![CENTRAL ASIA INDUSTRIALIZED] Pervye iarmarki v Amu-Dariyinskom Oasise [i.e. The First Fairs in...](/pictures/thumb/956.jpg?v=1582650500)
Tashkent: Sakomta, Tashobllit, [1920s]. 52x71 cm. Chromolithography. In Russian and Uzbeki. Good, poster is backed, restoration of the edges. One of 1000 copies. Design by unknown artist. The poster shows the approaching of the new Soviet reality in the Central Asian republics. The map on the background covers the..... More
Pair of children’s collages, from the first futurist exhibition ‘Mishen’ [i.e. The Target] showing the landscape and the flower. 11,5x19,5 cm and 18x11,5 cm. Provenance: from the collection of architect Nikolay Vinogradov (1885-1980). Both are reproduced in Anthony Parton’s ‘The Art and Life of Natalia Goncharova’ (London, 2010)... More
![CHINA – BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY] [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from...](/pictures/thumb/541.jpg?v=1542900145)
6-21 November [1903]. 32 leaves. 22,5x17,5 cm. Manuscript text in French. Black and brown ink on lined white laid paper (one page written in pencil), all entries with dates on the margins. Occasional markings in red or blue pencil in text. Period style half morocco album with cloth boards, spine..... More
![CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views and...](/pictures/thumb/542.jpg?v=1542900396)
[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
![CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and...](/pictures/thumb/534.jpg?v=1542806209)
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
![CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art](/pictures/thumb/537.jpg?v=1542807313)
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
![CHINESE COMIC BOOK] Gospodin Dun-Go [i.e. Mister Dun-Go] / text by Dun Tsiui-sian’ and Iui...](/pictures/thumb/1003.jpg?v=1591803775)
Beijing: Izdatel’stvo literaturyr na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1959. [2], 82 pp.: ill. 15x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and edges with few minor fragments lost, otherwise very good and clean internally. Second edition. One of 8050 copies. Very rare comic book with Chinese philosophical story..... More
![THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY] Kharbin i O-vo K.V.Gh.d.: (K voprosu o vzaimnyh otnosheniyah...](/pictures/thumb/10.jpg?v=1446492190)
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
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
1) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Iz istorii zhenskogo dvizheniia v Rossii [i.e. From the History of Women’s Movement in Russia]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D. Sytina, 1908. 60 pp. 2) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Zhenskoe dvizhenie v Evrope i Amerike [i.e. Women’s Movement in Europe and America]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D...... More
![CONSTRUCTIVIST FURNITURE] Za novuiu mebel’ [i.e. For the New Furniture](/pictures/thumb/958.jpg?v=1582650858)
Moscow: GOSTEKHIZD, 1933. 87 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Near fine. Extremely rare. No copies according to the Worldcat. The book includes the two theoretical works by Benenson and Murashov on the development and goals of the Soviet furniture industry and the chapter by N. Guchev..... More
![CUBA] Natsional’nyy atlas Kuby [i.e. National Atlas of Cuba](/pictures/thumb/1079.jpg?v=1604424119)
Havana: 1970. [8], 132, [11] pp.: ill., maps. 49x39 cm. In original publisher’s cardboards with dust-wrapper. Minor tear of the dust jacker otherwise good. Scarce. Text in Russian. Scales of the maps vary from 1: 75,000 to 1:170,000,000. THE FIRST NATIONAL ATLAS OF CUBA PRODUCED WITH THE JOINT EFFORTS OF..... More
![DESIGNING SOVIET TOYS] Albom eksponatov nauchno-issledovatelskoy laboratorii igrushek I...](/pictures/thumb/646.jpg?v=1554870618)
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
![DOSTOEVSKY ON NEKRASOV] Na pamyat' o Nikolae Alekseeviche Nekrasove [i.e. In memory of Nikolay...](/pictures/thumb/12.jpg?v=1446527308)
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
Four 1920s book and magazine covers. All of them differ from each other in style, number of colors, artists, publishers and even readers. Yet, they were printed for the propaganda of contemporary (and mostly proletarian) culture. All of them are very rare. Proletarskie prazdniki v rabochikh klubakh [i.e. Proletarian..... More
