![Item #1841 [AFRICANA] Vozvrashchenie moriaka. Roman [i.e. The Sailor’s Return. Novel]. D. Garnett](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1841.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699422365)
Leningrad: Petrograd, [1926]. 120 pp. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine, covers slightly soiled, small tear of outer edge of back cover and pages, otherwise very good. One of 5000 copies produced. Very rare. First Russian edition of “The Sailor’s Return” (1925) by David Garnet. The..... More
![Item #900 [BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION DURING A WAR] Vosstanovleniye mostov [i.e. Bridge...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/900.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576164592)
Moscow, Leningrad: Gostransizdat, 1932. 272pp., 3 schemes: ill. 25.2x17.8cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards. Loose, horizontal crease on the front cardboard, edges are slightly worn. In good condition. Scarce. First edition. Written by the Soviet scientist in the field of building structures, Vladimir Gastev (1891-1974), this is one of..... More
![Item #1521 Organizatsiya uborki urozhaia [i.e. The Organization of the Harvesting]. L. G. Gavrilov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1521.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1663103244)
Moscow: Selkolkhozgiz, 1931. 142 pp. 22,2x14,7 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. The architecture of the book by “Brigade #1 For Mass Book Production”. No copies in Worldcat. The polygraphic masterpiece by the unsung hero of Soviet book constructivism, Elbrus Gutnov (1906–1981), and his “Brigade #1 For..... More
![Item #1126 [RARE PROVINCIAL EDITION] Zheleznyye tsvety. Stikhi [i.e. Iron Flowers. Verses]. M....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608114786)
Samara: Tsentropechat’, 1919. 96 pp. 18x11 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears and foxing of the wrappers, label and written number on the front wrapper, some toning, otherwise good/very good. First edition. Scarce. An extremely rare provincial edition with remarkable avant-garde design by Georgy Ryazhskiy (1895-1952)..... More
![Item #278 [PROPAGANDA OF NURSERIES IN KOLKHOZ] Pochemu neobkhodimy iasli v kolkhozakh [i.e. Why...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/278.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1494861514)
Moscow: Gosmedizdat, 1930. 8 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Very rare. This tiny brochure from the series ‘The Health of Kolkhoznik’ is dedicated to the explanation of the purpose of nurseries and why they are good for the parents. The collectivization of its agricultural..... More
![Item #723 [ARCHITECTURE FOR ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS] Arkhitekturnye formy i kompozitsiya zdaniya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/723.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563912053)
Moscow; Leningrad: Mosk. aktsionernoe izdatel’skoe ob-vo, 1926. 139, [5] pp.: ill. 22x14 cm. In original card boards. Very good, small losses and soiling of the covers, Soviet bookshops’ stamps on the back endpapers. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Volume 6 from the series ‘Encyclopedia..... More
![Item #343 [FONTS FOR MAPS] Al’bom topograficheskikh i khudozhestvennykh shriftov: Metodicheskoe...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/343.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1507834829)
Second edition. [N.p.]: Dinamo, 1947. [2], 16 pp., [2], 80 pl. 20x29 cm. In custom made binding with lettering on the front board (without original card boards). Small tears of the spine, inscription on the front pastedown, otherwise very good. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. The..... More
![Item #1847 [VALENTINA KHODASEVICH] Mal’va. M. Gorky](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1847.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699423044)
Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskogo Soveta Pabochikh i Krasnykh Deputatov, 1919. 68 pp. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of wrappers and spine, some stains occasionally, otherwise very good and mostly clean copy. First thus edition. Rare. An early Gorky’s work that raises the issue of women’s..... More
![Item #802 [CRAFT OF THE THEATRE ARTIST] Tekhnika teatral’noi zhivopisi [i.e. Technique of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/802.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1567053845)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1940. 77, [3] pp.: ill. 17,5x12,5 cm. In original cardboards. Faded, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Richly illustrated with woodcuts by N. Proskuriakov. This manual concentrated advice compiled by an artist of Moscow Art Theatre, Ivan Gremislavsky (1886-1954). Through this theatre, he provided..... More
![Item #965 [PHOTOMONTAGE DESIGN BY SEN’KIN] Pokushenie na Lenina [i.e. The Attempt to...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/965.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582651530)
Moscow: GIZ, 1930. 16 pp. 18,5x13,2 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine condition. First and only edition. Photomontage design of the book by Sergei Sen’kin. Very rare, especially in such condition. The classic example of the photo-book created by one of the pioneers of the Soviet photomontage, Malevich’s..... More
![Item #1451 [SEN’KIN] Rasskazy o smerti Lenina [i.e. Stories about Lenin’s Death]. A. Grinberg](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1451.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660821842)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 16 pp.: ill. 16,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, pre-war stamps of school library, otherwise very good and clean. Second edition. The classic example of the photobook created by one of the pioneers of the Soviet photomontage, Malevich’s student and Klutsis’ right hand..... More
![Item #494 [SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS] Bud'te ostorozhny! [i.e. Be Careful!]. I. G. Grishashvili](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/494.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1533049295)
Tbilisi: Gor. U.P.O. NKVD Gruzinskoi SSR, 1944. 18 pp.: ill. 10x15 cm. Very rare. One of 2000 copies. Lithographed edition. Poems by I. Grishashvili, plot by Z. Pachkoria, illustrations by L. Gilchevskaya. Visual poetic safety regulations for children in Russian (title in Russian and Georgian). Not in the Worldcat. More
![Item #499 [SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/499.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1533142331)
