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[BOOKS OF RUSSIAN CUBO-FUTURISM] Knigi russkogo kubofuturizma. S prilozheniem kataloga futuristicheskikh izdaniy [i.e. Books of Russian Cubo-Futurism. With Catalog of Futuristic Editions]

Polyakov, V.V.

2nd ed., revised. Moscow: Gileya, 2007. 550 pp., 32 ill., facs., port. 21x13 cm. In original illustrated binding. Fine. The subject of this book is Russian futuristic book, the art of the beginning of the 20th century which united creative minds of different members of Russian avant-garde – poets...

Price: $150.00

[FEMALE RUSSIAN WRITERS] Nashi pisatel’nitsy: (‘‘Bibliographichesky slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits knyazya N.N. Golitsyna. SPb. 1889. VI i 308’’: Statiya S.I. Ponomareva) [i.e. Our Female Writers: (‘‘Biographical Index of Russian Female Writers by Count N.N. Golitsyn. SPb. 1889. VI and 308’’: Article by S.I. Ponomarev]

Ponomarev, S.I.

St. Petersburg: typ. Akademii Nauk, 1891. [2], 78 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. Without wrappers. Very good, occasional foxing, with later spine and back cover. Very rare. Offprint from Sbornik otdeleniya russkogo yazyka i slovesnosti Akademii nauk (V. 52, #7) [i.e. Digest of the Department of Russian Language of Academy of...

Price: $700.00

[RUSSIAN INVENTOR OF THE RADIO] Pribor dlya obnaruzheniya i registrirovaniya elektricheskikh kolebanii [i.e. An Apparatus For Detecting and Recording Electrical Oscillations] // Zhurnal russkogo fizikokhimicheskogo obschestva [i.e. The Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society] / Vol. XXVIII. Part 1-2. Pp. 1-14.

Popov, A.S.

St. Petersburg: V. Demakov, 1896. Contemporary half leather with gilt lettering on the spine and marbled boards. Tears of the spine’s and corners’ leather. Otherwise a very good clean copy. First publication. Very rare. In Russian tradition, Alexander Popov (1859-1909) is considered the inventor of the radio and...

Price: $8,500.00

[HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SPEECH FOR CLUB THEATRE] Rechevoi trenazh v klube: Osnovy proiznositel’noi tekhniki [i.e. Speech Training at a Club: Basics of Pronouncing Technics]

Prianishnikov, A.V.

Moscow: Teakinopechat, 1930. 120, [2] pp.: ill. 23x16 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good. Signed by the author on the t.p. (‘To Kolya Travin, an old friend, master of a sharp word on stage. Author. 20/ VIII-1930’). Some rubbings, numbers on the front cover and t.p. (ink), occasional markings...

Price: $1,200.00

[PUDOVKIN’S FAMOUS EDITING TECHNIQUES] Kinostsenarii: Teoriya stsenariya [i.e. Film Script: The Theory of a Script]

Pudovkin, V.I.

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 64 pp. 15x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rear wrapper is detached and the front wrapper is almost detached from the text block, low margin of p.19 is cut off. Otherwise very good. The first book by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953), a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter...

Price: $1,200.00

[GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]

[Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881. [With]: Pyasetsky, P.Y. Neudachnaya ekspeditsiya v Kitai 1874-1875 gg. V otvet na xashchitu g. Sosnovskogo po povodu knigi ‘‘Puteshestvie v Kitai’’ [i.e. Unsuccessful expedition to China. In Reply to the Defense of Mr. Sosnovsky about the book ‘‘Travel across China’’]. Three volumes.....

Price: $5,250.00

[RUSSIA - NORTH CAUCASUS] [Collection of Eighteen Original Albumen Photographs of Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk, Zheleznovodsk, and the Georgian Military Road from the Series “Views of the Caucasus”]

Rayev, Grigory Ivanovich (1863-1957)

Ca. 1900. Eighteen albumen prints mounted on the official photographer’s card leaves with printed name and credentials on the lower margins, images ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in), mounts ca. 21x27 cm (8 ¼ x 10 ½ in). All but two images captioned and numbered in negative. Several...

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Soyuz-Apollon [i.e. Apollo-Soyuz]

[Rebrov, M., Gilberg, L.]

Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1975. [1], 72 pp., [12] plates. 21,5x17 cm. Near fine. Association copy: signed on the title page by four Soviet cosmonauts: Anatoly Filipchenko (from the backup crew of Apollo–Soyuz, 2 spaceflights) , Vasily Lazarev (2 spaceflights), Vitaly Sevastyanov (2 spaceflights), Alexei Gubarev (2 spaceflights). The book comes...

