St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Kotomina, 1875. XXXII, 448 pp. 26,5x19 cm. In contemporary red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and colored decorative elements on the front cover. Some rubbing and foxing, lack of the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is the..... More

Leningrad: State text-book Publishing House, 1954. Second edition. 142, [2] pp.: ill. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, loss of the small fragment of the top left corner of the front cover, Soviet bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the p.1. Cover..... More

Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1991. 156, [4] pp. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Lemekhov. Very good / near fine. The first Russian edition of A Clockwork Orange, published in May 1991 (the month before the collapse of the Soviet Union). The challenge for the translator was to handle Burgess’s..... More

Leningrad: Kubuch, 1925. 344, [2] pp.+ IV pp. of ads 18x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, with few tears of covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. First Russian edition. One of 6000 copies. Rare. Cover design was created likely by G. Lvov, who is..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 127 pp.: ill. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original constructivist style wrappers and original illustrated dust jacket with portrait of the author by Hugo Gellert. Near fine, previous owner’s stamp on t.p. and few ink marks, two stains on dust jacket.  First thus edition. One of 7000..... More

Moscow: Detgiz, 1956. 96 pp., ill. Original card boards and dust-wrapper.
 The dust-wrapper and the frontispiece by Mark Klyatchko (1924-2000), design of the book by Solomon Telingater. Very good, edges of the dust wrapper are rubbed and backed with tape in several places, pen marks on the front page... More

Leningrad: Ateney, 1924. 244, [1] pp. 12.8x17.6 cm. In owner’s contemporary binding with the original front wrapper mounted on the front board. Light staining and foxing of the front board, Soviet bookshop stamp on the recto of the rear board, previous owner’s ink inscription on the title-page. Otherwise in a...... More

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

Moscow: akts. izd. o-vo “Ogonek”, 1927 (“Mospoligraf”. Tipo-tsinkografiya “Mysl’ pechatnika”). 64 pp. 14.4x11.4 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very light damp stain in the upper and lower left corners throughout the copy, pen marking on the front wrapper, otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First separate edition..... More

St. Petersburg: tip. Kukol'-Yasnopol'skogo, 1867. [2], 474, IV pp., 1 port. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding with gilt-lettering and decoration on the spine, decorations on boards in blind. Very good. Rubbed, few spots and owner's ink stamp on the title-page.  First edition. The book is translated from German the year..... More

Riga: Literatura, 1927. 3-190, [2] pp.: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Restored spine and wrappers, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the verso of back cover, few pages restored (near the spine or the edges). Very rare. Moscow edition was published the same year, and it's hard to say..... More

Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Glavsevmorputi, 1935. VIII, 438, [2] pp.: ill., 1 portrait, 3 folding maps. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original cloth binding with blind lettering and two photos mounted on front cover and silver lettering on spine; in original illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket faded, color pencil signature on t.p., otherwise very..... More

St. Petersburg: tip. M.M. Stasyulevicha, 1899. XIV, [2], 106 pp. Contemporary quarter-leather. Rubbed spine, worn edges, otherwise internally clean copy. Scarce. First edition of the second translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Translated from German by S. Nani. Bilingual edition in German and Russian. With the translator’s foreword. Original printed..... More