Kharkiv: Ukrvozdukhput’, 1924. [78] pp. 11x15.4cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Title-page lacks a small fragment at the top (no text affected). Otherwise in a very good condition. First edition. This is an extremely rare collection of an early Soviet verses dedicated to aviation. The edition, which was printed..... 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: 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: Grif, 1905. 135, [9] pp. 20x16 cm. Contemporary half leather. The publisher’s original wrapper is preserved under the boards. Very good clean copy. Rare. 1 of 1200 copies printed. One of the most important Russian poetry books of the period. First edition of Alexander Blok’s (1880-1921) first book..... More

Moscow: GIZ, 1930. [84] pp. 20,5х9 cm. Original wrappers with letterpress lettering and photomontage illustrations. A very good copy. Some restoration of the covers. One of 3000 copies. An exceptional example of innovative constructivist typographic design by Telingater that intended to enhance the work of the leftist poet Semyon..... More

Moscow: 1930. 19 pp., ill. 21,5х18 сm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, two small closed tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. One of 250 copies. Very rare. Published by the author. Cover design by I. Kliun. Illustrations by I. Terentyev. This is one of the last..... More

Leningrad: Vremia, 1925. [16] pp. 26x21 cm. One of 8000 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Few small tears to the spine, few millimeters cut from the top of the block. Coupe of small stains on p. [3]. Otherwise very good. Legendary rarity. No paper copies located in Worldcat..... More

Tbilisi: Zakkniga, 1926. 14 pp., 1 ill. 17.6x13cm. In original photomontage wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko. Tear of the spine, four pages are detached, soviet bookselling stamps on the rear wrapper. Otherwise in a good condition. First edition. 1 of 5000 copies. An epitome of Mayakovsky’s inner struggle that had..... 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

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

Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo pisatelei, 1933. 430 pp., 1 ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original full cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. Good. No dust jacket. Foxing and soiling occasionally, p. 359-362 detached from block, tear of half-title, ink signature and private stamps on endpapers, ink signature on t.p.... More

[Supplement to the magazine ‘Probuzhdenie’ (i.e. Awakening)]. St. Petersburg: Tovarishhestvo hudozhestvennoi pechati, 1912. 32 pp. 30x21 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In a very good condition. This collection of sonnets gathered the highlights of the early translations. Among all pieces of Shakespeare’s heritage the sonnets came last into Russian literature..... More