![Item #711 [SHOSTAKOVICH] Composer’s archive with his letters and a signed photograph](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/711.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614777715)
The archive consisting of one signed photo by Shostakovich, 6 letters (with the envelopes in maestroâs handwriting), 1 congratulatory telegram with the photo pasted on it and one family photo. All of the letters are addressed to Kazan to Isaia Sherman. Isai Sherman (1908-1972) the Ukrainian born conductor, who has..... More
![Item #1722 [SOCIALIST GAME AS AN EXEMPLARY LIFESTYLE] Poster. Zdorovyi klub [i.e. Healthy Club] /...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1722.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688573537)
Moscow: Doloi negramotnostâ, [1924-1927]. 68x52,5 cm. Very good, small tears along creases. One of 4000 copies. A supplement for a magazine âClubâ. The society âDoloi negramotnostâ [Down with Illiteracy] was founded in 1924. Its publishing house was active for three years, releasing brochures and prints for the likbez campaign..... More
![Item #1747 [SOVET FORESTRY] Skhematicheskaia karta lesov chasti basseina rek Orlovka, Togolika...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1747.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688579015)
Novosibirsk: Upravlenie lesosyrâevykh baz: Sibirskaia lesoustroitelânaia kontora, 1953. 101x94,5 cm. Backed on cloth. Very good, some sections partly peeled off from cloth. Some soiling, few small fragments of lower central fragment lost. One of 7 copies produced. Very rare specialized map compiled for aerial forest inventory in the Soviet..... More
![Item #1759 [SOVIET ARMENIA IN ART] Vystavka kartin zasluzhennogo deiatelia iskusstv Pavla...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1759.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690322307)
Moscow: Gos. muzei iziashchnykh iskusstv: Tip. gaz. âPravdaâ, 1931. 19, [20] pp.: ill., 1 ill.. 16x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rusty staples, otherwise mint. First and only edition. One of 1500 copies. The foreword is written by A. Lunacharsky. A less-known catalog of a lifetime exhibition of..... More
![Item #1618 [SOVIET AVIATION: AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS] Tyazhelaya poterya [i.e. Bereavement](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1618.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676890445)
Moscow: Partizdat VKP(b), 1935. 57, [7] pp.: ill., 1 folding ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Spine and covers slightly rubbed, small stain on outer edge of pages. This book is dedicated to the rise and fall of the ANT-20, a groundbreaking project of Soviet aviation and..... More
![Item #1112 [SOVIET CIRCUS LEGEND] Advertising Poster. Zhonglery. Iunost’. Rukovoditel’...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1112.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604440865)
[Moscow]: Soiuzgostsirk, [1960s]. 86x57 cm. Very good, creases, minor tears. Extremely rare. One of 3000 copies. Design was produced by Marat Beliaev (born in 1932), a graphic artist and industrial designer. Since 1965 he was actively involved in the creation of posters, including circus advertisements. This poster..... More
![Item #522 [SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/522.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1541080275)
Moscow: [Gosstroi], 1960. [8] pp., 68 leaves with designs in illustrated folder with laces. Folder with Soviet bookshopâs 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..... More
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 ownerâs plastic folder. Soiling and deformations of the folder, clean text block. The Soviet underground translation of an American book from..... More
![Item #1825 [SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHY AND ANIMATION] Sobachki prachki. Skazka dlia malen’kikh detei...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1825.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695167165)
Moscow: Soyuzfoto: Fotokhudozhnik, 1938. 21 photographs. Photo: 9,6x14,6 cm. Folder: 10,5x16,5 cm. In original illustrated cardboard folder. Photos in mint condition, minor stains on blank edge of one photo. Folder rubbed, with tears and stains, otherwise good. Extremely rare. According to âThe Impact Book of the Soviet Youngstersâ, Griuntal..... More
Globus Books; Bookvica, 2022. Paperback, 159 pp., with illustrations throughout. A catalog of books, periodicals and other printed material featuring photomontage compositions. Concept & Idea: Pavel Chepyzhov Text: Valentina Gavrilova & Pavel Chepyzhov Editor: Stuart Eagles Graphic Design: Anastasiia Rozhkova Photo: Petr Baranov This catalog consists of..... More
![Item #1751 [SOVIET POWER PLANTS] [Map of electrification of the USSR](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1751.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688580321)
N.p., [1966]. 75x111 cm. Very good, few small tears of edges, some ink handwritten marks complementing map, handwritten note on rear side. This folding map was released in the 1960s, after several completed 5-year plans, finished industrialization of the country, expanded development of kolkhozes, and emergence of nuclear power..... More
![Item #168 [SOVIET PROPAGANDA BY WARNER BROTHERS] Missiya v Moskvu [i.e. The Mission to Moscow](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/168.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483885097)
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 âone of three pro-Soviet films made in Hollywoodâ by The..... More
![Item #843 [THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA OF SPORTS] Vsesoiuznyi parad fizkul’turnikov na Krasnoi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/843.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1569969571)
Moscow: N.p., [1945]. [60] pp.: ill. 29x24 cm. In original cloth with gilt lettering and logo. Slightly rubbed and weakened, ink inscription on the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This impressive album featured the photographs of the first post-WWII and the last..... More
