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

Warsaw: 1890. 332 pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Guilt lettering on the spine. Stamp of the pre-revolutionary library on the title verso. Very good. The first edition in Polish of ‘Looking Backwards: 2000-1887’ by Edward Bellamy. It was translated by Józef Karol Potocki (1854-1898) and became one of the..... More

Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. Near 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..... More

Moscow; Petrograd: Giz, 1923. 202 pp. 18,1x13,3 cm. Owner’s cloth binding with original wrappers preserved. A label, indicating “Kunstverlag Olga Diakow & Co, Berlin” (a Russian publishing house in Germany, active from 1898 to 1930s) and a Berlin library with inventory number, mounted on both boards. Binding rubbed, pencil inscriptions..... More

Moscow: Kniga, 1974. 175 pp.: ill., 1 port. 22x13 cm. In original publisher's cloth. The first bibliography of Mark Twain's works in Russian. The book consists of two sections: translations into Russian and literature about Twain in Russian. Every section is divided by subjects, translations – by kind..... 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

Tbilisi: Nakdauli, 1969. 373, [2] pp. ill., 8vo. Original cloth in good condition. No dust-jacket was printed. Several illustrations by T.Mirzashvili. The second edition of the first translation into Georgian of this collection of Salinger’s stories. First printed in 1963 (earlier than the first Russian book edition) by..... More

Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1965. 254, [2] pp., 1 portrait. Original illustrated cardboards. Very good. The first edition in Russian of The Catcher in the Rye which had first appeared in serial form in Inostrannaya Literatura five years earlier. As a devotee to the Kashkin school of translation, Rita Rait-Kovaleva..... More

Leningrad; Moscow: Petrograd, 1924 (front wrapper indicates 1925). 252, [2] pp. 19,7x13,7 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Vertical fold mark on the front wrapper. Professional restoration of the spine and the front wrapper, Soviet bookshop stamp on the rear wrapper and its recto. Scarce. 1 of..... More

Moscow: akts. izd. o-vo “Ogonek”, 1928 (7-ya tip. “Iskra revolyutsii” Mospoligrafa). 48 pp. 14.8x11.2 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. Scarce. Abridged translation from English. First edition of one of the earliest Russian translations of Mark Twain’s famous novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (original text..... More