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[REED'S THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE] Vdol' fronta / Per. s angl. I.V. Sablina i V.F. Korsha [i.e. The War in Eastern Europe / Transl. from English I.V. Sablin i V.F. Korsh]

Reed, J.

Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika, 1928. 324, [2] pp. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Small tears of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back cover. 1 of 6000 copies. First translation. Cover design by P. Miturich. Pyotr Vasilievich Miturich (1887-1956), Russian artist. In 1910-1920...

Price: $1,300.00

[WRANGEL ISLAND] Na "Litke" k ostrovu Vrangelya. Zapiski uchastnika spasatel'noi ekspiditsii [i.e. On 'Litke' to Wrangel Island. Memoirs of the member of the rescue team]

Rikhter, Z.V.

Moscow: OGIZ, 1931. 86 [2] pp.: ill.17,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the wrappers and spine, damp stain on the lower margin of several pages. Otherwise good. With 13 photographs in the text. In 1926 expedition leaded by G.A. Ushakov came to Wrangel island. They...

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[RODCHENKO DIARIES] Opyty dlya budushchego: Dnevniki. Statyi. Pis'ma. Zapiski [i.e. Experiments for the Future. Diaries. Articles. Letters. Notes]

[Rodchenko, A.M.]

Moscow: Grant, 1996. 415 pp.: ill., port. 21x14 cm. In original publisher's binding. Fine. This book contains all diaries, programs, essays and major articles written by famous Russian artist and photographer Alexander Rodchenko in 1911-1956. Autobiographical notes, diaries accompanied by his photographs and images of his work. But the...

Price: $200.00

[USE OF AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR RUSSIANS] Zaboty o prosveshchenii v Soedinyennykh Shtatakh [i.e. Education in the United States of America]

Russell, W.F.

New York: New Section of Foreign Language Information Service of American National Red Cross, 1920. 110 pp. 8vo. In original publisher's wrappers. Few tears and losses of the spine, owner's label on the front cover, light soiling of the wrappers. First edition. Text in Russian. Added title page, foreword, table...

Price: $350.00

[APPEARANCE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN ALPHABET] Novoye russkoye pravopisaniye [i.e. New Russian Orthography]

Sakulin, P.N.

Moscow: Tip. tov-va I.D. Sytina, 1917. 16 pp. In original printed wrappers. Covers rubbed with small tears of the spine. Piece of a contemporary newspaper with new alphabet glued to the front cover. Owner's pencil markings in the text. First book on a new Russian orthography with rules of...

Price: $3,500.00

[FIRST GEORGIAN SALINGER] Tamashi chvavis kanashi, Cheri asciet durglebo, Banana tevzis amindi, Dzghvnad esmes, Konetikuteli kuti dzia, Chemi mcvane tvalebi da lamazi tuchebi, Sevdiani simghera. [i.e. The Catcher in the Rye, Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, For Esme—with Love and Squander, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, Blue Melody] / translated from English by Vakhtang Chelidze

Salinger, J. D.

Tbilisi: Nakdauli, 1969. 373, [2] pp. ill., 8vo. Original cloth in good condition. No dust-jacket was printed. Several illustrations by T.Mirzashvili. The second edition of the first translation into Georgian of this collection of Salinger’s stories. First printed in 1963 (earlier than the first Russian book edition) by...

Price: $200.00

[FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE IN RUSSIAN] Nad propastyu vo rzhi [i.e. The Catcher in the Rye] // Inostrannaya literatura. No11, 1960.

Salinger, J.D.

Translated by R. Wright-Kovaleva. The full text of the novel is extracted from the November issue of Inostrannaya literatura (Foreign Literature) and bound together with other Western novels from the same periodical including W. Faulkner’s The Mansion, Jay Deiss’ Great infidel , Erskine Coldwell’s Jenny (all unfinished). In owner’s 1960s.....

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[SALINGER PORTRAIT IN RUSSIAN EDITION] Nad propastyu vo rzhi. Vyshe stropila, plotniki. Horosho lovitsya rybka-bananka. Chelovek, kotoriy smeetsia. Goluboy period de Somye-Smita. Lyapa-rastyapa. [i.e. The Catcher in the Rye. Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters. A Perfect Day for Bananafish. The Laughing Man. De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period. / translated from English by R. Wright-Kovaleva

Salinger, J.D.

Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1965. 254, [2] pp., 1 portrait. The original illustrated cardboards. The boards are rubbed. The first edition in Russian of The Catcher in the Rye which had first appeared in serial form in Inostrannaya Literatura five years earlier. As a devotee to the Kashkin school of...

