![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 about ART IN REGIONS] Ekskursionnaya grafika [i.e. The Excursion Graphics
![STALIN’S FRIEND IN AUSTRALIA] Iz Avstralii [i.e. From Australia] // Prosveshchenie. #10. [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/703.jpg?v=1562724520)
St. Petersburg: Pechatniy trud, 1913. 116 pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling of the wrappers. Otherwise very good. An extremely scarce account of Australian life of one of the top members of Bolshevik party of the time, Fyodor Sergeev (known as Artyom) printed in the main periodical of... More about STALIN’S FRIEND IN AUSTRALIA] Iz Avstralii [i.e. From Australia] // Prosveshchenie. #10. [i.e....
![RODCHENKO DESIGN] Ob agit- i proz-iskusstve [i.e. On Agitation and Production Art]. B. I. Arvatov](/pictures/thumb/559.jpg?v=1547034334)
Moscow: Federatsia, 1930. 224 pp. 17x13 cm. In original card boards. Very good, fragile spine with half of it missing, some rubbing and small losses of the extremities of the covers, a couple of underlinings in the text (pencil), traces of damp stain near the spine on the front and... More about RODCHENKO DESIGN] Ob agit- i proz-iskusstve [i.e. On Agitation and Production Art
![USA HISTORY BY FIRST RUSSIAN LIBRARIAN IN AMERICA] Istoriya Severo-Amerikanskikh soedinyonnykh...](/pictures/thumb/94.jpg?v=1450207535)
St. Petersburg: tip. Trenke i Fyusno, 1912. V.1: 1607-1826. [8], 493 pp. V.2: 1829-1910. [4], 471 pp., 1 map. 20,5x13,3 cm. In two modern half-leather bindings. Original front wrappers preserved. Cut, light foxing of the covers. Otherwise a fine crispy copy. Rare. First edition. First thorough history written by... More about USA HISTORY BY FIRST RUSSIAN LIBRARIAN IN AMERICA] Istoriya Severo-Amerikanskikh soedinyonnykh...
![BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like the Sun....](/pictures/thumb/102.jpg?v=1528812957)
Moscow: Knigoizdatelstvo Skorpion, 1903. [2], 290 pp. 8vo. The copy is in exceptionally fine contemporary half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers and gilt lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper illustrated by Fidus (the famous German symbolist artist Hugo Hoppener) preserved. A fine copy. First edition. This is... More about BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like the Sun....
![Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]. Dmitrii Baltermants](/pictures/thumb/685.png?v=1559602821)
Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent... More about Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China
![ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i...](/pictures/thumb/220.jpg?v=1485342837)
Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883. viii, 769, 14, xvi, [1] pp. 26,5x18,5 cm. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and four lithographed plates. Period style quarter morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Period pencil markings and mild foxing of the text, otherwise a very good copy... More about ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i...
![LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!]. D. Bedny](/pictures/thumb/180.jpg?v=1483894502)
Moscow: Commission for Improving Life of Children, 1923. 150 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. 150 illustrations in text by Fyodor Kriger. Mint condition. 1 of 6000 copies. The first edition of the propaganda fables by Demian Bedny – the genre he invented and excelled at in 1920s. Fyodor Kriger was... More about LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!
![UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary...](/pictures/thumb/157.jpg?v=1475076609)
Leningrad: State text-book Publishing House, 1954. Second edition. 142, [2] pp.: ill. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, loss of the small fragment of the top left corner of the front cover, Soviet bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the p.1. Cover... More about UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary...
![BELLAMY IN POLISH] W roku 2000 [i.e. In the Year of 2000]. E. Bellamy](/pictures/thumb/231.jpg?v=1528813532)
Warsaw: 1890. 332 pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Guilt lettering on the spine. Stamp of the pre-revolutionary library on the title verso. Very good. The first edition in Polish of ‘Looking Backwards: 2000-1887’ by Edward Bellamy. It was translated by Józef Karol Potocki (1854-1898) and became one of the..... More about BELLAMY IN POLISH] W roku 2000 [i.e. In the Year of 2000
![THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DOSTOEVSKY] F.M. Dostoevskii. Ukazatel' proizvedenii F.M. Dostoevskogo i...](/pictures/thumb/55.jpg?v=1466164829)
Saint-Petersburg: RNB, 2011. 755 pp. 31x19 cm. In original binding. Good condition. Small tear of the spine. This is the very first bibliography that contains among everything else all critical literature on Dostoevsky in 160 years. This major work includes such sections as Dostoevsky and Art, Dostoevsky in memories... More about THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DOSTOEVSKY] F.M. Dostoevskii. Ukazatel' proizvedenii F.M. Dostoevskogo i...
![SIBERIAN ARCTIC] Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea]. F. I. Belyavsky](/pictures/thumb/381.jpg?v=1549625278)
Moscow: Typ. of Lazarevs’ Institute of Foreign Languages, 1833. Xv, iii, 259 pp. 21x13,5 cm. With additional copper engraved title page (decorated with two vignettes), four hand coloured folding lithographed plates (including a frontispiece; two signed and dated by the artist), and a folding copper engraved plate of snow flakes... More about SIBERIAN ARCTIC] Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea
![THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e. Dust of New...](/pictures/thumb/138.jpg?v=1472324983)
Moscow: Sovremennye problemy, 1926. 148, [12] pp. 17x12,5 cm. 1 of 4000 copies. In original publisher's illustrated cover. The back cover is not attached to the book, lacking two small pieces of the spine, tears of the spine, some soiling of the covers. Otherwise a good copy. First Russian edition... More about THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e. Dust of New...
