Our Russian and Eastern European section gathers Western books on these regions (‘Rossica’ among others) as well as works in vernacular, including Russian and Polish. Other rare items related to Russia and Eastern Europe can be found in our map department, our photography section, as well as in the prints section. Many other valuable books and prints can be made available by request only, so please feel free to browse our website and to contact us in Russian, English or German with any questions you may have.
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Russian & Eastern European
Contact Bernard Shapero for more information about books relating to Russia & Eastern Europe at Shapero Rare Books.
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8vo 21.2 x 14.9 cm). XXIV pp., including half title and title, 610 pp.; occasional spotting. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; slightly rubbed, small tear to upper spine repaired.
£1,250 -
8vp (27.5 x 19 cm). 25 pp., with 3 plates. Contemporary silk binding, gilt upper cover; repaired, some loss of gilt, waterstains to lower cover.
£650 -
8vo, viii, 214, [6] pp. Contemporary presentation blue velvet binding, blind tooling to covers, all edges gilt, owner's inscription to half-title; very slightly rubbed.
£1,250 -
Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm), pp. iv, [5]–24; first and last pages dust-soiled, a couple of stains to the title; uncut and stab-sewn as issued, vertical crease where previously folded, fore-edge a little ragged.
£395 -
4to, issue 1 (all published). 128 pp., with numerous photographic plates and maps. Fine example in the original printed and decorated wrappers.
£675 -
Handbill (22.6 x 15.5 cm), printed in blue on gilt-edged card, imperial eagle embossed in gilt, mounted on board.
£500 -
USSR Architecture (Organ Soyuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov, Moskva, 1936-37): 21 issues (1936: issues No3 - 12; 1937: issues No1 - 11), complete with all ll., original wrappers; occasional spotting and soiling, some occasional light mold, heavier to last 15 ll. of issue 9 for 1937, margins and spines of wrappers slightly chipped.
Construction of Moscow (Mossovet, Moskva, 1935-38): 14 issues, No6 and 17-18 for 1935; No4-8, 10-12 and 22 for 1936; No6, 12, 22 for 1937 and No16 for 1938, most issues with plates, including some folding, original wrappers; some light marginal waterstaining in several issues, light soiling.£525 -
First editions, 2 vols (all published); 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm) light traces of tape to inner margin of several pp. in vol I.; publisher's cloth, colour of binding of vol.I and vol.II differs as published.
£750 -
8vo (21 x 14 cm). Title, 78 pp. Original cardboard; slightly rubbed; minor foxing, some single notes and underlinings with pencil.
£1,500 -
Quarto (27,5 x 22,5 cm). 50 pp., including title, with 23 engraved portraits after Ya[kov Ivanovich] Argunov with captions in French and Russian, inscription in pencil to title; a couple of ancient restorations. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; wormed and rubbed, inner hinges cracked.
£5,950
