Harbin: Club of Natural Science and Geography, 1941. Quarto (26 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers. pp. 101-106, eleven black and white illustrations on six leaves of plates. Old vertical creases; small nick to lower right corner; alse about very good. Rare Russian-language offprint from "News of the Club of..... More

Prague: Plamja, 1925. Quarto (27 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 47, [7] pp. Cover and seven full-page reproductions of ink drawings by Václav Mašek. About very good; wrappers lightly worn, with some fraying to overlapping edges. This 1925 Czech translation of Russian poet Aleksandr Blok’s “The Twelve” (“Dvenadtsat’”) features..... More

Moscow: V Universitetskoi Tipografii, 1826. Octavo (26 × 18.2 cm). Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; 184 pp. Binding somewhat rubbed; front hinge starting; wear to head of spine. The first volume this Russian-language textbook of Persian, published in two volumes, the first containing a selection of poems, tales, and historical..... More

Shanghai: self-published, 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913..... More

First edition thus. Paperback. Paris, 1928. Octavo (23.4 × 18.4 cm). Original decorative yellow card wrappers (unattributed); 44 pp. With one black-and-white photograph depicting a scene in the play's first performance. Wrappers slightly dust-soiled; small chips along overlapping edges; text very good. First and only Russian translation of this play..... More

Stuttgart: Johann Friedrich Cast, 1840. Octavo (19 × 11.5 cm). Publisher's printed green wrappers; XVIII, 258 pp. Light wear to wrapper edges; else about very good; an uncut and unopened copy. First German translation of Pushkin's controversial narrative of the peasant uprising led by the Don Cossack Emelian Ivanovich Pugachev..... More

Moscow: V Sinodal'noi Tipografii, 1837. Third Edition. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers; VII, [2], 95 pp. Good or better; light soil to first two pages; binding starting; wrappers torn along spine. Third edition of this famous anti-Semitic treatise, a medieval Christian apologetic purportedly written in the eleventh..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoe Izdatel'stvo, 1932. Octavo (22.8 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 79, [1] pp. Numerous illustrations, maps, drawings throughout. Uncut and unopened copy; light wear to wrapper edges; scuffing to lower left and upper right corners; partial loss to lower spine strip. Translation into Komi-Permyak language of this..... More