![GUDIASHVILI AS CONSTRUCTIVIST] Gruzii poety i pisateli SSSR [i.e. To Georgia! The poets and...](/pictures/thumb/767.jpg?v=1563926208)
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
![HARVEST MARCH: COLLECTIVIZATION PROPAGANDA] Urozhainyi marsh: Dlia smeshannogo khora s...](/pictures/thumb/1054.jpg?v=1601549621)
Leningrad: Triton, [1930s]. 15 pp. 21,5x15 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Covers detached, small fragments of covers and blank corners of two first leaves lost, otherwise very good. One of 1000 copies. Very rare with no copies located in Worldcat. Sheet music for ‘Harvest March’ (1929)..... More
![HERITAGE OF DIRECTOR VAKHTANGOV] Muzei-komnata E.B. Vakhtangova. Katalog [i.e. Museum Room of E....](/pictures/thumb/820.jpg?v=1567063780)
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
![HISTORY IN IMAGES – I VANE JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY] T’pilisis sakhelmts’ipo...](/pictures/thumb/885.jpg?v=1576158135)
Tbilisi: sakhelmts’ipo universit’et’is t’ipo-lit’ograpia, 1936. 88, [2] pp.: ill. 36.5x27.4cm. In original publisher’s full cloth. A couple of stains on the boards. Otherwise in a very good condition. Without the dust-jacket. Extremely rare. One of 2100 copies. Edited by the university rector, Karlo Oragvelidze (1902-1937). Photographs by I. Panfilov..... More
![HOMOPHOBIA VS PHILANTHROPY] Puteshestviye miss Marsden v Yakutskuyu oblast' i poseshcheniye yeyu...](/pictures/thumb/833.png?v=1569962348)
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
![HOW THE SOVIET CREMATION BEGAN] Krematsiia [i.e. Cremation] / compiled by G. Bartel](/pictures/thumb/1114.jpg?v=1608111302)
Moscow: Izd. M.K.Kh. 1925. 95, [3] pp.: ill., 2 ills. 17x13. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some spots, pale water stains on the first leaves. One of 10 000 copies. Rare. Cover design was produced by Ol’ga Amosova (1888-1965), known as production designer in Khandzhonkov film studio in..... More
![HOW TO DESIGN A COMFORTABLE WORKPLACE] Estetika proizvodstvennoi sredy na avtotransportnykh...](/pictures/thumb/781.jpg?v=1563928623)
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
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
![IN THE HEART OF CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ezhegodnik MAO. #5. (Yubileinyi vypusk) [i.e. Yearbook of Moscow...](/pictures/thumb/230.jpg?v=1485604651)
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..... More
![INDEPENDENCE IN THE RUSSIAN FURNITURE CRAFT] Obmery mebeli. Vypusk 1. Obraztsy mebeli russkoi...](/pictures/thumb/677.png?v=1558656303)
Moscow: Izd. Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1940. 159 pp.: ill. 27,5x20,5 cm. In the original illustrated green cloth with decorative composition and lettering. Very good, curious contemporary pencil notes on the front flyleaf (in verse and prose). The unknown inscriber calls the book ‘the album that measures human feelings’ but then..... More
![INDUSTRIAL ART] Katalog Peredvizhnoi vystavki: Zhivopis’, risunok, grafika, tekstil’ [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/270.jpg?v=1492003319)
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..... More
![JANUARY OF 1942] Prezrenie k smerti [i.e. The Despite Towards The Death](/pictures/thumb/992.jpg?v=1591800201)
Kazan': Sovetskiy pisatel’, 1942. 41, [2] pp. 16x11 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. First edition. Rare. An important collection of short stories by nine Soviet authors. ‘Sovetskiy pisatel’ was one of the main literary publishing houses with several regional branches. This book was prepared by..... More
![JAPANESE CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN RUSSIA] Vystavka detskoi knigi i detskogo tvorchestva Yaponii /...](/pictures/thumb/144.jpg?v=1483909578)
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..... More
![JAZZ DURING THE WARTIME] Radost’. Iz repertuara okruzhnogo dzhaza DKA SKVO [i.e. Joy. From the...](/pictures/thumb/991.jpg?v=1591799309)
Sochi: Sochinskiy Gosudarstvenniy teatr, 1943. [2] pp. 14x7,5 cm. One stain otherwise very good with the poor quality of paper expected. The program of the jazz concert given in December of 1943, in Sochi (Krasnodar Krai) in the local State Theatre. The program includes the list of the..... More
