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[LIFE OF SANATORIUM] Sbornik, posviashchennyi desiatiletiiu sanatoriia #1 im. 10 let Oktyabrya v Kislovodske. 1924-1934: 20 risunkov v tekste i 21 ris. na vkleikakh [i.e. Collection Dedicated to a Ten Year Anniversary of 10 Year of October Sanatorium #1 in Kislovodsk. 1924-1934: 20 Drawings in Text and 21 Plates].

Moscow; Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1935. 63 pp., 21 pl.: ill. 23x30 cm. In publisher’s cloth with stamping. A bleak damp stain on the front board. Otherwise very good/near fine. First and only edition. Very rare. One of 2200 copies. Inscribed by director of sanatorium and editor of album Moisei Bolotner...

Price: $1,000.00

[LOMONOSOV AS A PHYSICIST]

The sammelband on electricity: 1. Lomonosov, Mikhail. Oratio de Meteroris vi Electrica Ortis [i.e. Discourse on Atmospheric Phenomena Originating from Electrical Force]. St, Petersburg: Academy of Science typography, [1753]. [6], 68 pp., 3 pl. 21x17 cm. In modern period styled half leather. The original endpapers of the sammelband preserved...

Price: $14,000.00

[MALY THEATRE] Malyi teatr. Sto let Malomu teatru: 1824-1924 / Red. A. Kugel’ and V. Filippov [i.e. One Hundred Years of Maly Theatre. 1824-1924 / Ed. by A. Kugel’ and V. Filippov]

Moscow: Russkoe teatral’noe obshchestvo, 1924. 132, [4] pp.: ill., 3 pl. 31x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers designed by Boris Titov. Very good. Spine is fully preserved. Bleak foxing of the front wrapper. First and only edition. The classical publication on the history of the theatre looks more up-to-date...

Price: $450.00

[MAYAKOVSKY ON THE PARISIAN ART SCENE] Gore pakharia: Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyi i obshhestvennyi dvuhnedel’nyi zhurnal [i.e. Woe of the Ploughman: Artistic, Literary and Social Two Weeks Magazine] #3, 1923.

Vladivostok: Primgubkompomgol, 1923. 34 pp.: ill. 26x24 cm. In original illustrated covers, a small tear of the illustration. Good, restored cover and margins. Very rare. One of 2000 copies. One issue of six ever published, the last one under this title (#4 appeared under the title ‘Typhoon’). Cover with...

Price: $1,200.00

[MAYAKOVSKY’S WORK FOR ADVERTISING] Izvestiya. #175 (August 2nd, 1924)

Moscow: Krasnyi mayak, 1924. 8 pp.: ill. 65x54 cm. Very good. A very fragile newspaper with tears of the extremities and spine, ink stamp of the non-existing library (Lenin’s institute). An extremely rare survival of the time. Page 8 with advertisements including an illustrated ad for ABC with poem...

Price: $1,000.00

[MEMORABILIA OF THE EARLY AVANT-GARDE EXHIBITIONS] [Student Ticket #395 for Futuristic Exhibition “Magazin”. Petrovka, 17]

[Moscow, 1916]. 10x6,5 cm. Fine, previous owner’s ink stamp on the back side. From the collection of art critic Alexander Zavolokin (1951-2008). Extremely rare, survival of the time. The exhibition “Magazin” was organized by Vladimir Tatlin in 1916 in Moscow. It was held from March 19 to April 20 at...

Price: $6,000.00

[MENDELEEV’S FAMILY CHRONICLE] Semeinaia khronika v pis’makh materi, otsa, brata, sestior, diadi D.I. Mendeleeva. Vospominania o Mendeleeve ego plemianitsy N.I. Gubkinoi [i.e. The Family Chronicle in Letters of Mother, Father, Brother, Sisters and Unсle of Dmitry Mendeleev. The Memoirs of His Niece N.I. Gubkina].

St. Petersburg: 1st Mendeleev congress, 1908. [2], 239 pp.: ill., 8 port. and 5 ill. on separate leaves. 23x15.5 cm. Original publisher’s wrappers. Very good. The frontispiece is detached from the text block, some minor tears to the wrapper. Rare. One of the first books about Dmitry Mendeleev’s life...

