![Item #1304 [THE CIVIL WAR] Semen Proskakov: Stihotvornye primechanija k materialam po istorii...](/pictures/thumb/1304.jpg?v=1634128237)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1928. 51 pp., 6 ills. 21x14 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine repaired, some stains, minor tears of edges of oversized covers, p. 3-14 detached from text block, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. The book is written by futurist poet..... More
![Item #905 [THE FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION TO MKINVARTSVERI] Sakartvelos geograpiuli...](/pictures/thumb/905.jpg?v=1576165978)
Tbilisi: Sakartvelos geograpiuli sazogadoeba, 1928. 65pp.: ill. 16.7x24.6cm. Loss of the front wrapper and the spine, tears of the rear wrapper, previous owner’s inscription on the foretitle: “To our little Vaniko from the aunt Nutsa. 2/III/1929”. Good. Extremely scarce first edition. One of 1000 copies. The narrative is in Georgian..... More
![Item #1600 [CHILDREN’S GAMES] 5 ritmicheskikh igr s predmetami i sostyazaniyami [i.e. Five...](/pictures/thumb/1600.jpg?v=1673279225)
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
![Item #102 [BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like...](/pictures/thumb/102.jpg?v=1528812957)
Moscow: Knigoizdatelstvo Skorpion, 1903. [2], 290 pp. 8vo. The copy is in exceptionally fine contemporary half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers and gilt lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper illustrated by Fidus (the famous German symbolist artist Hugo Hoppener) preserved. A fine copy. First edition. This is..... More
![Item #902 [SOVIET FLORICULTURE IN THE 1940S] Tsvety v gorode [i.e. Flowers in the City]....](/pictures/thumb/902.jpg?v=1576165210)
[Moscow]: Gos. arkhitekturnoye izd-vo, 1947. 104pp.: ill. 20.7x16.7cm. In original publisher’s cardboards. Slightly bumped, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear board and its recto. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Scarce. First edition. An interesting guide dedicated to the Soviet floriculture of the 1940s written by the famous Russian..... More
![Item #157 [UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of...](/pictures/thumb/157.jpg?v=1475076609)
Leningrad: State text-book Publishing House, 1954. Second edition. 142, [2] pp.: ill. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, loss of the small fragment of the top left corner of the front cover, Soviet bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the p.1. Cover..... More
![Item #231 [BELLAMY IN POLISH] W roku 2000 [i.e. In the Year of 2000]. E. Bellamy](/pictures/thumb/231.jpg?v=1528813532)
Warsaw: 1890. 332 pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Guilt lettering on the spine. Stamp of the pre-revolutionary library on the title verso. Very good. The first edition in Polish of ‘Looking Backwards: 2000-1887’ by Edward Bellamy. It was translated by Józef Karol Potocki (1854-1898) and became one of the..... More
![Item #1476 [KONASHEVICH] Sto oktiabriat [i.e. One Hundred Little Octobrists]. I. Belyshev](/pictures/thumb/1476.jpg?v=1660924020)
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
![Item #138 [THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/138.jpg?v=1472324983)
Moscow: Sovremennye problemy, 1926. 148, [12] pp. 17x12,5 cm. 1 of 4000 copies. In original publisher's illustrated cover. The back cover is not attached to the book, lacking two small pieces of the spine, tears of the spine, some soiling of the covers. Otherwise a good copy. First Russian edition..... More
![Item #1417 [SHARK FISHING IN THE SOVIET UNION] Promysel akuly, lov i obrabotka [i.e. Shark...](/pictures/thumb/1417.jpg?v=1658799192)
Moscow: Snabtekhizdat, 1932. 53, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine with minor fragments lost, creases of the back cover, p. 54 soiled, pale private stamps on the title page and p.54, pencil marks on margins and colored pencil number on the back..... More
![Item #899 [FROM ONE ARCHITECT TO OTHERS] Grazhdanskaia arkhitektura. Tekst: Chasti zdanii [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/899.jpg?v=1576164322)
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
