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FIRST NORTHERN AIR EXPEDITIONS] Puti Severa. (Severnyye vozdushnyye ekspeditsii 1927 i 1928 gg....

[FIRST NORTHERN AIR EXPEDITIONS] Puti Severa. (Severnyye vozdushnyye ekspeditsii 1927 i 1928 gg. Ostrov Vrangelya i pervyy Leninskiy reys) [i.e. Ways of the North. (Northern Air Expeditions of 1927 and 1928. Wrangel Island and the First Lena Flight)]

Krasinsky, G.

Moscow: Izd-vo Osoaviakhim, 1929. 160 pp.: ill. 21,8x15,4 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Open tears to the spine, slight wear, several pages loose. Otherwise in a very good condition. First edition. Scarce. Black-and-white illustrations in text. THIS RARE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OFFERS A VIVID INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST AIR..... More

Price: $550.00

COSTUME DESIGN GUIDE FOR CLUBS] Kostium na stsene: Rukovodstvo dlia dramkruzhkov [i.e. Costume...

[COSTUME DESIGN GUIDE FOR CLUBS] Kostium na stsene: Rukovodstvo dlia dramkruzhkov [i.e. Costume on the Stage: Guide for Drama Clubs]

Krestovskaya, M.A.

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

Price: $950.00

ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH – LIFETIME EDITION] Golodnyak: [Stikhi] [i.e. Hunger: [Verses]]. A....

[ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH – LIFETIME EDITION] Golodnyak: [Stikhi] [i.e. Hunger: [Verses]]

Kruchyonykh, A.

Moscow: Tip. TSIT, 1922. [24] pp. 12,8x17,7 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Fine. Rare especially in such pristine condition. First edition. One of 1000 copies. AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF ZAUM VERSES BY THE WELL-KNOWN RUSSIAN FUTURIST ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH (1886-1968). The author went down in the..... More

FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric. May-June of...

[FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric. May-June of 1930].

Kruchyonykh, A.

Moscow: 1930. 19 pp., ill. 21,5х18 сm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, two small closed tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. One of 250 copies. Very rare. Published by the author. Cover design by I. Kliun. Illustrations by I. Terentyev. This is one of the last..... More

Price: $4,000.00

MAGNIFICENT KLUTSIS-KULAGINA DUO] Iazyk Lenina: Odinnadtsat’ priemov Leninskoi rechi [i.e....

[MAGNIFICENT KLUTSIS-KULAGINA DUO] Iazyk Lenina: Odinnadtsat’ priemov Leninskoi rechi [i.e. Lenin’s Language: Eleven Devices of Lenin’s Speech]

Kruchyonykh, A.

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

MUTEFERRIKA - PERSIA] Târîh-i seyyâh der beyân-i zuhûr-i Afgânîyan ve sebeb-i inhidâm-i...

[MUTEFERRIKA - PERSIA] Târîh-i seyyâh der beyân-i zuhûr-i Afgânîyan ve sebeb-i inhidâm-i binâ-i devlet-i Sâhân-i Safevîyân [i.e. The History of the Afghan Wars in Persia and the Reasons of the Fall of the Safavid Empire]

Krusinski, Jan Tadeusz

Istanbul: Typ. Of Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1729. [7], 97 leaves (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 20,5x14,5 cm. Black stamps on the first and the last leaves, short manuscript notes in Ottoman Turkish on leaves 1, 7 and 8. 19th century dark brown quarter sheep with black pebbled paper boards. Binding slightly..... More

Price: $12,500.00

CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel...

[CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel Album]

Kubota, Beisen

Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890. 2 vols. 16x23 cm (oblong large octavo). Vol. 1: t.p., 28 leaves, with 16 double-page and 17 singlepage woodblock illustrations in text.; Vol. 2: 28 leaves, with 19 doublepage and 13 single-page woodblock illustrations in text. Text and illustrations within single border. Original Japanese fukuro toji..... More

Price: $3,500.00

SOVIET THEATRE] Profili teatra [i.e. Profiles of the Theatre]. A. Kugel

[SOVIET THEATRE] Profili teatra [i.e. Profiles of the Theatre]

Kugel, A.

Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1929. 274 pp. 18x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, covers chipped, front cover with spine detached from the text block, back cover glued to text block by paper band. Otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies..... More

Price: $950.00

ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi knige 1932 g....

[ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi knige 1932 g. Instruktsiia po illiustrirovaniiu uchebnikov [i.e. Illustrating Educational Books. Illustration in the 1932 Educational Books. A Manual on Textbook Illustration]

Kuzminskii, K

Moscow: NII Ogiza, 1933. 86, [26] pp.: ill.; 17x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine glued by tape, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. This is the first manual on how the model Soviet textbooks had to be designed, constructed and produced. After..... More

Price: $450.00

FIRST BOOK BY LANDAU] Elektroprovodimost’ metallov [i.e. The Metal Conductivity]. L....

