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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![[BAKST]. LEVINSON, André.](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/9/0/90422.jpg)
Limited edition, number 217 of 500; Folio (40 x 30 cm). Half-title with limitation to verso, title with coloured illustration after Bakst laid down, full-page portrait of Bakst by Picasso, 22 pp., table of contents and 54 mounted coloured plates after Bakst. Publisher's wrappers lettered in gold.
£3,750 -
Folio (30 x 23.5 cm); 40pp.; illustrated throughout (some full-page) by Viktor Zamirailo; original pictorial thick paper wrappers, some slight water damage to corners with tape repairs to a few pages otherwise a good copy.
£600 -
First edition. Large 4to. [xxx] pp., 96 tipped-in plates. Original two tone cloth (white spine, blue boards), gilt lettered direct to spine; minor wear. A fine copy.
£350 -
Large 4to. 20 pp., text in English, with numerous illustrations; a crease of bottom corner of five leaves. Original wrappers printed in gilt, original price ticket pasted on upper cover verso, advert pasted on lower cover verso; crease to middle of upper cover. With 8 pp. programme for January 26th at the Century Theatre loosely inserted.
£850 -
16vo (16.5 x 12 cm); half-title, title-page with frontispiece, 323pp; original printed grey boards with orange spine, a fine copy.
£150 -
First separate expanded edition; 16vo; preliminary leaf with device, title-page, 40pp; original grey cloth printed boards, age-toning to margins and slight toning to covers,; a fine copy.
£350 -
First edition; 8vo (16 x 12 cm); original printed wrappers designed by Maria Sinyakova; small ink stain to upper cover, slight age-toning, later sleeve printed with matching design; a fine copy.
£450 -
First edition; 8vo (21.3 x 14.5 cm); French bookseller's stamps to title; original publishe'rs wrappers bound in modern red cloth; 102 pp. [2]pp. advertisements; a fine copy.
£200 -
First edition; small 8vo (19 x 14 cm); 44, [4](ads)pp.; illustrations by Klutsis and Kliun, original wrappers in black and red by Nagorskaia, some slight loss to front and back covers, small contemporary Russian bookseller stamps to back cover, age-toning to margins, otherwise a very goof copy; in modern cloth backed patterned sleeve.
£600 -
First edition; 8vo (24 x 16.5 cm); tri-fold pictorial frontispiece, six full-page pictorial section titles and a tail-piece by Lanceray, preliminary leaf with device and title-page, without advertisements, marbled end-papers, some age-toning; bound in later half maroon morocco with marbled boards, spine in six parts with raised bands and gilt title; spine sunned and some rubbing; t.e.g; 126pp.
£750
