![[TO KANDINSKY FROM HIS YOUNGER AVANT-GARDE BROTHER] Russkaia ikona kak iskusstvo zhivopisi [i.e. The Russian Icon As The Art of Painting]. A. Gritchenko.](/pictures/thumb/551.jpg?v=1547032110)
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... More
![[SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e. Me, You and Him: A Novel from the Life of Shanghai Emigrants]. L. Y. Grosse.](/pictures/thumb/499.jpg?v=1533142331)
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... More
![[THE FIFTH COLUMN IN RUSSIAN] Pyataya kolonna i pervye tridtsat’ vosem’ rasskazov / Per. s angl. pod red. I.A. Kashkina [i.e. The Fifth Column and the First Thirty-Eight Stories]. E. Hemingway.](/pictures/thumb/187.jpg?v=1494607124)
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... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION OF
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA]
Starik i more [The Old Man and the Sea] / translated from English by E. Golisheva and B. Izakov. E. Hemingway.](/pictures/thumb/39.jpg?v=1446494827)
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... More
![[HEMINGWAY IN GEORGIAN] Mshvidobit iaragho!, Aghmoxdebis mze /Piesta [i.e. A Farewell to Arms. The Sun Also Rises /Fiesta] / translated into Georgian by Vakhtang Chelidze. E. Hemingway.](/pictures/thumb/34.jpg?v=1443413175)
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... More
![[RUSSIAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA] Starik i more [i.e. The Old Man and the Sea]. E. Hemingway.](/pictures/thumb/155.jpg?v=1475075056)
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... More
![[AFRICA - WEST] [Album with over Forty Original Watercolours and Pencil Drawings and Over Forty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Douala, Lome, Luanda, Lüderitz Bay, Environs of Swakopmund and Cape Town, Libreville, Fernando Po Island, Gorée Island, Tenerife, African Flowers, and Others, Titled:] Habicht. Friedrich Lothar Hennig.](/pictures/thumb/413.jpg?v=1519393477)
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... More
![[HISTORY OF SOCIALISM] Istoriya sotsializma v Soedinyonnykh Shtatakh / Per. s 4 amer. izd. M.I. Bragina [i.e. History of Socialism in the United States / Translated from the 4th American edition by M.I. Bragin]. M. HILLQUIT.](/pictures/thumb/162.jpg?v=1475159269)
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... More
![[FIRST VIEW OF LHASA] Opisanie Tibeta v Nyneshnem Yego Sostoyanii. S Kartoyu Dorogi iz Chen-du do Khlassy Perevod s Kitaiskago [i.e. Description of Tibet in its Modern State. With a Map of the Road from Chen-du to Lhassa. Translated from Chinese]. N. Y. Iakinf/ Bichurin.](/pictures/thumb/236.jpg?v=1542805369)
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... More
![[YOKOHAMA PRINT] [Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Showing an American Sailor Smoking a Pipe, a Servant and a Young Japanese Courtesan, Titled:] America jin Yuriya no Zu [i.e. American in a Brothel]. Yoshitoyo Ichiryusai.](/pictures/thumb/393.jpg?v=1516794239)
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..... More
![[SOVIET SATIRE ARTISTS] Desyat' ocherkov o khudozhnikakh-satirikakh [i.e. Ten Essays on Satirical Artists]. M. L. Ioffe.](/pictures/thumb/141.jpg?v=1474966294)
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... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN BIOGRAPHY OF BEECHER STOWE] Uchitel vzroslykh i drug detei: Bicher-Stou. Biografichesky ocherk [i.e. A Teacher of Adults and A Friend of Children: Beecher Stowe. Biographical Essay]. I. I. Ivanov.](/pictures/thumb/101.jpg?v=1450242574)
Moscow: Yunaya Rossiya, 1914. 126, [2] pp.: port. 19,5x15 cm. Later owner's binding. Cut edges, narrow piece of paper glued between pp. 4-5. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Uncle Tom's Cabin was very popular in Russia. It was first published in 1857 in Russia in periodical. Soon after... More
