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Franc-tireur, 2009. Soft cover. Good. First edition, 16mo; pp. [8], 11-115, [11] including bibliography; original pictorial wraps; wear to extreme edges and corners of covers; small closed cut to tail of spine; good or better condition. Russian writer Vladimir Batshev, who currently lives in Germany, was a controversial figure in Russia in the 1960s. He was working as an editor to several journals when he was accused of "parasitism" and sentenced to 5 years in prison. Later he participated in the Dissident Movement in the 1970s.

Shankhai: Tipografiia “Nikita†Do Shin Press, 1948. Softcover. First edition thus; 7 x 5; pp. 160; olive wraps with an intricate border and title in black; age-toning along margins and a few spots to back wrap; small nicks to fore-edge of last several pages; illustrated with portrait frontis and a vignette at the beginning of first chapter; overall in very good condition.A beautiful publication of Father Ioann of Kronstadt’s (1829 - 1909) My Life in Christ, being his spiritual diary and considered his most important work, published for the benefit of the White Emigres in China. Though “First Volume" is indicated in the book, there does not appear to be a record of consecutive volumes of this edition. He was a member of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church and one of the most beloved Christian leaders of his time.

Sofia: Durzhavno Voenno Izdatelstvo, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 6" x 8"; pp. [6], 7-322, [2]; original dark orange boards with black and gilt decorations; pictorial DJ; full-page b & w illustrations; near fine with minor wear to corners; jacket in very good condition with small nicks along edges. In spite of being one of Bulgaria's most acclaimed and honored young authors of the 1960s, sadly, dissident writer Georgi Markov is best known in the West for his infamous murder by the Bulgarian Secret Police, with a poisonous pellet shot by an umbrella, in London in 1978. While still living and working in Bulgaria, Markov was a controversial figure - winning "The Annual Award of the Union of Bulgarian Writers" for his current work 'Men' and at the same time having most of his plays removed and banned from theater stages by the Communist censors. He was also famous for his lavish bohemian lifestyle, which was unknown to most Bulgarians at the time. A… Read More

New York, NY: Rausen Publishers & Distributors, 1966. Softcover. First edition; 4 1/4 x 6; pp. 158; beige wraps printed in black; small nick to head of spine; crease line to upper corner of front wrap and first several pages; portrait frontis; overall very good.Andrei Sinyavsky (1925 – 1997), often writing under the pseudonym Abram Terz, was a Russian emigre writer, political prisoner, and Professor at the Sorbonne. Angering the government with his descriptions of the reality of life in Soviet Russia, Terts was arrested in 1965, tried in the infamous Sinyavsky-Daniel show trial (the first Soviet show trial to have writers openly convicted solely for their literary work), and sentenced to seven years on charges of "anti-Soviet activity." Released in 1971, he immigrated to Paris where he continued writing until his death. "Thought Unaware" is a collection of thoughts and aphorisms.

Paris: YMCA Press, 1931. Softcover. First edition; 7 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-45, [1]; light turquoise wraps, ruled and printed in dark blue; light fading and two small spots to margins of wraps; small nicks to tips of spine; very good condition.Nikolai Berdiaev (1874 - 1948), the great philosopher, author, and Christian Existentialist, wrote his current work on suicides among the Russian emigre community and the practical and religious reasons behind them, while he himself was exiled in France. Born in an aristocratic military family and studying to, eventually, become a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Moscow, he would be arrested, jailed, and very close to being sent to Siberia for life several times - for criticizing the Holy Synod in 1913, for a conspiracy against the government and for revolutionary activities in 1920, etc. - until he was expelled from Russia in 1922 and sent into exile, together with 160 other intellectuals, on the so called "Philosophers' Ship."… Read More

Berlin: Izdatelstvo Skify, 1920. Softcover. First emigre edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [3], 6-28; brown wraps printed and illustrated in black; small nicks to corners and tips of spine; bookshop label to front wrap verso; a few spots - mostly to first and last few leaves; several passages underlined; overall in very good condition.Razumnik Vasil'evich Ivanov [Ivanov-Razumnik] (1878-1946) was a Russian author, philosopher, and literary critic. He was a member of the so called Scythian Movement. The publisher, Skify, founded by philosopher and author Evgenii Lundberg (1883-1965) in 1920, would play a pivotal role in preserving and promoting Russian emigre works in the early 20th century.

Farmingdale, NJ: The World Cossacks Association, Inc., 1951. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 68, [12] and pp. 108 respectively; illustrated blue and yellow wraps; a few rubbed spots to spine; minor nicks to corners; penciled-in notes on some pages of No. 12; a few smudged fingerprints to edges, else text clean; illustrated with political cartoons and drawings; very good. In Russian with preface in English.The World Cossack Association was established in late 1946 in New Jersey by Cossacks who had fled Russia after Czar Nicholas II’s abdication in 1917. By the early 1950s the community in Lakewood had considerably grown and was actively assisting displaced persons entering the United States from DP camps in Austria and Germany and purchasing hundreds of acres of remote forest land in order to resettle the wave of compatriots. The community was formally recognized in 1953 and named New Kuban after the Kuban region in the North Caucasus, where many of the families had lived.… Read More

