![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
![HOW TO DRAW A FONT] Osnovy i risovanie pechatnogo shrifta [i.e. Basics and Drawing of Printed...](/pictures/thumb/736.jpg?v=1563915946)
Petrograd: Gos. izd-vo inostrannykh i nats. slovarei, 1922. 69 pp.: ill. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original printed wrappers with ornament and dust wrappers with white lettering. Very good, some light fading, barely visible Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover of dust wrapper, overlapped wrapper with a few small chips... 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
![TELINGATER, KUKRYNIKSY, ARKHANGELSKY] O Babele, Gladkove, Zharove, Zoriche, Zoshchenko, Inber,...](/pictures/thumb/1100.jpg?v=1604436299)
Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlya i fabrika, 1930. [46] pp., 1 ill: ill. 29×22 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards by Kukryniksy. Minor tears at the hinges of the spine. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Introduction by the head of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers Leonid Averbakh (1903-1937). The..... More
![BYT MANIFESTO] Iskusstvo bytovoi veshchi [i.e. The Art of The Everyday Object]. David Arkin](/pictures/thumb/1011.jpg?v=1595850345)
Moscow: Izogiz, 1932. 170, [3] pp. 21x15 cm. Original photomontage wrappers. Very good, spine is restored. Ex-library copy (the stamp ‘allowed for resale’ of Russian Public Historic Library). Original wrappers’ design by Solomon Telingater (1903-1969), in the composition included the pieces of furniture, drawings of children, abstract architectural elements, pieces..... More
![SOVIET LEADING STUDY ON CHAPLIN’S FILMS] Charl’z Spenser Chaplin: Ocherk rannego perioda...](/pictures/thumb/1007.jpg?v=1591892978)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, [1959]. 266, [1] pp.: ill., 1 portrait. 27x21 cm. In original cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. First and only edition. A foreword by notable film critic Rostislav Yurenev. Book design was..... More
![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
![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
![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
![CARIBBEAN: FROM NIZHNY NOVGOROD TO PUERTO RICO] Neshchastnye priklyucheniya Vasilya...](/pictures/thumb/317.jpg?v=1507293416)
St. Petersburg: S.K.R., Typ. of Vilkovsky and Galchyonkov, 1787. 72 pp. 18x11,5 cm. Contemporary light brown half leather with marbled boards and a colour stamped title label on the spine. Bookplate of Sergey Sobolewsky on the front paste down endpaper, paper label with a pencil note by a Soviet bibliophile..... More
![SOVIET FLORICULTURE IN THE 1940S] Tsvety v gorode [i.e. Flowers in the City]. Bazilevskaya N. A](/pictures/thumb/902.jpg?v=1576165210)
[Moscow]: Gos. arkhitekturnoye izd-vo, 1947. 104pp.: ill. 20.7x16.7cm. In original publisher’s cardboards. Slightly bumped, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear board and its recto. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Scarce. First edition. An interesting guide dedicated to the Soviet floriculture of the 1940s written by the famous Russian..... More
![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
![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
![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
![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
![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
![LABOUR AS A PART OF EDUCATION] Iunosheskii trud: Polozhenie i perspektivy [i.e. Youth Labor: The...](/pictures/thumb/793.jpg?v=1567043119)
Kharkiv: VUSPS, 1925. 56 pp. 17x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with constructivist design. In very good condition, some foxing on the covers, a couple of pale old stamps on the title page. First and only edition. One of 8000 copies. Very rare. This is an interesting book on the..... More
![HOME CARE FOR PATIENTS] Kak ukhazhivat’ za bol’nym doma [i.e. How to Look After the Patient...](/pictures/thumb/994.jpg?v=1591801162)
Moscow: Meditsinskoe izdatelstvo, 1929. 80 pp.: ill. 22x30 cm. One of 40000 copies printed. Original illustrated cardboard binding. Covers are slightly rubbed, some minor restoration of the front cover. Part of the spine is missing, the 1920s stamps of the hospital on the title page, pp.13 and 37. Overall a...... More
![FROM ONE ARCHITECT TO OTHERS] Grazhdanskaia arkhitektura. Tekst: Chasti zdanii [i.e. Civil...](/pictures/thumb/899.jpg?v=1576164322)
St. Petersburg: Izd. Studencheskoi biblioteki, 1903. [2], 204, 4, 3 pp.: ill. 27,5x18,5 cm. In period half-leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Good. Rubbed, stains and pencil marks occasionally, first leaves slightly deformed of water. First edition. Extremely rare lithographed edition of lectures on building materials. A...... More
![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
![FIGHTING FORMALIST ART] Formalizm v zhivopisi: 24 illustratsii [i.e. Formalism in Art. With 24...](/pictures/thumb/1108.jpg?v=1604438638)
Moscow: Vsekokhudozhnik, 1933. 87, [1] pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original wrappers. Very good, chipped, some general soiling, pale water stains on covers, clean internally. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. This is not just another book on fighting ‘escapist’ formalism by accusing artists of the total ignoring..... More
![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
![PHOTO GRAPHICS BY TELINGATER] Tragediinaia noch’. Poema [i.e. Tragic Night. A Poem]. A. Bezymensky](/pictures/thumb/856.jpg?v=1573081658)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1931. 64 pp.: ill. 18,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored, some creases, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. This is one of the well-known Soviet photobooks and one of the earliest literary works on triumphal projects of the First Five-Year Plan. The poem by..... More
![SOVIET PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN IN UKRAINIAN] Odno Slovo [i.e. One Word]. V. Bichko](/pictures/thumb/999.png?v=1591802986)
Kiev: Molod’, 1953. 8 pp.: ill. 20,2x26,1 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine, mild soiling of the wrappers, pencil markings on the rear wrapper. Otherwise very good internally clean copy. Scarce. Most likely first edition. Text in Ukrainian. Wrapper design and color illustrations..... More