Moscow: Pravda, 1963. 128 pp.: ill. 26,5x20,5 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dust-jacket. Fine condition. The photo book is dedicated to the first visit of Castro to Moscow. In 35 days he managed to see the country from Murmansk to Tashkent. As a result of this trip two..... More

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

Moscow: Izd. Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1951. 180 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, with tears, otherwise very good and clean copy. Not for public release. One of 850 copies produced. This copy was sent with a typewritten invitation letter to someone Rodionov, offering..... 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

[Aflenz concentration camp, 1945]. 15x10,5 cm. In original printed covers. Some soiling, otherwise very good. Extremely rare document of the wartime. The Aflenz concentration camp (also known as the Graz-Leibniz subcamp) existed from February 1944 to April 1945 in the Austrian town of Aflenz an der Sulm as..... More

Moscow: izd-vo Mosoblispolkoma, 1932. 64 pp., 1 map: ill., maps. 20x12.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Fine. Scarce. First edition. Edited by S. Chernyavsky. A book dedicated to the junction of Volga with Moscow River. Printed in 1932, the same year the construction of the Moscow canal began..... More

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

Moscow: Zhurnal’no-gazetnoe ob’edinenie, [1934]. 80 pp.: ill., 10 plates with illustrations mounted. Leaves of tissue paper announce preserve the titles and artists’ names. Restored, otherwise very good.  A special Central Asian issue of the magazine “Ogonek”, a copy from a limited special print-run bound in red cloth with blind..... More

Moscow, [1933]. 38 glass plates in individual paper wraps; in red cardboard box with title on piece of paper mounted. Slides in very good condition. Box rubbed, bumped and soiled, with tears, pale stamps and stickers. An excellent example of Soviet educational slides for use in workers’ clubs. This..... More

[Voronezh], 1926. 1 leaf. 5,8x15,8 cm. Minor tear of edge, slightly rubbed, otherwise mint. Fragile survival of time. Leaflet with a program of Mayakovsky’s performance in the province. From 1922, Vladimir Mayakovsky toured at least 54 cities of the Soviet Union and traveled abroad nine times, including a voyage to..... 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

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. 122, [2] pp. 18x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and some pages’ edges restored, covers rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good and clean internally. Second edition. Collection of 6 articles by Leonid Krasin, Erikh Gollerbakh, Ivan Fomin, Lev Ilyin and Iakov Tugenkhold... More

London; New York; Melbourn: Hutchinson, [1943?]. 136 pp., 15 ill. 18,5x12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. General wear, a couple of small tears and creases of the covers, some light soiling, foxing of the edges. First edition. Scarce. Text in English. This collection of eyewitness accounts of the..... More