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[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)... ...

Price: $1,200.00

[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...

Price: $1,120.00

[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....

Price: $1,800.00

[DRAMATIZATION OF A FICTITIOUS POLITICAL TRIAL] Sel’korka: (Politsud) [i.e. Female Village Correspondent: Political Trial].

Leningrad: Priboi, 1925. 40 pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. In publisher’s photomontage wrappers. Very good. Small tears of the spine, small black square painted on the t.p. (painted over), traces of something glued to the verso of the front wrapper. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Very rare...

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[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...

Price: $900.00

[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...

Price: $900.00

[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...

Price: $15,000.00

[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...

Price: $2,700.00

[FOR THE DESIGNERS OF THE NEW SOCIALIST BOOK] Poligraficheskoe oformlenie massovoi knigi [i.e. Polygraphic Design of the Mass Book].

Moscow: Gos. izdatelstvo legkoi promyshlennosti, 1932. 146, [2] pp.: ill. 20x13 cm. In original wrappers. Small fragments of spine lost, pale foxing occasionally and previous owner’s stamp on t.p., otherwise very good. First and only edition. Rare. One of 5200 copies. Constructivist anonymous design. This book is a kind...

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[FUISM] “A”. [Collection of poems] / B. Pereleshin, A. Rakitnikov, I. Sokolov. R.S.F.S.R., 0,21 XX veka [i.e. RSFSR, 21 Hundredth of the 20th Century].

[Moscow, 1921]. 14, [2] pp. 17,5x11 cm (unfolded two leaves, each leaf 34,5x22,2 cm). Uncut and unbound as issued. Near fine. Previous owner’s ink stamp on p. 3, erased ink stamp and pen mark on the last page. First edition. Very rare. This is a collection of poems by...

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[FUTURISTIC SCHOOLS] Proekty zdanii dlia uchrezhdenii sotsial’nogo vospitaniya [i.e. Designs of Buildings for Social Education]

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1930. 125, [2] pp.: ill. 36x26 cm. In original oversized wrappers. Very good. Some restoration of the wrappers, slightly rubbed and age toned, ink stains. Owner’s ink stamp on the t.p. (from the books of famous Soviet architect Leonid Grinshpun (1906-1981)). First and only edition. One of...

Price: $2,000.00
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[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]...

Price: $1,700.00

[GEORGIAN LEF] Memarts’kheneoba [i.e. Leftism]

Tbilisi, 1927–1928. #1 of 1927. 84 pp.: 2 ill. 18,7x17 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Wrapper design by Irakli Gamrekeli. Photo on the wrapper by Tokhadze. Text block separated from the wrapper, tears and small losses of the spine, general soiling of the wrappers and...

Price: $4,000.00
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[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...

Price: $900.00

[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.....

Price: $1,200.00

[HISTORY OF SOVIET CINEMA] Ocherki po istorii sovetskogo kino: Rabochaya programma [i.e. Essays on the History of Soviet Cinema: Work Program].

Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1951. 180 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original wrappers. Very good, tears and loss of small fragments of the spine. First and only edition. One of 850. Very rare. Classified as manuscript with mark on the cover and title page. This book was produced in...

Price: $700.00
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[IN THE HEART OF CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ezhegodnik MAO. #5. (Yubileinyi vypusk) [i.e. Yearbook of Moscow Architecture Society. #5. Anniversary Issue]

Moscow: Izd-vo Moskovskogo Arkhitekturnogo Obshchestva, 1928. VIII, 135, [6] pp.: ills., photographs, plans. 33х26 cm. In original wrappers and illustrated dust-wrapper. Very good. Front cover not attached to the text block and the spine, tiny tears of the top and bottom of the spine, spots, tears and losses of the...

Price: $1,500.00

[INDUSTRIAL ART] Katalog Peredvizhnoi vystavki: Zhivopis’, risunok, grafika, tekstil’ [i.e. Catalogue of Traveling Exhibition: Painting, Drawing, Graphics, Textile]

Moscow: Khudozhnik, 1931. 31 pp., 23 ill. 17x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Few tears of the spine, few pages with pale damp stain. Otherwise very good. Scarce. One of 6000 copies. A very distinctive evidence of an interesting time in Soviet Russia’s art history - industrial art exhibition...

