Beijing: Izdatel’stvo literatury na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1958. 89 leaves: ill. 26,5x19 cm. In original cardboards with lettering on covers and spine, in original printed dust jacket; illustrated endpapers. Very good, dust jacket a bit chipped, with small tears, covers slightly rubbed. Very rare. Fine photo album features the..... More

[Dalian], ca. 1902. 26,5x38 cm. With 36 photogravures, each with a printed title and a number on a paper label pasted to the lower margin. Original colour lithographed publisher’s wrappers, with a large gilt lettered title on the front wrapper. The leaves and wrappers fastened with original strings. Wrappers slightly..... More

St. Petersburg: Kino-Fot, 1922. 16 pp.: phot.,. 28x22 cm. Original photomontage wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko who used his wife Varvara Stepanova’s photomontage which juxtaposed a photo of Charlie Chaplin with photos of industrial objects. Very good/near fine condition. A few pale stains on the front cover. One of 8000..... More

Saint Petersburg: Vezenberg i Ko, [1900s]. 16,5x11 cm. Albumen photo mounted on cardboard paper with a printed workshop’s signature. Very good. Stamp of pre-revolutionary Daziaro shop on the back side along with the pencil note in Russian: ‘Darvin’. This is a reproduction of the well-known portrait of Charles Darwin..... More

Moscow: Fizkul’tura i sport, 1957. [154] pp.: ill. 29,5x23 cm. In publisher’s cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. Endpapers illustrated with photographs. Some soiling on covers, block occasionally broken, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Extremely rare. Design produced by Alexander Zhitomirsky (1907-1994) who..... More

1871. Oblong Folio (ca. 28x34,5 cm). 21 thick stock album leaves. With 20 mounted albumen prints, including twelve large images ca. 19x25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 ¾ in), the rest are ca. 12x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ½ in). All but two captioned in English or French in..... More

[Early 1950s]. 127 photos, including 2 panoramas. Size of the album 41,5x30 cm. In contemporary cloth binding. Overall in a very good condition. The album was made by a member of the biological Soviet expedition to southern Kuril islands. The photos are not dated, but judging from the..... More

Moscow: Soyuzfoto; Fotokhudozhnik, 1938. [1], 41 pp.: ill. 28x20 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. In original cardboard folder. Folder is restored. One flap of the folder is replaced by new, two other flaps have been reattached. The spine is backed and the case has been cleaned up. Pages have few..... More

[Moscow, 1921]. 22,5x28 cm. Creases and minor tears of the edges, pencil notes on the back. Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was one of the leaders of Soviet emancipation. In 1905 during the revolution she organized The Society of Help for the Female workers. Accusations from the state have forced her..... More

Beijing: Izd-vo literatury na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1953. 84 leaves. 27x22,5 cm. In original full-cloth with colored lettering. Rubbed on corners, ink note on front flyleaf, slightly soiled, small tear of one leaf. Otherwise very good. Second, enlarged and revised edition. Rare parade photo book dedicated to socialist China. This..... More

Moscow: n.p., 1933. 16 pp.: ill. 20x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of edges, otherwise very good. Very rare. A brochure supplemented to an early issue of the magazine ‘The USSR on Construction’ (#9 for 1933). It is illustrated throughout with the first photographs of the newly explored Severnaya..... More

[68] pp.: photos. 25,5x34 cm. Leather covers tied with a string. Fine. The travel album of Czech professor Ilek Bohuslav who traveled to USSR in July of 1936 with Intourist. The album includes the photographs and postcards bought on the way and dedicated mostly to the southern part of USSR..... More

Moscow: Izogiz, 1937. Vol. 1: 102 pp.: ill. Vol. 2: 151 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering and debossed design for Vol. 1, lettering and mounted illustration for Vol. 2. Restored, covers slightly soiled, small fragments of outer edge of p. 3-4 lost (Vol.2), spots occasionally..... More