Price: $1,300.00
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[MIR ISKUSSTVA] Katalog vystavki rabot “Mir iskusstva” [i.e. A Catalogue of Mir Iskusstva Exhibition Works]

Moscow: Tip. T/d. I.S. Kolomiets, 1915. [24] pp. 18x12 cm. In original illustrated lithographed wrappers. Near fine, vertical crease throughout the book. A very rare copy of a small run in almost mint condition. This is a catalogue for the exhibition which took place in Moscow in 1915 and...

Price: $1,300.00

[THE MOST IMPORTANT UKRAINIAN BOOK OF THE 17th CENTURY] Paterik ili Otechnik Pecherskii

First edition. Kiev, 1661. 314 leaves, 1 engraved title page, 2 plans of the caves as well as 49 woodcuts of Lavra saints. 31x18 cm. The first Old Slavonic edition of arguably the most important book printed in Ukraine in the 17th century. Complete with the folding plans of...

Price: $75,000.00

Na zapadnom fronte — peremeny. Risunki 1-i satiricheskoi brigady khudozhnikov / Felyeton D. Zaslavskogo [i.e. Changes on the Western Front. Drawings of the First Artists' Brigade / Feuilleton by D. Zaslavsky]

Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1931. 20 pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some soiling. Otherwise near fine. Cover design and illustrations by Soviet artist and master of satire Boris Prorokov (1911-1972). This edition presents satire on Europe and USA, religion, science, social-democrats. WorldCat locates two copies.

Price: $1,300.00

[NEW TYPE OF THEATRE FOR A NEW SOVIET MAN] Moskovsky dramatichesky teatr imeni MGSPS: Gastrol’naia poezdka 1926 [i.e. Theatre of Moscow Provincial Council of Trade Unions: Tour of 1926]

Moscow: MGSPS, [1926]. [32] pp.: ill., port. 17x12,5 cm. In original illustrated constructivist wrappers. Tear of the spine, wrappers are slightly detached from the text block, loss of the small fragment of the front wrapper (restored with paper) and of the back wrapper, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and price written in...

Price: $950.00

[ON THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP IN THE 19TH CENTURY] Opisaniye priema sdelannogo 5-go avgusta 1866 goda blagorodnym sobraniyem predstaviteliu Severo-Amerikanskogo kongresa mister Foksu [i.e. Description of the reception given to the representative of the North American Congress Mr. Fox by the Assembly of the Nobility on the 5th August 1866]

St. Petersburg: A.A. Kraevskiy, 1866. 8 pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. Fine copy with owner's stamp on the front cover and shop's stamp on the back cover, some soiling to the covers and very small tear to the front cover. Very rare. After the Russian tsar, Alexander II, narrowly...

Price: $900.00

[ONE OF THE FIRST ANTI-NAZI CARICATURES OF THE WWII] Ogonyok [i.e. The Twinkle]

Moscow. No.18. 25 of June 1941. 24 pp. 32x25 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. This issue of 'Ogonyok' was the first one printed after Germany began the war against Soviet Union on the 22 of June 1941. Boris Efimov's iconic caricatures on the front wrapper...

Price: $2,500.00

[OSSETIAN LANGUAGE] Khutsaui arbuani ragondini tsibir sibdeg istoria [i.e. The History of Old Testament for Children] / complied by Iosif archbishop of Vladikavkaz.

Vladikavkaz: Z.I. Shuvalov, 1881. [2], 140, [2], VIII pp. 8vo. Original illustrated publisher's wrappers. Bleak foxing on the front cover, owner’s stamp on the front cover and the title page as well as the stamp of the pre-revolutionary museum. Otherwise a very good copy. Extremely rare. Signed by the...

Price: $1,250.00

[PASTERNAK AUTOGRAPHS]

Three letters and signed book by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the letters and inscription are unpublished. 1. Pasternak, Boris. Okhrannaia gramota [i.e. The Protection]. Leningrad, 1931. 128 pp. 18x12,5 cm. In original cardboards. First edition of Pasternak’s autobiographical book, dedicated to his pre-revolutionary life. Inscribed by Pasternak on the half-title...

Price: $25,000.00

Photograph of Leo Tolstoy glued to a company mount

Moscow: Sherer, Nabgolts i Ko. 1894. 16,4x10,8 cm. Fine condition. Most Leo Tolstoy’s photograph portraits in 1880s and 90s were made on Sofia Andreevna’s initiative. For almost quarter of the century photos of Tolstoy’s family were made by the most famous and biggest pre-Revolutionary photo studio «Sherer, Nabgolts i......

