![SOVIET FILM ART] Kollezhskii registrator [i.e. The Stationmaster](/pictures/thumb/282.jpg?v=1494863214)
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..... More
![SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam...](/pictures/thumb/522.jpg?v=1541080275)
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..... 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 owner’s plastic folder. Soiling and deformations of the folder, clean text block. The Soviet underground translation of an American book from..... More
![SOVIET PHOTO: RUN OF 14 YEARS] Sovetskoe foto [i.e. Soviet Photo](/pictures/thumb/928.jpg?v=1582641680)
Moscow: Ogoniok [and others], 1926-1941. 171 issues altogether. Complete sets for the years 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941. The years 1926-1934 are bound in contemporary bindings. Years 1935-1937, 1940-1941 are in original wrappers. All of the wrappers, except three ones..... More
![SOVIET POLICE PHOTOMONTAGE] Slovesnyi portret: (kratkii spravochnik) [i.e. Verbal Portrait: (A...](/pictures/thumb/903.jpg?v=1576165438)
Moscow: Nauchno-tekhnicheskii otdel UVD Ispolkoma Mosgorsoveta, 1959. 27 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine. For office use only. Copy #1158 (stamped on front cover and t.p.). This is an interesting photomontage edition produced for police officers in the late 1950s. The richly illustrated brochure briefly..... More
![SOVIET POSTER FOR 8½] Film poster for 8½ by I. Maistrovskii](/pictures/thumb/190.jpg?v=1483904148)
Moscow: Reklamfilm, 1987. 86,5x55 cm. Fine. In this year the film by Fellini was widely distributed in Soviet cinemas for the first time. More
![SOVIET PROPAGANDA BY WARNER BROTHERS] Missiya v Moskvu [i.e. The Mission to Moscow](/pictures/thumb/168.jpg?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 ‘one of three pro-Soviet films made in Hollywood’ by The..... More
![THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA OF SPORTS] Vsesoiuznyi parad fizkul’turnikov na Krasnoi ploshchadi v...](/pictures/thumb/843.png?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
![SOVIET WOMEN STORIES] Zhenshchiny strany sotsializma [i.e. Women of the Country of Socialism](/pictures/thumb/352.jpg?v=1513337866)
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..... More
![SOVIET WORKER MUST REST] Doma otdykha: Sbornik statei i materialov [i.e. Pensions: Collection of...](/pictures/thumb/456.jpg?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
![STALIN AND CHILDREN] Stalin i dity [i.e. Stalin and the Children](/pictures/thumb/959.jpg?v=1582650931)
[Kharkiv]: Ditvidav TsK LKSMU, 1939. 12 leaves of autolithographs in the folder. 31x41 cm. In original cloth portfolio with the photograph inset to front board. Extremely rare. One of 1500 copies. No copies found in the Wordlcat. A very important edition for capturing the peak moment of the cult..... 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
![STENBERG BROTHERS DESIGN] Programmy gos. akademicheskikh teatrov [i.e. Programs of State...](/pictures/thumb/1004.jpg?v=1591803949)
Moscow: Kinopechat', 1927. 34 pp.: ill. 26,5x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Small tears of spine and covers with minor fragment of front cover lost, a couple of blurred bookstore stamps. This is a theater program that included week stagings and illustrated with photographs of composer Sergey..... More
![STRATOSPHERIC FLIGHT] Potolok mira [i.e. The Ceiling of the World] / A. Harry, L. Kassil’](/pictures/thumb/964.jpg?v=1582651413)
[Moscow]: Sovetskaia literatura, 1934. 130, [2] pp.: ill. 26,5x20,5 cm. In original dust jacket, original cardboard with lettering on the spine and Order of Lenin on the front cover. Restored dust jacket and slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. One of 15 000 copies. Design was produced by VKUTEMAS graduate..... More
![SUBURB FOR THE SOVIET WRITERS] Peredelkinskie foto [i.e. Peredelkino Photos](/pictures/thumb/906.jpg?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. 20,5х29 cm. Some tears of the spine and edges, otherwise very good. Some photographs signed by Korney Chukovsky, Agniia..... More
![TEN YEARS OF COAL AND METAL CITY] Desiat’ let goroda uglia i metalla: Sbornik [i.e. Ten Years...](/pictures/thumb/889.jpg?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
![THEATRE AS A TOOL OF THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA] Leningradskiy teatr yunykh zriteley. Zadachi i...](/pictures/thumb/863.jpg?v=1573087134)
Leningrad: TYUZ, 1929. 46, [3]pp.: ill., scheme. 17x11.8cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. The spine is slightly rubbed. Otherwise near a very good copy. First edition. Scarce. Wrapper design by the Russian painter and theatre artist, Mikhail Grigoriev (1899-1960). Compiled by the Russian actor, director and pedagogue, Leonid..... More
![THEATRE CONSTRUCTIVISM] Moskovskiy teatr Revolutsii [i.e. Moscow Theater of the Revolution....](/pictures/thumb/753.jpg?v=1563921502)
Moscow: Trudovoy Pechatnik, 1929. 19 pp.: ill. 25x17,5 cm. Original constructivist wrapper by Ilia Shlepianov (1900-1951). Occasional foxing, few places repaired with tape, otherwise good. The booklet is dedicated to the summer tour of the theatre, with performances in Baku, Tiflis, Erevan, Batumi, Odessa and Kiev. The..... More
![TORTURED UKRAINE] [Poster] Palachi terzaiut Ukrainu [i.e. Butchers are Tearing Ukraine Apart....](/pictures/thumb/638.jpg?v=1550673465)
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..... More
1835. 16.5x22.6; 15.6x22.3cm. Two pencil drawings mounted on plain paper with date and title captioned in English. A very good condition. Unidentified artist (signature E.C. in the left bottom corner). Rare historical evidence of one of the most famous fires in the 19th century England. The..... More
![UKRAINE IN THE 1930S] SSSR. 1936 [The USSR. 1936]. Photo-album](/pictures/thumb/762.jpg?v=1563924270)
[68] pp.: photos. 25,5x34 cm. Leather covers tied with a string. Fine. The travel album of Czech professor Ilek Bohuslav who traveled to USSR in July of 1936 with Intourist. The album includes the photographs and postcards bought on the way and dedicated mostly to the southern part of USSR..... More
![UKRAINIAN OPERA IN MOSCOW] Zaporozhets za Dunaem: Postanovka Gos. akad. teatra opery i baleta...](/pictures/thumb/573.jpg?v=1547729794)
[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..... More
![UKRAINIAN RED ARMY] Vstupaite do chervonnoy kinnoti [i.e. Join The Red Calvary](/pictures/thumb/527.jpg?v=1550673373)
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..... More
![UKRAINIAN VKHUTEIN] Mistetsko-tehknichniy VYSH. Zbirnyk kievskogo hudozhnogo institutu [i.e. Art...](/pictures/thumb/475.jpg?v=1528816530)
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..... More
![UNKNOWN TELINGATER POSTER] Podpisivaites’ na gazetu ‘Bakinskiy rabochiy’ na 1925 god [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/940.jpg?v=1582645756)
Baku: Azpoligraftrest, [1924]. 72x44 cm. One of 1000 copies produced. Very good. Few small scuffed pieces from the sides. An excellent example of poster design by one of the most complex classics of Soviet design Solomon Telingater (1903-1969), from the rarest of his periods when he was starting out..... More