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EFIMOV, Aleksei (illustrator) and SHESTAKOV, Nikolai (author). Vsia Staia Krome Tramvaia. [The Whole Flock Except the Tram.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1926. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Some light spotting and some light soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (tear and small chip at spine ends, light soiling, some spotting on the lower cover). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. View on Christie's.com

EVENBAKH, Evgeniia Konstantinovna (1889-1963; illustrator) and SHVARTS, Evgenii (author). Rynok. [The Market.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1926. Small 2° (280 x 215mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Very light spotting.) Original illustrated wrappers (light spotting, tears at spine ends). FIRST EDITION. WorldCat locates two copies in the USA: at Princeton's Cotsen Library, and at the New York Public Library. Rats Collection 164. View on Christie's.com

GONCHAROVA, Natalia Sergeevna (1881-1962; illustrator) and KODRIANSKAIA, Natalia Vladimirovna (1906-1983; author). Skazki. [Tales.] Preface by Aleksei Remizov. Paris: by Union Press, 1950. 8° (240 x 185mm). 16 mounted plates, of which 8 in colour. Original printed wrappers, colour-printed vignette mounted on the front cover (light soiling and minor wear). Provenance: Natalia Kordianskaia (presentation inscription to:) -- Nikolai Nikolaevich Mart'ianov. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, in Russian: 'To dear Nikolai Nikolaevich Mart'ianov with heartfelt greeting and gratitude. 1950. Paris'. View on Christie's.com

GRIGOR'EV, Boris Dmitrievich (1886-1939, illustrator), and CHERNII, Sasha (pseud. 1880-1932). Detskii Ostrov. [Children Island.] Berlin and Gdansk: Slovo, 1921. 4° (310 x 255mm). Lithographed title, 19 full-page lithographs, illustrations in text. (Light browning, occasional small losses in the margins, small repairs on the title.) Original half cloth, coloured lithograph mounted on front cover, top edge dyed yellow, spine lettered in gilt (a few leaves loose, light wear at the extremities). FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CELEBRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK. This fine publication is fragile and often found in poor condition. Rats Collection 74; Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka, Klassika, 2006, p.229. View on Christie's.com

KHARMS, Daniil Ivanovich (1905-1942; author) and ERMOLAEVA, Vera (1893-c.1937; illustrator). Ivan Ivanych Samovar. St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo [c.1928]. Small 4° (228 x 186mm). Colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (long tear at spine fold but holding, light wear). FIRST EDITION of this rare collaboration between two of the most important, and tragic figures of Russian children's literature. In 1931 Kharms was arrested as a member of an alleged anti-Soviet group of children's writers; he was re-arrested in 1941 and died the following year, incarcerated in the psychiatric ward of Leningrad Prison 1. Ermolaeva, avant-garde artist, founder of the Segodnia collective, and co-founder of Unovis with Kazimir Malevich, was executed in 1937. WorldCat locates one copy in the USA, at the University of Pennsylvania; Copac locates none in the UK. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. Not in the Rats Collection. View on Christie's.com

KHARMS, Daniil Ivanovich (1905-1942; author) and TATLIN, Vladimir (1885-1953; illustrator). Vo pervykh i vo vtorykh. [Firstly and Secondly.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1929. Small 2° (266 x 200mm). Illustrated throughout. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers (extremities lightly rubbed, front cover slightly darkened near the edges). FIRST EDITION. A very good copy. One of few books wholly illustrated by Tatlin -- one of the key figures of the Russian avant-garde. All of Kharms's books are rare. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. WorldCat locates two copies: one at the Getty Research Institute, and one at the University of Pennsylvania; another is in New York's MoMA. Copac locates no copy in the UK. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 837; Rats Collection 299 & pl.165. View on Christie's.com

KHIGER, E. (illustrator) and DAN'KO, Elena (author). Vaza Bogdykhana. [The Bogd Khan's Vase.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 4° (220 x 186mm). Colour illustrations throughout (light soiling and occasional light spotting). Original illustrated wrappers (short tear without loss on the front panel near the spine, light wear and light soiling). FIRST EDITION. Apparently not in WorldCat. View on Christie's.com

KONASHEVICH, Vladimir Mikhailovich (1888-1963). Rozhi. [Mugs.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Light soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (long tear at spine fold, some soiling). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. View on Christie's.com

KONASHEVICH, Vladimir (illustrator) -- PERAULT, Charles. Kot v sapogakh. [Puss in Boots.] St. Petersburg and Berlin: Z.I. Grzhebin, 1922. Small 2° (300 x 228mm). Illustrated throughout. (Margins yellowed.) Original illustrated boards (rubbed, spine ends chipped, small early repairs). FIRST EDITION. [With:] -- VENGROV, N. Khlopot polon rot; ENGEL, R. Rabotnichek; CHUKOVSKII, N. Ogorod. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1929. 3 vols, small 2°. Illustrated throughout (light soiling). Original illustrated wrappers (light wear). FIRST EDITIONS. [And:] 5 others illustrated by Konashevich, mostly first editions, in original wrappers, including: Mukoseev's Kozel, Chukovskii's Putanitsa and Limpopo and Tarakanishche, and a later edition of Marshak's Pozhar. (9) View on Christie's.com

