![Item #895 [FIRST TOUR OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN IN THE USSR] N’iu-Iorkskii simfonicheskii orkestr...](/pictures/thumb/895.jpg?v=1576162057)
Moscow: Tip. Krasnaia Zvezda, 1959. 45x30,5cm. Near fine. One of 3000 copies. Extremely rare. This is an advertising poster of the first tour of New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the Soviet Union. Conducting by Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, the Orchestra had given concerts at Moscow Conservatory in..... More
![Item #1433 [FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH ANTI-FASCIST COMMITTEE DURING WARTIME] Brat’ia evrei vsego...](/pictures/thumb/1433.jpg?v=1660815822)
[Moscow]: Gospolitizdat, 1941. 34, [2] pp. 20x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, covers tanned and slightly soiled, pale water stain on lower margin throughout copy, otherwise very good internally. Very rare wartime brochure signed for printing on August 28, 1941. This brochure and the meeting..... More
![Item #888 [FREEDOM THROUGH THE KROKODIL MAGAZINE] Krokodil [i.e. Crocodile] #4-35 for 1989....](/pictures/thumb/888.jpg?v=1576159369)
Moscow: Pravda, 1989. 35,5x27 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some tears of edges and ink marks (#31). Crosswords in most issues are filled out. Almost complete year set of issues printed in a period of glasnost (i.e. publicity) marking the last years of the Soviet rule. They..... More
![Item #582 [FUISM] “A”. [Collection of poems] / B. Pereleshin, A. Rakitnikov, I. Sokolov....](/pictures/thumb/582.jpg?v=1547734460)
[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..... More
![Item #936 [THE GENIUS AND THE BUTCHER] Stalin. Zhivopis’. Plakat. Grafika. Skulptura [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/936.jpg?v=1582644131)
Moscow: OGIZ, IZOGIZ, 1934. [66] pp. 34x35 cm. Publisher’s cloth binding. Each illustration is supplied with the tissue paper, all present. Copy from the smaller part of the print run with the publisher’s blank dust wrapper preserved and Stalin’s silhouette printed in silver on the frontispiece and Stalin’s signature printed..... More
![Item #194 [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
![Item #820 [HERITAGE OF DIRECTOR VAKHTANGOV] Muzei-komnata E.B. Vakhtangova. Katalog [i.e. Museum...](/pictures/thumb/820.jpg?v=1660908430)
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
![Item #885 [HISTORY IN IMAGES – I VANE JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY] T’pilisis...](/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
![Item #833 [HOMOPHOBIA VS PHILANTHROPY] Puteshestviye miss Marsden v Yakutskuyu oblast' i...](/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
![Item #781 [HOW TO DESIGN A COMFORTABLE WORKPLACE] Estetika proizvodstvennoi sredy na...](/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
![Item #1383 [ICON PAINTER BECOMES A SUPREMATIST] Vystavka kartin i risunkov K.N. Red’ko....](/pictures/thumb/1383.jpg?v=1658495388)
Moscow: Glavnauka, 1926. 16 pp., ill. 21,8x14,9 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the abstraction Dynamite. The catalogue also includes 3 reproductions of Redko’s other works. Very good condition. Extremely rare. Redko’s only personal exhibition of works that was held during his lifetime in Russia showcased 200 works..... 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
![Item #1297 [IMPRESSIVE NONFICTION PERIODICAL OF THE EARLY USSR] Tekhnika i zhizn’ [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1297.jpg?v=1634126781)
Moscow: N.K.P.S. Transpechat’, 1925. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good and mostly clean. #8 stamp ‘People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade’ on front cover, few stains; #9 uncut, pencil marks on front cover; #20 minor rusty stains, ink mark on p.1; #22 water stain on lower margin, small fragment..... More
![Item #230 [IN THE HEART OF CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ezhegodnik MAO. #5. (Yubileinyi vypusk) [i.e. Yearbook...](/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
![Item #677 [INDEPENDENCE IN THE RUSSIAN FURNITURE CRAFT] Obmery mebeli. Vypusk 1. Obraztsy...](/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
![Item #1092 [IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i...](/pictures/thumb/1092.jpg?v=1604431141)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1939. XII, 302 pp., СХХIV ill.: ill. 34.6x27.2 cm. In original publisher’s full cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Edges slightly bumped with the tear to the lower right edge of the front board, two last pages are slightly..... More
![Item #837 [IZORAM] Izo rabochei molodezhi Leningrada: (Katalog) [i.e. The Art of...](/pictures/thumb/837.png?v=1569967661)
Moscow: Tretiakov Gallery, 1929. 68, [3] pp.: ill. 16х14 cm. In original wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. Illustrated with 11 photogravures. Two-color avant-garde wrappers attributed to Ilya Chasnik. This catalogue was published on..... 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
![Item #1508 Kommunarka Ukrainy [i.e. Communist Woman of Ukraine] #40, 48 for 1932](/pictures/thumb/1508.jpg?v=1663082630)
Kharkiv: Kommunist, 1932. 30x22 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. In very good condition. Small tear to front cover of #40, covers of #48 almost detached with fragments of edges lost, minor tears of edges. Two issues of an early Soviet periodical for Ukrainian women demonstrating excellent experiments in..... More
Ivanovo-Voznesensk: Izd. “Reklamprovintsii” pri gaz. “Rabochii krai”, 1925. [1-22], 25-123, [6], 135-240, [2], 241-355 = 356 (of 355 indicted) pp.: ill. 26x35 cm. In original full-cloth binding with blind lettering. No half-title. Spine and few leaves restored, endpapers renewed. Some soiling, otherwise very good. Rare provincial edition. Striking..... More
![Item #1088 [THE LARGEST HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION ON DNIEPER RIVER] Dneprostroy i novoye...](/pictures/thumb/1088.jpg?v=1604429859)
Kharkiv: gospodarstvo Ukraini, 1932. [1], 45 pp.: ill. 26.4x35.4 cm. In owner’s cloth binding with original wrappers preserved. In a good condition. Front endpaper, front wrapper, title-page and few pages detached. Scarce. Second edition. First edition published in 1930 with design by Mark Kirnarsky. In contrast to the previous edition..... More
Otel' "Savoi" [i.e. The Savoi Hotel]. Leningrad: Izd. kinoteatra ‘Kapitolii, [1929]. Two-colored leaflet with the constructivist design. 18,5x27,5 cm. Few minor tears of edges, otherwise very good. One of 1300 copies. Extremely rare. This is a striking advertisement of a film ‘The Savoi Hotel’ that was the first..... More
![Item #1586 [LEATHER AND HABERDASHERY PRODUCTS] Kataloh shkiryano-halantereynykh vyrobiv [i.e. A...](/pictures/thumb/1586.jpg?v=1673277069)
Kyiv: Ukrayins’ke derzhavne vydavnytstvo mystsevoyi promyslovosty, 1936. 102 pp.: ill. 15.8x22.2 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Worn, age-toned, tears to the edges of the wrappers, Soviet library inventory number on the front wrapper, rare wrapper with a paper label with an inventory number, inventory numbers, and Soviet library stamps..... More
![Item #365 [LENINGRAD SIEGE EXHIBITION] Vystavka Geroicheskaya oborona Leningrada....](/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