Prague: Odeon, 1929. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 103 pp. About very good; light overall wear to wrappers. Uncommon anthology gathering translations of poems by Conrad Aiken, T. E. Hulme, Langston Hughes, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale..... More

London: Kruh priatel'ov československej knihy (printed by S. Sidders & Son, Ltd., Kilburn), 1944. Octavo (18 × 12.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 117, [2] pp. About very good; very light overall wear and soil to wrappers. Second of two volumes of poetry from the Slovak anti-Nazi resistance during World War..... More

St. Petersburg: Studio of Adolf Otsup, 1902. Original albumen print, 10.5 × 6.5 cm, mounted on card and inscribed to verso. Carte-de-visite photograph of Ivan Trofimovich Riabinin (1833–1910), a peasant from the Olonets Governorate in Russia’s North-West. Both Ivan Trofimovich and his father, Trofim Grigor’evich Riabinin, were part of a...... More

[Soviet Union]: [self-published], 1970s?. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-cloth over boards, with carbon-copy typescript to rectos and versos: 66, [2] pp. Boards lightly rubbed, else very good or better. A samizdat volume of poems by Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of the best loved poets of the Russian Silver..... More

Petrograd: biblioteka proletkul’ta, 1919. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 56 pp. Unopened and uncut. Light moisture stain to lower right corner of front wrapper, else very good. First edition. A debut collection of short stories by one of the early members of Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Proletkult, the..... More

St. Petersburg: Izdanie Petrogradskogo Sovieta Rabochikh i Krasnoarmeiskikh Deputatov, 1919. Octavo (21.5 × 14.75 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Extensive publisher’s catalog to front and rear wrapper. Small oval stamp of Marcel Bekus (“Ex-libris Marcel Bekus”). Some browning to wrapper, else very good. Early edition of Bednyi's satirical anti-religious..... More

[Leningrad]: Izd-vo pisatelei v Leningrade, [1931]. Octavo (17.5 × 12.5 cm). Publisher's black cloth, embossed in silver; 51, [4] pp. Cover, title and half-title designed by Mark Kirnarskii. Boards lightly worn and rubbed; still about very good. First edition. A collection of verse commemorating the death of Vladimir Maiakovsky (1893-1930)..... More

Moscow: Izd-vo "Imazhinisty", 1920. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 48 pp. Unopened and uncut. Wrappers detached; light foxing to wrappers; text evenly toned to stock, internally very good. First Russian language publication of Charles Vildrac (1882–1971) and Georges Duhamel’s (1884–1966) 1910 “Notes sur la Technique poétique,” translated..... More

Kraków: Instytut wydawniczy "Niezależnych," 1922. 12mo (14 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically illustrated peach-colored wrappers; [30] pp. Text printed in green. Fifteen drawings incorporating typographic elements. Light dust-soiling and fraying to overlapping wrapper edges; faint owner inscription to front wrapper verso; else about very good. First edition of this..... More

Berlin: Club der Kulturschaffenden "Johannes R. Becher", 1988. Slim octavo (22 × 13 cm). Original printed four-panel folder, printed to recto and verso; fourfold leporello [8 pp.], 30 loose leaves printed to both sides, 1 folded gathering of [4] pp., all printed on coated paper, with numerous reproductions of visual..... More

Berlin: Izd. I. T. Blagova (Tipografiia "Nakanune"), [1923]. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original publisher's wrappers printed in red; 57, [1] pp. Very good, save for small nick to lower spine extremity (see scans); empty first leaf detached; text toned due to stock. First edition of the rarest book of..... More

St.Petersburg: biblioteka proletkul’ta, 1919. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on orange stock; 46, [1] pp. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1918). An important work by the "proletarian bard of the machine age," which proved of great importance to Russian avant-garde and early Soviet writing..... More

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mandragora, 1942. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed red glazed paper-covered card wrappers; 42 [recte 46], [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Wrappers lightly sun-tanned; else about very good. First edition of the important Chilean’s book of poems, who has been called the..... More