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CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views and...

[CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views and Panoramas of the Newly Built City of Dalny, the Furthermost Russian Outpost in Manchuria in 1898-1905, and Modern-Day Dalian, the Major Seaport of the Liaoning Province of China, Titled in Russian:] Dalny, 1902

[Dalian], ca. 1902. 26,5x38 cm. With 36 photogravures, each with a printed title and a number on a paper label pasted to the lower margin. Original colour lithographed publisher’s wrappers, with a large gilt lettered title on the front wrapper. The leaves and wrappers fastened with original strings. Wrappers slightly... More

Price: $3,950.00

CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and...

[CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans Illustrating the Third Battle of the Taku Forts during the Second Opium War in July-August 1860, Including Plans of the Forts and a nearby City of Tientsin/ Tianjin, a Scene with British Naval and Troop Ships Approaching the Landing Site at Pehtang/Beitang, and Group Portraits of the Officers of the British 31st Regiment of Foot who took Part in the Battle and were Stationed in Tientsin in 1861-62]

Ca. 1860-1862. 40x29 cm. With three original albumen photos from ca. 13x18,5 cm to ca. 5,5x8,5 cm, one pencil drawing ca. 11,5x28,5 cm, and two watercolour plans, ca. 24,5x38 cm and ca. 21x23 cm, mounted on period album leaves. All items but the last plan with period ink captions on... More

Price: $5,250.00

CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver...

[CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer while Serving on S.M.S. “Scharnhorst,” the Flagship of the German East-Asia Squadron in 1909-1914, with the Views of Tsingtao/Quigdao, Hong Kong, Amoy/Xiamen, German Colonies in Samoa and New Guinea, Batavia, Singapore, Port Arthur, German Naval Ships and Commanders, and Scenes from the Second Chinese Revolution and the Capture of Nanjing in September 1913]

Ca. 1912-1913. 33,5x23,5 cm. 36 album leaves (14 blank). With 86 original gelatin silver prints from ca. 12x17 cm to ca. 8x11 cm. Most images numbered in negative, all with period manuscript ink captions in German on the mounts, some also dated in ink. Later navy-blue half morocco with moire... More

Price: $4,250.00

CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art

[CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art]

Leningrad: Gosudartsvennyi Ermitazh, 1934. [2], 70, [2], [2] pp.: ill., 15 pl. 17x12 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, small tears of the spine and wrappers rubbed in general, pen marks on the front cover and t.p. Otherwise a good and internally clean copy... More

Price: $750.00

THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY] Kharbin i O-vo K.V.Gh.d.: (K voprosu o vzaimnyh otnosheniyah...

[THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY] Kharbin i O-vo K.V.Gh.d.: (K voprosu o vzaimnyh otnosheniyah O-va Kitaiskoi zheleznoi dorogi i naseleniya goroda Kharbina) [i.e. Harbin and The Chinese Eastern Railway Company: (On relationships between The Chinese Eastern Railway Company and Kharbin's population)]

Harbin: Tov. gazetnykh rabotnikov Elektro-par. tip.-lit. T-va Bergut i Syn, 1907. 14 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Clean copy with slightly tanned wrappers. Tears to the wrappers, a piece of the end cover is missing, very fragile edges. A good copy. A rare, perhaps unique work focusing on... More

Price: $600.00

CHRONICLE OF THE EARLY SOVIET ART] Sovetskoe iskusstvo za 15 let: materialy i dokumentatsiia...

[CHRONICLE OF THE EARLY SOVIET ART] Sovetskoe iskusstvo za 15 let: materialy i dokumentatsiia [i.e. 15 Years of Soviet Art: Materials and Documentation]

Moscow: Izogiz, 1933. 664 pp.: ill., 16 ills. 26x18 cm. In original full cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Slightly rubbed, few ink marks, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. This is the first fundamental work... More

Price: $1,750.00

COLD WAR ARTIFACT] Pamyatka soldatu i matrosu: Deistviya v usloviyakh primeneniya atomnogo,...

