Russian Americana from PY Rare Books

First edition of the Russian major futurist poet's travel account to the New World, illustrated with photographs and with Rodchenko's constructivist wrappers. The leading poet of Revolutionary Russia Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) attempted to get to the States three times since 1923: twice his visa was rejected and the third time he managed to obtain a visa to Mexico first. He… Read more about this item

The Russian Navy and the Americas: warmly inscribed by one of the authors to the first Russian submarine commander in the Pacific. "Very rare" (Savine) illustrated émigré publication, with historical folding maps featuring the arctic coast of Russia from Europe to the North-West passage and the Alaska. The compendium is divided into two parts, each comprising thematic articles written by different… Read more about this item

With the "progressive conquest of Siberia", up to Alaska. An early, large format publication, produced in St. Petersburg and which intends, in a very didactic way, to familiarize European readers with the history, geography, population, structure and economy of the Russian empire possibly at the height of its power, during Pushkin's Golden Age. After a brief history of the Russian Empire covering… Read more about this item

THE FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN DEALING WITH THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, illustrated with large folding maps. VERY RARE: we could trace only one example in public institutions outside Russia, in Rome's National Central Library. We could find a copy in the Russian State Library's catalogue, but not in the National Library. There was keen interest shown in Russia in the American Civil… Read more about this item