![EXPERIMENTAL YEARS OF THE UKRAINIAN DRAMA THEATRE] Desiat’ rokiv odes’kogo teatru...](/pictures/thumb/1021.jpg?v=1595853030)
Odesa: Odeskii teatr revoliutsii, 1936. [2], 280 pp., 47 ill. 21,5х15,5 cm. In original cloth with silver embossed design on the front cover. Very good, spine rubbed, previous owner’s underlines and notes complimented the text clarifying the names. In Ukrainian, First and only edition. One of 1500 copies produced..... More
![A FAREWELL TO ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOVIET FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY] Professoru N.P. Brukhanskomu...](/pictures/thumb/871.jpg?v=1573089758)
Moscow: Biomedgiz, 1935. XVI, 728pp., a portrait and a table: ill., tables. 23.1x16cm. In original full cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and the spine. Private library stamp: “Doctor V. E. Iashvili” on the title-page and the pp. 89, 513, occasional pen/pencil markings. Otherwise very good. First..... More
![FIGHTING STARVATION IN ARMENIA] The Moscow Committee of Assistance to the Armenian SSR. Vestnik...](/pictures/thumb/893.jpg?v=1576161438)
[M.]: Kom. pomoshchi Armenii, 1923. 28x20cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Fine. Scarce. One of 1500 copies. This is the first and only issue of the non-periodical organ of the Moscow Committee of Assistance to the Armenian SSR. After the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, the Armenian..... More
![FIREBIRD – RUSSIAN ART REBORN] Zhar-ptitsa: Ezhemesiachnyi literaturno-khudozhestvennyi...](/pictures/thumb/439.jpg?v=1519822856)
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
![FIRST BOOK IN GERMAN, PRINTED IN RUSSIA TOGETHER WITH AN EARLY GRAMMAR] Teutsh- Lateinisch- und...](/pictures/thumb/1074.jpg?v=1604420045)
St. Petersburg: printed at the Academy of Science typography, 1731. [4], 788, 48 pp. 23x18 cm. One of 1200 copies printed. Full-leather period binding. Spine is restored. New endpapers. Occasional stains, more substantial stains on the pp. 140-141 (traces of wax). Occasional restoration of the margins. Overall a very good..... More
![FIRST RUSSIAN COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING POETS] Angliiskie poety v biografiiakh i obraztsakh...](/pictures/thumb/1046.jpeg?v=1601474980)
St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Kotomina, 1875. XXXII, 448 pp. 26,5x19 cm. In contemporary red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and colored decorative elements on the front cover. Some rubbing and foxing, lack of the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is the..... More
![FIRST TOUR OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN IN THE USSR] N’iu-Iorkskii simfonicheskii orkestr (SShA) [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/895.jpg?v=1576162057)
Moscow: Tip. Krasnaia Zvezda, 1959. 45x30,5cm. Near fine. One of 3000 copies. Extremely rare. This is an advertising poster of the first tour of New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the Soviet Union. Conducting by Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, the Orchestra had given concerts at Moscow Conservatory in..... More
![FREEDOM THROUGH THE KROKODIL MAGAZINE] Krokodil [i.e. Crocodile] #4-35 for 1989. Overall 32...](/pictures/thumb/888.jpg?v=1576159369)
Moscow: Pravda, 1989. 35,5x27 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some tears of edges and ink marks (#31). Crosswords in most issues are filled out. Almost complete year set of issues printed in a period of glasnost (i.e. publicity) marking the last years of the Soviet rule. They..... More
![FULL SET OF SOVIET THEATER PERIODICAL] Sovetskii teatr [i.e. Soviet Theater](/pictures/thumb/929.jpg?v=1582642428)
#1, 2, 3/4, 5/6, 7, 8, 9/10, 11/12, 13/16 for 1930, #1, 2/3, 4, 5/6, 7, 8, 9, 10/11, 12 for 1931, #1-6, 7/8, 9, 10/11, 12 for 1932, #1, 2/3 for 1933. Overall 30 issues. Moscow: Teakinopechat: ZiF: OGIZ: Zhurnal’no-gazetnoe ob’edinenie, 1930-1933. 30,5x23,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Repaired..... More
![THE GENIUS AND THE BUTCHER] Stalin. Zhivopis’. Plakat. Grafika. Skulptura [i.e. Stalin. Fine...](/pictures/thumb/936.jpg?v=1582644131)
Moscow: OGIZ, IZOGIZ, 1934. [66] pp. 34x35 cm. Publisher’s cloth binding. Each illustration is supplied with the tissue paper, all present. Copy from the smaller part of the print run with the publisher’s blank dust wrapper preserved and Stalin’s silhouette printed in silver on the frontispiece and Stalin’s signature printed..... More