![THE BOOK THAT ENCOURAGED MARX TO LEARN RUSSIAN] Polozhenie rabochego klassa v Rossii [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/8.jpg?v=1446492979)
St. Petersburg: N.P. Polyakova, 1869. [6], II, 494 pp. 1 map (carefully restored). 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather. Good condition. First edition. Vassily Vasilievich Bervi-Flerovsky’s (1829-1918) main work was nicknamed the Russian Das Kapital; its description of Russian economic reality was thoroughly Marxist. In turn, it influenced Marx himself. He... More about THE BOOK THAT ENCOURAGED MARX TO LEARN RUSSIAN] Polozhenie rabochego klassa v Rossii [i.e. The...
![RUSSIAN WOODEN CLASSICISM] Kaluzhsky derevyannyi ampir [i.e. Wooden Empire Style of Kaluga]. S....](/pictures/thumb/462.jpg?v=1526397657)
Kaluga: kollektiv nauchnykh rabotnikov pri G.O. Rabprosa, 1928. 30 pp., [2] pp.: ill., [10] pl. 22x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, small tears of the spine. First and only edition. One of 600 copies. An extremely rare provincial edition. This is the first book on wooden... More about RUSSIAN WOODEN CLASSICISM] Kaluzhsky derevyannyi ampir [i.e. Wooden Empire Style of Kaluga
![CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that Imports Tea and...](/pictures/thumb/228.jpg?v=1485601820)
Prague: Odeon, 1928. 63, [4] pp.: ill. 19x13,1 cm. In later binding. Near fine, clean and sound copy. Without original wrappers. Signed by the author postcard with author’s photograph laid in. Legendary work containing Karel Teige’s full page typography and colored typographical design experiments. The second, but first illustrated... More about CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that Imports Tea and...
![HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It]. G. M....](/pictures/thumb/340.jpg?v=1507834338)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 75 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Some wear of the wrappers, loss of the small piece of the rear cover, Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear cover, very rare foxing in text, otherwise very good. Rare. First edition of the second book... More about HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It
![SEAL BREEDING] Kotkovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding]. L. Boytsov](/pictures/thumb/502.jpg?v=1533143053)
Moscow: Vneshtorgizdat, 1934. 195 pp. 20x14,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Fine condition. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. A very interesting and unique in its kind publication on the northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus). The title of the book suggests that the content is... More about SEAL BREEDING] Kotkovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding
![WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i Amerike...](/pictures/thumb/137.jpg?v=1528813595)
St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov, 1896. 4, 158, 2 pp. 19,5х13,5 cm. In contemporary half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettering on the spine (the title and owner's initials). Soviet bookshop's stamp on the free back endpaper, slightly rubbed, pencil scribbles on two pages. Otherwise a very good clean copy... More about WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i Amerike...
![CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion]. O. M. Brik](/pictures/thumb/115.jpg?v=1472300061)
Moscow: LEF, 1923. 36 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. One of 3000. Very rare. Constructivist cover designed by Anton Lavinsky (1893-1968), Soviet artist and designer, member of LEF and artist for LEF magazine. He was close with Mayakovsky and the group of artists of Institute... More about CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion
![PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s angliiskogo...](/pictures/thumb/13.jpg?v=1443221497)
Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1991. 156, [4] pp. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Lemekhov. Good condition. The first Russian edition of A Clockwork Orange, published in May 1991 (the month before the collapse of the Soviet Union). The challenge for the translator was to handle Burgess’s unique fictional register... More about PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s angliiskogo...
![CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya...](/pictures/thumb/70.jpg?v=1449724180)
St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1866. 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1873. 32 pp. 25x16 cm. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous... More about CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya...
![ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOVIET ART] Knizhnaia i stankovaia grafika za 15 let [i.e. Book and Easel...](/pictures/thumb/682.png?v=1558660566)
Moscow: Izogiz, 1933. 127 pp.: ill. In original printed wrappers. Near fine. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Rare. This is small but important book overviews all art movements and career of their members for the first 15 years of Soviet state. An art... More about ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOVIET ART] Knizhnaia i stankovaia grafika za 15 let [i.e. Book and Easel...
![FIRST THREE SISTERS] Tri sestry [i.e. Three Sisters] // Russkaia mysl’. God dvadtsat’ vtoroi....](/pictures/thumb/611.jpg?v=1550582475)
Moscow: Tipo-lit. I. N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1901. [4], 218 pp., [6] pp. - ad. 24x16 cm. In modern half leather with gilt lettering and inlaid colored ornament on the spine, with marbled edges. Pre-revolutionary stamp on t.p., a couple of stains on p.6-7, otherwise near fine. The first... More about FIRST THREE SISTERS] Tri sestry [i.e. Three Sisters] // Russkaia mysl’. God dvadtsat’ vtoroi....
