![AVIATION ‘FEVER’ IN THE EARLY SOVIET UNION] Shturm neba: Sb. izbr. avio-stikhov [i.e. Storm...](/pictures/thumb/1162.jpg?v=1612376427)
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
![FIRST RUSSIAN COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING POETS] Angliiskie poety v biografiiakh i obraztsakh...](/pictures/thumb/1046.jpeg?v=1601474980)
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
![GUDIASHVILI AS CONSTRUCTIVIST] Gruzii poety i pisateli SSSR [i.e. To Georgia! The poets and...](/pictures/thumb/767.jpg?v=1563926208)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1931. XV, 160 pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. Minor soiling. Partly uncut. 21,5x14,5 cm. 1 of 3000 copies printed. The collection of poetry and prose, gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Georgian Soviet Republic. All of the text is in..... More
![MAYAKOVSKY’S WORK FOR ADVERTISING] Izvestiya. #175 (August 2nd, 1924](/pictures/thumb/508.jpg?v=1533145411)
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
![BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like the Sun....](/pictures/thumb/102.jpg?v=1528812957)
Moscow: Knigoizdatelstvo Skorpion, 1903. [2], 290 pp. 8vo. The copy is in exceptionally fine contemporary half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers and gilt lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper illustrated by Fidus (the famous German symbolist artist Hugo Hoppener) preserved. A fine copy. First edition. This is..... More
![FIRST BOOK BY ALEXANDER BLOK] Stikhi o prekrasnoi dame [i.e. Verses About the Beautiful Lady]....](/images/noimage.png)
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
![SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e. Me, You and...](/pictures/thumb/499.jpg?v=1533142331)
Shanghai: 1930. [6], 317 pp. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A.A. Yaron. Very good/near ne condition. The spine is very carefully fixed. Extremely rare. First and only edition. Lev Grosse (1906-1950), writer and son of Viktor Grosse (1869-1931), Russian diplomat, one of the active members of the..... More
![ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH – LIFETIME EDITION] Golodnyak: [Stikhi] [i.e. Hunger: [Verses]]. A....](/pictures/thumb/997.png?v=1591802665)
Moscow: Tip. TSIT, 1922. [24] pp. 12,8x17,7 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Fine. Rare especially in such pristine condition. First edition. One of 1000 copies. AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF ZAUM VERSES BY THE WELL-KNOWN RUSSIAN FUTURIST ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH (1886-1968). The author went down in the..... More
![FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric. May-June of...](/pictures/thumb/122.jpg?v=1472299990)
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
![MANDELSTAM MASTERPIECE] Egipetskaia marka [i.e. Egyptian Stamp]. O. Mandelstam](/pictures/thumb/1159.jpg?v=1612375538)
Leningrad: Priboi, 1928. 187, [5] pp. 17,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Covers and spine rubbed, with tears and minor fragments lost, some stains, ink note on the last page, otherwise very good. First full publication. Cover design was produced by artist and engraver Evgenii Belukha (1889-1943). In..... More
![MAYAKOVSKY INFURIATING LENIN] 150.000.000. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/1127.jpg?v=1608114855)
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..... More
![MAYAKOVSKY’S CRY OF THE SOUL] Razgovor s fininspektorom o poezii [i.e. Conversation With A Tax...](/pictures/thumb/827.png?v=1569960326)
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
![MAYAKOVSKY’S REQUIEM FOR LENIN] Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/1163.jpg?v=1612376623)
Leningrad: Gosizdat Krym. ASSR, 1925. 94, [1] pp. 17,2x13 cm. In original printed wrappers with constructivist design on the front wrapper. Very good, restoration of the spine, pale stain near spine throught the book, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, front cover sligtly chipped on the lower margin, covers..... More
