First Edition. The first separate edition, in French translation by Michel Peter, of Tolstoy's polemical inquiry into why people use alcohol and drugs. The essay begins: "What is this demand for stupefying things—vodka, wine, beer, hashish, opium, tobacco, and others less universally used; ether, morphine, mukhumor? Why did it begin.....

First Edition. Graham, a historian of science, was an expert on science in Russia. 177 pages. First edition (first printing, wrappers issue). A near fine paperback copy (it was also issued in hardcover). Inscribed by Graham to the evolutionary theorist and historian of science, Stephen Jay Gould: "To Steve, in.....

Poems, translated from the Russian by Juan Luis Hernández Milián into Spanish, and printed on gray-brown recycled paper. Designed and illustrated by Enrique Ramos. Covers with paper collage, handcoloring, and yarn adornment; text pages with identical drawn borders. Dated based on inscriptions from the translator believed to be from the.....

First US edition. The first edition of Gorky's 1901 novel of the Russian slums published in the United States, here using British sheets with the UK title page cancelled (removed) and a US title page tipped in. Translated by A Linden. Gorky was a pioneer of Russian realist prose, and.....