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: 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: Krasnaya Nov’, 1924. 40 pp.: ill., music sheets. 31.5x24.5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Boris Efimov. Soiling of the wrappers, pp. 17-24 detached, loss of a fragment of the lower left corner throughout the most part of the copy. Otherwise good. Extremely scarce. First edition..... More

Samara: Samarskiy gubizdat, 1923. 82 pp. 17,5x12 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, faded, otherwise very good and clean internally. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 1,500 copies. K. Avdeev’s ex-libris (designed by artist Likdenbaum) on the verso of the front wrapper. A collection of..... 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

St. Petersburg: Akme [printed at the author’s expense by Iu. Mansfeld], 1913. [2], 34 pp. 21x14 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, some pale stains on the covers, few pencil marks, otherwise very good. A good copy of the first edition of the first book by..... More

Petrograd: Parus, 1917. 48 pp. In original publisher’s wrappers. Front cover detached from block, otherwise very good and clean copy. The first separate edition of Mayakovsky’s poem The War and The World, which became the culmination of the author’s anti-war pathos. The outburst of World War I received..... 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

Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo, 1927. 212 pp., 1 portrait. 20x13,5 cm. In original full cloth with lettering on the front cover. No dust jacket. Slightly tanned binding, small hole in front flyleaf, ink inscription on verso of t.p., otherwise very good and clean internally. Traces of pencil note “an enemy..... More

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

Vilnius: Vydan’ne Rygora Shyrmy, 1938. 110, [2] pp. 21,5x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Tears of spine, stains on covers, small spots on pages occasionally, otherwise very good. In Belarusian. Printed in the last year Vilnius belonged to Poland. The third collection of verses by Belarusian poet Maksim..... More