![Item #960 [LENIN] Velikii vozhd. Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyi sbornik [i.e. The Great Leader....](/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
![Item #1246 [LOMONOSOV’S THEORY OF COLOR] Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam...](/pictures/thumb/1246.jpg?v=1631710057)
Petropoli: Typis Academiae Scientiarum, [1756]. [2], 40 pp. 21,9x17,5 cm. Modern half-leather. Very good internally. First edition. One of the major works by Mikhail Lomonosov and his main contribution to optics. On the basis of many years of research and numerous experiments, Lomonosov developed a theory of light..... More
![Item #1096 [LUBOK IN UKRAINIAN] Evrei [i.e. The Jew](/pictures/thumb/1096.jpg?v=1604432765)
[Ukraine, late 19th c.]. 44х34,5 cm. Steel engraving. Very good, a few tears. Text in simplified Ukrainian. An example of antisemitic anecdote printed for the folk in the form of lubok. The text tells the story of the Jewish seller who came to the nobleman to sell some..... More
![Item #674 [MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN GEORGIAN PRISON] Met’ekhis k’rialosani = Chetki Metekha...](/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
![Item #1438 [THE MAIN SOVIET MAGAZINE ON PRINTING] Poligraficheskoe proizvodstvo [i.e. Printing...](/pictures/thumb/1438.jpg?v=1660818413)
Moscow: Izd. Soveta s’ezdov poligrafpromyshlennosti, 1927. 42 pp.: ill., 2 ill. + 6 pp. of ads. 30,5x22 cm. In original printed wrappers. Small fragments of spine and front cover lost, minor tears, otherwise very good. An early issue of the magazine ‘Printing Industry’, the main periodical for employees of..... More
![Item #375 [MALY THEATRE] Malyi teatr. Sto let Malomu teatru: 1824-1924 / Red. A. Kugel’ and V....](/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
![Item #566 [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
![Item #508 [MAYAKOVSKY’S WORK FOR ADVERTISING] Izvestiya. #175 (August 2nd, 1924](/pictures/thumb/508.jpg?v=1533145411)
Moscow: Krasnyi mayak, 1924. 8 pp.: ill. 65x54 cm. Very good. A very fragile newspaper with tears of the extremities and spine, ink stamp of the non-existing library (Lenin’s institute). An extremely rare survival of the time. Page 8 with advertisements including an illustrated ad for ABC with poem..... More
Three fine programs of Meyerhold Theater displaying the last period of its activity. Strongly opposed to socialist realism, Meyerhold’s experimental performances were alien to the Soviet state’s demands but lasted even after the party clamped down on all avant-garde art. Despite the time being already retaliatory towards the avant-garde, the..... More
![Item #466 [MIR ISKUSSTVA] Katalog vystavki rabot “Mir iskusstva” [i.e. A Catalogue of Mir...](/pictures/thumb/466.jpg?v=1526398117)
Moscow: Tip. T/d. I.S. Kolomiets, 1915. [24] pp. 18x12 cm. In original illustrated lithographed wrappers. Near fine, vertical crease throughout the book. A very rare copy of a small run in almost mint condition. This is a catalogue for the exhibition which took place in Moscow in 1915 and..... More
![Item #1009 [MONTAGE CERTIFICATE TO SHOCK-WORKER] Po novomu rabotat’ - po novomu rukovodit’...](/pictures/thumb/1009.jpg?v=1591893290)
Leningrad: Izogiz, [1935]. 36,5x24,5 cm. Very good. Tears and creases, rubbed and repaired. This striking certificate was awarded to A. Milovskii in recognition of his devotion to building socialism and work enthusiasm, bestowing him an honorary title of shock-worker. Signed by a director of Trubchevsk Pedagogical college and..... More
![Item #698 [MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY] Arkhitektura: Ezhemesiachnik. 1-2 [i.e. Architecture:...](/pictures/thumb/698.jpg?v=1561148013)
[Moscow]: Moskovskoie Arkhitekturnoie Obshchestvo, 1923. 50, [14] pp.: ills. 32,2х25 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Small tears of the front wrapper, light restoration of the tears and spine, spots on the title page. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. Early constructivist wrapper designed by A. Vesnin (one..... More
