Leningrad: Leningradskoe gazetnozhurnal’noe i knizhnoe izdatel’stvo, 1943. 120 pp. 14x11 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, soiling occasionally, creases, t.p. partly detached, otherwise good. Very rare wartime edition. The book was released for representatives of trade unions and managers of factories to where disabled veterans came..... More

[Armavir, 1900-1910s]. 8,6x13,1 cm. Very good, most people depicted are signed on rear side in ink. On face side, city and date are handwritten. A rare source on Greco-Roman wrestling in prerevolutionary Russia. Greco-Roman or French wrestling was widely practiced and contested in the Russian Empire. It officially emerged..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1929 (Moskva: tip. «Krasnyy proletariy»). 154, [6] pp. 18x13.6 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust-wrappers by Boris Titov. Tears to the dust-wrappers. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Dust-wrappers by Boris Titov (1897-1951), a Soviet graphic..... More

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

Berlin: Petropolis, 1924. [2], 104, [12] pp.: ill. 33,5x26,5 cm. In modern cloth binding with original illustrated wrappers mounted. Foxing, edges of half-title chapped, leaf of contents repaired, some soiling, tissue leaves preserved, some with fragments lost. Valuable piece of Jewish avant-garde printed in emigration. Copy #253 of 300..... More

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

Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1940. 164 pp., 20 ills. 22x17,5 cm. In original cloth with lettering and a photograph mounted on the front cover; granite-patterned endpapers. Slightly rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare in this condition. A fascinating example of book..... More

Moscow: Muzsektor Gosizdata, 1930. 16 pp.: sheet music, schemes. 26,5x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, holes in spine and traces of glue, some soiling, pale pre-war stamps of Soviet Armenian institute of physical culture on the third and last pages, ink numbers on p.3. Otherwise good. First edition. One..... More

Moscow: Gostrudizdat, 1930. 31 pp.: ill. 17,5x12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers slightly soiled and faded, otherwise very good. Seventh edition. Released at the Nizhpoligraf printing shop in Nizhny Novgorod. Illustrated with seven black-and-white linocuts. This small likbez book was written during the establishment of mass hygiene in..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 400 pp.: ill., 1 folding table, 3 ills. 24,5x17 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering on spine, emblems on the front cover and spine; in original illustrated, constructivist style dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped, with small fragments of spine lost, some pale water stains on lower..... More

Leningrad: Lenizdat, [early 1930s]. 20 pp.: ill. 18,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of edges, stains occasionally, original black and white illustrations colored by hand. Very rare. Brilliant children’s book about the practice of waste paper gathering and involvement of little octobrists in it. Soviet..... More

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

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