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Item #8 [THE BOOK THAT ENCOURAGED MARX TO LEARN RUSSIAN] Polozhenie rabochego klassa v Rossii...

[THE BOOK THAT ENCOURAGED MARX TO LEARN RUSSIAN] Polozhenie rabochego klassa v Rossii [i.e. The condition of the working class in Russia]

Bervi-Flerovsky, V.V.

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

Price: $5,000.00

Item #1108 [FIGHTING FORMALIST ART] Formalizm v zhivopisi: 24 illustratsii [i.e. Formalism in...

[FIGHTING FORMALIST ART] Formalizm v zhivopisi: 24 illustratsii [i.e. Formalism in Art. With 24 Illustrations in Text]

Beskin, O.M.

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

Price: $350.00

Item #462 [RUSSIAN WOODEN CLASSICISM] Kaluzhsky derevyannyi ampir [i.e. Wooden Empire Style of...

[RUSSIAN WOODEN CLASSICISM] Kaluzhsky derevyannyi ampir [i.e. Wooden Empire Style of Kaluga]

Bezsonov, S.V.

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

Price: $950.00

Item #856 [PHOTO GRAPHICS BY TELINGATER] Tragediinaia noch’. Poema [i.e. Tragic Night. A Poem]....

[PHOTO GRAPHICS BY TELINGATER] Tragediinaia noch’. Poema [i.e. Tragic Night. A Poem]

Bezymensky, A.

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

Price: $2,500.00

Item #228 [CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that...

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that Imports Tea and Coffee. Poetry. 1926-1927].

Biebl, Konstantin

Prague: Odeon, 1928. 63, [4] pp.: ill. 19x13,1 cm. In later binding. Near fine, clean and sound copy. Without original wrappers. Signed by the author postcard with author’s photograph laid in. Legendary work containing Karel Teige’s full page typography and colored typographical design experiments. The second, but first illustrated..... More

Item #340 [HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot...

[HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It]

Boltiansky, G.M.

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 75 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Some wear of the wrappers, loss of the small piece of the rear cover, Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear cover, very rare foxing in text, otherwise very good. Rare. First edition of the second book..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Item #502 [SEAL BREEDING] Kotikovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding]. L. Boytsov

[SEAL BREEDING] Kotikovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding]

Boytsov, L.

Moscow: Vneshtorgizdat, 1934. 195 pp. 20x14,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Fine condition. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. A very interesting and unique in its kind publication on the northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus). The title of the book suggests that the content is..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #137 [WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i...

[WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i Amerike [i.e. Modern Woman. Her Status in Europe and America].

Brandt, B.F.

St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov, 1896. 4, 158, 2 pp. 19,5х13,5 cm. In contemporary half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettering on the spine (the title and owner's initials). Soviet bookshop's stamp on the free back endpaper, slightly rubbed, pencil scribbles on two pages. Otherwise a very good clean copy..... More

Price: $500.00

Item #115 [CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion]. O. M....

[CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion].

Brik, O.M.

Moscow: LEF, 1923. 36 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. One of 3000. Very rare. Constructivist cover designed by Anton Lavinsky (1893-1968), Soviet artist and designer, member of LEF and artist for LEF magazine. He was close with Mayakovsky and the group of artists of Institute..... More

Item #416 [DRAMATIZING THE LIFE] Problema teatralnosti. Estestvennost’ pered sudom marksizma...

[DRAMATIZING THE LIFE] Problema teatralnosti. Estestvennost’ pered sudom marksizma [i.e. The Problem of Theatrical. The Disengagement in Marxist Court]

Brukson, I.B.

Petrograd: Tretiya strazha, 1923. 59 pp. 23х16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Spine with tears. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Constructivist wrapper designed by wunderkind of Petrograd theatre world Nikolay Akimov (1901-1968). Akimov was working as a book designer full time, but at the..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #1450 [A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES BY STALIN’S CLOSEST ALLY] Ataka [i.e. Attack]. N. Bukharin

[A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES BY STALIN’S CLOSEST ALLY] Ataka [i.e. Attack]

Bukharin, N.

Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, [1924]. In original publisher’s wrappers. Uncut. Fragments of spine and front cover lost, few stains on front cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. Scarce. One of the most important theoretical works by Stalin’s closest ally Nikolay Bukharin (1888-1938). Marxist philosopher and prolific author on..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #910 [CONCEPTUALIST BULGAKOV] Zapiski na manzhetakh [i.e. Notes on the Cuffs]. M. Bulgakov

[CONCEPTUALIST BULGAKOV] Zapiski na manzhetakh [i.e. Notes on the Cuffs]

Bulgakov, M.

New York: Serebriannyi vek, 1981. 117, [3] p.: ill. 19x12 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Pale stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First separate edition. Design was produced by Vagrich Bakhchianian (1938-2009), Armenian-American conceptualist artist, known for his provocative art, mocking the classical soviet images. He placed the title on the..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #13 [PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s...

[PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s angliiskogo V. Boshniaka [A novel. Translated from the English by Vladimir Boshniak]

Burgess, Anthony

Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1991. 156, [4] pp. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Lemekhov. Very good / near fine. The first Russian edition of A Clockwork Orange, published in May 1991 (the month before the collapse of the Soviet Union). The challenge for the translator was to handle Burgess’s..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #1456 [ANTARCTIC] Zavoevanie Antarktiki po vozdukhu [i.e. Conquest of Antarctica by Air]. R....

[ANTARCTIC] Zavoevanie Antarktiki po vozdukhu [i.e. Conquest of Antarctica by Air]

Byrd, R.

Moscow: Ogiz, 1931. 108, [4] pp.: ill. 18x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, tears of spine and some creases of front cover, otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of 10 155 copies. Very rare. Russian translation of Richard Byrd’s early travel notes ‘Little..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #70 [CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee...

[CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous Fractions].

Chebyshev, Pafnuty

St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1866. 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1873. 32 pp. 25x16 cm. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #1283 [CHEKHOV FOR TAJIK CHILDREN] Kaştanka [i.e. Kashtanka]. A. Chekhov

[CHEKHOV FOR TAJIK CHILDREN] Kaştanka [i.e. Kashtanka]

Chekhov, A.

Stalinobod [Dushanbe]: Sektori adabijjoti bacagona Nasrijjoti davlatiji Tocikiston, 1937. 64 pp.: ill. 27x20 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Some soiling, few tears of front flyleaf, binding corners slightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise very good copy. Second edition. One of 7000 copies. Extremely rare edition printed in Tajik language using..... More

Price: $550.00

Item #715 New Georgian Book Design, 1920s-1930s. P. V. Chepyzhov

New Georgian Book Design, 1920s-1930s

Chepyzhov, P.V.

Warsaw: PWN, 2018. This amply illustrated reference book on Georgian book design in the 1920s and '30s is based on a broadly representative private collection of a hundred works. It traces the main trends and developments in Georgian book design at that time, and identifies the main artists involved.The book..... More

Price: $59.00

Item #1492 [AESTHETICS OF FONTS BY ARCHITECT CHERNIKHOV] Postroenie shriftov [i.e. Construction...

[AESTHETICS OF FONTS BY ARCHITECT CHERNIKHOV] Postroenie shriftov [i.e. Construction of Fonts]

Chernikhov, Ia., Sobolev, N.

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1958. 116 pp.: ill. 35x27 cm. In original cloth with two-color lettering on the front cover. Binding slightly rubbed, some Soviet bookshop stamps on endpapers, few pale stains, otherwise very good copy. First edition, posthumous publication. One of 10000 copies. Rare. Design by the book and type..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #107 [CHOPIN'S LETTERS IN POLISH] Listy Fryderyka Chopina do Jana Białobłockiego / oprac....