[COLD WAR ARTIFACT] Pamyatka soldatu i matrosu: Deistviya v usloviyakh primeneniya atomnogo, khimicheskogo i bakteriologicheskogo oruzhiya [i.e. Memo for a Soldier: Protocol of actions during atomic, chemical and bacteriological attacks]

Moscow: Voyennoye izd-vo Minesterstva Oborony Soyuza SSR, 1955. 128 pp.: ill. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Small tears of the spine. With a printed stamp on the back cover "Not for sale". The small memo is divided into three sections: 'What you need to know about... More

Price: $500.00

COLLECTION OF CLIPPINGS ON MEYERHOLD

[COLLECTION OF CLIPPINGS ON MEYERHOLD]

The clippings originate from newspapers ‘Pravda’, ‘Krasny Putilovets’, ‘Leningradskaya Pravda’, ‘Pravda Severa’, ‘Bolshevistskaya Borozda’, ‘Sovetskoe Iskusstvo’, ‘Teatr i dramaturgiya’, ‘Separator’, etc. Some of the papers are provincial like the newspaper ‘Podporozhskaya Pravda’ (printed in Podporozhie, a small town close to Finland) or ‘Bolshevistksaya borozda’ (printed in Okulovka near Novgorod)... ... More

Price: $1,200.00

CONSTRUCTIVIST CLASSICS] Kino-Fot [i.e. Film Photo]. Issue #2 of only 6

[CONSTRUCTIVIST CLASSICS] Kino-Fot [i.e. Film Photo]. Issue #2 of only 6

8-15 of September, 1922. St. Petersburg: Kino-Fot, 1922. 16 pp.: phot.,. 28x22 cm. Original photomontage wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko who used his wife Varvara Stepanova’s photomontage which juxtaposed a photo of Charlie Chaplin with photos of industrial objects. Very good. A few tears on the spine, rust on the staples... More

Price: $4,300.00

DESIGNING SOVIET TOYS] Albom eksponatov nauchno-issledovatelskoy laboratorii igrushek I...

[DESIGNING SOVIET TOYS] Albom eksponatov nauchno-issledovatelskoy laboratorii igrushek I didakticheskih materialov [i.e. The Album of the Exponents for Research of Children’s Toys and Didactic Materials]

Tbilisi, 1941. 79 pp. 18x26 cm. 1 of 800 copies. Original publisher’s binding. Slightly bent. Ex-library copy. Stains. Extremely rare. First and only edition. The designs by Kekhoashvili, Avamishvili, Gudiashvili, Khachapuridze, Natadze. In late 1930s Narkopross Gruzii (the Ministry of People’s Enlightenment) created the working group for developing... More

Price: $1,120.00

DOSTOEVSKY ON NEKRASOV] Na pamyat' o Nikolae Alekseeviche Nekrasove [i.e. In memory of Nikolay...

[DOSTOEVSKY ON NEKRASOV] Na pamyat' o Nikolae Alekseeviche Nekrasove [i.e. In memory of Nikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov]

St. Petersburg: F.S. Suchinsky, 1878. 147, III pp. 8vo. Frontispiece is a drawing from a photo of Nekrasov on his deathbed by William Carrick. Contemporary quarter-leather. Good condition. Spine leather restored. Rare. A volume of stories collected to commemorate the death of the Russian classic poet, N. A.... More

Price: $1,800.00

EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY] Psikhicheskoe utomlenie: Eksperimental’no-psikhicheskie...

[EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY] Psikhicheskoe utomlenie: Eksperimental’no-psikhicheskie issledovanija pedagogicheskogo i professional’nogo truda [i.e. Psychic Fatigue: Experimental Psychic Research of Pedagogical and Professional Labour]

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929. 178, [2] pp. 24,5x16,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Small fragments of the spine lost, some tears of edges, pale water stains, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Cover design by the Soviet master of book graphics and letterpress... More

Price: $1,100.00

EXPERIMENTAL THEATER GOES ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION] Gosudarstvenny teatr imeni Vs. Meierholda....

[EXPERIMENTAL THEATER GOES ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION] Gosudarstvenny teatr imeni Vs. Meierholda. Gastrol’naia poezdka po SSSR. Leto 1927 [i.e. Tour Across the USSR. Summer of 1927].

