![[BANNED BULGAKOV IN THE HEART OF SOVIET ASIA] Zvezda Vostoka : Organ Soiuza Pisatelei Vostoka [i.e. Star of the East: Organ of the Eastern Writers Union] #3, 1967](/pictures/thumb/583.jpg?v=1547734711)
Tashkent: Ob’edinennoe izd-vo «Kzyl. Uzbekistan,» «Pravada Vostoka» i «Uzbekistoni surkh.”, 1967. 240 pp.: ill. 26x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed, small fragments of spine lost, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is the rare issue of the oldest magazine in Central Asia which draws our..... More
![[FUISM] “A”. [Collection of poems] / B. Pereleshin, A. Rakitnikov, I. Sokolov. R.S.F.S.R., 0,21 XX veka [i.e. RSFSR, 21 Hundredth of the 20th Century].](/pictures/thumb/582.jpg?v=1547734460)
[Moscow, 1921]. 14, [2] pp. 17,5x11 cm (unfolded two leaves, each leaf 34,5x22,2 cm). Uncut and unbound as issued. Near fine. Previous owner’s ink stamp on p. 3, erased ink stamp and pen mark on the last page. First edition. Very rare. This is a collection of poems by... More
![[PHILOSOPHY OF DOSTOEVSKY AND FYODOROV] Rai na zemle: K ideologii tvorchestva F.M. Dostoevskogo. F.M. Dostoevsky i N.F. Fyodorov [i.e. Paradise on Earth. Towards an Ideology of the Creativity of F.M. Dostoevsky. F.M. Dostoevsky and N.F. Fyodorov]. A. K. Gorsky, A. K. Gornostaev.](/pictures/thumb/581.jpg?v=1547733662)
[Harbin], 1929. [4], 88 pp. 26x18,5 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. The spine is rebacked with paper, some bleak stains on the front wrapper and a tiny tear, ink stamp on the t.p. (Russian Student Christian Group), staples with rust. Otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare provincial... More
![[FIRST BULGAKOV ’ S FATAL EGGS] Rokovye yaitsa, povest’ [i.e. The Fatal Eggs, A Tale] // Literaturno-khudozhestvennye sborniki Nedra. Kinga shestaya [i.e. Literary and Art Collections. Book Six]. M. A. Bulgakov.](/pictures/thumb/580.jpg?v=1547733160)
Moscow: Nedra, 1925. Pp. 79-148. 23,5x15 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. Rubbed wrappers with small tears, a copy is a bit loose and some pages are detached, couple of pages with a small tear of the margin (text not touched). Otherwise very good. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. First... More
![[TOLSTOY’S AUTOGRAPH] Sochinenia grafa L.N. Tolstogo [i.e. Works of Count L.N. Tolstoy]. L. N. Tolstoy.](/pictures/thumb/430.jpg?v=1519819591)
9th ed. Moscow: Typ. I.N. Kushnerev i Ko., 1893. [2 - t.p.], 367 pp., 2 port. 25x16 cm. In contemporary half leather with art nouveau decorations, gilt lettering and floral decor on the spine. Moire boards and endpapers. Near fine. Occasional foxing, small margin tear on p. 353 (text not... More
![[DOSTOEVSKY’S FIRST EDITION] Podrostok [i.e. The Adolescent]. F. M. Dostoevsky.](/pictures/thumb/428.jpg?v=1519818910)
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
![[FIRST EDITION OF THE DEAD SOULS] Pokhozhdeniya Chichikova, ili Myortvye dushi: Poema N. Gogolia [i.e. The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls: N. Gogol’s Poem]. N. V. Gogol.](/pictures/thumb/427.jpg?v=1519818672)
Moscow: Universitetskaya tipografia, 1842. 475 pp. 23x15 cm. Contemporary half leather. Some bleak water staining on the corner of first pages, pale stain on p.387, as well as the restoration of the spine, but generally a very good copy. From our experience, the condition is ‘better than usual’. First... More
![[FEMALE RUSSIAN WRITERS] Nashi pisatel’nitsy: (‘‘Bibliographichesky slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits knyazya N.N. Golitsyna. SPb. 1889. VI i 308’’: Statiya S.I. Ponomareva) [i.e. Our Female Writers: (‘‘Biographical Index of Russian Female Writers by Count N.N. Golitsyn. SPb. 1889. VI and 308’’: Article by S.I. Ponomarev]. S. I. Ponomarev.](/pictures/thumb/363.jpg?v=1513596662)