New York: Experiments, 1957. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 10; pp. 144; beige and red wraps designed by A. N. Pregel; thin band of discoloration to top margin of front wrap; 1" damage to head of spine from creature nibbles, elsewhere minor damage; internally clean; most pages unopened; good to very good condition. Volume 8 (of a total of 9 issues) of this important emigre journal which contained works by many notable figures including first printings of various works of Vladimir Nabokov, whose original essay "Zametki Perevodchika II" (Notes of a Translator II) can be found in the current volume. The first installment of it was published earlier in the same year in another journal - "Novy Zhurnal." Iurii Pavlovich Ivask (1907-1986), having moved with his family from Moscow to Estonia after the Revolution, began his literary career as a member of the "Guild of Poets" in Tallinn. He was displaced to Germany during World War II and eventually, in 1949, made his way to… Read More

Jordanville, NY: Sviato - Troitskii Monastyr, 1960. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 334; textured brown wraps printed in black and illustrated with the Russian Imperial Crest; a few faint spots to wraps; some small rubbed spots along spine and corners; minor age-toning and discoloration to endpapers; illustrated with photographs; very good.The book was published in commemoration of Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg's (1886-1967) 50th anniversary of his graduating The Imperial College of Law with a gold medal in 1907. He served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs until the Revolution after which he joined Nikolai Evgenievich Markov's secret Monarchist organization - The Supreme Monarchist Council. He emigrated to Berlin in 1920 where he continued working closely with Markov's organization. While in Germany, he also became involved with the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia and when he eventually moved to the US he accepted a teaching position at Holy Trinity Seminary in… Read More

Chicago: Federatsiia Russkikh Anarkho-Kommunisticheskikh Grupp Soed. Shtatov i Kanady, 1931. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. [5], 6-350, [2]; marbled wraps; faint crease lines to corners; two closed cuts to tips of spine; private paper label to spine; faint dicoloration to lower corner of last several pages; small gift inscription to front cover verso; illustrated with portrait frontis and photographic plates; very good.Published by the Russian Federation of Anarcho-Communist Groups in the US and Canada, the book commemorated the 10th anniversary of revolutionary Peter Kropotkin and his teachings.

New York: Vydavetstva Zluchanaha Belaruska-Ameerykanskaha Dapamahovaha Kamitetu u Niu Iorku, 1954. Softcover. First edition; 4 1/2 x 6 1/4; pp. 72; beige wraps illustrated in blue by artist M. Kruglovich; a few small worn spots to wraps; text clean; portrait fronts; very good. Signed and inscribed by author on title page.The author, Mikhas Kavyl, was one of the victims of the Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus - a tragic and absurd political case by the GPU (Secret Police) during the wave of Soviet repressions in Belarus in 1929 - 1931. The culprits - more than a hundred intellectuals, writers, historians, and artists purportedly members of the counterrevolutionary organization Union of Liberation of Belarus - were accused of criminal activities, anti-Soviet propaganda, and attempts to separate Belarus from the Soviet Union. All arrested, but for 18 people, were sentenced to exile, sent to the gulags, or executed. Kavyl would eventually be deported and would make his way to New York.… Read More

Milan: Edizioni dello Scorpione, 1977. Softcover. Limited edition of 600 copies, this copy #209; 5 1/2 x 8; pp. 1-64; printed yellow wraps; minor wear along edges; near fine.First published in "Sovremennye Zapiski" in Paris in 1922, the book contains six letters, written between July 11 and Sept. 22, 1920, from Vladimir Korolenko to Anatoly Lunacharsky. Korolenko (July 27, 1853 – December 25, 1921) was a Ukrainian author and Human Rights activist. A staunch opponent of Czarism - he was arrested for revolutionary activities and sent into exile in Siberia. Though, initially, Korolenko welcomed the Revolution, he was one of the first to realize the despotism of the new regime and to begin openly criticizing the Bolsheviks.Anatoly Lunacharsky was a Marxist revolutionary and the first People's Commissar of Enlightenment after the October Revolution which put him in charge of culture and education. By 1920, Korolenko's name had become well-known in Russia and… Read More

Vashington: Literaturno-khudozhestvennyi Kruzhok v Kalifornii, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; 6" x 8 1/4"; pp. [6], 5-242, [2]; original printed wraps; minor dust-dulling to covers; slight wear to head and tail of spine; very good or better. Signed/inscribed by Aleksandra L'vovna Tolstaia - the youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy. While still young, she was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in 1920. Later, in 1929, she left Russia and immigrated to the US where she established the Tolstoy Foundation (President Herbert Hoover was the first honorary chairman from 1939 to 1964). Under Aleksandra's leadership, the Foundation is known to have helped more than 500 000 people escape political persecution and resettle in the States, including notable names such as Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

S. l. (Paris): s. n., 1910. Softcover. First edition, issue No. 1; 11 ¼†x 8 ¾†; pp. [4]; fragile newsprint; mild age-toning to margins; folded, with a horizontal crease line; several small cuts to fold and edges; very good condition.The very first issue of a short-lived Russian journal (presumably, only 2 issues were ever printed), it was published by an unidentified émigré group in France and contained news and articles on labor events from around the world, including the 21st International Miners Congress in Brussels, the Trade Unions Conference in Sheffield, the New York City Cloakmakers’ Strike, which would result in the signing of the “Protocol of Peace,†and others.