[FIRST BOOK BY LANDAU] Elektroprovodimost’ metallov [i.e. The Metal Conductivity]

Landau, L. Kompaneets, A.

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

Price: $1,300.00

FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot...

[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]

[Lange, Lorenz]

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1781. Parts 7 & 8 bound together. 942 pp. 20,5x12 cm. With one folding copper engraved plan and three folding copper engraved plates, bound without one copper engraved plate (a blueprint of a handmill). Contemporary Russian full leather with green title label on the..... More

Price: $5,250.00

FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT LINCOLN] Avraam Linkol'n i velikaya bor'ba mezhdu Severnymi i...

[FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT LINCOLN] Avraam Linkol'n i velikaya bor'ba mezhdu Severnymi i Yuzhnymi amerikanskimi shtatami v prodolzheniye 1861-1865 godov. Per. s nem. [i.e. Abraham Lincoln and The Great Struggle between the North and South during 1861-1865. Translated from German].

Lange, M.

St. Petersburg: tip. Kukol'-Yasnopol'skogo, 1867. [2], 474, IV pp., 1 port. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding with gilt-lettering and decoration on the spine, decorations on boards in blind. Very good. Rubbed, few spots and owner's ink stamp on the title-page. First edition. The book is translated from German the year..... More

Price: $1,500.00

SOVIET CRITICS OF USA IN 1930] Sovremennaya Amerika [i.e. Modern America]. A. G. Lebedenko, A.,...

[SOVIET CRITICS OF USA IN 1930] Sovremennaya Amerika [i.e. Modern America]

Lebedenko, A.G., Rashkovskaya, A.

Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1929. 100 pp.: ill. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restoration of the spine, previous owner's ink stamp on the title page, margin of p.65 is cut off (the text is not affected). Cover design by Georgy Fitingof (1905-1975), Soviet artist and illustrator well known..... More

Price: $750.00

ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA] Bezbozhniki [i.e. Godless People]. I. Lebedev

[ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA] Bezbozhniki [i.e. Godless People]

Lebedev, I.

Moscow: Komissiia po uluchsheniiu zhizni detei pri VTsIK i koop. izdatel’stva “Zhizn' i znanie”, 1924. 48 pp. 17,5x13 cm. In original wrappers with decorated frame. Tear of the spine along the staple, some stains. First edition. One of 10 000 copies. Extremely rare. Signed by the author on..... More

Price: $350.00
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AVANT-GARDE CINEMA] Chelovek i kino: Estetiko-sotsiologicheskii etiud [i.e. Mankind and...

[AVANT-GARDE CINEMA] Chelovek i kino: Estetiko-sotsiologicheskii etiud [i.e. Mankind and Cinematography: An Aesthetic and Sociological Study]

Levidov, M.

Moscow: Kino-izdatelstvo RSFSR Kinopechat, 1927. 112 pp. 13,5 x 17,5 cm. Original illustrated photomontage wrappers. Tiny tears of the spine, Georgian stamp on the title page ‘From books of Nico Mitsishvili’. Otherwise very good. Very rare. First and only edition. One of 3500 copies. The constructivist edition by Mikhail..... More

Mark Tven. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel russkikh perevodov i kriticheskoi literatury na russkom...

Mark Tven. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel russkikh perevodov i kriticheskoi literatury na russkom yazyke. 1867-1972 [i.e. Mark Twain. Bibliography of Russian Translations and Critical Literature in Russian, 1867-1972]

Levidova, I.M.

Moscow: Kniga, 1974. 175 pp.: ill., 1 port. 22x13 cm. In original publisher's cloth. The first bibliography of Mark Twain's works in Russian. The book consists of two sections: translations into Russian and literature about Twain in Russian. Every section is divided by subjects, translations – by kind..... More

Price: $190.00

TREATING HYSTERIA] Gipnoanaliz infantil'nykh travm u isterikov [i.e. Hypnoanalysis of Infantile...

[TREATING HYSTERIA] Gipnoanaliz infantil'nykh travm u isterikov [i.e. Hypnoanalysis of Infantile Trauma of Hysteria Patients]

Lifshits, S.

Tver: Izdanie avtora, 1927. 79 pp.: charts, tables. 22x16,5 cm. In modern wrappers. Very good, pale water stains on the lower margins, erased signature on t.p., some soiling. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare regional imprint with no copies located in Worldcat. The publication..... More

Price: $550.00
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Mamatsi mgzavrebi [i.e. Brave Passengers]. Stepan Lisiciani

Mamatsi mgzavrebi [i.e. Brave Passengers]

Lisiciani, Stepan

Tbilisi: Progress, 1907. [12] pp. 26x18 cm. Lithographed illustrated wrappers by unknown Armenian artist as well as plates and illustrations in text. Near fine. Minor stains on the wrapper. Very rare. The first edition of this Armenian folktale. Stepan Lisiciani (1865-1947) who adapted it for this book was..... More

Price: $950.00

LOBACHEVSKY IN FRENCH] Nouveaux principes de la géométrie avec une théorie complète des...

