Petrograd: Komitet skul’pturiv Sorabis, 1922. 10 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrates wrappers. Lithographed edition. Written and drawn by G.P. Liubarsky. Fine. Very rare. One of 500 copies. This is a catalogue of the exhibition which was held in autumn of 1922 and it had a numbered list..... More
![Item #2703 [16th CENTURY] Tetraevangelie [i.e. Altar Tetra Gospel]. Manuscript](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2703.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776286680)
[Ukraine, Great Duchy of Lithuania], ca. 1540-1550s. 335 leaves. 34x22 cm. Cloth over recent wooden boards, recent clasps. The codex was rebound in XXth. century, using the old cloth. New endpapers. Gospel is complete, except for 3 leaves in second quire, re-written in XXth century in the style of the..... More
![Item #2819 [AFGHANISTAN] My – internatsionaisty [i.e. We Are the Internationalists](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2819.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785136932)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo ‘Plakat’; Tula: Kommunar, 1987. [24] leaves. 29,5x21 cm. Original paper folder containing 24 full-page color posters. Small tears to the folder, otherwise in very good condition. First and only edition. Rare example of Soviet propaganda of the last full-scale conflict, fought by the Soviet Army. The..... More
![Item #2779 [AFTER WORLD WAR II] Album of projects for mass grave monuments](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2779.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781705700)
[Leningrad, late 1940s]. 38 prints on photo paper. Album: 23,5x31 cm, photos 17х10 and 17х23 cm. Slightly rubbed, otherwise good. The album features designs for individual grave monuments, cemetery compositions, and mass graves presented in 1945 to commemorate the memory of fallen Red Army soldiers and officers. During..... More
![Item #780 [AFTERMATH OF STALINISM] O preodolenii kul'ta lichnosti i ego posledstvii [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/780.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563928424)
Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1956. 32 pp. 20,5x13 cm. In original wrappers. In very good condition. First edition. This is the most significant resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union related to Khrushchev’s Secret Speech. This book was published in four months after the..... More
![Item #1656 [AN ALBUM OF THE STATE EMBLEMS OF THE UNION REPUBLICS] Gosudarstvennyy gerb SSSR....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1656.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676900771)
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
![Item #2809 [AN AMERICAN EXHIBITION IN THE USSR] Promyshlennaia estetika SSHA [i.e. Industrial...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2809.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1782112294)
[Moscow, 1967]. 64 pp.: ill. 28x21 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. No title page, as issued. This catalog represents an exhibition designed by George Nelson and Company for showing in the Soviet Union, beginning in Moscow in February 1967. The exhibition was commissioned by the United States..... More
![Item #1629 [AN ANTI-SOVIET MAGAZINE FOR THE RUSSIANS LIVING IN GERMANY] Novaya zhizn’ [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1629.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676894780)
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
She served in the 21st army, worked as a teacher of tactics at the Ulyanovsk Tank School and worked in the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army called after Stalin. She participated in military actions during World War II and wrote a handbook ‘Tanks in Ambush’..... More
![Item #2201 [ARMENIAN WWII COUNTER-PROPAGANDA] Gebelsi histerik koch’ery [i.e. Goebbels'...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2201.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730210022)
[Armenia, 1940s]. Gouache, pencil. 44x31 cm. Very good condition, mild foxing at the bottom. The poster design by the unmentioned Armenian designer. The poster, which is titled ‘Stone fountain’ at the left upper corner of the sheet, shows the caricature of the minister of public..... More
![Item #1014 [ART OF THE PEOPLE] Iskusstvo narodov SSSR: Sbornik statei i materialov / GAKhN [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1014.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595852053)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 160 pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Minor losses and tear of the spine, signature on t.p. otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. This is a collection of articles dedicated to the renaissance of national arts of..... More
![Item #1687 [ARTIST OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST GENERATION] Sovetskie rebiata v tvorchestve...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1687.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681401583)
Leningrad: Izogiz, 1938. [8] pp., 24 ills. 34,5x26 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Covers bumped and slightly soiled, some small stains, stamps and ink numbers of Soviet club on t.p. and leaf [4]. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. The title page is illustrated..... More
![Item #1859 [ART] Osnovy iskusstva. Pererabotka myslei Vadima Lesovogo (Filosofskie etiudy v...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1859.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699424315)
[Yaroslavl]: Izdanie P.A. Lebedinskago: Tipo-litografiia E. F. Vakhrameeva, 1918. [4], 32 pp.: ill. 27x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers slightly soiled, minor fragments of spine lost, some foxing on front cover, pale water stains on outer edge, some ink numbers, on p. [1], [3], 9 stamps of a cultural..... More