Berlin: Grani, 1923. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 3/4; pp. [2], v-xv, [1], 1-394, [4]; printed brown wraps; closed vertical cuts along spine; faint discoloration to lower corner of first several pages; few spots to covers; small chip to lower corner of back cover and general creasing to page corners; illustrated with two plates; good condition.Prof. Fishel Schneerson (1885-1957) was born in Ukraine but after the Revolution his family moved to Paris, Israel, and Germany. An author and a trained psychiatrist, Shneerson gained reputation in the scientific community through his research on mental disorders in children. His "Psychology of the Intimate Life of a Child" encompasses an exhaustive and authoritative work on new methods for studying emotions and imagination in children, including those with mental challenges.

New York: Tovarishchestvo Zarubezhnykh Pisatelei, 1969. Softcover. Second revised edition; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. 24; textured white wraps printed in black; light rubbing to tips of spine, else minor wear; small handwritten "Akhmatova" to spine; near fine condition. Signed and inscribed by Russian poet and literary historian Gleb Struve, who also wrote the postscript to the current book, to Russian-born American physicist and author Iakov Lvovich (Alpert): "Iakov Lvovich, with thanks for your review of recent scientific publications. G. S. April 1970."Universally hailed as Anna Akhmatova's masterpiece, the lyrical cycle of poems "Requiem" was written between 1935 and 1940 but because of its explicit condemnation of Stalin's Terror - it was not published until the leader's death in 1963 and then only in Germany. The book was not printed in Russia until 1987. Most of the poems reflected her grief for her son Lev Gumilev's 18-years-long imprisonment in… Read More

Bruxelles: Editions <La Vie Avec Dieu>, 1959. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4; pp. 54, including text to back wrap; illustrated wraps; faint creasing to upper corner and very faint age-toning to margins; illustrated with photographs; very good to near fine condition.An issue of a Russian religious emigre journal published from 1953 until 1970. The publication leaned heavily on the relations between the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church, including the present issue which contained an article on the meeting between, then, newly appointed Pope John XXIII with the Russian exile Bishop Pavel Melet'ev.

Sankt-Peterburg: Pushkinskii Fond. Soft cover. Good. Published quarterly; pp. (Vol.I No.2) 479, (Vol.I No.3) 479, (Vol.I No.4) 446, (Vol.II No.1) 463, (Vol.II No.2) 527, (Vol.II No.3) 527, (Vol.II No.4) 575, (Vol.III No.1) 206, (Vol.III No.2) 536, (Vol.III No.3) 477, (Vol.III No.4) 413; original wraps; different tomes with varying degrees of wear from fair+/acceptable to very good; vol. II # 2 with1" piece missing off head of spine and damage to back edge of spine, else mostly rubbing to spine extremities and corners. An almost complete run of issues, missing only No. 1 of the first volume. This quarterly of Russian philology and culture was first published in 1994. It was intended as a magazine of reviews of publications, bibliographies, catalogs, as well as new publications and scientific news from Russia, Europe, and the US. Each issue printed in very small numbers, usually 500-1000 copies.

Miunkhen (Munich): Orkhis, 1922. Hardcover. First edition; 6 1/2 x 9 1/4; pp. 144; cloth-backed illustrated paper over boards; a bit of discoloration and spotting to boards; pages with small moisture ripples to margins (not affecting text and illustrations); gift inscription to half-title page; good to very good condition. Title, preface, index, and subtitles in Russian and in German.An incredible accomplishment and a standard point of reference for big part of the 20th century, the book encompassed the portraits,facsimile letters, signatures, and artwork of 137 of Russia's most accomplished authors and poets of all times - from Lomonosov, through Pushkin and Gogol, to Tolstoy, Block, and Akhmatova. The portraits, some of them from engravings, others from paintings, and still others from photographs, were originally created by renowned artists such as Mir Isskustva members Iurii Annenkov and Konstantin Somov and graphic artist Sergei Chekhonin. The author, Alexander Eliasberg… Read More

Los Angeles: Published by the Author, 1954. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8; pp. [2], 5-208; textured dark blue wraps (designed by artist Igor Kalugin); faded gilt title; few minor spots and wrinkles to covers; closed cuts to tips of spine; internally near fine but for several old pieces of tape to title page; small signature of previous owner; very good-.Russian writer Rodion Berezov (known by the name Akulshin before his defection) came to the US after being in a DP (displaced persons) camp in Germany immediately after WWII - living first in LA, later in San Francisco. Fearing deportation, he gave the US immigration authorities a fake name and place of birth. This practice was not an unusual occurrence among the thousands of Soviet refugees fleeing the terrors from behind the Iron Curtain. Eventually, Berezov decided to make a test case and reveal his true identity. Still, despite coming clean, he faced repatriation due to the signing of the Yalta Agreement with Russia, under which the US… Read More