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

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

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

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

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

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

Volumes 1-2 [all published]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Arkhitekturnoe Izdatelstvo Akademii Arkhitektury SSSR, 1942-1944. Vol 1. 1942. 79 pp.: ill. 22,5x17 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. Vol 2. 1944. 72 pp.: ill. 21,7x17,4 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. The edition was prepared by the Academy of the Architecture of..... More

[Moscow, 1921]. 22,5x28 cm. Creases and minor tears of the edges, pencil notes on the back. Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was one of the leaders of Soviet emancipation. In 1905 during the revolution she organized The Society of Help for the Female workers. Accusations from the state have forced her..... More

Sverdlovsk: OGIZ, 1942. 85, [3] pp. 16x10,5 cm. One of 25000 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Small tear of the spine and loss of the front cover. Otherwise very good. First edition. Extremely rare edition from the series printed in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) during the German occupation of the European..... More

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. More

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..... More

[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..... More

[Moscow]: Izogiz, 1935. 208 pp.: ill. 30x21,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Covers slightly soiled and spine chipped, otherwise a very good and internally clean copy. A valuable piece of a historical evidence on Moscow reconstruction of 1935, Ginzburg’s constructivist project of Moscow-Donbass Highway and Khiger’s civil housing critics..... More