Russia, 1910–1916. Various sizes, both posters and single folded leaves with [4] pp. of text, attractively set in a variety of decorative typefaces and printed on different stock. A sizeable collection of 125 handbills, small posters, and advertising programs for silent film theaters across the Russian Empire, which captures the..... More

Irkutsk: Tiskem Informačně-osvětového odboru československéjo vojska na Rusi, 1920. Octavo (18.5 × 11.8 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 22 pp. Very good; text evenly toned. Scarce volume published for Czech Legion troops following their famous anabasis during the Russian Civil War, from 1915 to 1919, just prior to shipping out for..... More

Moscow: V Senatskoi Tipografii [Aleksei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin], 1800. Quarto (29 × 23 cm). Original unbound gatherings housed in recent decorative custom leather box; VIII, 46, [2] pages (pp. 47–48 blank); one folded leaf of plates (genealogical table). Lacking the errata leaf (which was possibly not present in this early state)..... 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

St. Petersburg: Ispolneno v Khudozhestvennoi Fototipii i Tsinkografii A. I. Vil'borg, 1900. Quarto (32 × 23.5 cm). Original string-bound pictorial wrappers; [34] leaves on coated stock, with tissue guards, many of them printed. Color lithographs, as well as photographs in unusual configurations (early photo-montage), with ornamental floral frames in the..... More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with constructivist cover design by Elena Semenova; 63, [1] pp. With photomontage illustrations throughout. Front wrapper and small portion of the block detached; spine extremities frayed; internally still good or better. Single issue (no..... More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with constructivist cover design by Elena Semenova; 90, [2] pp. With photomontage illustrations throughout. Wrappers detached from the block; internally about very good. Double issue (no. 23-24) of this periodical by “Siniaia bluza” (Blue..... More

Kharkov: Izdanie F. I. Kuzmina, [ca. 1915–1916]. Broadside on purple stock, measuring 55 × 35 cm, printed to recto and verso, with decorative header. Old horizontal and vertical creases; light discoloration; pre-revolutionary stamp of the Imperatorskii Moskovskii Muzei (Moscow State Historical Museum); else about very good. This WWI propaganda poster..... More

Vienna: Laguny; Tipografiia Mekhitaristov v Vene; Russkii knizh. magazin J. Persky, 1922. 12mo (16 × 11 cm). Original string-bound pictorial wrappers: [4], 32 pp. Text evenly toned due to stock, else near fine, in the original fragile blind wrappers, slightly nicked along spine fold. This book by Ukrainian poet M...... More

St. Petersburg: Tip. "Sever", 1905–06. Quartos (ca. 33 × 23 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 8-16 pp. each. Each issue with numerous black-and-white, and some color, cartoons and drawings and a color title illustration. About very good to very good issues, with the occasional light wear, dust-soiling, and light stamps; only..... More

Vilnius: self-published (but printed in St. Petersburg by Akts. Obshch. Tipogr. Diela), [1906 or 1907?]. Octavo (20.5 × 13 cm). Staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; [4], 5-23, [1] pp. With six leaves of plates, one illustration in the text, and one centerfold. Printed on fine paper stock. Trace of wear and light..... More

[Paris]: Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1905. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary half-leather with gilt-tooled red leather spine label; 978, [8] pp. Lacking original wrappers, title, and a first leaf with preface; second leaf with restauration; else a very good copy with wide uncut margins in an attractive..... More

Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 17 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vladimir Petrovich in Almaty, Kazachstan in 1959. One page with author's ink correction. About very good; covers with light soil and a few nicks and tears;..... More