[SOVIET POSTER FOR 8½] Film poster for 8½ by I. Maistrovskii
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
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
Three brochures for Soviet book distributors: 1) Kak rasprostraniat’ izdaniia ‘Pravdy’ (Pamiatka sborshchika podpiski) [i.e. How to Distribute Editions of ‘Pravda’ (Memo for Collector of Subscription]. Moscow: Pravda, 1930. 20 pp. 17x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, narrow fragment of front cover lost. 2) Katalog vsekh..... More
Moscow: TsK SRPP SSSR, 1925. 30x23 cm. In contemporary binding, original constructivist covers of #9-28, 29/30 preserved. Very good, pale pre-war stamps and marks of People’s Commissariat of Labor on p.1 #1-8, front covers of #9-28, 29/30. Colored pencil marks and minor tears of edges occasionally. Printruns varied 14..... More
1) Programma vsesoiuznogo parada fizkul’turnikov [i.e. Program of the All-Union Athletes Parade]. Moscow, 1939. 44 pp.: ill. 18,5x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tail of spine chipped, number on front cover, pale water stain on lower margin throughout p. 33-36, otherwise very good. One of 7000 copies. Design by V...... More
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
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
#1-16, 17/18, 19-43, 44/45, 46-52 for 1929. Overall 50 issues. Moscow, 1929. 30,5x22,5 cm. In contemporary binding with front cover of #1 mounted above; the rest of original illustrated covers preserved. In general, very good. Rubbed, fragments of edges of mounted front cover lost, p. 7-10 (#24) detached from block..... More
Moscow: Gos. muz. izd-vo, 1931. 112 pp.: ill. 17x12 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tears of the spine, soiling and staining to the wrappers, previous owner’s ink inscription on the front wrapper, Soviet bookshop stamp on the last page. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited by..... More
Moscow: Partiinoe izdatel’stvo, 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
Moscow: Fizkul’tura i sport, 1956. 28 pp.: ill. In the original wrappers with photographs. Ink inscription (dated 1975) on front cover. Very good condition, spine slightly rubbed. First and only edition. No title page as issued, all contributors are credited on the back cover. This photo book is devoted to..... More
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo, 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
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
Moscow: Vysshyi Voennyi Redaktsionnyi Sovet, 1923. 56 pp. 22x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Traces of paper band on spine, title and last pages, fragments of spine lost, pale pre-war stamps and marks on t.p., p. 17, 56., otherwise very good copy with clean pages. First and only edition..... More
1) Ustav Obshchestva bor’by s alkogolizmom [i.e. Charter of the Society for the Fight against Alcoholism]. Moscow: Gos. Meditsinskoe izdatel’stvo, 1928. 16 pp. 14x9 cm. One of 2000 copies. 2) Ustav Obshchestva bor’by s alkogolizmom Petrogradskogo raiona [i.e. Charter of the Society for the Fight against Alcoholism in Petrogradsk..... More
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
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
Kharkiv: [Persha drukarnia Derzh. vydavnytstva], 1926. 23 pp. 17x13 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Tears of spine and back cover, fragments of spine and outer corner of copy lost, small holes in front cover, pale water stains along spine, pencil marks on margins, otherwise very good and clean..... More
Collection of five fragile sheet music brochures of Ukrainian folk songs. Four of them were published in one series with similar anonymous designs resembling national embroidery schemes. One was printed in another publishing house with a different design. All of them were most likely issued in the 1930s. The 1920s..... More
Kharkiv: 4-ia Gostipografiya Transzheldorizdat, 1935. [51] leaves printed on rectos + 15 leaves with mounted illustrations. 18,5x27 cm. In original red cloth with gilt lettering and image of the badge ‘To Shock Worker of Stalin’s Call’ (mass prize for Soviet railway employees). Mint. Extremely rare. This propaganda edition served both..... More
Kharkiv: 1930. 41 pp. 20,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Near fine, few tears of the spine. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. The edition describes early experimental years of one of the largest Ukrainian drama theatres which developed as a propaganda tool. The earliest..... More
Collection of eight brochures from the Soviet Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair [numeration is alternative]: 1) Prokofiev, A. The Palace of Soviets. 2) Papanin, I. The Soviet Wintering Station on the Drifting Ice. 3) Fyodorov, E. Scientific Work of Our Polar Expedition. 4) Komarovsky, A. The Moscow-Volga..... More
Moscow: Sovetskaia literatura, 1933. 259 pp.: ill. In original constructivist wrappers and photomontage dust-jacket. Dust-jacket restored, covers rubbed and bumped, otherwise very good and clean copy. One of 5000 copies. Edited by a constructivist poet, Eduard Bagritskii. An almanac relating to the phenomenon of Soviet working communes. It..... More
[Moscow, Paris], 1933. [32] c.: ill. 42x30 cm. In original photomontage covers. Horizontal crease (due to folding copy in half), spine and tears to last leaf repaired, otherwise very good and clean. In French. Soviet photomontage propaganda produced for the benefit of the French proletariat. It was announced..... More
Tver': Oktiabr, 1923. 48, [2] pp.: ill. In original wrappers with portrait. Very good, extremities chipped, generally slightly rubbed. First and only edition. One of 1500 copies. Very rare. The book design by G.I. Noskov, the local Tver’ artist, who attempted to follow some of leftist typescript designs..... More