St. Petersburg: typ. Akademii Nauk, 1891. [2], 78 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. Without wrappers. Very good, occasional foxing, with later spine and back cover. Very rare. Offprint from Sbornik otdeleniya russkogo yazyka i slovesnosti Akademii nauk (V. 52, #7) [i.e. Digest of the Department of Russian Language of Academy of... More
![[MAYAKOVSKY IN FRENCH] Mayakovsky po frantsuzski: 4 poemy / Perevod Andreia Gippiusa [i.e. Mayakovsky in French / Translated by Andrey Gippius]. V. V. Mayakovsky.](/pictures/thumb/275.jpg?v=1494858928)
Moscow: Published by the translator, 1930. [2], 46 leaves. 23x19 cm. Original front cover is preserved, spine and rear cover of modern paper. Some light restoration to the front cover, lacking staples so leaves are not bound, some soiling, previous owner’s pencil drawing on the last page and corrections in... More
![[MAYAKOVSKY AS LITERARY CRITIC] Kak delat’ stikhi? [i. e. How are Verses Made?]. V. V. Mayakovsky.](/pictures/thumb/264.jpg?v=1491999447)
Moscow: Ogoniok, 1927. 54, [2] pp. 15x11,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, wrappers slightly rubbed several stains and owner’s pencil marks in text. Scarce. One of 14500 copies. First edition of the most elaborate piece of Mayakovsky’s literary criticism (he’s done only few other critical works and..... More
![[RODCHENKO’S PHOTOMONTAGES] Razgovor s fininspektorom o poezii / Oblozhka i montazh A. Rodchenko [i.e. A Conversation with a Tax Collector about Poetry / Cover and photomontage by A. Rodchenko]. V. V. Mayakovsky.](/images/noimage.png)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926. 14 pp., 1 ill. 17x13 cm. Original wrappers with constructivist photomontage. Wrappers slightly rubbed, faded bookshop’s stamp and pen marks on the back cover, spine is rubbed with a small tear at the bottom and rusty staple. Otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy. First... More
![[LOMONOSOV’S EPIC POEM ABOUT PETER THE GREAT] Piotr Velikiy [i.e. Peter the Great]. M. V. Lomonosov.](/pictures/thumb/246.jpg?v=1490789333)
St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1760. [4], 44 pp. 24x19 cm. Period styled full leather, some pages are restored (not affecting the text itself), the last page has some stains. 1 of 600 copies printed. Extremely rare first edition of Lomonosov’s epic poem about Peter the Great. Complete with... More
Berlin: J. Ladyschnikow, 1907. 437 pp. 21x16 cm. In later binding. Small spot on the title page. Otherwise very good. First separate edition. Title in Russian and German. Mother was written by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) in 1906 during his travels in USA. First printed was English translation in... More
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
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
![[FIRST BOOK BY TOLSTOY] Voyennyie rasskazy [i.e. The War Stories]. L. N. Tolstoy.](/pictures/thumb/210.jpg?v=1483923728)
St. Petersburg: Tipografiya glavnogo chtaba e.i.v. po voenno-uchebnym zavedeniyam, 1856. [4], 382, 1 pp. 19,5x13 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Raised bands, the title, author’s name and previous owner’s initials gilt on the spine. The first book by the author. Rare. According to N. Smirnov-Sokolskii it took him ‘quite a...... 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
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
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
![Moskva–Petushki [i.e. Moscow to the End of the Line]. Venedikt Erofeev.](/pictures/thumb/186.jpg?v=1528813657)
Moscow: Self-published, 1981. [3], 67 leaves. 30x20,5 cm. Light green card binding. Original carbon copy typescript; first 52 leaves printed on translucent onion paper with thicker white paper interpolated for ease of reading. A few corrections in ink. Very good. Traces of moisture to card boards and parts of the... 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
![[RUSSIAN FOLK LEGENDS] Narodnye russkiye legendy, sobrannye Afanasievym [i.e. Russian Folk Legends Collected by Afanasiev]. A. N. Afanasiev.](/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