![JEWISH BEZBOZHNIK] Der Apikoyres: Organ fun Ts. R. funem Farband krigerishe apikorsim [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/1223.jpg?v=1617190470)
Moscow: Der Farband, 1932. 20 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from the text block, tears of spine, small pieces of paper glued to the first and last pages, otherwise very good. One of 4000 copies. In Yiddish. Very rare. An issue of the first..... More
Moscow: Shk. FZU 1-i tip. Gosizdata, 1925. 31 pp. 17x13 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine, some creases of the wrappers and wear of the spine. Very rare, one of 1000 copies. This is the catalogue for the exhibition held in 1925 by a short-term association of young..... More
Devushka s korobkoi [i.e. The Girl with a Hatbox]. Leningrad: Izd. kinoteatra ‘Gigant’, [1936]. Lithographed two-colored leaflet. 20,5x28 cm. Mint. One of 1200 copies. Extremely rare. This is an advertisement of Boris Barnet's film ‘The Girl with a Hatbox’ (1927) for showing it in the largest Soviet movie..... More
![LEGENDARY LENINGRAD THEATRE] Putevoditel’ po Gosudarstvennomu Bol’shomu Dramteatru : God...](/pictures/thumb/1006.jpg?v=1591804259)
Leningrad: Tip. im. Volodarskogo, 1931. 32 pp.: ill., 1 double-page plan. 14,5x10,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Minor tears of the spine, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. Extremely rare and interesting prospectus dedicated to the repertoire of Bolshoi Drama Theater (BDT) and its mass cultural activity in 1931..... More
![LENINGRAD GRAPHICS GO TO EREVAN] Vystavka proizvedenii grafiki leningradskikh khudozhnikov....](/pictures/thumb/467.jpg?v=1526397135)
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..... More
![LENINGRAD SIEGE EXHIBITION] Vystavka Geroicheskaya oborona Leningrada. Ocherk-putevoditel’...](/pictures/thumb/365.jpg?v=1513597186)
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..... More
![LENIN] Velikii vozhd. Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyi sbornik [i.e. The Great Leader. Literary and...](/pictures/thumb/960.jpg?v=1582651029)
Moscow: izdatelstvo komissii pomoshchi detiam pri prezidiume Mossoveta, 1924. 224 pp.: ill. 34x26,5. Original illustrated cardboard. Few bumps of the edges, but generally a very good copy. First edition. One of 10000 copies produced. Very rare. Of all the kaleidoscope of the editions dedicated to the death of..... More
![LITERATURE BY FOSTER STUDENTS] Zhizn’ nachinaetsia. Sbornik stikhov, rasskazov i ocherkov,...](/pictures/thumb/998.jpg?v=1591802807)
Leningrad: Otdel trudkoloniy UNKVD LO, 1936. 104 pp., 1 front. (Portrait of Dzerzhinsky) 17,5x13,5 cm. One of 3000 copies. Original cloth binding with the low-relief image on the front cover. Slightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy. Inscribed on the verso of the first endpaper by one of the authors..... More
![MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN GEORGIAN PRISON] Met’ekhis k’rialosani = Chetki Metekha [i.e. Metekhi...](/pictures/thumb/674.png?v=1558654763)
Tbilisi: Sp’etsdanishnulebis izoliat’oris (met’ekhis) k’ult’-k’omisiis ga-ma, 1928. 24 pp.: ill. 26x17 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Tears of the spine with small losses, soiling of the covers, water stain on the lower margin throughout the copy, otherwise very good internally. This is a unique survival of..... More
![THE MAIN GEORGIAN SATIRICAL MAGAZINE] Niangi: sat’irisa da iumoris zhurnali [i.e. Crocodile:...](/pictures/thumb/927.jpg?v=1582641401)
Tbilisi, 1923-1946. The collection of 564 issues. Complete sets of the year runs: 1931, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946. Incomplete sets (usually lacking few to several issues): 1923-1928, 1930, 1932, 1934-1937. Full descriptions of all present issues are available upon request. This is a collection of..... More
![MAYAKOVSKY ON THE PARISIAN ART SCENE] Gore pakharia: Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyi i...](/pictures/thumb/566.jpg?v=1547728135)
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..... More