![[FIRST ILLUSTRATED RUSSIAN EDITION OF THREE MEN IN THE BOAT] Troye v lodke. (Ne schitaya sobaki) / Per. s angl. E. Tikhomandritskoi [i.e. Three Men in the Boat. (To Say Nothing of the Dog) / Translated by E. Tikhomandritskaya]. J. K. Jerome.](/pictures/thumb/21.jpg?v=1446527309)
St. Petersburg; Moscow: M.O. Volf, [1907]. [4], IV, VI, 296 pp., 1 front., 19 ill. 8vo. Original red cloth gold and black stamped binding, decorated endpapers in black and gold. Restorations to the spine, covers rubbed, some spots and light wear of the pages. This edition with 20 plates... More
![[FIRST BOOK BY JOYCE IN RUSSIAN] Dublintsy. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. E.N. Fedotovoi [i.e. Dubliners. Stories / Translated by E.N. Fedotova]. J. Joyce.](/pictures/thumb/120.jpg?v=1472131826)
Leningrad: Mysl’, 1927. 3-168 pp. 18x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by Georgy Fitingof. Lacks half-title, small tears of the spine and few damp stains. Otherwise a very good copy. This is the first separate edition of anything by Joyce in Russian. First almost full edition of Dubliners (without... More
![[COVER DESIGN BY GAMREKELI] Qurdi [i.e. Thief. Poems]. K. Kaladze.](/pictures/thumb/118.jpg?v=1472316802)
Tiflis: Trud, 1927. 14, [2] pp. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Author’s signature on the first page. Near fine. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Rare. Cover design by Irakli Gamrekeli (1894-1943), Georgian Soviet set designer and one of the founders of Georgian avant-garde stage design influenced by... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON] Kritika prakticheskogo razuma i osnovopolozheniye k metafizike nravov / polnyi perevod s primechaniyami i prilozheniyem Kratkogo ocherka prakticheskoi filosofii sost. N. Smirnov [i.e. Critique of Practical Reason]. I. Kant.](/pictures/thumb/110.jpg?v=1472312469)
St. Petersburg: tip. A. Transhelya, 1879. XVIII, 110, 192, [3] pp. 20х14 cm. Contemporary half leather with faded gilt-lettering on the spine. Original covers are preserved. Rubbed, private library ink stamps on the front pastedown, cover and last page, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the title page, owner’s markings in text... More
![[THE ONLY RUSSIAN NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS] Ekonomicheskii raschet nailuchshego ispolzovaniya resursov [i.e. The Best Use of Economic Resources]. L. Kantorovich.](/pictures/thumb/6.JPG?v=1443218726)
Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1960. 348 pp. Publisher's binding. Very good condition. Previous owner’s inscription, spotted to edges, extremities rubbed, corners bumped, pencil marks. First edition. Second printing. Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986) is best known as the only Russian economist to have become a Nobel Laureate. In 1942 Kantorovich... More
![Elektronika bol'shikh moshchnostei [i.e. High-power Electronics]. P. L. Kapitsa.](/pictures/thumb/50.jpg?v=1466162680)
Moscow: Academy of Science, 1962. 194, [2] pp. 22 cm. Illustrated throughout. Original publisher's binding. Good condition. First edition. This book sums up the work of Peter Kapitsa (1894-1984) in the field of high-power electronics. Kapitsa and his laboratory dedicated themselves to this topic in 1950s. Kapitsa... More
![Doklad ob organizatsii nauchnoi raboty v institute fizicheskikh problem Akademii nauk SSSR // Vestnik Akademii Nauk SSSR [i.e. Report on the Organization of Scientific Work in Institute for Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR // Herald of the Academy of the Sciences of the USSR]. Pyotr KAPITSA.](/pictures/thumb/133.jpg?v=1472131334)
