A lot of four antique Russian books of late Imperial and early Soviet era. First. Literary-Artistic Almanacs of the Shipovnik Publishing House, Book 17, published in Saint-Petersburg, 1912. Second. Atlantida by Pierre Benois, published by S. Efron in Paris, 1922. Third. Anofeles by N. Tikhonov, with illustrations by Vladimir Konashevich, published by Izdatelstvo Pisateley, Leningrad, 1930. Fourth. Comedies by Menander, published by Academia, Moscow, 1936. Shipovnik was an early 20th-century Russian private publishing which made a significant contribution to the development of Silver Age literature. Academia was a Soviet publishing house that functioned from 1922 till 1937. The publishing house employed many prominent Russian graphic artists and issued over one thousand books during its existence, mostly intellectual and classical literature. Antiquarian Librarian Books For Collectors.