Kharkiv: Proletarii, 1930. 101, [3] pp., 15 ills, including folding ones. In original wrappers with constructivist letterpress design. 25,8x19 cm. Pre-war stamps of the Armenian Union of the Artists in Yerevan. Later ex-libris of the Soviet book collector S. Bogomolov on the verso of the front cover. Small hole in..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo literatury po stroitel’stvu i arkhitekture, 1954. 119 pp., 3 ills. 26,7x21 cm. Original cardboard binding. New fine condition. Corners of the binding are slightly bumped. First and only edition. One of 11.000 copies. This interesting book offers topical solutions in late Stalinist interior design that were..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1950. 3 pp., 17 pp. of ill. 29x20 cm. In original publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. Near fine. Spine is slightly rubbed. Scarce. First edition. Published in 1950, this beautiful piece of Soviet print contains 17 chromolithograph images of the state..... More

A collection of letters that gives a fortunate insight into the life of 16-year-old Alexei Kruchyonykh. Very little is known about Kruchyonykh’s life prior to his graduation from Odessa Art School in 1906. Probably the first fact of the poet’s biography that is being mentioned is the acquaintance with..... More

Berlin: Fremdsprachendienst-Verlags-G.m.b.H., 1941. #11 of 1941. 12 pp.: ill. 46x31,5 cm. Crease in the middle, minor foxing. Otherwise good. Extremely scarce. 1 issue from 18 published. By the late 1930s, Germany was home to over 50,000 Russian emigres who left their homeland shortly after the October Revolution. During the..... More

[Moscow]: Snabtekhizdat, 1933. XXIV, 398, [1] pp.: ill. 17,5x13 cm. In original cloth with bronze lettering on front cover and spine, in original constructivist dust jacket. Dust wrappers rubbed and chipped, with tear of front cover flap, rusty staples, some stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One..... More

Moscow, 1931-1935. April, 1931 [under the title “Biulleten’ Vserossiiskogo Kooperativnogo Tovarishchestva ‘Khudozhnik’ ”]. 50, [2] pp.: ill., 3 pl. 26x17,5 cm. One of 2000 copies. Fine. In publisher’s wrappers. June, 1932 [under the title “Biulleten’ Vserossiiskogo Kooperativnogo Tovarishchestva ‘Khudozhnik’ ”]. 60 pp.: ill., 1 pl. 26x17,5 cm. One of..... More

[1945]. 17,5x13,5 cm. All the leaflets have been originally folded in 12 to fit in soldiers’ pockets. Traces of those folds remain. Two leaflets also have rust on the creases. A curious collection of eight propaganda leaflets directed at the Red Army and disseminated by the Committee for the Liberation..... More

[Baku]: Zaktag, 1926. 50 pp.: ill. + 16 leaves of advertising. 21х23 cm. In original cardboards with constructivist design. Chipped, tears of the spine with some fragments lost, creases of covers, but clean and very good internally. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Extremely rare survival..... More

Tashkent, 1967. 240 pp.: ill. 26x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tear of spine, some pale stains on covers, otherwise very good. A rare issue of the oldest magazine in Central Asia drawing our attention to the abundance of writers who faced censorship difficulties at that time: Bulgakov, Mandelstam..... More

September 1, 1925. 1: 4,200,000 versts. Central Statistical Office of Ukraine. Printrun 11,000. Kharkov: Lit UVO, 1924. 19.5 x 29 cm. Cartographer Y. Litvinz. A small lithographed map of the Ukrainian SSR, made in three colors. In Ukrainian. Crimea is not part of Ukraine, the Western regions are divided between..... More

Moscow: Publishing House of the All-Union Academy of Architecture, 1939. 154, [1] p., 1 p. port., ill.; 30.4 x 22.4 cm. In the publisher's cloth binding, with the paper image of the Rechnoy Vokzal in Moscow on the front cover. This edition is likely to be the most..... More

Ca. 1955. First album titled: “Chanchun’. 1e Oktyabrya” [i.e. Changchun. October 1st]. Oblong Octavo album (ca. 13,3x16,4 cm). 12 paper leaves. With 12 loose original gelatin silver photographs ca. 8,1x12,2 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¾ in). All photos with pencil and typewritten captions (in Russian) on verso and the..... More