[LOBACHEVSKY IN FRENCH] Nouveaux principes de la géométrie avec une théorie complète des parallèles [i.e. New Principles of Geometry with a Complete Theory of Parallels]

Lobachevsky, N.

Bruxelles: Hayez, 1901. 132 pp., 9 plates. 23.5x16.1 cm. Contemporary owner’s half-leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Near fine. Minor tear at the hinge of the spine. Ex Libris on the verso of the front board Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927), a Swedish mathematician and a member of the Nobel..... More

Price: $5,500.00

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE GROUPS] Khudozhestvennye gruppirovki za poslednie 25 let [i.e. Art...

[HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE GROUPS] Khudozhestvennye gruppirovki za poslednie 25 let [i.e. Art Groups for the Last Twenty-Five Years]

Lobanov, V. M.

Moscow: Khud. izd. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 148 pp. 19x13 cm. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. Viktor Lobanov (1885-1970), art critic and writer. He often wrote articles in the periodicals about artists, exhibitions, articles for catalogs of art..... More

Price: $750.00

LIBRARY CATALOGUING] Bibliotechnyi pocherk [i.e. The Library Handwriting]. N. Lomkovskii

[LIBRARY CATALOGUING] Bibliotechnyi pocherk [i.e. The Library Handwriting]

Lomkovskii, N.

Moscow: Doloi negramotnost’, 1927. 28, [4] pp. In original constructivist style wrappers. Front cover detached, minor defect of p.9 (not affected the text), previous owner’s stamp on t.p., otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 8070 copies. Very rare. A nice and early Soviet brochure..... More

Price: $500.00

LOMONOSOV’S EPIC POEM ABOUT PETER THE GREAT] Piotr Velikiy [i.e. Peter the Great]. M. V. Lomonosov

[LOMONOSOV’S EPIC POEM ABOUT PETER THE GREAT] Piotr Velikiy [i.e. Peter the Great]

Lomonosov, M.V.

St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1760. [4], 44 pp. 24x19 cm. Period styled full leather, some pages are restored (not affecting the text itself), the last page has some stains. 1 of 600 copies printed. Extremely rare first edition of Lomonosov’s epic poem about Peter the Great. Complete with..... More

Price: $8,000.00

ARCTIC: NORTHEAST PASSAGE] Proekt Lomonosova i ekspeditsiya Chichagova; [and:] Kratkoe opisanie...

[ARCTIC: NORTHEAST PASSAGE] Proekt Lomonosova i ekspeditsiya Chichagova; [and:] Kratkoe opisanie raznikh puteshestvii po severnim moryam… [i.e. Lomonosov’s Project and Chichagov’s Expedition; with: A Brief Description of Various Voyages in the Northern Seas and Indication of a Possible Passage via the Siberian Ocean to the East Indies/ Published by the Hydrographical Department of the Naval Ministry]

[Lomonosov, M.V.]

St. Petersburg: Morskaya Typ. 1854. Second enlarged edition. [4], c, 150 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with marbled papered boards, new endpapers. Papers lightly age toned, barely visible water stain on several leaves at end of text, but overall a very good copy of this rare book... More

Price: $4,500.00

WOMAN WALKS] Zhenshchina idet / Per. s nemetskogo M.S. Zhivova [i.e. A Woman Walks / Translated...

[WOMAN WALKS] Zhenshchina idet / Per. s nemetskogo M.S. Zhivova [i.e. A Woman Walks / Translated from German by M.S. Zhivov]

Lorbeer, G., Kleber, K.

Moscow: Izd-vo MOPR SSSR, 1929. 30, [2] pp. 17x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers designed by V. Dobrovol’sky. Fine, uncut. Soviet bookshop’s stamp and small pen mark on the rear wrapper. Titled ‘‘A Woman Walks’’ this book with a fierce woman on the cover includes two short stories about..... More

Price: $700.00

AUSTRALIAN METHOD] Samouchitel sportivnogo plavaniya. Avstraliyskiy sposob [i.e. The tutorial on...

[AUSTRALIAN METHOD] Samouchitel sportivnogo plavaniya. Avstraliyskiy sposob [i.e. The tutorial on the sport swimming. The Australian method]

Lt. Pokrovsky

Pskov: printed by the author, 1913. 18 p., 7 full-page ills. Original illustrated wrapper. Block is slightly bent and the wrappers are soiled, otherwise good. This curious self-published regional brochure is dedicated largely to the Australian crawl stroke. First recorded in Australia in 1870s, this is probably the..... More

Price: $850.00

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