![RODCHENKO AND MAYAKOVSKY] Sifilis [i.e. Syphilis]. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/84.jpg?v=1450188896)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926. 15 pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate on the inner side of the front cover, light soiling, bookshop stamp on the rear cover, otherwise near fine. Rare. First edition. Cover design and photomontage by A. Rodchenko. With a few full-page photomontages by Rodchenko. More
![MAYAKOVSKY AS LITERARY CRITIC] Kak delat’ stikhi? [i. e. How are Verses Made?]. V. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/264.jpg?v=1491999447)
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
![MAYAKOVSKY IN FRENCH] Mayakovsky po frantsuzski: 4 poemy / Perevod Andreia Gippiusa [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/275.jpg?v=1494858928)
Moscow: Published by the translator, 1930. [2], 46 leaves. 23x19 cm. Original front cover is preserved, spine and rear cover of modern paper. Some light restoration to the front cover, lacking staples so leaves are not bound, some soiling, previous owner’s pencil drawing on the last page and corrections in..... More
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926. 14 pp., 1 ill. 17x13 cm. Original wrappers with constructivist photomontage. Wrappers slightly rubbed, faded bookshop’s stamp and pen marks on the back cover, spine is rubbed with a small tear at the bottom and rusty staple. Otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy. First..... More
![LEFTIST EPIC POEM ABOUT RUSSIAN ANARCHISTS] Ulialaevshchina: Epopeia [i.e. Ulialaev Adventure:...](/pictures/thumb/897.jpg?v=1576163229)
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
![SONNETS COMPILATION] Sonety [i.e. Sonnets]. W. Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/713.jpg?v=1562883060)
[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
![Posle Rossii [i.e. After Russia. 1922-1925]. Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva](/pictures/thumb/691.png?v=1559609657)
Paris: I.E. Povolotzky, 1928. 160 pp. 18,8x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. The spine is restored. Wrapper is slightly soiled. Rare. One of 500 copies produced. The first edition of Tsvetaeva’s last book of poems, including the poems written after she emmigrated to France from Soviet Russia. Tsvetaeva wanted..... More
Moscow: Scorpion, 1911. [4], 216, [10] pp. 8vo. A fine copy. The contemporary owner's cloth binding with lettering piece glued to the spine. Original printed front wrapper preserved. A bookseller's mark on the free endpaper. The most complete pre-revolutionary edition of Walt Whitman's work in Russian. The earliest..... More
![EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The Poetic Beauties...](/pictures/thumb/134.jpg?v=1472322029)
Moscow: Kryazhev and May, 1806. [4], 362, [13] p., 1 frontispiece. 17,7x11,4 cm. Contemporary full leather. Title of the book gilt on the spine. Tiny hole in the title page, some stains but overall very good condition. Owner’s inscription ‘Shilovoy Tatiany’ on the endpapers done in the first quarter of..... More
![AMERICAN POETRY IN RUSSIAN] Iz amerikanskikh poetov [i.e. From American Poets]. M. A. Zenkevich](/pictures/thumb/150.jpg?v=1475066124)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1946. 136 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine. Tiny tears of the spine. Most of the poems are translated into Russian for the first time. Translations of American poets: Philip Freneau, William Bryant, Ralph Emerson, Henry Longfellow, John Whittier, James Riley, Walt Whitman..... More
![MAYAKOVSKY INTRODUCES A NEW ART FORM] Teatral’naia prodagitatsia. Vypusk 1 [i.e. Theatrical...](/pictures/thumb/298.jpg?v=1502281389)
[Moscow]: Gosizdat, 1920. 38, [2] pp.: ill. 26,5х17,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, loss of the staple, small tears and losses of the wrappers and extremities of a few pages, horizontal crease, wrappers is rubbed and soiled. Otherwise a good copy. First and..... More
![ONE OF THE RAREST RUSSIAN MIMEOGRAPH BOOKS] Novyi Giperborei. Zhurnal Tsekha poetov. #1 [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/211.jpg?v=1483924390)
Petrograd: 1921. 20 pp., ill. 27,5х22 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Fine. One of 23 copies. Extremely rare, especially in such mint condition. This magazine (de facto almanac) was printed using mimeograph because after the revolution there was a great deficit of materials and publishers (a lot of handwritten..... More