Moscow: 1927. 32 pp.: ill., port. 26x17,5 cm. Without a wrapper, pencil signature on the title page. Otherwise very good. Very rare. This prospectus is dedicated to the summer tour of 1927 of the Meyerhold Theatre. It includes portraits of the company, e.g. Vsevolod Meyerhold, Igor Il’insky, Zinaida... More

Price: $900.00

EXPERIMENTAL THEATER GOES ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION] Moskovsky gosudarstvenny kamerny teatr....

[EXPERIMENTAL THEATER GOES ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION] Moskovsky gosudarstvenny kamerny teatr. Gastrol’naia poezdka po SSSR. Leto 1928 [i.e. The Moscow Kamerny Theatre. Tour Across the USSR. Summer of 1928]

Moscow: 1928. 30, [2] pp.; ill., facs., port. 26x17,5 cm. In original wrappers. Damp stain on the side margin of the front cover and few pages. Otherwise very good. Very rare. With many black and white photographs of productions and set designs. This prospectus is dedicated to the summer... More

Price: $900.00

FIREBIRD – RUSSIAN ART REBORN] Zhar-ptitsa: Ezhemesiachnyi literaturno-khudozhestvennyi...

[FIREBIRD – RUSSIAN ART REBORN] Zhar-ptitsa: Ezhemesiachnyi literaturno-khudozhestvennyi illustrirovannyi zhurnal [i.e. Firebird: A Monthly Literary Artistic Magazine]

Berlin; Paris: Russkoe iskusstvo, 1921-1926. #1-14. Ca. 32x25 cm. Every issue in illustrated wrappers. Generally very good, some mild soiling, with tiny tears and losses of the spine (#1,2,12,14), foxing and piece of tape on the spine (#13). A complete set. Extremely rare in wrappers. Lavishly illustrated throughout with... More

Price: $15,000.00

FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT BYRON] Zapiski o lorde Bairone [i.e. Journal of the Conversations of...

[FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT BYRON] Zapiski o lorde Bairone [i.e. Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron]: [In 2 vols]

St. Petersburg: tip. N. Grecha, 1835. Vol.1. [4], VIII, 197 pp., [1] front.; Vol.2. [4], 153 pp. 8vo. Lord Byron's portrait on the frontispiece. Two volumes in contemporary quarter-leather bindings, with gilt-lettering on spines. Labels on spines, some rubbings to covers, pre-revolutionary library stamps (Tallinn), foxing. Rare, especially with... More

Price: $2,700.00

FIRST MOSCOW BIBLE] Bibliya sirech knigi vetkhogo i novogo zaveta [i.e. The Bible, or the Books...

[FIRST MOSCOW BIBLE] Bibliya sirech knigi vetkhogo i novogo zaveta [i.e. The Bible, or the Books of New and Old Testament]

Moscow: Pechatnyi Dvor, 1663. [540 leaves]. 35x23 cm. Contemporary full leather. Modern clasps. [540 leaves]. 35x23 cm. Contemporary full leather. Modern clasps. Binding is restored: pieces of leather are added. The copy is complete. Old restoration of the title page and the leaf with Moscow’s plan and Russian coat of... More

Price: $29,500.00

GEORGIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER] Plamia [i.e. The Flame. The Supplement to Zarya Vostoka

[GEORGIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER] Plamia [i.e. The Flame. The Supplement to Zarya Vostoka]

Tbilisi: Zarya Vostoka, 1924. No. 5. 24 pp.: ill. 32x24 cm. Original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. A very good copy with light rubbing of the wrappers. On the rear wrapper Constructivist in Rodchenko style photomontage advertisement with a poem agitating to subscribe to 'Zarya Vostoka' [i.e. The Day-spring of The East]... More

Price: $1,700.00

GIGANTIC TURNIP BY SIMONOVICH-EFIMOVA] Skazka Repka [i.e. The Gigantic Turnip

[GIGANTIC TURNIP BY SIMONOVICH-EFIMOVA] Skazka Repka [i.e. The Gigantic Turnip]

Moscow: Detgiz, 1937. [12] pp.: ill. 24,5x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the extremities. Otherwise very good. Lithographed edition. Covers and illustrations by Nina Simonovich-Efimova (1877-1948), Russian Soviet artists, who worked in etching and autolithography techniques; one of the creators of the professional puppet theater in Russia... More

Price: $900.00

GLINKA & BILIBIN] Ruslan i Lyudmila. Volshebnaya opera v 5 deistviyakh. Syuzhet zaimstvovan iz...

