[Petrograd: Tsentr. Tipograf, 1917]. One sided leaflet. 36,5x22 cm. Near fine. A unique survival of the time and a historical evidence of the most important time in Russia’s history. This is a flyer printed by the All-Russian League of Equal Rights for Women in 1917 for their political...
St. Petersburg: Cartographical Establishment of A. Ilyin, 1900. 53x59,5 cm. Chromolithographed map. Very good. Minor tears on folds and one small repaired tear on the left margin. This map shows the Far Eastern provinces of the Russian Empire from the Yablonevy Range and port Ayan in the north to...
Yokohama: 1859. Ukiyo-e woodblock print ca. 19,5x26,5 cm. With a printed title in the right upper corner and dense printed text on the upper margin. Paper slightly age toned, four small worm holes on the right margin, but overall a very good copy of this very rare print. Rare...
1859. Ca. 1859. Ca. 54x75 cm. Black ink on rice paper, hand coloured in yellow, red, black, and grey. Extensive text in Japanese on the right and left margins. Fold marks, otherwise a very good plan. Interesting early detailed Japanese plan of the first Russian settlement on Sakhalin...
14 of July, 1935. [3] pp. Fine condition. Light tears of the edges. Sergey Korolev (1906-1966) was the Soviet engineer and spacecraft designer who now considered the father of practical astronautics and the founder of the Soviet space program. He led Soviet efforts to build and test the nation's...
Moscow: Torgovyi Dom F.I. Detlaf, 1910s. [4] pp. 35x26 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears and losses, spots on the back cover, otherwise very good.
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1924. [4], 21 pp. 35,5x26,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers by K. Mironov. Small closed tears of the spine, ink bookshops’ stamps on the front cover and t.p. Otherwise very good. One of 2000 copies.
Moscow: Self-published, 1926. 6 pp. 33x25 cm. In original wrappers. Very good, signature on the front cover, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover. One of 3000 copies.
Moscow: Glavnauka, 1927. 16 pp. 17,2x13,3 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, two close tears of the spine and some spots near the spine. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. The catalogue for the 2nd exhibition (of only 4 held by the Society) which took place in 1927...
[Moscow]: OGIZ-Molodaya Gvardiya, 1932. 32, [32] pp.: ill. 22,5x18 cm. Pagination includes insides of front and back covers. In original illustrated cardboards. Very good. Boards rubbed with small fragments of the spine missing. First and only edition. Scarce. Designed by Solomon Telingater (1903-1969). The strong foundation of a purely polygraphic...
Moscow: Iskra revolyutsii, 1928. [64] pp. 26x17 cm. 5000 copies printed. Wrapper designed by B. Sakhnovsky, photo-montage by A. Akhtyrko, L. Zotov, B. Sakhnovsky. Spine is repaired with paper, otherwise good condition. “Blue Blouse” was a popular theater-collective of the early Soviet era. First a small troupe, it...
A collection of rare survivals of the time - small fragile brochures with ‘film librettos’, actors’ biographies, and articles. The 1920s was the decade of the New Economic Policy in the USSR, when a relaxation of state control of some industries gave people a taste of mini-capitalism within the.....
Moscow: Mezhrabpom- Rus’, 1925. 16 pp.: ill., photographs. 30,5х22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by I. Bograd. Near fine. Some soiling and slightly rubbed spine. One of 15000. This edition is dedicated to the Soviet silent film which came out in 1925. Scenes from the film with captions followed...
Moscow: [Gosstroi], 1960. [8] pp., 68 leaves with designs in illustrated folder with laces. Folder with Soviet bookshop’s stamp, rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Very rare. One of 5000 copies. Folder designed by V.A. Briun, art directors - Briun and E.I. Matveenko. This...
Two books on sex, originating from the same source: 1. Entsiklopediya intimnoi zhizni [i.e. The Encyclopedia of Intimate Life]. [N.p., 1970s]. 44 leaves. 30x22 cm. Typescript. In owner’s plastic folder. Soiling and deformations of the folder, clean text block. The Soviet underground translation of an American book from...
Moscow: Reklamfilm, 1987. 86,5x55 cm. Fine. In this year the film by Fellini was widely distributed in Soviet cinemas for the first time.
Moscow: GLAZKINOPLAKAT, 1943. 63x80 cm. Good condition with some minor tears and losses at the margin of the poster. 1 of 3500 copies. Poster design by Kashcheev. The soviet poster for the notorious film by Michael Curtiz. It was ‘one of three pro-Soviet films made in Hollywood’ by The...
Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 164 pp.: port. 20x14 cm. In original blue cloth with gilt title, blind stamping of the imprint and embossed image on the front board. Near fine, slightly bumped on the corners and spine, couple of erased pencil markings on endpapers, bookshop’s stamp on p.51. Twenty five...
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923. 225, [5] pp.: ill., 4 pl. 27x18 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good. Partially uncut. Tears and small losses of the spine and extremities of the wrappers, signature on the t.p. (ink), damp stains on margins of pages. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Very...
Kazan: tip. Pechat, 1925. [8] pp., incl. wrappers. Near fine. Restored. Extremely rare. One of 100 copies. First and only edition. In the 1920s Kazan experienced one of the most independent and unique avant-garde art movements. It started in ARKhUMAS (the most common name for Kazan Architectural and Art...
[Moscow, 1928]. 32 pp.: ill. 26x18 cm. In publisher’s constructivist wrappers. Very good. Soiling and spots on rubbed wrappers, tears of the spine, inscription on the verso of the front cover (pencil). First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. Wrapper design by E. Mel’nikova. A very...
Moscow, 1919. 62x53 cm. Famous poster by Viktor Deni (1893-1946) showing Ukraine as a martyr being put on the cross by Pan Petlyura, the leader of the People’s Republic of Ukraine from 1919 to 1920. Being considered a war criminal throughout Soviet times, Symon Petlyura (1879-1926) now is regarded...
[Kiev]; Kharkiv: Mistetstvo, 1936. 70, [2] pp.: ill., 2 pl. 25х17,5 cm. In original blank wrappers and illustrated dust wrappers with Ukrainian folk floral decoration. Vertical crease of the whole book, small tears of the spine, Soviet bookshops’ stamps both on the wrapper and dust wrapper, tears and losses of...
Kiev: 2ya Radyanska foto-lito-grukarnia, 1920. 75x55 cm. Rebacked and restored. The poster was made around the time the Red Army was approaching to take the full control over the Ukraine. The text says: ’The red calvary has defeated Mamontov, Shkuro, Denikin, lords and Petlyura. Now it’s time to...
Volume 1 [and only]. Kiev: KHI, 1928. 75, [3] pp. 30x23 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Spine is restored, mild foxing of the rear wrapper. Wrappers designed by the leader of Kazan avant-garde Illarion Pleshchinskiy (1892-1961). Extremely rare. One of 750 copies printed. Not found in the Worldcat...
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