Shanghai: 1930. [6], 317 pp. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A.A. Yaron. Very good/near ne condition. The spine is very carefully fixed. Extremely rare. First and only edition. Lev Grosse (1906-1950), writer and son of Viktor Grosse (1869-1931), Russian diplomat, one of the active members of the..... More
![Item #1469 [TREBLINKA CAMP] Treblinker genem = Treblinskii ad [i.e. The Treblinka Hell]. V. Grossman](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1469.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660907923)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1945. 88 pp.: ill. 14x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of spine and blank leaves lost, some tears, creases and soiling, otherwise very good. First separate edition. One of 15 000 copies. Translated to Yiddish by B. Kotik. One of the earliest Soviet..... More
![Item #1440 [THE MAIN BIOGRAPHER OF GORKY] Maksim Gor’kii : Biograficheskii ocherk : (Po novym...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1440.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660818709)
Leningrad: Kubuch, 1925. 79 pp. 23x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. No spine, covers almost detached, water stain on the upper inner corner. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Rare. Cover design features a small industrial composition dedicated to a proletarian writer Maxim Gorky. This is the..... More
![Item #187 [THE FIFTH COLUMN IN RUSSIAN] Pyataya kolonna i pervye tridtsat’ vosem’ rasskazov /...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/187.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660926253)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. Near fine. This is the first edition of the play The Fifth Column and anthology of the writings by Ernest Hemingway (first published in 1938). The original edition was of forty-nine stories which was also the title. A few..... More
![Item #155 [RUSSIAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA] Starik i more [i.e. The Old Man and the Sea]. E....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/155.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660926089)
Kiev: Goslitizdat Ukrainy, 1956. 74 pp. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Soilings and rubbings of the wrappers, owner's markings. First edition printed in Ukraine (it is in Russian). Printed the same year as the first Russian separate edition (Moscow, 1956). “In 1955, after a period of..... More
![Item #162 [HISTORY OF SOCIALISM] Istoriya sotsializma v Soedinyonnykh Shtatakh / Per. s 4 amer....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/162.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1475159269)
St. Petersburg: Tip. t-va ''Obshchestvennaya pol'za'', 1907. X, [2], 275 pp. 23x16 cm. Original wrappers. Uncut copy. Very good. Few tears of the spine, lacking small piece from the top of the spine. First Russian edition. Morris Hillquit (1869–1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party..... More
![Item #740 [ABC OF TECHNICAL DRAWING] Chertezhnik-illiustrator. Kak illiustrirovat’...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/740.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563917337)
Kharkiv: Ukr. nauchnoie izdatel’stvo, 1928. 42 pp.: ill., 1 ill. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, tears of the spine, small fragments of covers lost. One of 5000 copies. Rare. This is an early Soviet manual on the technical drawing that was issued in the..... More
![Item #141 [SOVIET SATIRE ARTISTS] Desyat' ocherkov o khudozhnikakh-satirikakh [i.e. Ten Essays on...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1474966294)
Moscow: Sovetsky khudozhnik, 1971. 296 pp.: ill., 10 ill. 22x17,5 cm. Original cloth binding with colored stamping on the front board and on the spine. Boards rubbed. Otherwise a very good to near fine condition. Illustrated throughout with a lot of black and white and colored illustrations. The..... More
![Item #896 [HOW TO DESIGN A BOOK] Osnovy oformleniya sovetskoy knigi [i.e. Basics of the Soviet...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/896.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576162819)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1956. 502 pp., 3 tables: ill. 26.6x18.1cm. In original publisher’s cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. Dust-wrapper. Fine. First edition. Scarce. One of the most comprehensive Soviet editions to meticulously analyze and interpret peculiarities of book design and technical editing. Written by a...... More
![Item #731 [ART & LEISURE] I. Iskusstvo i otdykh; II. O rezhime ekonomii v khudozhestvennom trude...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/731.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563914137)
Moscow: Proletkul’t, 1927. 63, [1] pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated constructivist styled wrappers. Very good, some pages uncut. Small tears of the spine, some slight erosion of the staples, stamp on non-existent library on t.p., stamp “For review” on t.p. First and only edition. One of 1500 copies..... More
![Item #1669 [HOW TO MOVE HOUSES] Kak peredvigayut doma [i.e. How to Move Houses]. I. Ivanov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1669.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679423935)
Moscow; Leningrad: Giz, 1949. 65, [3] pp.: ill. 13x19.8 cm. In original printed wrappers with a pictorial vignette. Minor wear, otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 4,000 copies. AN INTERESTING MANUAL ON HOW TO MOVE BUILDINGS WRITTEN BY IVAN IVANOV A FEW YEARS FOLLOWING THE END OF..... More
![Item #842 [LISSITZKY] Vladimir Mayakovsky: (“Misteriia” ili “Buff”) [i.e. Vladimir...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/842.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1569969212)
Berlin: Skify, 1922. 56 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with letterpress design. Restored spine, copy faded, otherwise very good. First separate edition. A stunning letterpress design on the front cover was created by El Lissitzky in Berlin period. The crossword motif appeared on several book..... More
![Item #21 [FIRST ILLUSTRATED RUSSIAN EDITION OF THREE MEN IN THE BOAT] Troye v lodke. (Ne schitaya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446527309)
St. Petersburg; Moscow: M.O. Volf, [1907]. [4], IV, VI, 296 pp., 1 front., 19 ill. 8vo. Original red cloth gold and black stamped binding, decorated endpapers in black and gold. Restorations to the spine, covers rubbed, some spots and light wear of the pages. This edition with 20 plates..... More