Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1952. 564 pp. 27x20 cm. In cloth publisher’s binding. Very good. First edition. In Russian. Design of the edition by Ilia Krichevskiy. A fundamental work, prepared by the Belarus section of the Writer’s Union, that started right after the end of the war. The goal..... More

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

Moscow: Krasnyi mayak, 1924. 8 pp.: ill. 65x54 cm. Very good. A very fragile newspaper with tears of the extremities and spine, ink stamp of the non-existing library (Lenin’s institute). An extremely rare survival of the time. Page 8 with advertisements including an illustrated ad for ABC with poem..... More

Moscow: [izd. V.V. Khlebnikovoy], 1926. 39, [1] pp. 21.7x18.8 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Fine condition. Rare. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. An extremely rare first appearance in print of Velimir Khlebnikov’s revolutionary poem Nastoyashcheye [i.e. Present]. The poem came out in one book together with Khlebnikov’s..... More

Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1928. 51 pp., 6 ills. 21x14 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine repaired, some stains, minor tears of edges of oversized covers, p. 3-14 detached from text block, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. The book is written by futurist poet..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlia i fabrika, 1930. 126, [2] pp. 18х13,5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Covers and spine restored, slightly soiled, otherwise very good and clean internally.

 An anti-alcohol poem of 21 chapters “Let’s Get Hammered!” [simultaneously “Let’s Hammer It”] was written by well-known Soviet poet Demyan Bedny in..... More

Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 6-ye izd. M.; Petrograd.: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 165, [3] pp., 1 portrait. 23.6x15.6 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. First few pages detached, loss of the pieces of the spine, tears of the wrappers, neat restoration of the front wrapper (tape). Good. Scarce..... More

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

Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 128, [4] pp. 19,8x13,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Previous owner’s pencil inscription on the title-page. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Geometrical wrapper design echoes avant-garde tendencies prevalent among supremacist and modernist artists of the late 1910s... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928. In original publisher’s cardboard binging. Cardboards are slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. Extremely rare. First and only lifetime edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Text in Russian. The fourth and final lifetime collection of Osip Mandelstam’s poems, as well as the last appearance of anything..... More

Moscow: Gos. izd. 1921. 70 pp. 13.6x18 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Light soiling of the wrappers, private library stamp on the front wrapper, title-page, p. 3, and p. 25. Otherwise near fine. Rare. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Scarce lifetime edition of the futurist poetry by Vladimir..... More

Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1925. 94, [1] pp. 17,2x13 cm. In original printed wrappers with constructivist design on the front wrapper (and in a later full cloth case with lettering in Swedish). Very good, loss of the small fragment of the margin of the back wrapper, spine is rebacked with paper, owner’s..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 160 pp. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering on front cover and spine, with original dust jacket with letterpress design by unknown artist. Dust jacket occasionally repaired, with tears and small losses of edges, but book is in fine condition. Second, revised and..... More