![GIGANTIC TURNIP BY SIMONOVICH-EFIMOVA] Skazka Repka [i.e. The Gigantic Turnip](/pictures/thumb/194.jpg?v=1483909032)
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..... More
![GLINKA & BILIBIN] Ruslan i Lyudmila. Volshebnaya opera v 5 deistviyakh. Syuzhet zaimstvovan iz...](/pictures/thumb/106.jpg?v=1472300755)
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..... More
![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
![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 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
[End of 19th cent.] 220 leaves. 36x24 cm. Manuscript. The title page and frontispiece is decorated in colors. Every chapter starts with illuminated headpiece and initial. Contemporary red morocco with raised bands and gilt and blind stamping. One of two claps preserved. The covers are slightly rubbed. Otherwise very good..... 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
[Moscow]: Ob-vo russkikh skul’pturov, 1929. 14 pp.: ill. 22,15 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. The catalogue for the 3rd exhibition (of only 4 held by the Society) that was held in 1929 includes introduction “ORS in 1929” by A. Bakushinsky (short..... 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
![KUKRYNIKSY] Working sketchbook of Nikolai Sokolov](/pictures/thumb/241.jpg?v=1488458942)
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..... 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
![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
Handwritten note by Leo Tolstoy dated 2 March 1893. No envelope or address: “It’s difficult to answer your question in writing. In words I might be able to advise you. Evening after 7 o’clock I'll be home”. More
Handwritten note by Leo Tolstoy dated 2 March 1893. No envelope or address: “It’s difficult to answer your question in writing. In words I might be able to advise you. Evening after 7 o’clock I’ll be home”. 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
![MALY THEATRE] Malyi teatr. Sto let Malomu teatru: 1824-1924 / Red. A. Kugel’ and V. Filippov...](/pictures/thumb/375.jpg?v=1516184855)
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..... More