![Item #296 [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
Lviv: 1925-1939. 24 separate issues. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. 20 issues feature wrapper design by the noted Ukrainian modernist artist Mykola Butovych (1895- 1961). 1 issue (#3 of 1934) features wrapper design by the famous Ukrainian modernist artist and illustrator Galina Mazepa-Koval’ (1910- 1995). 1 issue (#6 of 1935)..... 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
![Item #88 [ONE OF THE FIRST ANTI-NAZI CARICATURES OF THE WWII] Ogonyok [i.e. The Twinkle](/pictures/thumb/88.jpg?v=1450190185)
Moscow: Ogonyok, 1941. No.18. 25 of June 1941. 24 pp. 32x25 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. This issue of 'Ogonyok' was the first one printed after Germany began the war against Soviet Union on the 22 of June 1941. Boris Efimov's iconic caricatures on the..... More
![Item #1560 [ONE OF THE FIRST SOVIET TRAVEL MAGAZINES] Na sushe i na more [i.e. On Land and Sea](/pictures/thumb/1560.jpg?v=1669214089)
Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1929-1941. #1 of 1931. 20 pp.: ill. 21.7x29 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Tears of the spine with text affected (minor), foxing of the wrappers. Otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. Printrun varied. In 1931 the magazine was published with the printrun of 75,000 copies..... More
![Item #1557 [ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ATLASES OF ARMENIA] Atlas Armyanskoy Sovetskoy...](/pictures/thumb/1557.jpg?v=1669213387)
Erevan: Akademiya nauk Armyanskoy SSR, Glavnoye upravleniye geodezii i kartografii MGiON SSSR, 1961. VIII, 112 pp. 35x33,5cm. Dust jacket. In original red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Dust jacket with tears, previous owner’s ink inscription on the title-page: “To Dear Ioseb Megrelidze with Deep..... More
![Item #747 [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
![Item #891 [ORIGINS OF THE SOVIET CHILDREN'S THEATRE] Pinokkio / Moskovskii teatr dlia detei...](/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
![Item #1068 [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
![Item #1525 [PAPER MEMORIAL TO LENIN] Peredovye otriady – Leninu [i.e. From Vanguard Groups to...](/pictures/thumb/1525.jpg?v=1666180881)
Moscow: Rabochaia Moskva, 1924. 40 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Foxing occasionally, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Rare. Notable constructivist cover design reproduces Lenin’s portrait. It was created by Leonid Mezhericher (1898-1938), an artist and photographer who was known as an initiator of the Soviet..... More
![Item #1395 [A PARADE EDITION - SOVIET SHOCK-WORKERS] Stalinskoe plemia stakhanovtsev [i.e. A...](/pictures/thumb/1395.jpg?v=1658794465)
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo izobrazitel’nykh iskusstv, 1936. [2], XX, 71, [1], 72-82, [2], 83-86 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 29x30 cm. In original cloth binding with a flap of the back cover, with silver lettering and blind debossed image on the front cover, silver design on the spine; publisher’s blind logo on..... More
![Item #1528 [PEOPLES OF RUSSIAN ARCTIC] Evenkiia. Graviury V.I. Meshkova [i.e. Evenkia. Engravings...](/pictures/thumb/1528.jpg?v=1666181357)
Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1961. 7 pp.: ill.+10 ills. 38,5x29,5 cm. In original illustrated folder. Folder rubbed, with tears of folds and creases, pale water stain on lower edge, small stain and minor tear of brochure, some creases on lower edge of leaf #10. Signed by the author on an inner..... More
![Item #1024 [PERIODICAL ABOUT BOOKS] Knigonosha [i.e. Wandering Bookseller](/pictures/thumb/1024.jpg?v=1595853643)
#1-11, 12/13, 14, 15/16, 17-21, 22/23, 24-30, 31/32, 33/34, 35, 36/37, 38, 39/40 for 1925. Overall 35 issues. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1925. 34x26 cm. In contemporary binding; original wrappers preserved. In general, most issues are in a very good condition. Binding with first 18 pages and last issue detached from the..... More