Price: $900.00

[JACK OF DIAMONDS] Sbornik statei po iskusstvu / izdanie Obshchestva khudozhnikov ‘‘Bubnovy valet’’ [i.e. Collection of Essays on Art: #1 and only / Published by Bubnovy Valet]

Moscow: Bubnovyi valet; Tipo-lit. N.M. Mikhailova, [1913]. 78 pp.: ill. 22,3×18,5 cm. 22,5x18,5 cm. Original publishers wrappers. Over the original wrapper contemporary owner’s wrapper with the illustration (in gouache) of unknown artist showing the Jack of Diamonds. Under the image the date ‘1913’. Below that another date in pencil ‘1945’.....

Price: $3,500.00
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[JAPANESE CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN RUSSIA] Vystavka detskoi knigi i detskogo tvorchestva Yaponii / VOKS and GAHN [i.e. Exhibition of Children's Books and Children's Art of Japan / All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; The State Academy of Artistic Sciences]

Moscow: 1928. 18, [2] pp: ill. 22х15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, small tears of the spine and extremities. Cover designed by A. Mogilevsky. 1 of 700 copies. Rare. Exhibition included 1450 divided into these sections: picture book and book for play; fairy tales, legends...

Price: $800.00

[KODIAK ISLAND] Merkatorskaya karta Kadiakskogo Arkhipelaga, sostavlena Rossiiskoyu Amerikanskoyu kompanineyu po noveishym svedeniyam. 1849 [i.e. Mercator’s Map of the Kodiak Archipelago Compiled by the Russian American Company, Based on the Newest Intelligence. 1849]

St. Petersburg: 1849. Large copper engraved map 53x46 cm, includes ten insets; with the distance scales indicated both for the main map and the insets. Original fold marks, a tear neatly repaired, otherwise very good. Very rare interesting map of the Kodiak Archipelago issued in the Otchet Rossiisko-Amerikanskoi Kompanii...

Price: $2,750.00

[KUKRYNIKSY] Working sketchbook of Nikolai Sokolov

Ca. second half of 1940s. Drawings in ink and pencil. 20 leaves. 17,5x12,2 cm. On the front cover artist’s self-portrait in a classical satirical manner, on the verso - an image of the notebook with artists’s caricature character ‘walking out of it’. Among other images are portraits, cartoons, political caricatures.....

Price: $4,500.00

[THE KULTUR LIGE] In Yiddish: [Iosif Chaikov. Sculpture]

Kiev: Melukhe farlag, 1921. 14, [2] pp., 12 pl.: ill. 13x9 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very good, restoration of the wrappers, handwritten captions on plates in Russian (ink). First and only edition. One of 2500 copies. Very rare. The Kultur Lige (i.e. Culture League) was a secular socialist Jewish...

Price: $3,500.00
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[LENINGRAD GRAPHICS GO TO EREVAN] Vystavka proizvedenii grafiki leningradskikh khudozhnikov. Katalog vystavki [i.e. Exhibition of Graphics by Leningrad Artists. Catalogue]

Erevan: Lenizo. 26 pp.: ill., 7 pl. 16,5x12,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, soiling of the wrappers. One of 500 copies. A very rare provincial edition and survival of the time. This is a catalogue of the exhibition which took place in 1939 in Erevan. There were...

Price: $950.00

[LENINGRAD SIEGE EXHIBITION] Vystavka Geroicheskaya oborona Leningrada. Ocherk-putevoditel’ [i.e. Exhibition ‘Heroic Siege of Leningrad’. Guidebook]

Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1945. 131, [1] pp.: ill. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tiny tears of outer edges of extended yapped wrappers. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. The guide book includes thorough description of all 26 halls with historic details on the side. Even more valuable are black...

Price: $750.00

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