![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
![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
![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 INDUSTRIALIZATION] Lytsem do vyrobnytstva [i.e. Facing the Production] # 6, 7, 19 for...](/pictures/thumb/1117.jpg?v=1608112655)
Kharkiv: Ukrains’kyi Robitnyk, 1930. 30,5x22 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good, small tears of spines with minor fragments lost, some foxing. Pale Soviet labor union stamps on p. 1 (#6, 7). One of 5000-8100 copies. Rare magazine published by All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions (VURPS) in..... 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
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
![VILNIUS, 1595] Evangelie Uchitelnoe [i.e. Gospel Homiliary](/pictures/thumb/1221.jpg?v=1617189641)
Vilna: Mamoniči, [1595]. [399] leaves. 31x18 cm. Full leather 19th century binding with later spine and later leather bands for the clasps. The clasps are present and contemporary to the binding. New endpapers. Several leaves are framed and occasionally the missing bits of text supplied in manuscript. The last page..... More
![VKHUTEMAS AESTHETICS IN ARMENIA] Khorhrdayin Hayastani kerparvestě: 1922-1934 [i.e. The Art of...](/pictures/thumb/1015.jpg?v=1595852232)
Yerevan: Petakan Hratarakchutyun, 1934. [123] leaves. 26x18 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering on the spine and emblem on the front cover. Front cover cracked from the inner side (restored), some foxing on the first pages, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of..... More
Leningrad, 1943. 16 pp.: ill., 1 pl. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Very rare. One of 500 copies. The personal exhibition of Vladimir Konashevich (1888-1963) was opened on 12th of September in 1943 in Leningrad which was still in the siege at that time with 295 graphic..... More
![THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE] Vashingtonskaia konferentsiia po ogranicheniiu vooruzhenii i...](/pictures/thumb/1052.jpg?v=1601549327)
Moscow: Litizdat NKID, 1924. 139, [3] pp. 25х17 cm. In contemporary binding with the original front cover mounted. In a very good condition, colored pencil underlines and marks occasionally. First and only Russian edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. The book was printed by People's Commissariat for Foreign..... More
![WHALING IN THE SOVIET UNION] «Slava»: Zapiski sovetskikh kitoboyev [i.e. “Fame”: Notes of...](/pictures/thumb/1152.jpg?v=1612374179)
Odessa: Odes. obl. izd-vo, 1952. 320 pp.: ill. 20.5x13.3cm. In original publisher’s illustrated cardboards. Stamp of the library of the whaling ship Slava (the library was located at the vessel and was intended for Soviet whalers exclusively) and inventory number on the title-page, p.17, and p. 320. Spine and edges..... More
![WHAT WAS PUBLISHED FOR JEWISH PEOPLE DURING NEP] Katalag #5 [i.e. Catalogue #5](/pictures/thumb/555.jpg?v=1547033195)
Moscow: Aktsyen gezelshaft ‘Shul un bukh’, 1927. 40 pp.: ill., [8] ads. 19x13,5 cm. In original covers. Restored, glue traces on the inner margin of first and last pages, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Scarce. One of 15000 copies. Constructivist cover is printed in Yiddish and..... More
![WHERE TO GET VITAMINS DURING WORLD WAR II] Kak obespechit’ sebia vitaminom A [i.e. How to ...](/pictures/thumb/1122.jpg?v=1608113885)
Leningrad: [Izd. Nauchno-Issledovatel’skogo instituta kormov], 1942. 8 pp. 13x9,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Near fine. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. An extremely rare survival of time and curious brochure on the role of Vitamin A and ways to get it in..... More
![YEAR OF 1932: THE END OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE] Khudozhniki RSFSR za XV let (1917-1933):...](/pictures/thumb/301.jpg?v=1502282692)
Moscow: Vsekokhudozhnik, 1934. 80 pp., 47 pl. 18x15 cm. In original printed overlapped wrappers. Very good. A few pale stains on the spine, tears of the wrapper’s extremities. One of 1000 copies. Rare. This is a catalogue of graphic art from the exhibition «Artists of the RSFSR for 15..... More
![ZDANEVICH BROTHERS] Kirill Zdanevich. Ilya Zdanevich. Katalog vystavki [i.e. Exhibition Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/132.jpg?v=1472323732)
Tbilisi: Gos. muzei iskusstv Gruzii, 1989. 80 pp.: ill. 22x31 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Extremely rare. In October of 1989 in the State Museum of Arts of Georgia (Tbilisi) was opened exhibition dedicated to Zdanevich brothers. Elen Zdanevich- Ilyazd, widow of Ilya Zdanevich (1894-1975), brought part of..... More
![INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHILDREN ON HOW TO MAKE ILLUSTRATIONS AT HOME] Vyrezai, pechatai [i.e. Cut out,...](/pictures/thumb/493.jpg?v=1533048830)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1934. 11 pp.: ill. 21,7х18,5 cm. In original lithographed wrappers. Near fine. Rare lithographed edition. Konstantin Kuznetsov (1886-1943), graphic artist, one of the founders of the Russian school of children's book illustration in the 1920s-30s. This book is dedicated to techniques of printing illustrations at home..... More
![RUSSIAN FOLK LEGENDS] Narodnye russkiye legendy, sobrannye Afanasievym [i.e. Russian Folk Legends...](/pictures/thumb/178.jpg?v=1528814777)
Moscow: N. Shchepkin i K.Soldatenkov, 1859. XXXII, 204, II pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary half leather binding. Very good, rubbed binding, loss of a few small pieces of the spine, no free leaf of the back endpapers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back pastedown. First edition. Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasiev (1826-1871)..... More
![STAGE IMAGINATION BEATS REALITY] Tvorcheskii metod teatra. Dialektika tvorcheskogo protsessa...](/pictures/thumb/898.jpg?v=1576164097)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1931. 140, [4] pp. 20x13,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Tears of the spine, otherwise very good and clean copy. One of 5000 copies. Extremely rare. An interesting work on the overwhelming power of theatrical performances. The book was written by playwright Alexander Afinogenov (1904-1941). His early..... More
![SOVIET CLASSIC OF COLOR SCIENCE] Еlementarnyi kurs tsvetovedeniia [i.e. Basics of Color...](/pictures/thumb/1000.jpg?v=1591803204)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1939. 132 pp.: ill., 10 ills. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original full cloth with lettering on front cover and spine. Very good, slightly rubbed and soiled, pencil marks occasionally. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Second, significantly revised edition of work by a classic of Soviet color..... More
![ART IN REGIONS] Ekskursionnaya grafika [i.e. The Excursion Graphics]. A. Arkhangelskiy](/pictures/thumb/730.jpg?v=1563913916)
Ulianovsk: Got-tipolit. #1, 1926. 28 pp. 22x15 cm. One of 1200 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Very rare. No copies found in the Worldcat. First and only edition. An interesting example of the provincial printing, that gives us the inside into the art education process. Ulianovsk..... More