![Item #765 [THE SHORT-LIVED ARTISTIC CLUB IN TIFLIS] Pavliniy khvost [i.e. The Tail of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/765.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563925222)
Tiflis, [1918]. 1 leaf. 36x15 cm. Folded in four. The contemporary pencil notes suggest that the leaflet was in use during the meetings of the club. The emblem of the peacock by Boris Ryabov, the art critic and the historian of architecture. The leaflet includes the ‘March of..... More
![Item #1746 [SINO-JAPANESE WAR] Map. Kitai [i.e. China](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1746.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688578876)
[Moscow]: Gos. izdatel’stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1939. 70x106 cm. Tears of edges, handwritten title on rear side, otherwise very good. Mostly in Russian. A folding map of China with Russian supplementing texts. They outline the country’s geography, population, international relations, agriculture, industry, transport and economy. The last and the largest..... More
![Item #635 [SOLOMON TELINGATER] Govorit Il’ich: (O zadachakh komsomola) [i.e. Lenin Speaking...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/635.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1550670328)
[Moscow]: OGIZ-Molodaya Gvardiya, 1932. 32, [32] pp.: ill. 22,5x18 cm. Pagination includes insides of front and back covers. In original illustrated cardboards. Very good. Boards rubbed with small fragments of the spine missing. First and only edition. Scarce. Designed by Solomon Telingater (1903-1969). The strong foundation of a purely polygraphic..... More
![Item #1624 [SOVIET AGRICULTURAL TREASURES] L’novodstvo, khlopkovodstvo i sakharnaya svekla:...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1624.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676892877)
N.p. Izd. Narkomzema, 1940. 24, 25, 34 ills. 33,5×24 cm. In original folder with lettering and illustration mounted; each part in original paper wrapper. In very good condition. Folder slightly rubbed, minor tears of paper wrappers. A book about three plants (flax, cotton, and sugar beet) widely cultivated in the..... More
![Item #1113 [SOVIET ARCHITECTURE: GINZBURG, KHIGER AND SEMENOV] Voprosy arkhitektury: Sbornik...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1113.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698241565)
[Moscow]: Izogiz, 1935. 208 pp.: ill. 30x21,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, minor fragments of spine lost, slightly soiled. A valuable piece of a historical evidence on Moscow reconstruction of 1935, Ginzburg’s constructivist project of Moscow- Donbass Highway and Khiger’s civil housing critics (communal houses). Illustrated throughout..... More
![Item #1526 [SOVIET CINEMATOGRAPHY] Kryl’ia kholopa [i.e. The Wings of a Serf](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666180992)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, [1926]. 8 pp.: ill. 17,5x26,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Mint. Very rare. The film’s sets and most likely this remarkable pamphlet were designed by artist Vladimir Yegorov (1878-1960). He gained fame for the Soviet film ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1915) directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold, later he..... More
![Item #1524 [SOVIET CINEMATOGRAPHY] Veter Ukrainy. Al’manakh Assotsiatsii Revoliutsionnykh...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1524.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666180536)
Kyiv: ARP, 1929. 160 pp.: ill., 4 ills. 22x16 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. No spine, segments of block and covers detached from each other, fragments of oversized wrappers lost, small hole in p.19/20 (some text detached), otherwise good and clean internally. One of 3000 copies. Very rare..... More
![Item #1732 [SOVIET CLOCK PRODUCTION] Poster. Pokupaite chasy “Yantar’” Orlovskogo chasovogo...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1732.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688575504)
Oryol: Tipografiia “Trud”, [1965-70s]. 56x37,5 cm. Small fragment of lower edge and tears restored. Very good. Very rare colorful provincial print. One of 300 copies. Soviet watch production was launched in the 1930s. Two American bankrupts ‘Duber Hempton’ and ‘Ansonia’ were sold to the USSR and there turned..... More
![Item #1728 [SOVIET DAILY SATIRE] Semenov, I. Satirical drawing for the newspaper “Komsomolskaya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1728.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688574817)
[Moscow], 1951. 28x23,5 cm. Mint. Some pencil notes on rear side. Original caricature produced for one of the main Soviet newspapers. ‘Komsomolskaya pravda’ was an organ of the Komsomol founded in 1925. By the early 1950s, it reached print run of one million daily copies. One of the most..... More
![Item #282 [SOVIET FILM ART] Kollezhskii registrator [i.e. The Stationmaster](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/282.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
![Item #1606 [SOVIET FOOD INDUSTRY] Retseptury na vostochnye i evreiskie sladosti [i.e. Recipe...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1606.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673280018)
