![Image for [UKRAINE, BINDING, PRINTING]. Service for the Dormition of the Virgin. Rare first edition, Kyiv, 1757. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2951_1-300x225.jpg)
A beautiful production of the Kyiv Lavra, here in its fine first binding. First edition, illustrated with delicate ornaments and elaborate initials. Very rare, as no copy traced outside Russian and Ukraine.
An attractive example of this pre-revolutionary Russian children book, with beautiful illustrations by a master of the genre and contemporary of Bilibin. In great condition, difficult to find such.
![Image for [OLD BELIEVERS] Song almanac in Church Slavonic, a miniature manuscript from early 19th c. Russia #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2928_1-300x257.jpg)
Appealing small-format religious manuscript, most probably written by Russian women scribes, before they were banned from doing it. In contemporary binding and with near-contemporary annotations.
Large-format Moscow-printed Gospels in an impressive binding, very well preserved and probably from Ukraine/Western Russia. The binding is especially remarkable for its intricate design on both covers, its detailed contemporary provenance, and its appealing condition.
POLEVOI, Petr Nikolaevich (editor) and Ivan PANOV (artist)
Rodnye Otgoloski [Echoes from the Fatherland / Familiar Echoes]
Beautifully fresh example of a fine production for young Russian readers, gathering great Russian poems together with many illustrations - a lovely, charming piece of book design. Rare without any foxing like here.
TEFFI, Nadezhda and Natalia PAREN [PARAIN] (artist)
Narodnaia skazka. Baba Iaga [Folk fairytale. Baba Yaga]
Fine example of this famous children book, in the original Russian by the great Russian female author Teffi. With striking illustrations by a student from VKhUTEMAS.
Pleasant example of this curious work, gathering children's texts and drawings within the frame of the buoyant Russian avant-garde. A delicate production, fragile, here is fresh internal condition. First edition.
![Image for [A. BEARDSLEY] ROSS, SYMONS, LIKIARDIPULO and other. Obri Derdslei... First edition. Moscow, 1912. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2845_1-300x421.jpg)
[BEARDSLEY] – Mikhail LIKIARDOPULO (editor and translator) and others
Obri Berdslei. Risunki, povest, stikhi, aforizmy, pisma [Beardsley. Drawings, Novella, Poems, Aphorisms, Letters]
One of the first major works on Beardsley, with a wealth of illustrations and other material, literary as well as bio-bibliographical. A rare edition in the West, here in a pleasant press copy.
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]
An excellent example of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova. First edition.
BURTSOV, Vasilii (also BURTSEV)
[Bukvar] Nachalne uchenie ch[e]l[o]v[e]kom khotiashchim razumeti bozh[es]tvenago pisaniia [ABC, or Primer]
The first primer printed in Russia, first edition, in a great, complete example almost without restoration, and in its contemporary binding allowing generous margins showing an extremely rare typographic sign. A great rarity, with only one copy in public libraries outside Russia.
Great example of possibly the greatest Ukrainian ABC.
BAKHCHANIAN, Vagrich (also BAKHCHANYAN)
Zerkalo No.21. Chitat s pomoshchiu zerkala [Mirror #21. Read with a Mirror]
A booklet of contemporary art by a Ukraine-born Armenian artist, then just recently emigrated to the US. Extremely rare: only copy traced.
![Image for Procession funèbre [...] du corps de feu l'Empereur Alexandre I. Lithographed roll, first edition, 1826. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2459_1-300x400.jpg)
A great, very unusual printed artefact: an early example of Russian lithography in form of a long roll, giving extensive illustrated details on the future funeral of the tsar. Very rare.
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.
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.