KUPREIANOV, Nikolai (1894-1933; illustrator) and DAN'KO, Elena (author). Shakhmaty. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1930. Small 2° (165 x 134mm). Colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated wrappers. First edition illustrated by Kupreianov. An excellent copy. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Azbuka. St. Petersburg: Government Press, 1925. Small 2° (245 x 191mm). Lithographed title and 31 illustrations. Original lithographed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THIS LANDMARK OF 20TH-CENTURY DESIGN. A remarkable survival in this condition. Rare: ABPC records only one copy at auction in 35 years. Copac locates no copy in UK institutions. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.169. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Prikliutchenia Chuch-Lo. [The Adventures of Chuch-Lo.] St. Petersburg: by Golike and Vil'borg for Epokha, 1922. Oblong 2° (245 x 170mm). Lithographed in colour throughout. (Lightly yellowed.) Original tape-backed lithographed wrappers (light staining, tape with small chips). FIRST EDITION OF LEBEDEV'S FIRST BOOK FOR CHILDREN; a highlight of the genre. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.168; Rats Collection 77 & pl. 142. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Tri Kozla. [Three Billy Goats.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Mysl [c.1923]. Small 2° (270 x 200mm). Illustrated throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (short tears at spine ends, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. WorldCat locates one copy, in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Zolotoe Iaichko. [The Golden Egg.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Mysl [c.1923]. Small 2° (270 x 195mm). Lithographed in colour throughout. (Expert repairs at the folds.) Original colour lithographed wrappers (expert repairs). Provenance: Russian bookseller (small stamp). FIRST EDITION. Not in the British Library, not in MoMA. Rats Collection 86a. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Zaiats, Petukh i Lisa. [The Hare, the Rooster and the Fox.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Mysl [c.1925]. Small 2° (267 x 190mm). Lithographed in colour throughout. (Repairs at folds.) Original colour lithographed wrappers (repaired). Provenance: Russian bookseller (small stamp). FIRST EDITION. Not in the British Library; not in MoMA. WorldCat locates only one copy in the USA, in St. Paul, Minnesota. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Medved. [The Bear]. Moscow and Petrograd: Mysl [1923.] Small 2° (270 x 190mm). Illustrated throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Russian bookseller (small stamp on back cover). FIRST EDITION. One copy is located at New York's MoMA, and WorldCat adds another in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. Copac locates no copy in the UK. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 473. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Okhota. [The Hunt.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (277 x 221mm). Lithographed in colour throughout. Original colour lithographed wrappers (light wear and light soiling). FIRST EDITION. A very good copy. Not in the British Library. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.170; Rats Collection 120. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Ivan (illustrator) and ERENBURG, Il'ia (1891-1967; translator) -- BAISIEUX, Jacques de. O trekh rytsariakh i o rubakhe. [The Three Knights and the Shirt.] Moscow: Zerna, 1916. 2° (290 x 280mm). Initials filled in red throughout. Illustrated throughout. (Lower corner bumped, occasional light soiling.) Stitched in the original self-wrappers (light soiling, lower corner bumped). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES ON JAPAN PAPER, SIGNED BY LEBEDEV; this one copy number 9. This translation by Erenburg is among his earliest publications. Rare: WorldCat locates just one copy, at the Berlin State Library. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967; illustrator) and KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936; author). Slonenok. [The Elephant's Child.] Translated by K. Chukovskii. St. Petersburg: Epokha, 1922. 4° (280 x 208mm). Illustrated throughout. Original illustrated covers (light wear at the extremities). Provenance: Russian bookseller (small stamp on inside back cover). FIRST EDITION. Printed at State Press 15, formerly the renowned Golike & Vil'borg. One of only 1500 copies, a comparatively small edition for children's books of this period. There appears to have been variant colours of the cover: this one is blue-grey, while the MoMA copy is orange; apparently neither has precedence. ABPC records no copy of either variant selling at auction in over 35 years. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.173. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). Tsirk. [The Circus.] St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). 12 colour lithographed illustrations. Original colour lithographed wrappers (expert repairs). FIRST EDITION. A highlight of 20th-century children's books. Rare: ABPC records no copy at auction in over 35 years. Copac locates only one copy in the UK, at the Bodleian. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, pp.172-3. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). Kak Rubanok Sdelal Rubanok. [How the Woodplane Made a Woodplane.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1927. Small 2° (275 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (edges faintly yellowed). FIRST EDITION. Copac locates no copy in the UK, and ABPC records none selling at auction in over 35 years. Rats Collection 188. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). O Glupom Myshenke. [The Silly Little Mouse.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (spine fold splitting at head and foot, light wear). FIRST EDITION. Rare: WorldCat apparently locates just one copy, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. Not in MoMA or Rats. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). Morozhenoe. [Ice Cream.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (272 x 220mm). Colour lithographs throughout. (Light soiling.) Original colour lithographed wrappers (spine repaired, light spotting.) Provenance: Russian bookseller (price in pen on rear wrapper). FIRST EDITION. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.172. View on Christie's.com

LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) -- KONDURUSHKIN, S. Arabskaia skazka Lev i Byk. St. Petersburg: Ogni, 1918. Small 2° (310 x 255mm). Illustrated throughout. (A few leaves, including the title, lightly browned.) Original illustrated wrappers (disbound, short tear near the spine, light wear). FIRST EDITION. WorldCat locates one copy, at the New York Public Library. Rats Collection 64. [With:] -- Verkhom. St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo [1928]. Oblong 2° (228 x 285mm). Illustrated throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (some wear). FIRST EDITION. Rats Collection 225. [And:] 8 other works illustrated by Lebedev, all in original wrappers (occasional wear) including Marshak's Doska Sorevnovaniia (1931); second editions of Marshak's Progulga na osle, Vchera i segodnia, and Usatyi polosatyi; a later edition of Slonenok (1930); and 3 others. (10) View on Christie's.com

NARBUT, Georgii Ivanovich (1886-1920). Chetyrnadtsat risunkov Ukrainskoi Azbuki. [14 Drawings for a Ukrainian Alphabet.] St. Petersburg: 'Golike and Vil'borg', 1921. 2° (330 x 245mm). Lithographed additional title and 13 lithographed plates. Original blue wrappers printed in black, yapp edges (light soiling and light wear). Provenance: Ivan Mikhailovich Stepanov (ad nominem copy) -- S. L. Markov (bookplate) -- Russian bookseller (small stamp). FIRST EDITION, AN EXCELLENT COPY OF NARBUT'S MASTERPIECE, PRINTED FOR IVAN MIKHAILOVICH STEPANOV, and later in the S.L. Markov collection. Rare: only 30 copies were printed and sent to 'the greatest and most active figures in the Arts of the new age' (Mir Iskustva). Ivan Stepanov (1857-1941) was an important figure in the Russian Silver Age, and a great philanthropist and collector. Mir Iskustva, Palace Editions 1998, 340; Rats Collection 73; Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka, Klassika, 2006, pp.216-7; Vengerov, V nekotorom tsarstve, 169. View on Christie's.com

PETROV-VODKIN, Kuzma Sergeevich (1878-1939; illustrator) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964; author). Zagadki. [Riddles.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (275 x 220mm). Illustrated throughout. Original illustrated wrappers. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy. Petrov-Vodkin is one of the most highly regarded Russian artists of the 20th century. View on Christie's.com

PETROV-VODKIN, Kuzma Sergeevich (1878-1939). Koza Dereza. St. Petersburg: Mysl [c.1923]. Small 2° (270 x 200mm). Illustrated througout. Original illustrated wrappers (covers detached and neatly split at the spine; light wear at the extremities). First edition illustrated by Petrov-Vodkin. WorldCat locates just one copy, at McGill University. View on Christie's.com

PETROV-VODKIN, Kuzma Sergeevich (1878-1939; illustrator) and FEDORCHENKO, Sofiia. (author). Priskazki. [Short Tales.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1924. Small 2° (292 x 228mm). Illustrated thoughout. (One leaf with small loss in the blank margin, margins evenly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers. FIRST EDITION. WorldCat locates two copies, at Amherst College and the New York Public Library; Copac locates no copy in the UK. View on Christie's.com

PORET, A. (illustrator) and PAPERNA, E. and KARNAUKOVA, I. (authors). Ch'i eto igrushki?. St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennoe Isdatel'stvo, 1930. Small folio (220 x 195mm). Colour illustrations throughout. Original colour printed wrappers (light soiling). FIRST EDITION. WorldCat locates just 4 copies: Amsterdam University Library, Princeton, Harvard and University of Pennsylvania. Copac adds one at the Victoria & Albert Museum. View on Christie's.com

PUSHKIN, Alexander -- VASNETSOV, Viktor Mikhailovich (1848-1926; illustrator). Pesn o veshchem Olege. Moscow: A.A. Levenson [c.1900-1910]. 2° (467 x 335mm). Printed in various colours. 4 colour plates by Vasnetsov tipped-in. As issued, concertina-folded, with one printed page serving as front cover and another as back cover (curling slightly at side edges). Provenance: Russian gift inscription in the bottom margin of the front cover. VASNETSOV'S PUSHKIN, a luxurious publication lithographed throughout. The St. Petersburg edition of 1899 was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pushkin's birth. [With:] -- MALIUTIN, Sergei Vasil'evich. (1859-1937; illustrator). Ruslan i Liudmila. Moscow: A.I. Mamontov [1899]. 2° (510 x 400mm). Colour-printed headpieces throughout (light soiling). Original limp linen, upper side stamped in gilt (some soiling and light wear, small remnant of a label on the front free endpaper). JUBILEE EDITION OF PUSHKIN'S FIRST POEM published to commemorate the centenary of his birth. [And:] -- ZARETSKII, Nikolai (illustrator). Grobovshchik. Berlin: Neva [c.1923]. 4° (303 x 243mm). Frontispiece and three plates, illustrations (margins evenly yellowed). Original printed wrappers, brown coated endpapers (long splits at spine ends, some chips at edges). (3) View on Christie's.com

