Moscow: Izd-vo Vses. akad. arkhitektury, 1937. 85, [3] pp.: ill. 24x17 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed and soiled, front cover with light creases, tears and minor losses of the spine, original price is crossed out with black pencil in imprint (the crossed out price is different from the...
Tiflis: Typ. Of the Main Office of the Caucasian Governor, 1866. 130, iii, [2] pp. 22x15 cm. Period style quarter leather with marbled papered boards. Owner’s pencil inscriptions of the title page and the verso of the last leaf. Title page with minor repair, paper very mildly age toned, otherwise...
Baku: Typ. of the Administrat. of the province, 1897. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 184 pp. 20,5x14 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with the original publisher’s printed wrappers pasted on the boards. Occasional ink notes and pencil markings on the first few leaves. Wrappers soiled, title page with minor staining...
Moscow: Gosmedizdat, 1930. 8 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Very rare. This tiny brochure from the series ‘The Health of Kolkhoznik’ is dedicated to the explanation of the purpose of nurseries and why they are good for the parents. The collectivization of its agricultural...
Leningrad: Brokgauz-Efron, 1924. 106 pp. 23x16,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Some tears of the extremities. Otherwise very good. Very rare. One of 4000 copies. A very attractive edition and a curious work on children’s playgrounds in cities in early Soviet Russia, first of its kind. The book includes...
Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff, 1898. 3-167, [1] pp. 35x28 cm. In later cloth. Illustrated front cover preserved. Stains on the boards and some restoration to the cover. Otherwise very good. Inscription by A. Glazunov on the front cover: «To dedicated musician and tireless social activist Boris Iosifovich Narovlyansky for a....
[Moscow]: izd. i f-ka iunosheskoi knigi izd-va «Molodaia gvardia, 1937. 114, [6] pp.: ill. 27x17 cm. In original illustrated cloth binding with blind and faded gilt lettering. Near fine, some light rubbing, a couple of pencil underlinings. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Rare. This a....
Moscow: Universitetskaya tipografia, 1842. 475 pp. 23x15 cm. Contemporary half leather. Some bleak water staining on the corner of first pages, pale stain on p.387, as well as the restoration of the spine, but generally a very good copy. From our experience, the condition is ‘better than usual’. First...
St. Petersburg: Typ. Of N. Grech, 1851. Second edition. Three vols. bound together. [2], vii-xxxvi, [10], 203; [2], 148; [2], 120 pp. 24,5x17cm. With a steel engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved maps at rear. Period half leather with marbled paper boards and a gilt lettered title on the spine...
Second edition. [N.p.]: Dinamo, 1947. [2], 16 pp., [2], 80 pl. 20x29 cm. In custom made binding with lettering on the front board (without original card boards). Small tears of the spine, inscription on the front pastedown, otherwise very good. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. The...
[Harbin], 1929. [4], 88 pp. 26x18,5 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. The spine is rebacked with paper, some bleak stains on the front wrapper and a tiny tear, ink stamp on the t.p. (Russian Student Christian Group), staples with rust. Otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare provincial...
Moscow: KOIZ, 1932. 2nd ed. 80 pp.: ill. 24x16 cm. In modern quarter leather, front constructivist cover is preserved in the binding. Small losses of the cover restored with paper, small tears of t.p. One of 15060 copies, yet scarce. With 75 photographs and 18 drawings. This is...
Tbilisi: Gor. U.P.O. NKVD Gruzinskoi SSR, 1944. 18 pp.: ill. 10x15 cm. Very rare. One of 2000 copies. Lithographed edition. Poems by I. Grishashvili, plot by Z. Pachkoria, illustrations by L. Gilchevskaya. Visual poetic safety regulations for children in Russian (title in Russian and Georgian). Not in the Worldcat.
Moscow: Izd. avtora, [1917]. [2], 266 pp.: ill. 26,5x18,5 cm. In original covers with mounted illustration. Small fragments of spine lost, broken spine - p. 209-266 detached. First and only edition. Very rare. #500 of 500 copies. Autograph with inscription for Vasily Kandinsky: “To the artist Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky...
Shanghai: 1930. [6], 317 pp. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A.A. Yaron. Very good/near ne condition. The spine is very carefully fixed. Extremely rare. First and only edition. Lev Grosse (1906-1950), writer and son of Viktor Grosse (1869-1931), Russian diplomat, one of the active members of the...
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. Fine. This is the first edition of the play The Fifth Column and anthology of the writings by Ernest Hemingway (first published in 1938). The original edition was of forty-nine stories which was also the title. A few less...
Moscow: Detgiz, 1956. 96pp. Front ill. 4to. Original card boards and dustwrapper. The wrapper and the frontispiece by Mark Klyatchko (1924- 2000), design of the book by Solomon Telingater. The d/wrapper is rubbed at the edges and backed with tape in several places but generally fine. First separate edition in...
Tbilisi: Sovetskaya Gruziya, 1961. 477, [4] pp.: ill. 8vo. Original illustrated cardboards. The design of the boards and the illustrations in text are by a collective of three illustrators: O. Kochakidze, A. Slovinski and I. Chikvaidze. The boards are slightly rubbed at the edges. pp. 199-200 are torn...
Kiev: Goslitizdat Ukrainy, 1956. 74 pp. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Soilings and rubbings of the wrappers, owner's markings. First edition printed in Ukraine (it is in Russian). Printed the same year as the first Russian separate edition (Moscow, 1956). “In 1955, after a period of...
10 October 1904. Ca. 1904-1905. 26x20,5 cm. Thirty-one card leaves with tissue guards. Thirty watercolours and over a dozen pencil and/or ink drawings, from ca. 4x5,5 cm to ca. 18x23 cm; and over forty gelatin silver photos from ca. 5x6,5 cm to ca. 14x20,5 cm, mounted on the leaves or...
St. Petersburg: Tip. t-va ''Obshchestvennaya pol'za'', 1907. X, [2], 275 pp. 23x16 cm. Original wrappers. Uncut copy. Very good. Few tears of the spine, lacking small piece from the top of the spine. First Russian edition. Morris Hillquit (1869–1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party...
St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Imperial Foundling Home, 1828. xvi, 223, [2] pp. Octavo. With a large folding engraved map of Tibet and a hand coloured folding copper engraved view of Lhasa. Later quarter sheep with marbled papered boards; spine with gilt stamped ornaments and a green label with gilt...
Yokohama, Kikuya Ichibei, ca. 1860s. Coloured woodblock print. 37x25 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp, names of the publisher and the block cutter, title in the upper right and lower left corners. Paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good print. A colourful print showing a scene in a geisha.....
Paris: Editions 41˚, 1923. 61 pp., with original illustrated wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by Naum Granovskii. Text includes letterpress typographic designs by Iliazd. Fine. First edition. Copy #482 of 530. Very rare. The copy is inscribed to David...
Moscow: Sovetsky khudozhnik, 1971. 296 pp.: ill., 10 ill. 22x17,5 cm. Original cloth binding with colored stamping on the front board and on the spine. Boards rubbed. Otherwise a very good to near fine condition. Illustrated throughout with a lot of black and white and colored illustrations. The...
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