The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition.
LAVROVSKII, M[ikhail] IA[kovlevich]
Geografiia vseia Rusi. Satira. A Satirical Geography of All Russia [Geography of all Russia: Satire. A useful guide for the unconscious]
An early émigré publication, printed in New York before the Revolution, and criticsing Russia's autocracy, with a focus on the conditions of the Jewish people.
RUF [pseud. for Ruf Sozonovich ANANIN] (artist)
Kharbin v krivom zerkale [Harbin in a crooked mirror]
Witty depictions of the Russian diaspora in Harbin under Japanese occupation. A complete set of these fine postcards, within the printed wrappers: very rare so.
A computer-printed samizdat of Marina Tsvetaeva's epic poetic cycle about the October Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, An interesting illegal production of a text banned in Soviet Union and not published in Russia until 1991. One of the major texts by Russia's great poetess.
SVITKOV, Nikolai [pseud. for Nikolai STEPANOV]
Masonstvo v Russkoi Emigratsii [Freemasonry in Russian emigration].
Uncommon second edition of Svitkov's main work on Russian Masonry, published in Brazil.
First edition of Akhmatova's last book published during her lifetime, and the most complete collection of her poems to that date, with many published here for the first time. Complete with the dust-jacket illustrated with Modigliani's portrait of the great Russian poetess.
Very rare manuscript collection of theological and philosophical texts, including some forbidden by Catherine the Great's government in the 1780s. Very well preserved in its contemporary binding. With a poem authored most likely by the compiler of the manuscript and dedicated to the opening of the bronze horseman, the celebrated monument to Peter the Great inaugurated by Catherine in St. Petersburg.
HERVEY, James, and Elizaveta NILOVA (transl.)
Nadgrobnyia razmyshlenia [Meditations among the Tombs]
First Russian edition of an English 'graveyard' literary work: by a female translator, dedicated to a woman, and later confiscated by Catherine the Great. Very rare.
SKITALETS [pseud. of Stepan Gavrilovich PETROV]
O znamenitykh russkikh liudiakh [On Famous Russian People]
Very rare Russian book published in Japan, presenting short sketches of important Russian contemporaries, such as Tolstoy, Lenin, Gorky and Pleakhanov.