Moscow: Narodnyi komissariat pishchevoi promyshlennosti SSSR, 1939. 144 pp. 23x15,5 cm. In original cardboards. Binding rubbed, bumped and soiled, pale water stains, pencil marks, signature on t.p., no front flyleaf. Otherwise good. Official publication. No printrun indicated. An early set of recipe standards for Caucasian, Central Asian and Jewish desserts..... More
![Item #1790 [SOVIET GEORGIA : REPRESSED SCIENTISTS ERASED FROM THE BOOK] Trudy ZakKNIIZh [Works of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1790.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690329336)
Tiflis: ZakKNIIZH, 1935. [2], X, 8, 32, 32, 38, 75, 56, 26, 9, III pp. (in total 291 pp), 12 ills., 1 folding table. 22,5х15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Front cover detached, fragments of spine and back cover lost. All executed names were erased or painted over. Extremely rare..... More
![Item #1786 [SOVIET JEWELRY CATALOGUE] Katalog. Novye vidy iuvelirnykh izdelii fabrik...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1786.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690328432)
N.p., [1961]. 48 leaves of photo prints. 17,5х25 cm. In original cloth with gilt lettering. Traces of paper on upper edges of leaves. An illustrated catalog contains products of precious and base metal alloys released in IV quarter of 1958 – I quarter of 1960. Prices published were relevant..... More
![Item #1424 [SOVIET MOVIE INDUSTRY UNDER TYRAN] Quinze ans de cinematographie Sovietique [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1424.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660733059)
Moscow: Direction générale de l’industrie cinématographique, 1935. 86 pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. In original covers with logo and mounted piece of red film. Covers slightly soiled and rubbed, tears of spine, some foxing on pages, small crack of lower edge of film, otherwise very good and clean. In..... More
![Item #1788 [SOVIET OCCUPATION ZONE IN GERMANY] Eight editions of the Soviet Control Commission...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1788.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690328957)
1. Sbornik postanovlenii nemetskoi ekominomicheskoi komissii #1 [i.e. Collection of Degrees of the German Economic Commission #1]. Berlin: Biuro informatsii SVAG, 1949. 68 pp. 21x15 cm. Faded, stamps “ Political Adviser’s Office Library” on p. 1, 17, otherwise very good. 2. Tretii s’ezd Sotsialisticheskoi edinoi partii Germanii, 20-24 iiulia..... More
![Item #928 [SOVIET PHOTO: RUN OF 14 YEARS] Sovetskoe foto [i.e. Soviet Photo](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/928.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
Globus Books; Bookvica, 2022. Paperback, 159 pp., with illustrations throughout. A catalog of books, periodicals and other printed material featuring photomontage compositions. Concept & Idea: Pavel Chepyzhov Text: Valentina Gavrilova & Pavel Chepyzhov Editor: Stuart Eagles Graphic Design: Anastasiia Rozhkova Photo: Petr Baranov This catalog consists of..... More
![Item #190 [SOVIET POSTER FOR 8½] Film poster for 8½ by I. Maistrovskii](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/190.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
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
![Item #1481 [SOVIET PRINTING BUSINESS DURING NEP] Pechatnik [i.e. The Printer] #1 1-28, 29/30 for...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1481.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660928220)
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
![Item #1808 [SOVIET PROPAGANDA] Kul’trabotnik na stroike [i.e. A Cultural Worker in...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1808.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695158299)
Leningrad: 1931. 28,5x20,5 cm. In original wrappers-folder with letterpress design on front cover and two illustrations on flap of back cover and back cover itself. Tears of spine and front cover, small corner of back cover lost, soiling of wrappers, tears of pages along spine folding, edges of some leaves..... More
![Item #352 [SOVIET WOMEN STORIES] Zhenshchiny strany sotsializma [i.e. Women of the Country of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/352.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
![Item #1693 [STRAKHOV : PERIODICAL FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS] Student revoliutsii [i.e. Student of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1693.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686767879)
Kharkiv: Derzhavne vydavnytstvo, 1925. 65 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine and corner of p. 21/22 restored, Soviet stamp ‘Press’ on front cover, otherwise uncut and mint copy. One of 5000 copies. In Ukrainian and Russian. An issue of the organ of the Central and Kharkiv..... More
![Item #1794 [TATAR PUBLISHING] Katalog tatarskikh knig na 1927 god, № 6 [i.e. Tatar Book...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1794.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695152828)
Kazan: Tatarskoe gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo (Tatgiz), 1927. 64 pp.+ 8 pp. of ads. 23x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine and small fragment of back cover restored, Soviet pre-war stamp “All-People Library of Ukraine in Kyiv” on p. 33. Otherwise mint and uncut copy. One of 1500 copies. Very rare..... More
![Item #1431 [TEAM BUILDING AND LEISURE TIME IN SOVIET ARMY] Podvizhnye igry Krasnoi Armii [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1431.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660738966)
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