Russian & Eastern European

First edition, small 8vo (18 x 13.5 cm); 41, [2] pp., 15 illustrations after Filonov in black and white, of which three are full-page, text by Sergei Isakov; original illustrated card wrappers, minor staining and wear to cover, an excellent copy.

Landscape folio (35 x 50 cm); lithographed title, engraved map hand-coloured in outline and index leaf, and 43 lithographed plates after various artists including Orlowskiy, Alexandrov and Kollman, with captions in French, a few with minor foxing, ink inscription to title-page; contemporary half calf, upper cover with trimmed upper wrapper laid down, dust-jacket and slipcase.

First edition, limited edition, one of 800 copies; 4to (25 x 20 cm); half-title, title-page with frontispiece, 196pp., illustrated throughout, with 22 hors-texte; original yellow silk covered boards with gilt title to upper cover, spine stained, silk split to an excellent copy.

First edition, 8vo (22 x 16 cm); with 43 illustrations, four of which are mounted (3 of which are in colour), text in Russian; original grey wrappers printed in red and black, publisher's stamp to lower cover, spine sunned, very small stain to upper cover, a very good copy.

First edition; 4to (33 x 25 cm); signed and inscribed by the author on the upper fly leaf to Isaar Saulovich Gurvich-Issarov, dated 1930; chromolithographic title and 34 full-page chromolithographic illustrations; modern full morocco binding with design to match the original cover, gilt title to spine, original covers bound in (upper cover window mounted), minor spotting to a few plates but overall an excellent example.

Limited edition, one of 450 copies for America, this being number 79, 4to (33.5 x 27 cm); title-page in black and red designed by Goncharova who also designed the tail-pieces, frontispiece of Diaghilev, 66 plates tipped in on grey paper after Bakst, Benois, Fedorovsky, Golovin, Goncharova, Larionov, Picasso, Sert, Roerich, Sudeikin and others, mostly in colour, some slight foxing to prelims; original marbled boards and white cloth spine with title in gilt, spine extremities bumped, a good copy.

Limited edition, one of 25 copies on japon impérial, from a total edition of 345; 4to (24 x 17 cm); translated by André Gide and Jacques Schiffrin, signed 'J. Sch' on the limitation page, foreword by Gide, illustrations in colour by Shukhaev including 7 plates hors-texte, with two additional suites of 19 illustrations each, loose in a separate portfolio, one in colour on japon and one in black on chine, with tissue guards, a.e.g.; 20th century fine binding by Hélène Cauchetier, full green morocco with original wrappers bound in, upper cover with playing card motif inlay design of various colours, doublures with green patterned paper guards, green marbled endpapers, chemise and slipcase, extra suites in a corresponding chemise, an excellent example.

First edition, 4to; presentation copy, inscribed 'To the Hon.ble the Lord Woodhouselee from his sincere friend the Editor by the hands of his brother. Marie Guthrie' on front free endpaper, ownership inscription of Alexander Fraser Tytler on title, 2 folding engraved maps, 3 engraved plates, numerous illustrations in text of medals and 8 full-page, some very slight spotting, modern calf-backed marble boards, black label and gilt title, a very good copy.

First complete edition in Russian; 8vo; 200pp.; publisher's printed wrappers, some wear to wrappers but internally fresh, housed in a black box.

First edition; large 4to (30.4 x 23.5 cm); 266pp., with illustrations by Dobuzhinsky, Gremislavsky and Petrov, vignettes and initials by Chekhonin; original printed wrappers designed by Dobuzhinsky, small contemporary Russian booksellers stamps to inside of lower cover, small orange sticker to inside of upper cover, yapp edges, some minor wear to spine, a very good copy.