RUDAKOV, Konstantin Ivanovich (1891-1949; illustrator) and AGNIVTSEV, Nikolai Iakovlevich (1888-1932). O Shesterykh vot etikh. [The Six.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Kniga, 1926. Small 2° (270 x 197mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Light marginal soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (short tear at spine foot, lightly yellowed, some soiling). FIRST EDITION. Rare: WorldCat locates just one copy: in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. View on Christie's.com

RUDAKOV, Konstantin Ivanovich. (1891-1949; illustrator) and ANDREEV, M. (author). O Ermile i docheri Liudmile. [Ermil and his Daughter Liudmila.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Light soiling, small faint dampstain in the top margin.) Original illustrated wrappers (long tear at spine fold, some soiling). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. Rats Collection 110. View on Christie's.com

Russkaia azbuka v raskrashennykh kartinakh na kholste. [Russian Alphabet in Coloured Pictures on Linen.] St. Petersburg: M.O. Vol'f, late 19th century. Oblong 2° (155 x 205mm). Hand-coloured lithographs throughout. (A few pencil trials, occasional light soiling.) Original cloth, upper side blocked in gilt (gilt and cloth fading, light soiling). FIRST EDITION. WorldCat locates only one copy in the USA, in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton; no copy in the UK. Ot azbuki Ivana Fedorova do sovremennogo bukvaria, p. 134. View on Christie's.com

ZAMIRAILO, Viktor Dmitrevich (1868-1939). A pen and ink drawing for Evgenii Ivanov's Kot-Kolobrod i krysy [Tomcat and the Rats], 1928. Pen and ink on paper (155 x 220mm), a cat confronting a group of rats, captioned in ink 'ris.4 Dolgo kot i krycy staiali v takoe poze...', and another pencilled caption 'k rasskazu Kot-Kolobrod'. (Crease not affecting the image, light soiling on the verso.) Provenance: Lengiz Khudozhestvennoe Otdel (inventory stamp numbered 1725 in manuscript). Together with a first edition of Ivanov's book (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1928) reproducing the drawing on page 9. Rats Collection 219 (for the edition). View on Christie's.com

ZDANEVICH, Kirill (1892-1970; illustrator) and MAIAKOVSKII, Vladimir (1893-1930; author). Chto ni stranitsa to slon to levitsa. [That Page An Elephant, A Lioness.] Tbilisi: Zakkniga [1928]. Small 2° (277 x 212mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Occasional light offsetting.) Original printed wrappers, publisher's imprint and price printed on slips pasted on the lower cover (light wear, faint yellowing on the front wrapper). FIRST EDITION. A very good copy of this rare, and excellent collaboration published in Tbilisi. A copy is located at New York's MoMA, and WorldCat adds another in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.173. View on Christie's.com

CHARUSHIN, Evgenii Ivanovich (1901-1965) -- 8 works illustrated by Charushin, in original wrappers, mostly small 2° (c.200 x c.180mm), including: CHUKOVSKII, K. Tsyplenok. St. Petersburg: Detgiz, 1934. FIRST EDITION. Rats Collection 492; BIANKIA, V. Pervaia Okhota. Moscow & St. Petersburg: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1933. (Loose in wrappers, perhaps as issued.); Ptentsy. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1930. Rats Collection 381; Tsypliachii gorod. Moscow and St. Petersburg: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1931; and 4 related others. [WITH:] KUL'TURA EDITIONS -- 5 works published by Kul'tura of Kiev, in original wrappers, mostly small 2° (c.190 x c.140mm), including: CHERNYI, S. and KRIUKOV, B. Deti (c.1930); FEDORCHENKO, S. and KOZLOVSKII, V. Myshenok oshibsia (c.1930); ADUEV, M. and KOZLOV'SKII, V. Vgoru ta vniz (c.1929); VORONII, M. and RACHEV, E. Chervoni Kravatki. (1930). (Some corners chipped.); MIROVICH, V. and ERMOLENKO, B. Pro lentiaia rasteriaia (1930). (13) View on Christie's.com

MOLODAIA GVARDIIA EDITIONS -- A collection of 18 works published by Molodaia Gvardiia of St. Petersburg and Moscow, all in original wrappers, mostly 8° and small 4° (c.220 x c.180mm), mostly in first edition, including: GLEBOVA, T. and VVEDENSKII, A. Puteshestvie v Batum (1931); KIPLING, Rudyard, SHTERENBERG, D. (illustrator) and MARSHAK, S. (translator). 40 Nord 50 Vest (1931). (Rebacked). Rats Collection 416 & pl. 174; KUZNETSOV, K. and ZONNENSHTRAL, E. Ia Pechatnik (1932); GARUSHIN, E. Okhota na medvedia (1933); PETROVA, A. Ot Moskvy do Bukhary (1931); SHVARTS, E. and PEVZNER, T. Ptichii dvor (1931). Rats Collection 444; DON, M. and Brei, A. Pesenka o kroshkakh (1932); KONDRAT'EV, P. and VALOV, V. Krasnyi Partizan (1931); and 10 related others. (18) View on Christie's.com