[CHOPIN'S LETTERS IN POLISH] Listy Fryderyka Chopina do Jana Białobłockiego / oprac. Stanisław Pereświet-Sołtan [i.e. Letters of Frederic Chopin to Jan Białobłocki / compiled by S. Pereswiet-Soltan].

Chopin, Frederic F.

Warsaw: Zwiazek Nar. Polskej Młodz. Akad. 1926. [4], 80 pp., [3] tabl.: ill. 21x16 cm. Added title page in French (Lettres de Frederic Chopin a Jean Bialoblocki). Original publisher’s printed wrappers. Few tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. First edition of Frederic Chopin’s (1810-1849) letters to..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #1140 [CHUKOVSKY AGAINST FUTURISTS] Futuristy [i.e. Futurists]. K. Chukovsky

[CHUKOVSKY AGAINST FUTURISTS] Futuristy [i.e. Futurists]

Chukovsky, K.

St. Petersburg: Polyarnaya zvezda, 1922. 84 pp. 19.5×13 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Small tears, losses and light foxing of the wrappers, otherwise very good. The highest point of the polemics between Korney Chukovsky and Russian Futurists. Ever since futurism in Russia took on a large scale in..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #198 Fedorino gore [i.e. Fedora’s Grief]. K. Chukovsky

Fedorino gore [i.e. Fedora’s Grief]

Chukovsky, K.

Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. [16] pp.: ill. 27,8x21,8 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some restoration of the spine and last page, some general wearing. Otherwise a very good copy. Rare first edition. One of 8000 copies. Illustrated by Vladislav Tvardovsky (1888-1942), Russian Soviet children’s book graphic artist, was working as..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #547 [KABARDINO-CIRCASSIAN LANGUAGE] Doktor Aibolit [i.e. Dr. Aibolit]. Korney Chukovsky

[KABARDINO-CIRCASSIAN LANGUAGE] Doktor Aibolit [i.e. Dr. Aibolit]

Chukovsky, Korney

Nalchik: Kabardinobalkarskoe GIZ, 1940. 110, [2] pp.: ill. 26x19 cm. Original illustrated cardboards. Bleak stains on the title page, remains of a label on the spine, tears and small losses of boards extremities. One of 3000 copies. First translation to Kabardino-Circassian language. The book originally published in 1936..... More

Price: $700.00

Item #1408 [THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR: SOVIET-CHINESE PROPAGANDA] Dva goda geroicheskoi...

[THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR: SOVIET-CHINESE PROPAGANDA] Dva goda geroicheskoi bor’by kitaiskogo naroda [i.e. Two Years of Heroic Struggle of the Chinese People]

Chzhen-Lin

Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 44 pp. 20 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. A private library stamp on the title page and p. 3, a couple of tears, otherwise very good. Rare. An important example of a Soviet propaganda edition on the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). The..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1345 [JEAN COCTEAU’S AUTOGRAPH] Orphée: film [i.e. Orpheus: Film]. J. Cocteau

[JEAN COCTEAU’S AUTOGRAPH] Orphée: film [i.e. Orpheus: Film]

Cocteau, J.

Paris: La Parade, cop. 1950. [16], 116 pp., 8 ills. 18x11,5 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with title in Russian mounted on the spine. Spine faded, otherwise near fine. A screenplay of the French experimental film Orpheus (1950). The edition is supplemented with photographs by Roger Corbeau (1908-1995) printed..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #1234 [LITTLE KNOWN LISSITZKY DESIGN] Ijaillit Une Larme [i.e. The Tear Has Appeared]....

[LITTLE KNOWN LISSITZKY DESIGN] Ijaillit Une Larme [i.e. The Tear Has Appeared]

Crein, Alexandr

Moscow: Obschestvo evreiskoy muziki, 1919. 5 pp. 35x26 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor tears, otherwise in good condition. Jewish sheet music piece, the wrapper is designed by Lazar (EL) Lissitzky. Text in Yiddish and Russian. The design by Lissitzky has been done in his Moscow period, which..... More

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