![Item #1808 [SOVIET PROPAGANDA] Kul’trabotnik na stroike [i.e. A Cultural Worker in...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1808.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695158299)
Leningrad: 1931. 28,5x20,5 cm. In original wrappers-folder with letterpress design on front cover and two illustrations on flap of back cover and back cover itself. Tears of spine and front cover, small corner of back cover lost, soiling of wrappers, tears of pages along spine folding, edges of some leaves..... More
![Item #1571 [THE SOVIET UNION AGAINST WESTERN MUSIC] Dovesti do kontsa bor’bu s n·epmanskoy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1571.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669218389)
Moscow: Gos. muz. izd-vo, 1931. 112 pp.: ill. 17x12 cm. In original publisherâs printed wrappers. Tears of the spine, soiling and staining to the wrappers, previous ownerâs ink inscription on the front wrapper, Soviet bookshop stamp on the last page. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited by..... More
![Item #456 [SOVIET WORKER MUST REST] Doma otdykha: Sbornik statei i materialov [i.e. Pensions:...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/456.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1524136358)
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..... More
![Item #1749 [SOVIET-CUBAN RELATIONS] Mapa Tectonico de Cuba = Tektonicheskaia karta Kuby [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1749.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688579413)
Moscow: Geologicheskii institut Akademii Nauk SSSR: Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii Ministerstvs geologii SSSR, 1966. 50x101 cm. Very good, few tears of edges. Stamp of private library of Soviet academician on upper margin. One of 4000 copies produced. Scale is 1 : 1,250,000. This original bilingual map was co-compiled..... More
![Item #1071 [SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1071.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601556572)
Moscow: Partiinoe izdatelâstvo, 1933. V, [2], 520, [4] pp., 6 folding maps. 23x16 cm. In original red cloth with silver plate around embossed blind lettering in Chinese on the front cover; the same design of lettering in Russian printed on the spine. No dust wrappers. Some soiling on binding, otherwise..... More
![Item #1559 [SPORT IN THE SOVIET UNION] Izvestiya fizicheskoy kul’tury: Dvukhnedel’nyy ill....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1559.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669213861)
[Moscow]: 1924-1927. #20 of 1927 (1 issue of 81 published). 16 pp.: ill. 22.2x 29.6 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Scarce. Front wrapper by S.M. One of the leading 1920s Soviet sports magazines. From the very outset of the Communist regime, Soviet society witnessed the..... More
![Item #1739 [ST PETERSBURG] Plan S.-Peterburga s pokazaniem kazennykh stroenii, sadov, parkov,...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1739.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688577686)
Saint Petersburg: Izd. Kartograficheskogo zavedeniia A. Ilâina, [1880]. 77x66,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Tears of edges of covers, color pencil signature on front cover, few minor tears in intersections. Scale is approximately 1:19 300. This colored city map was released by the leader of Russian pre-revolutionary cartography. The..... More
![Item #1313 [STALIN BEFORE HE BECAME A LEADER: NATIONAL POLICY OF THE USSR] Politika sovetskoi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1313.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634131442)
Moscow: Gos. izdatelâstvo, 1920. 185 pp., 1 ill. 27x18,5 cm. No front cover, original back cover preserved. Back cover and inner edge of title page restored, spine repaired, small corners of portrait and some pages restored, pale Soviet Georgian stamp on p.17, underlinings occasionally. Otherwise very good copy. An early..... More
A COLLECTION OF 20 BROCHURES (INCLUDING 1 DUPLICATE) DEDICATED TO SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS SOVIET AND FOREIGN MOVIE STARS AND DIRECTORS OF THE 1920S. The 1920s was a pivotal point in the history of Soviet film industry: the decision to import foreign movies into the Soviet Union..... More
![Item #1720 [STENBERG BROTHERS] Otkrytie sezona. Kukirol’ [i.e. Season Premiere. Kukirol](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1720.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688573056)
Moscow, 1925. 72x107,5 cm. Small tears of edges, otherwise very good. Constructivist advertising poster for the first comedy performance designed by Stenberg brothers. It was the premiere of the 12th season of Kamerny Theater. The review of contemporary political events, âKukirolâ debuted on November 29, 1925 and was castigated..... More
![Item #906 [SUBURB FOR THE SOVIET WRITERS] Peredelkinskie foto [i.e. Peredelkino Photos](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/906.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576166196)
Moscow, 1958. Handmade photo album. 27 photographs and 1 newspaper clipping are mounted on 8 leaves, 3 photographs are loosely inserted. Handwritten lettering on the front cover and captions. 20,5Ń 29 cm. Some tears of the spine and edges, otherwise very good. Some photographs signed by Korney Chukovsky, Agniia..... More
![Item #889 [TEN YEARS OF COAL AND METAL CITY] Desiat’ let goroda uglia i metalla: Sbornik [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/889.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576159894)
Stalinsk: Iubil. komissiia po organizatsii prazdnovaniia 10-letiia Kuznets. metallurg. zavoda im. Stalina i goroda Stalinska, 1939. 288 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 25x18,5 cm. In original red cloth with mounted photograph and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly bumped, small ink stain on t.p., otherwise mint... More