RADUGA EDITIONS -- A collection of 20 works published by Raduga of Moscow and St. Petersburg, mostly first edition, including: EFIMOV, A. and PIAST, V. Lev Petrovich, (no date); TRONOV, V. and ROZHDESTVENSKII, V. V Lesakh Robin Guda, (no date); MARSHAK, S. and CHEKANOVSKII. Pochta, (no date); MARSHAK, S. and CHEKANOVSKII. Sem Chudes, (no date); MARSHAK, S. and PASTUKHOVA, P. Raduga, 1926; POKROVSKII, B. and LENSKII, V. Len'-Lenitse, 1925; RAKHMANIN, M. and S. and BIANKI, V. Odnodnevki, 1925; ZHAB, A. and AGNIVTSEV, N. Kirpichiki moi, 1926; and 12 others published by Raduga c.1920s-1930s, illustrated by various artists including Iurii Annenkov and Sergei Chekhonin, all in the original illustrated wrappers (some wear and some soiling). (20) View on Christie's.com

BACON, Francis -- MALLET, David (1705-1765). Zhitie [-- Sokrashchenie Filosofii] Kantslera Frantsiska Bakona. [The Life (-- Abridged Philosophy) of Francis Bacon.] Translated by Vasilii Trediakovskii. Moscow: at the Imperial University, 1760. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (238 x 184mm). (Dampstained, tear in the inner margin of the last leaf, occasional soiling.) Contemporary Russian calf, edges dyed red (worn with loss at the spine and extremities). Provenance: an early reader (indistinct cancelled signatures) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps). FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN of a work praised by Fielding for its and judgment and 'nervous, manly style'; Gibbon also admired the 'vigorous sense' of Mallet as a historian (quoted in ODNB). WorldCat locates copies only at Harvard and at the British Library. Sopikov 4066; SK 4022. View on Christie's.com

BARKHATNAIA KNIGA -- Rodoslovnaia kniga kniazei i dvorian rossiiskikh i vyezzhikh i kotoraia izvestna pod nazvaniem Barkhatnoi knigi. [Genealogical Book of Russian Princes and Nobles, also known as The Velvet Book.] Moscow: N. Novikov at the University Press, 1787. Volume one only (of 2). 8° (190 x 120mm). (Without the front blank.) Early 19th-century Russian half calf, flat spine gilt and with contrasting label, edges sprinkled blue (worn, front joint and hinge split, wear on the front endpaper). Provenance: 'N.S.' (title signature) -- another owner (light annotations in the index) -- Serge Diaghilev (sold, lot 57, Sotheby's, 28 November 1975). FIRST EDITION, THE DIAGHILEV COPY OF 'A GREAT RARITY' (Bitovt). Published by Nikolai Novikov. Bitovt 2171; Sopikov 5197; SK 6018 (variant 2 of the preface). View on Christie's.com

BELIAVSKII, Frants Mikhailovich. Poezdka k Ledovitomu Moriu. [Journey to the Arctic Ocean.] Moscow: at the Press of the Lazarev Institute of Eastern Languages, 1833. 8° (217 x 130mm). Hand-coloured frontispiece, additional engraved title, 3 hand-coloured folding plates by Zheren, and one folding engraved plate of snowflakes. (Spotting and some soiling in the text, one coloured plate with some foxing, engraved pate with tears and some old repairs.) Contemporary Russian green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, sides panelled in gilt and blind and centred with a large architectural design blocked in gilt, edges gilt, pink moiré silk endpaper, edges gilt (light wear). Provenance: K. Shmataev (signature in an early hand). FIRST EDITION, IN A HANDSOME RUSSIAN ROMANTIQUE BINDING, with moiré endpapers, and finely hand-coloured plates. Beliavskii reports on his journey to Western Siberia, his encounters with the Ostiak and Samoyedic peoples, their customs including Shamanism, and language, flora and fauna. The illustrations also include a plate of various snow crystal structures. Obol'ianinov 157. View on Christie's.com

BOGDANOVICH, E.V. Sinop. 18 Noiabria 1853 goda. St. Petersburg: by V. Kirshbaum, 1878. 8° (218 x 140mm). 6 plates, one of these an albumen print and the others colour and tinted lithographs. (Some spotting.) 19th-century Russian quarter roan, title mounted on the upper side perhaps part of the original wrapper (spine chipped and faded, later label on the spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: E.V. Bogdanovich (presentation inscription to:) -- Grigorii Aleksandrovich Kovalevskii (1842-1882) -- Z.G. Kovalevskii (inscription) -- 'L.H.S.' (stamped cipher). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to General Grigorii Aleksandrovich Kovalevskii, Commander of the Life-Guards Dragoons regiment, and a very highly regarded soldier who distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Published to commemorate the 25 years since Russia's decisive victory against the Ottoman Empire in the naval battle at Sinop, the battle which led to Great Britain's joining the Crimean War against Russian in 1854. View on Christie's.com

