![CASTRO IN SOVIET UNION] Viva Kuba! Visit Fidelia Kastro v Sovetskiy Soyuz [i.e. Viva Cuba! The...](/pictures/thumb/645.jpg?v=1554870242)
Moscow: Pravda, 1963. 128 pp.: ill. 26,5x20,5 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dust-jacket. Fine condition. The photo book is dedicated to the first visit of Castro to Moscow. In 35 days he managed to see the country from Murmansk to Tashkent. As a result of this trip two..... More
![PARADE EDITION BY RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Soviet Aviation](/pictures/thumb/1048.jpg?v=1601548185)
Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939. 96 pp.: ill. 40x26 cm. In original full cloth with lettering and design on the front cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Slightly soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Illustrated throughout with photomontages and photographs by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova... More
![PHOTO DOCUMENTATION OF THE NOVEMBER 7, 1938 MILITARY PARADE IN TBILISI] Diadi okt’omberi....](/pictures/thumb/1273.png?v=1632151703)
Tbilisi, 1938. In original full-cloth with gilt lettering and two small photographs (ca. 3.3x3.4cm) mounted on the front cover. Date “7 November 1938” printed on the label and mounted on the front pastedown. Twenty-five vintage prints ca. 9x14.3cm. Minor wear to the edges of the covers, a couple of photos..... More
Moscow: Sherer, Nabgolts i Ko. 1894. 16,4x10,8 cm. Fine condition. Most Leo Tolstoy’s photograph portraits in 1880s and 90s were made on Sofia Andreevna’s initiative. For almost quarter of the century photos of Tolstoy’s family were made by the most famous and biggest pre-Revolutionary photo studio «Sherer, Nabgolts i...... More
![POULTRY PHOTOMONTAGES] Ptitsevodstvo. Krolikovodstvo [i.e. Poultry Breeding. Rabbit Breeding] /...](/pictures/thumb/962.jpg?v=1582651241)
Moscow: Sel’khozgiz, 1940. [126] pp.: ill. 29x23 cm. In original cloth with gilt embossed design and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly rubbed, few defects of the back cover, some soiling of lower outer corner, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies..... More
![RODCHENKO] [Imprint. the 1980s]. Morning exercises on the roof. A Student Campus in Lefortovo](/pictures/thumb/1118.jpg?v=1608112910)
1932. 18x12 cm. Near fine. Sighed on the rear side by Rodchenko’s grandson Alexander Lavrent’ev. Interesting evidence of physical practices in Moscow universities, as well as contemporary styles of Soviet underwear. This roof of the student campus was adapted to sport exercises and a pool was also placed. Rodchenko..... More
![RODCHENKO] [Imprint. the 1980s]. A shock-worker of a Fire Engine Plant](/pictures/thumb/1136.jpg?v=1608119481)
1932. 16,5x11,5 cm. Near fine. Sighed on the rear side by Rodchenko’s grandson Alexander Lavrent’ev. An idyllic picture: a worker is reading the Pravda newspaper. Rodchenko was looking for new perspectives and angles since the late 1920s, following the slogan “Our duty is to experiment!”. He used..... More
![RODCHENKO] [Imprint. the 1980s]. Varvara Stepanova sitting on the balcony of their apartments](/pictures/thumb/1137.jpg?v=1608119543)
Moscow, [1930s]. 19,5x14,5 cm. Near fine. Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova lived and created together since the 1910s. In 1920, VKHUTEMAS was established and they were invited to teach there. The following year the spouses got an apartment in the VKHUTEMAS building (Myasnitskaya Street, 21). Rodchenko took famous foreshortened pictures..... More
![SOVIET PHOTO: RUN OF 14 YEARS] Sovetskoe foto [i.e. Soviet Photo](/pictures/thumb/928.jpg?v=1582641680)
Moscow: Ogoniok [and others], 1926-1941. 171 issues altogether. Complete sets for the years 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941. The years 1926-1934 are bound in contemporary bindings. Years 1935-1937, 1940-1941 are in original wrappers. All of the wrappers, except three ones..... More
![SOVIET WORKER MUST REST] Doma otdykha: Sbornik statei i materialov [i.e. Pensions: Collection of...](/pictures/thumb/456.jpg?v=1524136358)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923. 225, [5] pp.: ill., 4 pl. 27x18 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good. Partially uncut. Tears and small losses of the spine and extremities of the wrappers, signature on the t.p. (ink), damp stains on margins of pages. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Very..... More
![SUBURB FOR THE SOVIET WRITERS] Peredelkinskie foto [i.e. Peredelkino Photos](/pictures/thumb/906.jpg?v=1576166196)
Moscow, 1958. Handmade photo album. 27 photographs and 1 newspaper clipping are mounted on 8 leaves, 3 photographs are loosely inserted. Handwritten lettering on the front cover and captions. 20,5х29 cm. Some tears of the spine and edges, otherwise very good. Some photographs signed by Korney Chukovsky, Agniia..... More
![TEN YEARS OF COAL AND METAL CITY] Desiat’ let goroda uglia i metalla: Sbornik [i.e. Ten Years...](/pictures/thumb/889.jpg?v=1576159894)
Stalinsk: Iubil. komissiia po organizatsii prazdnovaniia 10-letiia Kuznets. metallurg. zavoda im. Stalina i goroda Stalinska, 1939. 288 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 25x18,5 cm. In original red cloth with mounted photograph and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly bumped, small ink stain on t.p., otherwise mint... More
![Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]. Dmitrii Baltermants](/pictures/thumb/685.png?v=1559602821)
Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent..... More
![PHOTO GRAPHICS BY TELINGATER] Tragediinaia noch’. Poema [i.e. Tragic Night. A Poem]. A. Bezymensky](/pictures/thumb/856.jpg?v=1573081658)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1931. 64 pp.: ill. 18,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored, some creases, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. This is one of the well-known Soviet photobooks and one of the earliest literary works on triumphal projects of the First Five-Year Plan. The poem by..... More
![SOVIET YOUTH WITHOUT THE IRON CURTAIN] Zdravstvui, drug! [i.e. Hello, Friend!]. I. Dolgopolov](/pictures/thumb/1326.jpg?v=1642542950)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardia, 1957. 96 leaves. 29,5х23 cm. In original cloth with colored debossed logo. Covers slightly soiled, tears of two leaves restored, otherwise very good. Introduction and captions are printed in Russian, English, French and German. This photobook was produced specially for the VI World Festival of..... More
![EXEMPLARY PIONEER CAMP] Artek. Ia Taits](/pictures/thumb/1031.jpg?v=1595854848)
Moscow: Detizdat, 1938. 104 pp.: ill. 27x20 cm. In original illustrated cardboards; illustrated endpapers. Covers rubbed and bumped, small tear of the spine, but very good internally. On verso of front flyleaf an official inscription to schoolboy, dated 1938 and stamped. Very rare. Cover design was produced by book..... More
Moscow, [1910s]. Paper, ink. Phototype made by K. Fisher. 22x14,3 cm. Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev (1843-1920), famous Russian botanist and physiologist, highly-regarded popularizer of science widely known for his enthusiastic public lectures, and moreover, a confirmed Darwinian, a point of view rarely espoused in czarist Russia. In 1910s Timiryazev was..... More
![CONSTRUCTORS OF THE NEW WORLD] Liudi 30-kh godov [i.e. People of the 30s]. Iu Zhukov](/pictures/thumb/1025.jpg?v=1595853874)
Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1966. 575 pp.: ill., 32 ill. 20,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated full-cloth with lettering on the spine; in original illustrated dust-wrapper; illustrated endpapers. Very good, small fragment of the spine lost, covers slightly rubbed. First edition. Solomon Telingater’s later yet brilliant book design. Resembling the..... More
![AFRICA - ALGERIA - TLEMCEN] [Album with 124 Original Albumen Photographs, Taken by a Cavalry man...](/pictures/thumb/412.jpg?v=1519393175)
Ca. 1880s. Oblong Folio ca. 25x33 cm. 49 stiff card leaves (12 blank). With 124 mounted albumen prints, including 36 larger photographs, from 17,5x23 cm to 15x21,5 cm; the rest are from 11x18 cm to 7x10,5 cm. The majority captioned in French in period manuscript black ink on the mounts..... More
![THE ART OF INDUSTRIAL PHOTO] 1 gosudarstvenniy podshipnikoviy zavod imeni L.M. Kaganovicha...](/pictures/thumb/761.jpg?v=1563922674)
Moscow, 1932. 42 photos. 24x31 cm. Very good. The album was prepared for the Mikhail Kaganovich (1888-1941), brother of Lazar Kaganovich, party secretary. Mikhail Kaganovich at that time was the deputy to the minister of industry. His brother will become the head of that ministry in 1937. Mikhail has..... More
![ASIA - ALTAI MOUNTAINS] [Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from Two Soviet...](/pictures/thumb/1195.jpg?v=1613991228)
Ca. 1931. Oblong Folio album ca. 26,5x35 cm (10 ¼ x 13 ¾ in). 15 card stock leaves. With 54 mounted original gelatin silver prints including five large photos from ca. 17,5x23 cm (7x9 in) to ca. 13x17 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in), the rest of the photos are..... More
![ASIA - CHINA] [Album of 206 Gelatin Silver Photographs of China Taken by a British Expat Showing...](/pictures/thumb/390.jpg?v=1516793660)
1907-1911. Oblong Folio (31x42cm). 20 thick card stock album leaves pp. With 206 gelatin silver photographs (most 12x17cm and slightly smaller and with three panoramas (Kuling & Shanghai) 8.5x30cm, mounted recto and verso, many with manuscript black ink captions in English on mounts. Original full pebbled cloth album. Overall album..... More
![ASIA - MONGOLIA] [Album with ca. 150 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of Ulaanbaatar...](/pictures/thumb/1198.jpg?v=1613993859)
Ca. late 1920s. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 19,5x31,5 cm). 16 card stock leaves. With ca. 150 mounted gelatin silver snapshot photographs, including six large photos from ca. 11x21 cm (4 ½ x 8 ¼ in) to ca. 11x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ¼ in); the rest are from ca..... More
![BURYAT ASSR] Buryatskaya ASSR [i.e. Buryat ASSR](/pictures/thumb/644.jpg?v=1554868976)
Ulan-Ude, 1963. [96] pp.: ill. 35x26 cm. Original cloth binding. Slight water damage of the edge of the cover. One of 6500 copies. Extremely rare photo book on the Buryat republic, celebrating its 40th anniversary as a part of USSR. Bilingual, in Buryat and Russian. Illustrated throughout. Photos by..... More
![A CATALOGUE OF THE KIROV MEAT-PACKING PLANT] Leningradskiy myasokombinat im. S.M. Kirova /...](/pictures/thumb/850.jpg?v=1573079155)
Leningrad: leningradskaya fabrika ofsetnoy pechati, 1956. [32] pp., ill. 26.8x18.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Closed tear on the upper right corner of the front wrapper. Otherwise near fine. First edition. Extremely rare. The front cover depicts one of the most vibrant examples of the Soviet constructivist architecture..... More