Moscow: VTSSPS, 1930. 48 pp.: ill. 25x18 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine restored, otherwise very good and clean. Extremely rare. This fifth issue of the Club Repertoire magazine is dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). Printed in Moscow in 1930, the Club Repertoire was a...... More

Full set for 11 years (1962-1972). Overall 132 issues in 22 cloth bindings (original blue wrappers preserved). Occasional foxing, damp stains (vol.2 1968), front cover damaged (#12 1968). Otherwise very good. Novy mir is one of the oldest monthly literary magazines in modern Russian. It has been published in..... More

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

[1970-е]. [44] photocopy leaves (rectos only). 19x27,5 cm. In contemporary blue artificial leather binding. Endpapers faded, few small stains on outer edge of pages, otherwise very good. A late-Soviet samizdat copy reproducing an emigre publication of the banned book. The collection ‘Diaboliad’ is Bulgakov's only book which was..... More

Moscow: I.N. Kushnerev, 1895. [4], III, 520 p.; 19,5x14 cm. Contemporary quoter-leather binding. Black lettering on the spine. Minor foxing on the title page, the spine has a tear, but it is still strong. Otherwise a very good copy. The first edition of the famous Chekhov’s travel diaries. The..... More

Samara: Tsentropechat’, 1919. 96 pp. 18x11 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears and foxing of the wrappers, label and written number on the front wrapper, some toning, otherwise good/very good. First edition. Scarce. An extremely rare provincial edition with remarkable avant-garde design by Georgy Ryazhskiy (1895-1952)..... More

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

Moscow: Federatsiya, 1928. 108 pp., 1 portrait. 18x13,5 cm. In original publisher’s constructivist wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko. Minor tears and spots. Minor restoration. Previous owner’s signature on the title-page (1924). Otherwise very good. First edition. 1 of 3,000 copies. With Mayakovsky’s photographic portrait. Constructivist wrapper design by one of..... More

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

Moscow: Renaissance, 1992. 98 cards; 83 cards; 111 cards. Ca. 8x12,5 cm. In original publisher’s cardboard slipcases. Near fine. Slipcases worn, but internally clean copies. Scarce. Text in Russian. An extremely rare, complete set of the first editions of Lev Rubinstein’s “postcard poems,” a foundational masterpiece of Moscow Conceptualism..... More

N.p., [1970s-1980s]. 132 typewritten pp. 30x21 cm. Unbound. As new. This is a samizdat copy of the novel ‘The Ugly Swans’ by brothers and co-authors Arkady (1925-1991) and Boris (1933-2012) Strugatsky, the leaders of the Soviet science fiction. The ideas of Strugatsky duo were innovative but relevant to..... More

New York: Rabocheye Knigoizdatel’stvo, 1919. 96 pp. 19,5x13,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers worn, rear wrapper detached, spine lacks fragments, but otherwise good. Scarce. Text in Russian. An extremely rare first compilation of Leo Tolstoy’s controversial thoughts on marriage and intimacy, assembled from his private letters and..... 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