Moscow: VTSSPS, 1930. #5 of 12 published. 48 pp.: ill. 25x18 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Extremely rare. This fifth issue of the Club Repertoire magazine is dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). Printed in Moscow in 1930, the Club Repertoire was a supplement to a bimonthly illustrated..... More

Moscow: GIHL, 1933. 194 pp. 18,5x12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Ornamental endpapers. Binding rubbed and bumped, slightly soiled, otherwise very good and clean internally. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. Songs were collected by writer and playwright Andrei Globa (1888-1964). He also supervised adaptation into Russian. Design..... More

Moscow: Sovremennye problemy, 1927. 45 pp.+3 pp. of ads. 18x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, some stains occasionally. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. This early Soviet publication was compiled by younger sisters of Sergey Esenin, Ekatherina (1905-1977) and Alexandra (1911-1981). The book..... More

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

Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 6-ye izd. M.; Petrograd.: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 165, [3] pp., 1 portrait. 23.6x15.6 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. First few pages detached, loss of the pieces of the spine, tears of the wrappers, neat restoration of the front wrapper (tape). Good. Scarce..... More

Moscow: Self-published, 1981. [3], 67 leaves. 30x20,5 cm. Light green card binding. Original carbon copy typescript; first 52 leaves printed on translucent onion paper with thicker white paper interpolated for ease of reading. A few corrections in ink. Very good. Traces of moisture to card boards and parts of the..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 128, [4] pp. 19,8x13,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Previous owner’s pencil inscription on the title-page. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Geometrical wrapper design echoes avant-garde tendencies prevalent among supremacist and modernist artists of the late 1910s... More

Petrograd: Vzial [Osip Brik], 1916. 16 pp. 24,5x17 cm. In original printed wrappers. Good. Covers and spine significantly restored, inner edge of first and last leaves, corners of t.p. restored; covers and all double leaves detached from each other, pale water stains and some spots. First separate edition. Rare..... More

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

Petrograd: Parus, 1916. 116, [2] pp. 22x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine and corners of covers restored, ink signature on front cover, some small stains on t.p. and pages, pre-revolutionary bookstore label on rear side of front cover. Mayakovsky’s first major collection of verse. The poet issued..... 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

Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1929. 192 pp. 20,1x14,2 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with constructivist dust-wrapper. Near fine. Stamp on the title page ‘From books of Niccolo Mitsishvili’. Rare. One of 3,000 copies. Constructivist design by the Soviet artist Alexey Surikov. The first edition of llya..... 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