![Item #448 [DANCE AS PROPAGANDA TOOL] Ritmicheskie igry i pliaski [i.e. Rhythmic Games and Dances](/pictures/thumb/448.jpg?v=1524133716)
Moscow: Gosizdat muz. sector, 1928. 48 pp.: ill. 27x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, bleak stains and pale publisher’s stamp on the covers, some foxing. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies printed. Very rare. An attractive two-color cover design was produced by Grigorii Bershadskii (1895-1963)..... More
Moscow: Self-published, 1926. 4 pp.: musical notes. 34x26,5 cm. In publisher’s constructivist styled wrappers by Alexandr Frolov. Near fine. Small tears of the extremities, bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear cover. Sheet of music. One of 1050 copies. Extremely rare. This music was performed during ‘Rychi, Kitai!’ [i.e. Roar..... More
![Item #358 [JAZZ REVIVAL IN USSR] Melodii dzhaza. Antologia [i.e. Jazz Tunes. Anthology](/pictures/thumb/358.jpg?v=1513593099)
Kiev: Muzichna Ukraina, 1970. 272 pp.: notes. 16,5x13 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine, wrappers rubbed. One of 6000 copies. Text in Ukrainian and Russian. Inscribed by jazz band, each signature with caption (drums, leading guitar, bass, saxophone) on the verso of the front cover..... More
![Item #514 [SHEET MUSIC] ‘‘D.E.’’ [i.e. ‘D.E’ (Suets Performed in the Play ‘D.E’...](/pictures/thumb/514.jpg?v=1533148416)
Leningrad: Self-published, 1926. 4 pp. 35x26 cm. In original wrappers designed by Mikhail Tager-Karielli. Tears and creases, margins of the back cover cut, bookshop’s stamp on the front and back covers. Otherwise good. One of 3000 copies. Mikhail Tager-Karielli (1892-1937), a Jewish deaf artist and director. More
A collection of twenty two Russian sheet music brochures which reveals a little known phenomenon of extraordinary cover designs for sheet music that existed in Russia and USSR for a short period of time. Low print runs and active use made the sheets extremely rare survivals of the time... More
![Item #705 [TAHITI IN THE SOUTH RUSSIA] Tahiti-trot](/pictures/thumb/705.jpg?v=1562725235)
Rostov-On-Don: published by the author, 1927. 5 pp. 25x26,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Wrapper design by Nikolay Rogachev. Very good, tears of the margins. Rare regional edition. The musical number by Boris Fomin (1900-1948) for inclusion in his operetta "The Career of Pierpont Blake”, the words by..... More
![Item #347 [SOVIET JAZZ] Sovetskiy dzhaz: Istorichesky ocherk [i.e. Soviet Jazz: Historical...](/pictures/thumb/347.jpg?v=1513336978)
Moscow: Muzyka, 1972. 175 pp., 24 pl. 21,5x17 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Word ‘jazz’ is written on the spine (pen), slightly rubbed. Scarce. One of the first books on jazz in USSR and first book on Soviet jazz. It contains detailed history of jazz existing in USSR..... More
![Item #488 [IDEOLOGICALLY CORRECT DANCES] Massovye pliaski khorovodnye dlia klubnykh vecherov,...](/pictures/thumb/488.jpg?v=1531143722)
Kharkiv: Vestnik fizicheskoi kultury, 1929. 64 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Some rubbing of the spine, stamp of the not existing library on the title page and p.17, some foxing. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare especially in such good..... More
Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff, 1898. 3-167, [1] pp. 35x28 cm. In later cloth. Illustrated front cover preserved. Stains on the boards and some restoration to the cover. Otherwise very good. Inscription by A. Glazunov on the front cover: «To dedicated musician and tireless social activist Boris Iosifovich Narovlyansky for a...... More
![Item #949 [THE BOOK INSCRIBED BY THE FOUNDER OF ISRAELI OPERA TO CHALIAPIN] Evreiskiy teatr v...](/pictures/thumb/949.jpg?v=1614855852)
Odessa: Kinaret, [1920s]. Printed wrappers, the spine is restored. Otherwise very good. A completely unrecorded brochure by the pioneer of Jewish opera inscribed by him to Fyodor Chaliapin on the front wrapper: ‘‘To Fiodor Ivanovich Chaliapin from devoted M. Golinkin’’. Mordekhai Golinkin (1885-1963) is considered the first..... More
![Item #1129 [RUSSIAN FOLK RHYMES ABOUT ANTI-RELIGION AND KOMSOMOL] Dlya derevni: Sb. pesen i...](/pictures/thumb/1129.jpg?v=1608115291)
Moscow: Muz. sektor gos. izd-va, 1925. 28, [2] pp.: ill., musical sheets. 17.5x13 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers rubbed and soiled, big stain on the front cover, otherwise very good and internally clean. First edition. Scarce. A collection of some of the most popular Russian songs and..... More
![Item #1169 [SYNTHESIS OF MUSIC AND POETRY] Muzyka rechi: Estet. Issledovaniye [i.e. Music of...](/pictures/thumb/1169.jpg?v=1612377688)
Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniya, 1923. 190, [1] pp., 4 pp. of tables: ill. In original wrappers. Very good, foxing of the wrappers and a few pages, two small fragments of the spine lost, small tears of the wrappers’ margins, signature on the t.p. (pen). Extremely scarce first edition. One of..... More
24,7x16 cm (cardboard - 30x20 cm). Inscribed by Shostakovich under the photo in Russian: «To dear Vladimir Petrovich Nemeshaev for a good memory. D. Shostakovich. 29 VIII 1969 Moscow». Autograph addressed to V.P. Nemeshaev, the director of copyright department and employee of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers and..... More