![Item #2551 [ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS OF REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA] Vos'maya vystavka kartin i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2551.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758716971)
Moscow: Izd-vo Assots. khud. rev. Rossii (AKHRR), 1926. 82, 77, [3] pp.: 92 ill. 22,8x15,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers rubbed, loss of the fragments of the spine, previous owner’s pencil inscription on the title page, but otherwise internally clean. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 1,500 copies..... More
![Item #657 [AVANT-GARDE CIRCUS] Tsirk i estrada [i.e. The Circus and Stage](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/657.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1558558576)
#1, 3, 5 for 1926; #20 for 1927; #5, 7, 16 for 1928. Overall 7 issues. Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1926-1928. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine (#3, 16, 20), Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover (#3, both #5), a few spots. Very..... More
![Item #2064 [BANNED BULGAKOV IN THE HEART OF SOVIET ASIA] Zvezda Vostoka : Organ Soiuza Pisatelei...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2064.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718633222)
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
![Item #2721 [BASHKIR INDUSTRIALIZATION] 15 let sovetskoi Bashkirii. Sbornik statei [i.e. 15 Years...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2721.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776345130)
Ufa: Izd. Pravitel’stva Bashkirskoi ASSR, 1934. XIX, 283, [2] pp.: ill., 2 maps. 26,5x18 cm. In original cloth with blind design and original dust jacket with letterpress design and Soviet coat of arms. Tears and soiling of dust jacket. Stamps of a Kazan hunting station on dust jacket, front flyleaf..... More
![Item #1741 [THE BEGINNING OF SOVIET UKRAINE] Mapa Ukraïnsʹkoï Sotsiyalistychnoï Radyansʹkoï...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1741.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688582698)
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
![Item #1816 [BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LENIN] Lenin i o Lenine. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ sochinenii...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1816.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695162424)
Leningrad: Lengiz, 1925. 112 pp.: ill. 15x11,5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Tears of spine, underlines and some soiling occasionally, some sections detached from each, otherwise very good. A remarkable cover features constructivist letterpress design and a photomontage composition of Singer House in Petrograd and Lenin’s monument. After nationalization..... More
![Item #2661 [BILIBIN] Skazki. Vasilisa Prekrasnaya [i.e. Fairy Tales. Vasilisa the Beautiful] /...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2661.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773873219)
St. Petersburg: Izdaniye Ekspeditsii zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1902. 12 pp., ill. 33 × 25 cm. In the publisher’s chromolithographed cover. Scuffs and slight soiling, traces of creases and loss of small fragments of the spine. The block is mostly clean. Back wrapper with a loss of a piece, not affecting..... More
![Item #2062 [BULGAKOV’S SEANCE] Rupor : Literatura, teatr, iskusstvo, kul’tura, ekonomika...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2062.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718632786)
Moscow: Izd. G.N. Sementsova, 1922. No.1 – 23 pp. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from each other, back cover chipped, small corner of p.1-2 lost (text slightly affected), pages partly detached, few small ink spots. Otherwise good. No.3 – 16 pp. 31x23,5 cm. In original..... More
![Item #2656 [BUSINESS IN MOSCOW, 1990S] Vsya Moskva. Informaciono-reklamniy ezhegodnik [i.e. All...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2656.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773871962)
Moscow: Vsya Moskva, 1994. 353 p.: ill., maps. 21 × 13,7 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Overall in good condition. Designed by E. Klodt. ‘Vsya Moskva’ was a reference book that existed in this format in 1989—1994. The idea behind it was to revise the tradition of the same..... More
![Item #1822 [CATALOG OF 1920s GIZ] Katalog detskikh knig [i.e. Catalog of Children’s Books](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1822.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695166102)
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. 62 pp.: ill.+4 pp. of ads. 17,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Cover design features a two-color woodcut illustration and letterpress design. An artist’s monogram is unclear and is dated 1920. This trade catalog lists children’s books on sale in the early Soviet period..... More
![Item #2297 [CATALOG OF THE ALL-UNION ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE] Katalog izdaniy [i.e. Catalog of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2297.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739355312)
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Vsesoyuznoy Akademii Arkhitektury, 1938. 24 pp. 12.6x16.5 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Light wear to the wrappers, previous owner’s markings throughout the copy. Otherwise in a good condition. Scarce. First edition. Edited by V. Geller. A catalog of books printed by the All-union Academy of..... More
![Item #1638 [CELEBRATING THE END OF THE DEADLIEST BATTLE IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE] A panorama of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1638.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676897095)
The panorama consists of 3 numbered photographs; apparently, the fourth one (numbered #1) is missing. The size of each photograph: 18x24 cm. Each photo with the Russian caption on the back side: ‘4/II 1943. A Rally in Stalingrad. Photo by Gr. Ostrovsky. Photo № (corresponding number)’. Near fine. The rally..... More