21 black and white photographs depicting Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s triumphant return to his homeland after 20 years of exile. 1994. Each photo 6,7x9 cm. Fine. First and only edition. One of 150 copies produced. Very rare. Eager to reacquaint himself with a country “altered beyond recognition,” Solzhenitsyn landed..... More

Moscow, 1922–1923. Text in Russian. Owner’s cloth. Binding worn, occasional soiling, the stamp of the “Library of N. A. Slobodchikoff San Francisco California” on all five title pages, all but the first title page with the private library stamp of “Prisyazhnyy poverennyy Aleksandr Yakovlevich Slobodchikov” [i.e. Attorney at Law Alexander..... More

Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo, 1920. 185 pp., 1 ill. 27x18,5 cm. No front cover, original back cover preserved. Back cover and inner edge of title page restored, spine repaired, small corners of portrait and some pages restored, pale Soviet Georgian stamp on p.17, underlinings occasionally. Otherwise very good copy. An early..... More

[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

Tianjin: Serebrennikoff & Co, [1939]. 100 pp.: 8 full-page black and white ills. 19,2x13,1 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Loss of the small fragment of the spine, occasional mild damp stains in the first part of the book, but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. Second edition. Text..... More

Izdaniye «Krasnoy gazety», 1928. 36, [4] pp.: ill. 17×13 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Small glue residues on the front wrapper, stamp on the title-page, but otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Text in Russian. An uncommon, illustrated Soviet-era manual devoted to engraving, written by V. Grigoriev..... More

Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniya, 1925. 120 pp. 23,5x15,8 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tear of the spine, fold marks on the front wrappers, minor hole in the lower part of the rear wrapper (no text affected), but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First and only edition. Translated..... More

Novosibirsk: Obl. gos. izd-vo, 1942. 23 pp. 22x14,4 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Rusted staple, mild damp stains throughout the copy, but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. Text in Russian. A remarkable piece of anti-Nazi wartime propaganda written by M. Nesterovsky, submitted to the publishing house..... More

Moscow: Gostorgizdat, 1943. 30, [2] pp.: ills. 16,3x12,8 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers detached, tears of the spine, loss of the upper margin of the front wrapper and the title page (with the author’s name affected), but otherwise in good condition. Scarce. Text in Russian. An interesting..... More

Buenos Aires: Author’s edition, 1969. 254, [2] pp.: ills. 20,5x14,8 cm. Owner’s binding. Stamp of “San Sergio Biblioteca” on the front free endpaper, title-pages, and contents page, inventory number on the Spanish title-page, text-block glued to the boards with a tape, but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First..... More

Tbilisi: sakhelgami, 1945. 118 pp.: color ills. 25,8x16,8 cm. Period carboards with the original front wrapper mounted on the front board. Boards rubbed, loss of the small pieces of the front wrapper, one page detached, but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. Text in Georgian. An interesting Soviet..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Molodaya gvardiya, 1932. 16 pp.: ills. 17x12,7 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Yuriy Syrnev. Wrappers slightly worn, mild damp stain in the lower corner throughout the copy, but otherwise in a very good condition. First edition. Scarce. Text in Russian. Edited by T. Gabbe. Front..... More