DAL, Vladimir Ivanovich (pseud. of V. Luganskii; 1801-1872). Pokhozhdeniia Khristiana Khristianovicha Violdamira i ego arsheta. [The Adventures of Violdamir.] St. Petersburg: M.D. Ol'khin, 1844. 3 parts in one vol., (300 x 235mm). Additional engraved title, and 50 plates after A.N. Sapozhnikov. (Additional title torn with some loss and repaired, some spotting.) Contemporary Russian green quarter roan, letterd up the spine in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: P.A. Efremov (author, publisher, collector; label, binding) -- Gubar & Vol'kov, bookellers (label) -- Paul M. Fekula. FIRST EDITION. RARE. THE EFREMOV-FEKULA COPY. A very good copy of Dal's adventures of an itinerant violinist and his dog, superbly illustrated by Sapozhnikov. This one the variant issued together with the text; a variant is known issued with the plates only. Burtsev 1558; Fekula 4940 (this copy); Obol'ianinov 1514; Smirnov-Sokol'skii 668. View on Christie's.com

DOBELL, Peter (d.1852). Puteshestviia i noveishiia nabliudeniia v Kitae, Manill i Indo-Kitaiskom Arkhipelag. [Journey and Latest Observations in China, Manilla and the Indo-China Archipelago.] Translated from the English by A. Dzhunkovskii. St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1833. 2 vols, 8° (206 x 125mm and 211 x 129mm). Lithographed frontispieces. (Light spotting and light soiling.) In contrasting half calf and full calf bindings, vol. 1 spine gilt (spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, sides scuffed). Provenance: 20th-century Russian booksellers (various stamps; vol. 2 with Mogiz book-ticket). FIRST EDITION. Born in Ireland and educated in America, Dobell ultimately settled on Russian citizenship. Dobell identified the Philippines as a key base from which to organize the regular supply of provisions to the Russian Far East and suggested the idea to the Russian government, sending at his own cost three ships from Manila to Kamchatka. Alexander I approved the plan and appointed Dobell Consul General of Russia's first mission in Manila. Dobell made three trips to China, where he lived for seven years. This work is based in part on his Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, published in London in 1830, but adds seven chapters and appendices. A French translation was published in 1838. Cordier 2109. (2) View on Christie's.com

FREIMAN, Otto Rudol'fovich von. Pazhi za 185 let (1811-1896). Biografii s portretami. St. Petersburg: Fridrikhsgamn for the author, 1897 [but 1898]. 4° (284 x 210mm). Tinted lithographed title, two frontispieces, illustrated throughout. (Some spotting, a few tears.) Original dark blue half roan, red cloth sides, upper side stamped in gilt, spine stamped in blind and gilt, white moiré-style endpapers (corners rubbed, spine evenly faded, light soiling). Provenance: an early reader (signature dated 1934, some marginalia, two clippings tipped-in on blanks). FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING. One of the most useful books still on the Corps des Pages, the elite military school for the sons of noblemen and high-ranking officers. View on Christie's.com

GOLOVNIN, Vasilii -- RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich, Captain (1776-1855). Zapiski flota kapitana Rikorda o plavanii ego k Yaponskim beregam v 1812 i 1813 godakh. [Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord concerning his sailing to Japan's shores in 1812 and 1813, and about his relations with the Japanese.] St. Petersburg: at the Naval Press, 1816. 4° (235 x 184mm). Engraved portrait of Takadaya-Kahei, and 4 engraved folding plans after Rikord. (Damptain in the bottom margin of some leaves, light scattered spotting.) Contemporary Russian red half sheep, spine label (spine foot repaired, small repairs on the endpapers). Provenance: 20th-century Russian booksellers (stamps on the endpapers). FIRST EDITION OF RIKORD'S EXPEDITION TO RESCUE GOLOVNIN. It constitutes an important and early first-hand account of contact between Japan and Russia. Rikord sailed to Japan on the Russian sloop-of-war Diana, taking on board a number of Japanese seamen shipwrecked off the coast of Kamchatka, and capturing Takadaya-Kahei and several crew from a large junk. He landed at Kunashie where he negotiated the eventual release of Golovnin, averting war with Japan. Golovnin later wrote a popular account of the experiences; both accounts were translated for an English edition in 1818. Whittaker, Russia Engages the World, p.189; not in Obol'ianinov (which notes only an 1851 edition). View on Christie's.com

IVAN IV -- Sudebnik Gosudaria Tsaria i Velikago Kniazia Ioanna Vasil'evicha. [The Law Code of Ivan Vasilievich.] Moscow: at the Imperial University Press, 1768. 4° (240 x 190mm). (Light spotting.) Contemporary Russian mottled calf (spine caps chipped, corners rubbed). Provenance: Aleksandr Ivanovich Ivanov (stamps) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps) . FIRST EDITION. Ivan IV's reform of the law code shifted power from the aristocracy to State and local institutions. This edition was prepared by G.F. Miller from the manuscript owned by Vasilii Tatishchev. Bitovt 1638; SK 6936; Sopikov 11593. View on Christie's.com

