![Item #2019 [THE MYSTERY OF STALIN’S DEATH - BANNED] Zagadka smerti Stalina: (Zagovor Beriya)...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2019.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1714484660)
Moscow: Posev, 1976. 168 leaves (text printed on one side). 30.5x20.6 cm. In owner’s cardboards. Original carbon copy typescript. Loss of the spine, occasional soiling, otherwise in a very good condition. Text in Russian. An extremely rare samizdat copy of the prominent Soviet émigré historian Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov’s acclaimed work..... More
![Item #2424 [GOSPOLIT PORN] Luka Mudishchev. I. Barkov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2424.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749040085)
[London: Flegon Press, 1968]. 80 pp.: ills. 10,5x6,6 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. Scarce. 1 of 5,000 copies. Second edition. Text in Russian. Edited by V. Nesterov, with illustrations by N. Ioganson. No surviving copy or bibliographic trace of a first edition has been located, leading..... More
![Item #2803 [WHILE ERNST GLAESER WAS WELCOMED IN THE USSR] Rik Narodzhennia 1902 [i.e. Born in...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2803.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781778117)
Kharkiv: Literatura i mystetstvo, 1932. 206, [2] pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, otherwise very good and clean uncut copy. First and only edition. One of 5200 copies produced. First Ukrainian edition of “Jahrgang 1902” by Ernst Glaeser (1902–1963). The book was published soon..... More
![Item #2796 [PANAIT ISTRATI] Mykhailo [i.e. Mihail]. P. Istrati](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2796.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781774997)
Kyiv: Knyhospilka, [1928?]. 174, [2] pp. + 4 pp. of ads.19,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and cover edges restored, small tears, some stains on covers, some pale foxing, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. In Ukrainian. Cover design was likely created by..... More
![Item #2798 [WEST UKRAINIAN VICTIM OF STALINIST TERROR] Maty. Drama v 4-okh diiakh [i.e. Mother....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2798.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781775416)
Kolomyia: Nakladom “Zagalnoi knyhozbirni”: Z drukarni Vilhelma Bravnera, 1929. 104 pp. 17,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and cover edges restored, some light stains, otherwise very good. The cover design was created by Stepan Havryliuk. The play was written by Dmytro Nykolyshyn (Nykołyszyn; 1884 –1950), a Ukrainian..... More
![Item #2423 [BANNED AND EXILED: FIRST EDITION OF CANCER WARD BY ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN] Rakovyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2423.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749039980)
Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1968. Cancer Ward. 320 pp. 19,4x12,3 cm. Paper label with the title mounted to the front cover. Period half-leather. Stamp of “The Holy Trinity Cathedral Parish Inc” library on the titlepage and front pastedown, a paper label “obrashchaytes’ s knigoy berezhno” [i.e. Handle the Book with Care]..... More
![Item #2794 [ADOLF STRAKHOV] Krutoe pereput’e. Povesti [i.e. A Fateful Crossroads. Stories]. P....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2794.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781774407)
Kharkiv: Proletarii, 1927. 184 pp. 18x13 cm. In late cardboards with original illustrated wrappers mounted above. Slightly rubbed and bumped, few minor stains, otherwise very good and clean pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: “To my dear wife Katya, in memory of the steep and winding paths..... More
![Item #1050 [FIRST BOOK BY BULGAKOV] Dyavoliada (or Diavoliada). Rasskazy [i.e. Diaboliad. Short...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1050.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601548718)
Moscow: Nedra, 1925. 160 pp. 23x15 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers carefully restored, back cover is new, previous owner’s signature on t.p. (red pencil), margins of several pages restored, occasional brown spots. Otherwise very good. First edition of the first book by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) and the only..... More
![Item #1063 [BANNED EDITION. TELINGATER’S DESIGN] Programmy i ustavy vazhneishikh partiy II...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1063.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601555437)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1929. 240 pp. 20x13,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine chipped, some foxing on recto and verso of t.p. One of 10 000 copies. The edition was banned, according to ‘List of books to be excluded from libraries and book trade chain’ (1961). Interesting example of..... More
![Item #2421 [BANNED AVANT-GARDE COLLABORATION] Boyevyye dni [i.e. Days of Fighting]. N. Oleynikov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2421.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749039731)
Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz, 1932. 28 pp.: 3 full-page black-and-white ills. 17,6x12,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, neat restoration of the tear on the inner side of the front wrapper and the title page with a tape, previous owner’s occasional ink markings. Fifth edition. Extremely..... More
![Item #78 [FIRST SOLZHENITSYN] Dlya pol'zy dela. Rasskaz [i.e. For the Good of the Cause. A...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/78.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1450389847)
Moscow: Novy Mir, 1962-1964. Dlya pol'zy dela. Rasskaz [i.e. For the Good of the Cause. A Story] // Novy Mir. №7. 1963. Pp. 58-90. Dva rasskaza. Sluchai na stantsii Krechetovka. Matryonin dvor [i.e. Two Stories: An Incident at Krechetovka Station. Matryona's Place] // Novy Mir. №1. 1963. Pp. 9-63. Zakhar-Kalita..... More
![Item #75 Stepnoi korol' Lir [i.e. King Lear of the Steppes]; Stuk! Stuk! Stuk! Studiya i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/75.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1450388920)
Leipzig: Wolfgang Gerhard, 1873-1882. Stepnoi korol' Lir [i.e. King Lear of the Steppes]. Leipzig: Wolfgang Gerhard, 1873. 144 pp. Turgenev, I.S. Stuk! Stuk! Stuk! Studiya i Strannaya istiroya. Rasskaz [i.e. Knok! Knock! Knock! Studio and Strange Story]. Leipzig: Wolfgang Gerhard, 1873. 100 pp. Turgenev, I.S. Otryvki iz vospominanii svoikh i...... More