Price: $600.00

[PIONEERS OF SPACE-TRAVEL: GAGARIN AND TSIOLKOVSKY] K.E. Tsiolkovsky: Stranitsy velikoy zhizni / Tekst M. Arlozorova, il. A. Kotelnikova [i.e. Pages of a Great Life / Text by M. Arlozorov, illustrated by A. Kotelnikov]

Kaluga: Kn. izd-vo, 1964. 55 pp.: ill. 4vo. A fine copy. Original cloth binding with the decoration in ink. The title page is signed by Yuri Gagarin. Together with: a postcard, ‘The Day of Cosmonautics’ (1965) depicting the monument in Tsiolkovsky’s honor in Kaluga. The postcard is signed by...

Price: $1,000.00

[POST CONSTRUCTIVIST SCHOOLS] Shkoly gotovy! Kak my borolis’ za vypolnenie postanovleniia SNK SSSR i CK VKP(b) o novom shkol’nom stroitel’stve [i.e. Schools Are Ready! How We Fought for the Implementation of the Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b.) on the New School Construction]

Moscow: Sovet RK i KD Kirovskogo raiona, 1935. In original cardboards with gilt lettering on the front cover. Very good. First and only edition. One of 300 copies. Extremely rare. This is a triumphal report of the ful lled plan of school construction in the transitional stage between...

Price: $1,250.00

[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ARCHIVE ON CROQUET]

1. [Croquet. Notebook]. [1870s]. 186 pp. 21x17 cm. Blue cloth with gilt lettering (‘Croquet’) on the front cover. Handwritten in black and colored pencils on the graph paper. Author’s occasional crossings. The notebook consists of paragraphs describing different aspects of croquet: general rules, manual how to set up hoops and.....

Price: $3,850.00

[PROLETKULT ON WAYS OF PROPAGANDA] Al’manakh proletkul’ta [i.e. Proletkult Almanac]

Moscow: Vserossiiskii proletkult, 1925. 192 pp.; ill. 25x15 cm. In later red cloth with lettering. Without original wrappers, small ink stain on the side edges, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. One of this kind of collection. Proletkult, short for Proletarian...

Price: $1,900.00

[RARE FOOTAGE FROM THE LIFE OF THE TILE MAKING FACTORY] Keramiko-plitochny zavod imeni N.A. Bulganina [i.e. N.A. Bulganin Ceramic Tile Factory]

Moscow: 1937. 25 leaves with 47 mounted photographs, 5 charts. 29x41 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering on mounted metal plate. One photograph lost, otherwise very good. A unique photo album depicting the mechanization and experimental projects of the largest ceramic tile factory in the USSR with extraordinary constructivist styled...

Price: $1,900.00

[RARE PROVINCIAL CATALOGUE] Vystavka proizvedenii leningradskikh khudozhnikov: Katalog [i.e. Art Exhibition of Leningrad Artists: Catalogue]

Stalinabad: Lenizo, 1938. 12 pp. 14,5x11 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, tiny tears near staples. First and only edition. One of 1200 copies. Very rare. The catalogue features 117 items of paintings and graphics (sculpture was featured on photographs) by Leningrad artists which were brought to...

Price: $1,500.00

[RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates. Far Eastern Digest. First book]

Shanghai: Lit-khud. obiedinenie “Vostok" 1934. 1 front., 12 ads, [4], 206 pp.: ill., 3 pl. 26x19,2 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Very good. Loss of small fragments of the spine, staples with rust, a couple of pages a slightly loose. Owner’s ink stamp on t.p. and p.17. First...

Price: $1,500.00

[REVOLUTIONARY ART] Oktyabr’ v iskusstve i literature. 1917-1927 [i.e. October in Art and Literature. 1917-1927]

Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1927. 85, [2] pp.: ill. 25x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A very good and clean copy. A fragment of the outer edge of yapped front wrapper is missing, closed tear of the front wrapper, small spots and tears of the margins, text block is detached from...

Price: $600.00

[THE RUMYANTSEV MUSEUM] Gosudarstvennyi Rumyantsevsky muzei: Putevoditel': 1. Biblioteka [i.e. The State Rumyantsev Museum. Guidebook: V.1. Library]

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo L.D. Frenkel', 1923. 237, [3] pp.: ill. 19,5x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Book is separated in two parts, lacks small pieces of the spine, faded Soviet bookshop's stamps on the back cover. 1 of 3000 copies. First edition. The Rumyantsev Museum was Moscow's first public museum...

Price: $750.00

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