Ca. 1955. First album titled: “Chanchun’. 1e Oktyabrya” [i.e. Changchun. October 1st]. Oblong Octavo album (ca. 13,3x16,4 cm). 12 paper leaves. With 12 loose original gelatin silver photographs ca. 8,1x12,2 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¾ in). All photos with pencil and typewritten captions (in Russian) on verso and the..... More

Harbin: Tov. gazetnyh rabotnikov Elektro-par. tip.-lit. T-va Bergut i Syn, 1907. 14 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Clean copy with slightly tanned wrappers. Tears to the wrappers, a piece of the end cover is restored, very fragile edges. A good copy. A rare unique edition on relationships between..... More

Pictorial plan. Běijīng Yíhé Yuán – Wànshòu Shān – niǎokàn [i.e. Beijing Summer Imperial Palace – Longevity Mountain – with Bird’s Eye View]. 52,5x76,5 cm. Brochure. Yíhé Yuán = Ikheiuan’ (byvshii Letnii imperatorskii dvorets) [i.e. Summer Palace]. Beijing, 1954. 7 pp. 22x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In original..... More

[mid-late 20th century]. 20 leaves with 32 photographs mounted. Album: 30х40 cm, photos of various sizes. In plastic photoalbum crafted in the lacquer miniature tradition, with an oriental motif. Very good, guard tissues preserved. Two tissue paper leaves loosely inserted featuring a typewritten list of 32 captures in..... More

Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent..... More

Moscow: Nauka i prosveshcheniye, 1928. 32 pp.: ill. 24x15,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Mint, light foxing and soiling on covers, minor tears of oversized wrappers. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 500 copies. An interesting edition dedicated to Japanese folk art, published by the Soviet State Museum of..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Detgiz, 1952. 296 pp.: ill., 3 ills. 22,5х18 cm. In original full cloth with colored illustration and gilt lettering. First and only edition. Cover and title page design by Yu. Kiselev. Edited by a Russian orientalist of German origin, Nikolai Kiuner (Kühner; 1877-1955). This well-illustrated propaganda..... More

N.p., [late 1920s]. 18x22 cm. Cardboard, ink. Some foxing and soiling. Signed by the artist. An original illustration for the novel “Amok” written by Belarusian children’s writer Yanka Maur (pseudonym of Ivan Michajłavič Fiodaraŭ; 1883-1971). He is known as one of the founders of Belarusian children’s literature and a...... More

Kharbin: Mirok, [1937]. 20 pp.: ills. 21,9x14,8 cm. Wrappers worn, mild damp stain throughout the right corner of the book. Extremely rare. 1 of 1,000 copies. First edition. Text in Russian. With black-and-white illustrations by A. Komarov. Very rare Chinese Russian imprint with no copies found in the Russian State..... More

Kharkiv: Proletariy, 1925. 56 pp. 19,6x13,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by “Vs. A.” Damp stain in the upper left corner throughout the copy, but otherwise very good. Author’s ink inscription on the title-page: Tat’yane Nikolayevne Preobrazhenskoy s tovarishcheskim privetom ot avtora A. D. Popov. Moskva. 26/V/28 [i.e. To..... More

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water..... More

[Vladivostok, Shanghai]: russkoye knigoizdatel’stvo i tipografiya v Shankhaye, [1919]. 234 pp.: 170 black-and-white ills. 23,3x15,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Good. Neat restoration of the spine with a cloth. Loss of small pieces at the edges of the wrappers. light soiling of the front wrapper, tears of the spine..... More

Moscow: RANION, 1929. 48 pp., 4 plates. 20,3x14 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrapper detached, tears, the text block split in half, but otherwise a good copy. Previous owner’s ink inscription on the inner side of the half-title “A. Leybfreyd, 5/VIII/1930.” Alexander Leybfreyd (1910-2003) was a Soviet architect, who..... More