![MOSCOW & NIZHNY NOVGOROD ON PHOTOS OF 1871] [Album of Twenty Early Original Albumen Photographs,...](/pictures/thumb/1200.jpg?v=1613994571)
1871. Oblong Folio (ca. 28x34,5 cm). 21 thick stock album leaves. With 20 mounted albumen prints, including twelve large images ca. 19x25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 ¾ in), the rest are ca. 12x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ½ in). All but two captioned in English or French in..... More
![MOSCOW-VOLGA CANAL] Kanal Moskva-Volga. Spravochnye dannye [i.e. Moscow-Volga Canal. Reference Data](/pictures/thumb/984.jpg?v=1591795313)
Dmitrov: N.p., 1934. [10], 75, [3] pp., 15 charts. 8x11,5 cm. In original full cloth with embossed blind lettering on silver strip. Very good. Slightly rubbed, few pencil signatures and pale spots, ink inscription on back endpaper. Ink corrections on p.74. One of 1000 copies. Complete with 15 lithographed..... More
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. More
![NEW TYPE OF THEATRE FOR A NEW SOVIET MAN] Moskovsky dramatichesky teatr imeni MGSPS:...](/pictures/thumb/296.jpg?v=1500468355)
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..... More
Full set for 11 years (1962-1972). Overall 132 issues in 22 cloth bindings (original blue wrappers preserved). Occasional foxing, damp stains (vol.2 1968), front cover damaged (#12 1968). Otherwise very good. Novy mir is one of the oldest monthly literary magazines in modern Russian. It has been published in..... More
![ODESSA AVANT-GARDE STAGE] Odes’kii Derzhavnii teatr opery ta baletu: Sezon 1929-30 roku [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/904.jpg?v=1576165683)
Odessa: DOTOB, 1929. 64 pp.: ill., 2 folding charts, one of them loosely inserted. In original wrappers with constructivist design. In very good condition. Covers slightly restored, a couple of colored pencil marks on photographs, otherwise very good condition. Both covers were designed in the constructivist style. The front..... More
![ON THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP IN THE 19TH CENTURY] Opisaniye priema sdelannogo 5-go...](/pictures/thumb/11.jpg?v=1446492525)
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..... More
![ORIENTAL RODCHENKO] Soume Scheng. Kitayanka Sume-Cheng [i.e. Soume Cheng, the Chinese](/pictures/thumb/747.jpg?v=1563919747)
Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ, 1929. 149 pp.: ill. Original illustrated wrappers. Uncut. Very good condition. Stamps of the ‘GIZ archive’ with ‘withdrawn’ stamp over it. First and only edition. Construction of the book by Alexander Rodchenko. He was also responsible for the choice of the photographs. The book..... More
![ORIGINS OF THE SOVIET CHILDREN'S THEATRE] Pinokkio / Moskovskii teatr dlia detei Moskovskogo...](/pictures/thumb/891.jpg?v=1576160689)
Moscow: Tipo-litografiia GUVUZ, 1923. Folded in half leaf of pink paper with loosely inserted half-sized leaf. 19x14,5 cm. Slightly deformed of water with few pale water stains. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Extremely rare pamphlet with an avant-garde theater logo by unknown artist. This is..... More
![Orthopaedics IN RUSSIA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENT.] Ortopedicheskaia klinika...](/pictures/thumb/1068.jpg?v=1601556020)
St. Petersburg, 1913. 58 pp.: ill., 9 ills. 21x15,5 cm. In original illustrated covers. Some stains on covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat. Interesting evidence of the early period of orthopedic surgery in Russia. In contrast to..... More
![PARADE EDITION BY RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Soviet Aviation](/pictures/thumb/1048.jpg?v=1601548185)
Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939. 96 pp.: ill. 40x26 cm. In original full cloth with lettering and design on the front cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Slightly soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Illustrated throughout with photomontages and photographs by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova... More
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..... More
![PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi pavil’on-stantsiia v...](/pictures/thumb/933.jpg?v=1582642988)
[Moscow: M.G.Zh.D., 1925]. Ca. 26,5x22 cm. Sixteen mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 11x15 cm. No captions. In original cloth folder with gilt lettering. Soiling of folder and foxing on the inner side, but the leaves are near fine. An attractive album of rare photos proving triumph of constructivism..... More
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...... More
![PIONEERS OF SPACE-TRAVEL: GAGARIN AND TSIOLKOVSKY] K.E. Tsiolkovsky: Stranitsy velikoy zhizni /...](/pictures/thumb/5.jpg?v=1446491559)
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..... More
![POST CONSTRUCTIVIST SCHOOLS] Shkoly gotovy! Kak my borolis’ za vypolnenie postanovleniia SNK...](/pictures/thumb/501.jpg?v=1533142747)
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..... More
![POULTRY PHOTOMONTAGES] Ptitsevodstvo. Krolikovodstvo [i.e. Poultry Breeding. Rabbit Breeding] /...](/pictures/thumb/962.jpg?v=1582651241)
Moscow: Sel’khozgiz, 1940. [126] pp.: ill. 29x23 cm. In original cloth with gilt embossed design and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly rubbed, few defects of the back cover, some soiling of lower outer corner, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies..... More
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..... More
Five editions connected with Sevvostlag (North-Eastern Camp) that located on the territory of Dalstroy (Far North Construction Trust). Among them are richly illustrated magazine (1946), jubilee collection of essays (1967) and six issues of three newspapers (1940-1946). It all began when the 1920s expeditions to the little-known region of..... More
![RARE EARLY DRAWINGS OF SOVIET TURKMENISTAN] [Collection of Twenty-One Pencil Drawings of...](/pictures/thumb/1202.jpg?v=1613995179)
September 1928. Twenty-one loose pencil drawings (two slightly coloured), including nineteen large ones ca. 18x27 cm (7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in), and two smaller ones, ca. 13,5x18 cm (5 ¼ x 7 in). All but four drawings with period pencil captions on recto or verso; ten additionally dated September..... More
![RARE FOOTAGE FROM THE LIFE OF THE TILE MAKING FACTORY] Keramiko-plitochny zavod imeni N.A....](/pictures/thumb/506.jpg?v=1533144768)
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..... More
![RARE PROVINCIAL CATALOGUE] Vystavka proizvedenii leningradskikh khudozhnikov: Katalog [i.e. Art...](/pictures/thumb/495.jpg?v=1533131814)
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..... More
![REVOLUTIONARY ART] Oktyabr’ v iskusstve i literature. 1917-1927 [i.e. October in Art and...](/pictures/thumb/350.jpg?v=1513337442)
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..... More
![RODCHENKO] [Imprint. the 1980s]. Morning exercises on the roof. A Student Campus in Lefortovo](/pictures/thumb/1118.jpg?v=1608112910)
1932. 18x12 cm. Near fine. Sighed on the rear side by Rodchenko’s grandson Alexander Lavrent’ev. Interesting evidence of physical practices in Moscow universities, as well as contemporary styles of Soviet underwear. This roof of the student campus was adapted to sport exercises and a pool was also placed. Rodchenko..... More
![RODCHENKO] [Imprint. the 1980s]. A shock-worker of a Fire Engine Plant](/pictures/thumb/1136.jpg?v=1608119481)
1932. 16,5x11,5 cm. Near fine. Sighed on the rear side by Rodchenko’s grandson Alexander Lavrent’ev. An idyllic picture: a worker is reading the Pravda newspaper. Rodchenko was looking for new perspectives and angles since the late 1920s, following the slogan “Our duty is to experiment!”. He used..... More