Price: $400.00

[THE FATHER OF RUSSIAN PHYSIOLOGY] Refleksy golovnogo mozga [i.e. Reflexes of the Brain].

Sechenov, I.

St. Petersburg: A. Golovachov, 1866. [4], II, 186 pp. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding. The name of the author and the book title as well as owner’s initials in gilt on the spine. Owner’s private stamp on the title. Some side foxing on the first seven pages of the text and.....

Price: $3,600.00

[SECHENOV ON NERVOUS SYSTEM] Fiziologiya nervnoy sistemy [i.e. Physiology of the nervous system]

Sechenov, I.

St. Petersburg: A. Golovachyov, 1866. [2], vi, [2], 503, [1], xii pp.: ill., 1 ill. 22x15 cm. With 1 folding engraved plate and 37 illustrations in text. Contemporary half-leather binding. Rubbings and occasional foxing, owner's signature on the title-page. Very good. First edition. One of the fundamental works by Ivan...

Price: $2,000.00

[EARLY PLAN OF BAIKAL] Noveyshie, Lyubopytnye i Dostovernye Povestvovaniya o Vostochnoi Sibiri, iz Chego Mnogoe Donyne ne Bylo Vsem Izvestno [i.e. The Newest, Curious and Reliable Descriptions about Eastern Siberia Previously Unknown to the Public].

[Semivskii, N.V.; Losev, I.A. (artists)]

St. Petersburg: Military Typography of His Imperial Majesty’s General Staff, 1817. Title page, engraved title page, engraved dedication leaf, [18], 230, 185- 186, 183 pp. 25,5x17,5 cm. With ten copper engraved plates, two large folding copper engraved maps of Lake Baikal and Eastern Siberia (the latter hand coloured), and a....

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[THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA] Kreiserstvo Semtera i Alabamy. Per. s angl. Sost. po lichnomu dnevniku i prochim materialam kap. R. Semza i drugikh ofitserov ekipazha [i.e. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter. Translated from English. Compiled from Personal Diary and Other Documents of Captain R. Semmes and Other Crew Officers].

Semmes, R.

St. Petersburg: Kom. po ustroistvu dobrovolnogo flota, 1878. VIII, 490 pp. 25x18 cm. Later cloth binding. Owner's signature on the last page, very rare light foxing. Otherwise a near fine crispy copy. First edition. Interesting book regarding the influence of American navy on Russian naval system. Raphael Semmes...

Price: $900.00

[ASIA - TURKESTAN - TIAN-SHAN] Puteshestviia po Turkestanskomy Kraiu i Issledovanie Gornoi Strany Tian-Shania, Sovershennye po Porucheniu Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva [i.e. Travels Across Turkestan and Survey of the Mountainous Country of Tian-Shan, Undertaken on the Assignment of Russian Geographical Society].

Severtsov, N.A.

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water...

Price: $3,500.00

[ABOUT FAMOUS SOVIET PULP FICTION] Kak ya pisala Mess-Mend [i.e. How I was Writing Mess-Mend]

Shaginyan, M.S.

Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. 16 pp. 17,5x13 cm. Very good condition. Minor soiling of the wrappers. Portrait of the author on the rear wrapper.

Price: $1,500.00

[FAMOUS SERIES DESIGNED BY RODCHENKO] Mess Mend, ili Yanki v Petrograde. Za i protiv / Dzhim Dollar [i.e. Mess Mend. / [by] Jim Dollar]

[Shaginyan, M.S.]

Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ, 1924. 19x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. All wrappers and the title page designed by Alexander Rodchenko. 'Mess Mend' series were written by Soviet poet and writer Marietta Shaginyan (1880-1982). The series about an American in Russia were created for the public in attempt to show ‘Red...

Price: $10,800.00

[REMEMBERING REVOLUTION] Revoliutsia 1905 goda v Zakavkazii [i.e. Revolution of 1905 in Transcaucasia].

Shakhdin, I.

Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1930. 72 pp. 17,5х12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrapper design by Mayakosvky. Tears of the spine, owner’s signature on the title page. Otherwise very good. Rare. 1 of 5000 copies. Front-cover is illustrated with one of ROSTA’s images by Vladimir Mayakovsky. No copies in Worldcat.

Price: $1,500.00

[FROM AGRARIAN COUNTRY TO INDUSTRIAL POWER] Chto i kak my stroim [i.e. What and How We Build]

Shakhmatov, B.

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1930. 94, [2] pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated constructivist wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine, small tear of the front wrapper, stain on the lower margin on the rear cover and throughout pages, last page slightly scuffed, private library ink stamp on p.2, 17...

Price: $950.00

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