![Item #180 [LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!]. D. Bedny](/pictures/thumb/180.jpg?v=1483894502)
Moscow: Commission for Improving Life of Children, 1923. 150 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. 150 illustrations in text by Fyodor Kriger. Mint condition. 1 of 6000 copies. The first edition of the propaganda fables by Demian Bedny – the genre he invented and excelled at in 1920s. Fyodor Kriger was..... More
![Item #188 [ILLUSTRATING CHILDREN’S BOOKS] Printsipi ilustriruvannya dityzchoy knizhki [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/188.jpg?v=1483902379)
Kiev: Kul'tura, 1929. 68 pp., XII illustrations. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine, uncut, few tiny tears, owner’s signature on the p.4., occasional light foxing. Extremely rare. One of 2000 copies. Important manifesto of Ukrainian children’s books designers of 1920-30s. In Ukrainian. Summary in German. In Ukraine in 1920-1930s there..... More
![Item #196 [ILLUSTRATIONS BY YURY ANNENKOV] Miydodir. K. Chukovsky](/pictures/thumb/196.jpg?v=1483909875)
Kharkiv: DITVIDAV, 1934. [24] pp.: ill. 29,5x22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some pages are in the wrong order. Tear of the few pages. Otherwise a very good/near fine copy. Very rare. Famous poem for children by Korney Chukovsky about a magical creature by the name Moydodyr (literally «Wash..... More
![Item #1037 [FROM ARKHANGELSK TO VLADIVOSTOK] Chetyre tysiachi mil’ na Sibiriakove [i.e. Four...](/pictures/thumb/1037.jpg?v=1595855663)
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo pisatelei, 1934. 64 pp., 36 ills. 32x28 cm. In original cloth with silver lettering on the spine and stamped image of the ship on the front cover; in original cloth case with mounted illustrations on both sides; illustrated endpapers. Foxing on the covers, tears of the front endpapers..... More
![Item #1119 [CHAGALL-LIKE ILLUSTRATIONS] Konyok-Gorbunok [i.e. The Little Humpbacked Horse]. P....](/pictures/thumb/1119.jpg?v=1608113118)
Moscow: Academia, 1934. 124, [4] pp.: ill. In original decorative boards with cloth spine. Very good, covers a bit rubbed and soiled, back cover with a few blue stains, small crack on the front endpapers along the spine. A beautiful edition of one of the most famous Russian fairy-tales..... More
![Item #193 [MATCH AND CANDLE] Spichka I svechka. Iz nauchnykh skazok Byurgelya [i.e. A Match and a...](/pictures/thumb/193.jpg?v=1483908745)
Moscow: G.F. Mirimanov, 1924. 15 pp.: ill. 30x21 cm. In original illustrated lithographed wrappers. Some wearing, Georgian stamp on the title page, tear of the back cover. Overall very good. Rare. One of 10000 copies. Illustrated by Anatoly Andronov (1869-1947), graphic artist. Studied in Repin class at Higher Art..... More
![Item #116 [PICASSO SKETCH] Karabkaetsa akrobat. Portret avtora raboty Pablo Pikaso [i.e. Climbing...](/pictures/thumb/116.jpg?v=1472302206)
Paris: Frankorusskaya pechat’, 1922. 64 pp., port., ill. 21x15 cm. In original wrappers designed by the author. Some restoration of the spine. A near fine clean copy. First edition. Very rare. One of 500 copies. Portrait was made by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Illustration by famous Georgian avant-garde artist Lado..... More
![Item #79 [ROBIN HOOD FOR SOVIET CHILDREN] V lesakh Robin Guda [i.e. In Robin Hood's Forests]. V....](/pictures/thumb/79.jpg?v=1450415363)
Moscow; Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. [12] pp.: ill. 23x19 cm. Lithographed edition. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. Soiling, small tears on the spine. Pencil scribbles on the rear wrapper but nowhere else. First edition. Children’s book illustrated throughout by Vladimir Tronov (1899-after 1930) who was a pupil of..... More
![Item #265 [ALEXANDRA EXTER’S ARTWORK] Zapiski rezhissiora [i.e. Director’s Notes]. A. Y. Tairov](/pictures/thumb/265.jpg?v=1491999808)
Moscow: Kamerny teatr, 1921. 193 pp.: ill. 23x16 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Some restoration of the covers and spine, some soiling, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and label on the recto of the rear cover. Otherwise very good. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. Initials, illustrations and cover design..... More
![Item #219 [Lithograph Titled:] Novo Arkhangelsk. Na Severozapadnom Beregu Ameriki [i.e. New...](/pictures/thumb/219.jpg?v=1485342480)
St. Petersburg: Lith. of Prokhorov, 1851. Lithograph 23x33,5 cm mounted on the original mount leaf 24,5x35 cm, with lithographed title and date on the lower margin of the album leaf. Three flattened creases on the upper margin of the lithograph, the album leaf with cut margins, strengthened with paper on..... More
![Item #166 [UKRAINIAN RADICAL ILLUSTRATION] Sen’ka-arsenalets / Malyunki B. Kryukova [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/166.jpg?v=1483884341)
Kiev: Kul’tura, 1930. [12] pp.: ill. 25x17,5 cm. Original illustrated lithographed wrappers. Some soiling, foxing. Overall a near fine condition. First and only edition. Very rare. Text in Ukrainian. Seven illustrations in text and two more on the covers made by Boris Kryukov (1895-1967), Ukrainian artist and designer. In..... More
![Item #143 [REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami...](/pictures/thumb/143.jpg?v=1474968669)
St. Petersburg: tip. A. Benke, 1905. [8] pp.: ill. 25,5x17 cm. In original chromolithographed wrappers. Fine. Small stain on the front cover. Unique charity edition of the Community of St. Eugene (the biggest pre-revolutionary publishing house of postcards) with two illustrations and six highly artistic initials. A great example..... More
![Item #82 [ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]. Ovanes Tumanyan](/pictures/thumb/82.jpg?v=1450188461)
Erevan: Divsterdik lithography, 1908. [8] p. 26x19 cm. Lithographed edition, illustrated throughout by G.Eritsyan. In illustrated publisher's wrappers. The pages are detached from each other, bruisings of the wrappers, small bits of wrappers missing. Very rare first edition of Tumanyan’s fairy tale. Ovanes Tumanyan (1869-1923) was the first armenian..... More
![Item #324 [HIMALAYAS] Ocherki puteshestviya v Gimalayi g-na i g-zhi Vereshchaginykh [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/324.jpg?v=1507299549)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of M.M. Stasiulevich, 1883-1884. 2 vols. Vol. 1. Sikkim. Second edition. Vol. 2. Kashmir, Ladakh. [2], 86; 135 pp. Octavo. With twenty woodcut plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Previous owner’s pencil inscriptions on the front wrappers and the title pages, wrappers..... More