and few pencil marks. Extremely rare survival of the time. In English and Arabic. This poster relates to both one of the earliest cinemas in Jaffa and the outstanding German actress Olga Chekhova..... More

September 1928. Twenty-one loose pencil drawings (two slightly coloured), including nineteen large ones ca. 18x27 cm (7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in), and two smaller ones, ca. 13,5x18 cm (5 ¼ x 7 in). All but four drawings with period pencil captions on recto or verso; ten additionally dated September..... More

1871. Oblong Folio (ca. 28x34,5 cm). 21 thick stock album leaves. With 20 mounted albumen prints, including twelve large images ca. 19x25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 ¾ in), the rest are ca. 12x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ½ in). All but two captioned in English or French in..... More

Ca. 1910s. Seventeen loose gelatin silver photographs, each ca. 17x23 cm (6 ¾ x 8 ¾ in). Three photos with pencil captions in Russian on verso. One photo with a tear on the corner neatly repaired; overall a very good collection of interesting strong images. Rare original photographs of..... More

1931. Oblong Folio album (ca. 29x41,5 cm). 13 card stock leaves. With 78 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including three panoramas from ca. 9,5x58,5 cm (3 ¾ x 23 in) to ca. 10x43 cm (4x17 in); the rest are ca. 11x16,5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ½ in). One panorama signed..... More

St. Petersburg: Naval Typ. 1811. S Prilozheniyem Slovaria Dvenadtsati Narechii Dikikh Narodov, Nabliudeniya za Stuzheyu v Verkhnekolymskom Ostroge, i Nastavleniya Dannago Kapitanu Billingsu iz Gosudarstvennoi Admiralteistv-Kollegii. Izvlecheno iz Raznykh Zurnalov… Gavrilom Sarychevym [i.e. with the addition of a vocabulary of Twelve Dialects of Savages, Observations of Frost in Verkhekolymsky Ostrog..... More

Moscow: Typ. of A.A. Torletsky, 1877. ix, 214 pp. Large Octavo. With a woodcut portrait frontispiece. Period dark green quarter sheep with marbled papered boards; gilt-lettered title on the spine. Several markings of a Russian bookshop on the rear pastedown endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. First and only..... More