[RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉ PUBLISHING IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA] Izdatel’stvo i knizhnaia torgovlia "Plamia". Obshchestvo s ogran. otv. Katalog No. 23. "Leto 1928" [Publishing house and book seller "Plamia". Limited liability company. Catalog no. 23. Summer 1928].

Prague: Izdatel'stvo Plamia, 1928. Octavo (19.8 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Perforation to upper left corner of block, threaded through with string. Wrappers lightly toned; creased to lower corner; splitting to lower spine extremity; still about very good. Item #P4714

Scarce catalog of the Prague-based émigré publishing house and Russian-language bookseller “Plamia” (Flame). The literary critic and editor Evgenii Liatskii (1868–1942) founded “Plamia” in 1923 in Prague where he was teaching in the Slavic Department of Charles University. In the 1920s, in addition to the office in Prague, "Plamia" had representatives in Warsaw, Riga, Kaunas, London, Paris, and even Harbin. The present catalog is divided into sections on 1. Literature; 2. Arts; 3. Children’s books; 4. Scientific literature; 5. Dictionaries; 6. Magazines; 7. Varia. The closing section offers books published in the USSR. Advertising of other émigré publishers to rear wrappers including the Berlin based “Ladyzhnikov” publishing house, and the Paris section of Y.M.C.A. Press.

As of May 2026, not in KVK, OCLC.

Price: €300.00

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