![Item #1275 [AIRCRAFT] Tseppelin [i.e. Zeppelin]. L. Kassil&rsquo](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1275.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1634120914)
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
![Item #1464 [PROPAGANDA OF THE STALINIST MOSCOW] U nas v Moskve [i.e. At home, in Moscow]. L....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1464.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1660905508)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1947. 36 pp.: ill. 28x20 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, slightly rubbed, stains occasionally, small tear of the back cover, some illustrations were hand-colored by two pencils. First edition. Very rare. Cover design includes a photograph with light lettering in the dark..... More
![Item #1179 [TO THE ROOTS OF WOMEN’S MOVEMENT] Chto takoye zhenskaya emansipatsiya? Rech’...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1179.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1612382901)
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
![Item #1311 [YOUTH ENTERTAINMENTS IN THE 1920S USSR] Massovoye deystvo: Rukovodstvo k organizatsii...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1311.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1634131278)
Moscow; Leningrad: Giz, 1927. 288, [30] p.: ill.; 15x22.5 cm. In owner’s contemporary cloth binding. Slightly rubbed boards. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. An interesting Soviet book on the organization of revolutionary celebrations in the USSR with the method of mass actions. In the early 1920s, A. Kharlampiev organized..... More
![Item #1403 [UKRAINIAN THEATER] V maskakh epokhy: Iosyp Hirniak [i.e. In Masks of an Epoch: Iosyp...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1403.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658796509)
[Germany]: Ukraina, 1948. 107, [2] pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, small tears of the edges (some repaired with tape), small fragments of the spine lost (one repaired with a tape), some soiling, ink signature on the title page, otherwise very good. In Ukrainian. Very..... More
![Item #805 [SCULPTOR EFIMOV] Sculptor I.S. Efimov. I. E. Khvoinik](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/805.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1567060563)
Moscow: Gizlegprom, 1934. 45, [3] pp.: ill. 15x11 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. Very good, light foxing of the covers near the spine. First and only edition. One of 5175 copies. From the series “Masters of Soviet Porcelain and Faience”. Ivan Efimov (1878-1959) was a Russian sculptor. Efimov painted and sculpted..... More
![Item #135 [UKRAINIAN BOOK OF JUNGLE] Dzhungli: Oppovidannya pro zhittya ditini mizh zvirima / Z...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/135.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1472299315)
Kiev: Derzhavne Vid-vo Ukraini, 1929. 204 pp.: ill. 28x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers with tears and restoration, loss of the small piece and restoration of the spine, general soiling, stain on the upper side of few pages, small restoration of the edge of p.1. Illustrated throughout. Illustrations..... More
![Item #1335 [AN EARLY COLLECTION OF POEMS BY ONE OF THE LAST SOVIET FUTURISTS] Opyty: Kniga...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1335.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1642546906)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 128, [4] pp. 19,8x13,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Previous owner’s pencil inscription on the title-page. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Geometrical wrapper design echoes avant-garde tendencies prevalent among supremacist and modernist artists of the late 1910s... More
![Item #364 [BABY FOOD] Detskaya kukhnya: Prigotovlenie pishchi malym detyam. 119 retseptov [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1513596961)
Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1935. 64 pp. 19x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrappers rubbed with small tears on the extremities, a front cover and few pages in the beginning with small closed tear near the spine (not affecting text). Otherwise a very good, internally clean copy. First and only edition..... More
![Item #1002 [CAPTURING THE 1954 ALL-UNION AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION] Vsesoyuznaya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1002.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591803617)
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
Leningrad: Lenoblizdat, 1935. 60 pp., 5 ills. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of covers along edges and some corners of pages restored, few tears, some soiling of title page, otherwise very good. Photomontage front cover design features a female worker in a textile factory and a...... More
![Item #1423 [UFA CITY DURING WORLD WAR II] Front [i.e. The Frontline]. O. Korniychuk](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1423.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1660732683)
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
![Item #554 [PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINIAN SCHOOLS] 400 piramid i elementiv: Metodichnyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/554.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1547032968)
Kharkiv: Na varti, 1931. 174, [2] pp.: ill. 17x14 cm. Publisher’s illustrated Constructivist wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed, a few bleak stains on the rear cover, small tear of t.p. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Very rare. In Ukrainian. This beautiful edition dedicated to..... More
![Item #64 [RUSSIAN FUTURISTIC BOOK] Russkaya futuristicheskaya kniga [i.e. Russian Futuristic...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1466171903)
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
![Item #1667 [A GUIDE FOR NOVICE WRITERS] Chto nado znat’ nachinayushchemu pisatelyu o...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1667.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679423021)
Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1929. 84, [2] pp. 15x21.5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. A MANUAL FOR NOVICE WRITERS ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF DRAMATURGICAL WORKS WRITTEN BY ALEXEY KRAISKY (1891-1941), A RUSSIAN SOVIET POET, PLAYWRIGHT, AND LITERARY CRITIC... More
![Item #1529 [LITHUANIAN ART] Moters gimimas [i.e. Birth of a Woman]. S. Krasauskas](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1529.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666181513)
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
![Item #47 Slonik Moka i Mishuk u sebia doma [i.e. Little Elephant Moka and Bear Mishuk at Home]....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1446527311)
St. Petersburg: Devrien, 1913. [4], 28 pp. 21x30 cm. Illustrated by the author (on every page alongside the text). Slightly rubbed, both pages and boards. Spine restored, otherwise good. Rare pre-revolutionary edition (comparing to more common Berlin one printed in 1920s). More
![Item #281 [DECOR OF THE BUILDINGS] Kamenye shtukaturki [i.e. The Stone Plasters]. M. A. Krestov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/281.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1494862821)
Moscow: Vsesoiuznaia akademiia arhitektury, 1938. 68 pp.: ill. 22,5 x 15 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Small tears and some losses of the spine, crease of the front cover and the title page, owner’s pencil underlinings. The first edition. This is a unique edition containing the plaster materials..... More
![Item #813 [COSTUME DESIGN GUIDE FOR CLUBS] Kostium na stsene: Rukovodstvo dlia dramkruzhkov...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/813.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1567062177)
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
![Item #291 [ONE OF THE NEW ERA TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS] Elementy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/291.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1500466658)
Moscow: Gosstroiizdat, 1934. 172 pp.: ill., 5 ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. In publisher’s cloth with red lettering. General soiling, title page is toned, owner’s signature on the front board and title page. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white drawings and photographs. The..... More
![Item #923 [MAGNIFICENT KLUTSIS-KULAGINA DUO] Iazyk Lenina: Odinnadtsat’ priemov Leninskoi rechi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/923.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1582640276)
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
Moscow: Goznak, 1927. 72 pp., VIII ills. 20x14 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tears of spine with small fragments lost, light soiling of covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 1,000 copies. An interesting overview of the pantheon of northern Buddhism and Lamaism by..... More
![Item #1055 [ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1055.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1601549803)
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
![Item #139 [FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT LINCOLN] Avraam Linkol'n i velikaya bor'ba mezhdu...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/139.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1472301241)
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
![Item #1678 [LARIONOV’S DRAWING] The drawing of Nikolay Gogol’s head on the back of the...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1678.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681398950)
Image: 12,5x9,5 cm. Frame: 21x17,5 cm. In a contemporary frame. Mint. Provenance: lot 114 in Etude Couturier Nicolay sale of Guillaume Apollinaire collection, 25th of June, 1986. This portrait was created on the rear side of an invitation to a debut exhibition of Gallerie Paul Guillaume – a solo show..... More