Moscow: izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1943. Issue #6. 24 pp. 25,2х16,8 сm. In original wrappers. Soiling and rubbings of covers, tear of the spine and p.19. Otherwise good copy. Inscribed on the front cover by Kapitsa: «Tov[arishch] Zverev look on p.13 about Narkomfin. P. Kapitsa»;. Markings in text by... More
![Osnovanie v 1750 russkogo teatra kadetami Kadetskogo korpusa [i.e. The Foundation of the Russian Theatre by Cadets of the Cadet Corpus]. A. Karabanov.](/pictures/thumb/51.jpg?v=1528817452)
St. Petersburg: 1849. IV, 109, [2] pp. 1 portrait (of Sumarokov). 20x16 cm. In contemporary binding, original wrapper is preserved. Good condition. According to Smirnov-Sokolsky who lists this book in his library (#744) this is ''a small but very useful work on the history of Russian theatre. The... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN KEROUAC] Na doroge [i.e. On the Road]. J. Kerouac.](/pictures/thumb/100.jpg?v=1450242574)
Moscow: Inostrannaya literatura, 1960. Na doroge // Inostrannaya literatura. 1960. №10. Pp.195 [i.e. On the Road // Foreign Literature]. 318, [2] pp.: ill., 6 ill. 25,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed and shaken, tears of the spine, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the back cover and p. 318, soiling on the last... More
![[KEYNES'S BEST-SELLER IN RUSSIAN] Ekonomicheskiye posledstviya mira / per. s angl. G.P. Struve i T.S. Lurie [i.e. The Economic Consequences of the Peace / translated from English by G.P. Struve and T.S. Lurie]. J. M. Keynes.](/pictures/thumb/30.jpg?v=1443205331)
Stockholm: Severnye ogni, 1921. 199 pp. 8vo. A fine clean copy. Contemporary cloth binding, original wrappers preserved. Light tanning to the wrappers, slightly rubbed on the extremities of the covers. Rare. The first Russian translation of the world-famous work was printed in Stockholm by Russian emigrant publishers. John Maynard... More
![[UKRAINIAN BOOK OF JUNGLE] Dzhungli: Oppovidannya pro zhittya ditini mizh zvirima / Z angl. originalom zviriv i zredaguvav Mikola Ivanov [i.e. The Jungle Book: A Story about Child’s Life with Animals / Translated and edited by M. Ivanov]. R. Kipling.](/pictures/thumb/135.jpg?v=1472299315)
Kiev: Derzhavne Vid-vo Ukraini, 1929. 204 pp.: ill. 28x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers with tears and restoration, loss of the small piece and restoration of the spine, general soiling, stain on the upper side of few pages, small restoration of the edge of p.1. Illustrated throughout. Illustrations... More
![[BABY FOOD] Detskaya kukhnya: Prigotovlenie pishchi malym detyam. 119 retseptov [i.e. Children’s Food: Cooking for Little Children. 119 recipes]. V. B. Kiseleva.](/pictures/thumb/364.jpg?v=1513596961)
Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1935. 64 pp. 19x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrappers rubbed with small tears on the extremities, a front cover and few pages in the beginning with small closed tear near the spine (not affecting text). Otherwise a very good, internally clean copy. First and only edition... More
![[PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINIAN SCHOOLS] 400 piramid i elementiv: Metodichnyi pidruchnik dlya shkoli i gurtkiv fizkul’tury. Z 457 maliunkami [i.e. 400 Pyramids and Elements: Methodical Textbook for Schools and Sport Sections. With 457 Drawings]. Shishmariova E. S. Kostiuk V. A.](/pictures/thumb/554.jpg?v=1547032968)
Kharkiv: Na varti, 1931. 174, [2] pp.: ill. 17x14 cm. Publisher’s illustrated Constructivist wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed, a few bleak stains on the rear cover, small tear of t.p. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Very rare. In Ukrainian. This beautiful edition dedicated to... More