PEVZNER, Teodor (artist) and Evgenii SHVARTS [Evgeny SHWARTZ]
Skotnyi dvor [The Farmyard]
Celebrated Soviet children book with beautiful full-page images. First edition, in excellent condition.
Read More Read MoreCHERNYI, Sasha (pseud. for Aleksandr Mikhailovich GLIKBERG) and Boris GRIGORIEV (artist)
Detskii ostrov [The Children's Island]
Grigoriev's famous children book, in the original publisher's binding; a very good example.
Read More Read MoreOSTROGORSKII, Aleksei Nikolaevich
U rabochikh liudei: sbornik rasskazov [Among Working People: Collection of Stories]
Life among 'working people' for young readers - a fresh example.
Read More Read MoreTCHAIKOV, Joseph (artist) and Mendele MOCHER-SFORIM
Dos Kelbl [The Calf]
A fine illustrated production of the Kultur Lige, published in Kiyv in 1919. A scarce Yiddish children book, especially unopened without significant restoration.
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How to get by in St. Petersburg in (phonetic) Russian during Pushkin's time: a great guide for the higher society. Uncommon.
Read More Read MoreKAMPE [CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich; and Aleksandr Semenovich SHISHKOV, translator]
Detskaia biblioteka, izdannaia na nemetskom iazyke gospodinom Kampe, a s onago perevedena g. *** [Children's library [ie. Kleine Kinderbibliothek], published in German by Mr. Campe, and translated by M. ***].
More than a translation, an original adaptation, dedicated to Princess Dahskova, the first woman head of an Academy of Sciences and first female member of the American Philosophical Society. A very rare early edition of this important book for Russian children - and a lovely example with a sewn translation label!
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Empress Mariia Fedorovna's copy of an important Russian textbook for arithmetic. First edition, in a lovely example finely bound in green silk with attractive endpapers.
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A thick and uncommon dictionary explaning in German and French the Russian language used during Catherine the Great. A very good copy in contemporary binding.
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Great example of possibly the greatest Ukrainian ABC.
Read More Read MoreROSIMOV, Georgii [pseud. of Iurii OFROSIMOV, and Alfred ZANGERL (artist)]
Neobychainoe puteshestvie Petrushki na lunu [Petrushka's Extraordinary Journey to the Moon]
A rare and finely illustrated children book, with an interesting original story related to the fate of the Russian émigrés in Berlin (and elsewhere). A very good example of the first edition.
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An unusual book: produced by a Scottish protestant in Western China, printed in mimeography and detailing and translating many Central Asian dialects related to Turkish. First edition of this remarkable item, here in appealing condition.
Read More Read MoreIvan BILIBIN, Viktor VASNETSOV (artists) and Alexander PUSHKIN
Skazki, bound with Pesn o Veshchem Olege [Folk Tales] and [The Song of the Wise Oleg]
All of Bilibin's famous portrait illustrations for Pushkin's tales bound in one single volume - very unusual, and in lovely condition.
Read More Read MoreBARTO, Agniia and Georgii ECHEISTOV, Georgii (artist)
Bratishki [Little Brothers]
A fine, fresh example of this great internationalist children book.
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