Kirillova kniga. [The Book of Saint Kyrill, Archbishop of Jerusalem.] Moscow: Printing House, 1644. 2° (297 x 191mm). Signature and pagination in Slavonic alphabetic numerals: 15+8+561 pages, p.355/6 double numbered. With the final blank leaf but without the front blank and two other blanks. Woodcut headpieces and initials, some printed in red. (Soiled and dampstained throughtout, a few tears occasionally affecting text.) 17th-century Russian red straight-grained calf, sides with gilt and blind borders, lower cover with brass centre- and cornerpieces, metal shoes and brass catches, edges gauffered and gilt (lacks clasps). Provenance: Aleksandr Polusharov Litovskii (inscription at foot of fifth leaf) -- Riga Orthodox Seminary (library stamp). FIRST EDITION OF THIS INFLUENTIAL ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL COMPILATION, printed with the authority of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Some of the texts are strongly anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant. This included the Homily on the anti-Christ by Kyrill, comparing the anti-Christ with the Pope of Rome. It was widely read in Moscow and orthodox Russia, and reprinted in the 18th century. RARE: WorldCat locates no copies in the UK, and only microfilm in the USA. Pozdeeva 352; Sopikov 569; Zernova 169. View on Christie's.com

MALINOVSKII, Aleksei (ed.) Istoricheskoe Opisanie Drevnago Rossiiskago Muzeia. [A Historical Account of the Museum of Ancient Russia. Part I (all published).] Moscow: P.S. Valuev at the Imperial Moscow University, 1807. 2° (507 x 347mm). Printed on papier bleuté, bound with the printed dedication to Alexander I and with the part title. Engraved title-vignette, 30 engraved plates by Sokolov. (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Contemporary Russian diced red morocco gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments and with green morocco label, sides with gilt foliate scrolling border, gilt edges (a few scuff, some wear including some creasing at the spine and a tear at the head). Provenance: P.S. Valuev (presentation inscription to:) -- Prince A.B. Kurakin. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY IN RED MOROCCO INSCRIBED BY VALUEV TO PRINCE KURAKIN, in Russian: 'To His Excellency Prince Aleksei Borisovich Kurakin from Peter Stepanovich Valuev'. Kurakin, confident of Tsar Paul I, was during Alexander's reign Imperial Chancellor, and Russia's Ambassador in Vienna and Paris. Valuev, who published the book, had been charged by Alexander I to transform the Kremlin's ancient treasury into a museum. The engraved plates, here in excellent condition, show primarily the crowns and state regalia from the era of the Great Princes. Rare: ABPC records only two copies at auction in 35 years; this one is the only presentation copy in red morocco. Obol'ianinov 1141; Sopikov 7574. View on Christie's.com

NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1899-1977). Poems and Problems. New York and Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 8° (210 x 145mm). Original black cloth, upper side blocked in blind, spine blocked in gilt, top edge red, original dust-jacket. Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (presentation inscription to:) -- Vera Nabokov -- by descent to the consignor. FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY. PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS WIFE WITH TWO FINE BUTTERFLY DRAWINGS, each of the colourful insects with taxonomic labels playing on qualities Nabokov found in his wife. The book is further inscribed, in Russian, 'to darling Vera from V', and dated 'Montreux March 15 1971'; Nabokov notes on the copyright page that, though copyrighted 1970, this first bound copy reached him on the day he inscribed it to Vera, to whom the book is dedicated in print. Nabokov has also made a correction to the solution of one of the chess problems. The poems in this edition are in Russian with facing translation in English. View on Christie's.com

NABOKOV, Vladimir -- ZIMMER, Dieter E. Vladimir Nabokov. Bibliographie des Gesamtwerks. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1963. 8° (190 x 115mm). Original wrappers (small round sticker on the front wrapper). Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (presentation inscription to:) -- Dmitri Nabokov. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NABOKOV TO HIS SON DMITRI WITH A LONG MANUSCRIPT POEM. Nabokov inscribed this copy twice, at Christmas 1959 and Christmas 1963, once quoting Pasternak's 'Ia ves mir zastavil plakat' and once with a variant of his own poem that opens: 'Kakoe sdelal ia durnoe delo i ia-li razvratitel i zlodei Ia, zastavliaiushchii mechtat mir tselyi o bednoi devochke moei?' Zimmer's is the first comprehensive bibliography of Nabokov's works. View on Christie's.com

NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Pnin. A Novel. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. 8° (210 x 140mm). Original black cloth, original dust-jacket (front hinge split, dust-jacket yellowed, spine ends chipped, long tear at front panel fold with spine, adhesive stain on front endpapers). Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (gift inscription and drawings to:) -- Sonia Slonim -- Vladimir Nabokov (book label) -- by descent to the consignor. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR, WITH BUTTERFLY DRAWINGS, TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, Sonia Slonim. One butterfly is drawn on the half-title, with the inscription, in Russian: 'To Sonia from Volodia'; another is on a piece of Doubleday letterhead fixed to the front endpaper, and two further, small butterfly drawings appear on other preliminary leaves. Sonia Slonim was part of the Nabokov's close family circle after emigrating to the United States. Juliar A30.1. View on Christie's.com

NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Vesna v Fial'te i drugie rasskazy. [Spring in Fialta and Other Stories.] New York: Chekhov Publishing, 1956. 8° (216 x 141mm). (Faint staining on the endpapers.) Original printed wrappers (light wear). Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (gift inscription and drawings to:) --Sonia Slonim-- Vladimir Nabokov (book label) -- by descent to the consignor. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR, WITH A FINE BUTTERFLY DRAWING, TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, Sonia Slonim. The butterfly drawing is captioned 'Vladimirius Nabokovius', and the title-page shows the inscription, 'to dear Sonia from the author', and two small butterflies circling the publisher's printed device. Juliar A29.1. View on Christie's.com

NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Kamera obskura. [Laughter in the Dark.] Paris: Sovremennyia Zapiski and Parabola, 1933. 8° (190 x 120mm). (Small losses in a very few margins.) Original printed wrappers (chipped, worn and soiled). Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (gift inscription dated 13 December to:) -- Anna Feigin -- Vladimir Nabokov (book label) -- by descent to the consignor. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Anna Feigin, in Russian: 'to darling Anna, sweet and dear, from V. December 13'. Although Nabokov does not give the year in his presentation this was almost certainly the year of publication. Anna Feigin was Nabokov's cousin by marriage, and lived with the Nabokovs for extended periods. Rare: ABPC records only one copy selling at auction in over 30 years: the copy inscribed to his wife. Juliar A14.1. View on Christie's.com

NICHOLAS II -- KRIVENKO, V.S. (ed.). Koronatsionnyi sbornik s soizvoleniia Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva Gosudariia Imperatora. Ch. II tol'ko. [Coronation Album of His Imperial Highness the Sovereign Emperor. Volume 2 only.] St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of Government Papers, 1899. 2° (440 x 320mm). Illustrated throughout with chromolithographs and photographic reproductions, tissue guards, those for the photographic illustrations with printed captions. (Dampstain in the margins of the first few gatherings, occasional soiling, tears in a few tissue guards, a few leaves loose.) Original green leather spine and green pictorial cloth sides, the covers and spine blocked in various colours and gilt, metal medallion mounted on the front board, edges gilt, endpapers printed in silver and gilt (soiled, corners rubbed, front free endpaper adhering to the pastedown at one corner and with short tears). Provenance: H.R.H. Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia (sold, Christie's, 27 June 2007, lot 17). FIRST EDITION. THE RARE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE ISSUE. Volume 2, from the collection of Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia, with the folding menu after Vasnetsov's original design. A lavish publication, illustrated throughout with reproductions of the menus and programs of festivities, and photographic portraits of noble families and dignitaries in attendance. View on Christie's.com

PORDAGE, John (1607-1681). Bozhestvennaia i istinnaia metafizika, ili divnoe i opytom priobretennoe vedenie ne vidimykh i vechnykh veshchei. [Theologia Mystica, or the Mystic Divinity of the Eternal Invisibles.] [Moscow: c.1787.] 3 vols, 8° (202 x 121mm). With all half-titles. 3 engraved plates, one of which folding, illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.) Near contemporary Russian half calf, flat spines lettered and tooled in gilt and blind (corners rubbed, small chips at spine ends, sides lightly scuffed). Provenance: a Russian reader (light pencilled marginalia). FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN, AND AMONG THE RAREST RUSSIAN MASONIC BOOKS.'Extremely rare' (Bitovt); 'a great rarity' (Sopikov). One of only 300 copies, printed on a clandestine press, distributed privately, and the majority of which were confiscated and destroyed. The Grand Lodge of Russia came into being in 1776. Catherine II, whose son and eventual heir was a Mason, feared that the lodges could be used for political purposes, and in 1794 banned all Masonic activity within her realm. WorldCat locates only one copy, at Harvard University. Bitovt 2152; Longinov, Novikov i Moskovskie Martinisty, p.283; Sopikov 6211; SK 5522. (3) View on Christie's.com

VOL'F, N. B., Baron. Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod 1774-1904. [The Imperial Porcelain Factory.] St. Petersburg: Golike & Vil'borg for the Imperial Factory [1906]. 2° (380 x 290mm). 12 tinted gravures printed on china and mounted on card and with printed tissue guards, one chromolithograph of marks, c.500 illustrations throughout. (Two plates detached but present, one tissue guard with a long tear.) Contemporary Russian blue half roan (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'FUNDAMENTAL STUDY'; 'the history of this enterprise is an important part of the general history of the Russian applied arts and is of great help for students of the national crafts of the 18th-19th centuries... the book had a limited circulation. It is difficult to find a copy of it in a decent state' (Vengerov). Vengerov, Staraia Russkaia Kniga, 78. View on Christie's.com

J.K. Rowling, The Harry Pottery Series, First Edition of "The Chamber of Secrets", "The Prisoner of Azkaban", "Goblet of Fire", "Order of the Phoenix", "Half-Blood Prince" and "Deathly Hallows", (6).

Wade Tom & Jerry and Wade First Edition Cub (3)

A modern silver chalice, by Garrard & Company Ltd, London 1972, 16cm high, in a fitted case with certificate, 6oz A reproduction of the Hertford Elizabethan Chalice, numbered 740 in a limited edition of 1300, to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of the first ever National Church Assembly held in England, the Synod of Hertford 673.