Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1940. 314 pp., 6 ill., drafts.: ill., schemes, drafts. In original blue cloth. Very good, occasional foxing. Scarce. First edition. A detailed guide to achieving a high-standard Soviet theatre. This textbook for students of art institutes was written by Nikolay Izvekov with the..... More

Moscow: n.p., 1989. 481 pp.: ill. 20,5x16 cm. In original cardboards. Rubbed and bumped, some ink and pencil marks, otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of 150 copies produced. Very rare. A Soviet typewritten textbook on the basics of system programming, compiled for..... More

Moscow: Co-operative publ. soc. of foreign workers in the USSR, 1932. 32 pp. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Minor stain on outer edge of pages throughout copy, spine slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. First English edition. Scarce. Translated by the schoolteacher and socialist William Wheeldon (1893-1937) from..... More

Moscow: Academy of Science, 1962. 194, [2] pp. 22 cm. Illustrated throughout. Original publisher's binding. Good condition. First edition. Rare. This book sums up the work of Peter Kapitsa (1894-1984) in the field of high-power electronics. Kapitsa and his laboratory dedicated themselves to this topic in 1950s. Kapitsa..... More

Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 16 pp.: ill. 16,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed, tears of the spine, minor fragments of covers lost, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. Design was produced by Feodor Kondratov (1897-1944), graphic and theatrical artist, book illustrator, and member of OST society..... More

Odessa: G. Beylenson i I. Yurovskiy, 1893. 32 pp. 17.7x11.7 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers loose, loss of the pieces of the spine, mild damp stains on the wrappers. Otherwise in a good condition. Scarce. First edition. Translated into Russian by I. Naumenko. This interesting piece features a...... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye izdatel’stvo izobrazitel’nogo iskusstva, 1954. 152 pp., 2 ill.: ill. 29x22,5 cm. With extremely rare dust-wrapper in Chinese. In original publisher’s cloth binding with gilt lettering and ornaments on the front board and the spine. Dust-wrapper with a couple of tears and small holes. Otherwise fine. Scarce. Especially..... More

Ufa: Bashgosizdat, 1942. 112 pp. 14x11 cm. In original printed wrappers. Occasional stains on covers and the outer edge of pages, fragments of covers and spine lost, tears of t.p. and front cover, pencil signature T. Sattarov (?) dated May 8, 1943 and placed to p.3 , otherwise very good..... More

Moscow: Kniga, 1989. 246 pp.: ill. 28x14,5 cm. In publisher's illustrated binding. Fine. This is the first Russian account of 19 Russian futuristic books, particularly litographed editions appeared in 1910s. Those books were experiments of Russian poets and artists like M. Larionov, N. Goncharova, K. Malevich, V. Tatlin, V...... More

Vilnius: Vaga, 1979. [3] pp.+ 16 ills. 40,5x31 cm. In original illustrated folder. Minor horizontal tears of folder on folds, with their edges chipped, some soiling of folder, ink note in brochure, otherwise very good and clean. Third revised edition. Scarce. A series of autozincography works created by notable Lithuanian..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Teakinopechat’, 1930. 112 pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Wrappers detached from the text block. First and only edition. One of 10070 copies. Rare. Illustrations by E.A. Zernova. The edition was sponsored and published by N.K. Krupskaya Central House of Amateur Art in City..... More

Moscow: Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 60, [2] pp.: ill. 19x14,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers restored, pencil marks, pale water stain on the upper inner corner throughout the copy, pale stamp on publisher’s advertising page, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Constructivist cover design..... More

Kharkiv: ONTI, 1935. 60 pp. 18x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original publisher's wrappers. Front wrapper is slightly rubbed. Otherwise a near fine copy, partly uncut. Extremely rare. The first printed book by Nobel laureate Lev Davydovich Landau (1908-1968) best known for his contributions in the field of..... More