[GLINKA & BILIBIN] Ruslan i Lyudmila. Volshebnaya opera v 5 deistviyakh. Syuzhet zaimstvovan iz poemy A. Pushkina. Muzyka M. Glinki / Pod red. M. Balakireva i S. Lyapunova [i.e. Ruslan and Ludmila. A Fairy Opera in 5 acts. The plot is adopted from Pushkin’s poem. Music by M. Glinka / Edited by M. Balakirev and S. Lyapunov].

Moscow: P. Yurgenson, 1906. 255 pp.: music. 30,5x24 cm. Contemporary bright red binder’s cloth with title in gold and decoration in color (art nouveau style) on the front board and blind decorative border and binder’s name on the back board. Original illustrated front cover is preserved. Endpapers are of paper..... More

Price: $1,200.00

GUDIASHVILI AS CONSTRUCTIVIST] Gruzii poety i pisateli SSSR [i.e. To Georgia! The poets and...

[GUDIASHVILI AS CONSTRUCTIVIST] Gruzii poety i pisateli SSSR [i.e. To Georgia! The poets and writers of USSR. The literary collection]

Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1931. XV, 160 pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. Minor soiling. Partly uncut. 21,5x14,5 cm. 1 of 3000 copies printed. The collection of poetry and prose, gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Georgian Soviet Republic. All of the text is in... More

Price: $1,500.00

HERITAGE OF DIRECTOR VAKHTANGOV] Muzei-komnata E.B. Vakhtangova. Katalog [i.e. Museum Room of E....

[HERITAGE OF DIRECTOR VAKHTANGOV] Muzei-komnata E.B. Vakhtangova. Katalog [i.e. Museum Room of E. Vakhtangov. Catalogue] / compiled by N. Vakhtangova, L. Vendrovskaia

Moscow: Izdanie museia teatra im. Evg. Vakhtangova, 1937. [18] pp., 7 ills. 16,5x12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed and soiled, some stains on the margins and ink signature on half-title. First and only edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Very rare. This catalogue is dedicated to museum of... More

Price: $850.00

HOMOPHOBIA VS PHILANTHROPY] Puteshestviye miss Marsden v Yakutskuyu oblast' i poseshcheniye yeyu...

[HOMOPHOBIA VS PHILANTHROPY] Puteshestviye miss Marsden v Yakutskuyu oblast' i poseshcheniye yeyu prokazhennykh [i.e. Miss Marsden’s Journey to Yakutia and Her Visits to Lepers]

Moscow: O-vo rasprostraneniya polez. knig, 1892. XII, 77 pp., 10 ill., map. 22.3x16cm. Period half-leather binding. Worn, lower part of the spine lacks a fragment, pre-revolutionary private library stamp (The Library of Prokhorov) on the title-page and p.12. Otherwise in a very good condition. Extremely scarce first edition... More

Price: $1,200.00

HOW TO DESIGN A COMFORTABLE WORKPLACE] Estetika proizvodstvennoi sredy na avtotransportnykh...

[HOW TO DESIGN A COMFORTABLE WORKPLACE] Estetika proizvodstvennoi sredy na avtotransportnykh predpriyatiyakh [i.e. Aesthetics of the Production Environment in Motor Vehicles]

Kiev: Reklama, 1973. 31 pp., 54 plates. 22x29,5 cm. In illustrated folder, brochure in stapled wrappers and plates are separate. Very good, some wear of the folder. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Published by Ministry of Motor Transport of the Ukrainian SSR and the... More

Price: $1,300.00

Ilya Sokolov: Katalog vystavki [i.e. Ilya Sokolov: Exhibition Catalogue

Ilya Sokolov: Katalog vystavki [i.e. Ilya Sokolov: Exhibition Catalogue]

Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1940. 42 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original wrappers. Very good, wrappers soiled, rusty staples, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear wrapper. Very rare. One of 700 copies. The personal exhibition was opened in March of 1940 in Moscow with 235 works on the display. The... More

Price: $500.00

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