![Item #1108 [FIGHTING FORMALIST ART] Formalizm v zhivopisi: 24 illustratsii [i.e. Formalism in...](/pictures/thumb/1108.jpg?v=1604438638)
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
![Item #462 [RUSSIAN WOODEN CLASSICISM] Kaluzhsky derevyannyi ampir [i.e. Wooden Empire Style of...](/pictures/thumb/462.jpg?v=1526397657)
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
![Item #1543 [AN EXTREMELY RARE SURVIVAL OF THE TIME] Komsomoliya. (Stranitsy epopei) [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1543.jpg?v=1669207964)
Moscow: Krasnaya Nov’, 1924. 40 pp.: ill., music sheets. 31.5x24.5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Boris Efimov. Soiling of the wrappers, pp. 17-24 detached, loss of a fragment of the lower left corner throughout the most part of the copy. Otherwise good. Extremely scarce. First edition..... More
![Item #856 [PHOTO GRAPHICS BY TELINGATER] Tragediinaia noch’. Poema [i.e. Tragic Night. A Poem]....](/pictures/thumb/856.jpg?v=1573081658)
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
![Item #228 [CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that...](/pictures/thumb/228.jpg?v=1485601820)
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 #1460 [EARLY MAGADAN INHABITANTS] V Kolymo-Indigirskoi taige : Zapiski zhurnalista [i.e. In...](/pictures/thumb/1460.jpg?v=1660824472)
Moscow: Izd-vo Glavsevmorputi, 1947. 141, [3] pp.: ill. 20x14,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, spine chipped, light soiling of t.p. and back cover. A witness-account about the construction of Magadan and people involved. A rare example of photo books about the Far East city. It was illustrated..... More
![Item #1544 [SOVIET MODERNISM] Borisov, L. Leonardi 2: [Rasskazy] [i.e. Leonardi 2: [Short...](/pictures/thumb/1544.jpg?v=1669208216)
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvopisatelei v Leningrade, 1928. 135, [2] pp., [5] pp. of ads. 19.6x14.4 cm. In original illustrated dust-jacket. Loss of the wrappers, neat restoration of the dust-jacket, slight wear to the extremities. In a good condition. Scarce. First edition. Remarkable constructivist dust-jacket by the experimental theatre..... More
![Item #1226 [THE SOCIALIST ZIONISM] Di ḳlasen-inṭeresen un di natsionale frage [i.e. Class...](/pictures/thumb/1226.jpg?v=1617191890)
Kiev: Der hamer, 1917. 38, [2] pp. 21x14 cm. No covers. In a good condition, the lower inner corner chipped. Second edition of the major work by a leading member of the Labor Zionist movement, Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917). The first edition was published in Vilna in 1906. In..... More
![Item #502 [SEAL BREEDING] Kotikovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding]. L. Boytsov](/pictures/thumb/502.jpg?v=1533143053)
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
![Item #1572 [A SOVIET DRAWING MANUAL] Rukovodstvo po chercheniyu [i.e. Drawing Manual]. V. Bromley](/pictures/thumb/1572.jpg?v=1669218797)
Moscow; Leningrad: Vsesoyuz. koop. ob'yedin. izd-vo, 1932. (Moskva: Tip. «Gudok»). 77, [3] pp.: schemes. 14.8x22.4 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. Second edition printed later the same year. Written by..... More
![Item #1059 [A STUDY OF THE BOOK COVER] Oblozhka knigi: Opyt istoricheskogo issledovaniia. I....](/pictures/thumb/1059.jpg?v=1601554848)
Leningrad: Izdanie Akademii Khudozhestv, 1929. 120 pp.: ill., 1 ill. In original cardboards. Very good. First edition. One of 600 copies. Very rare. Cover design produced by the author, graphic artist Georgy Brylov who contributed to the Soviet design of books and posters and wrote 5 works about his..... More
![Item #13 [PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s...](/pictures/thumb/13.jpg?v=1660927580)
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
![Item #1296 [UKRAINIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY] Naivazhlyvishe z mystetstv: Naris pro kino [i.e. The Most...](/pictures/thumb/1296.jpg?v=1634126627)
Kyiv: Proletars’ka pravda, 1929. 48 pp.: ill. 15x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, with minor tear of spine, pale water stain on inner lower corner of first leaves, some spots. Otherwise very good and partly uncut copy. Very rare with no copies in Worldcat. A small..... More
![Item #1463 [AVIATION] Brat’ia Rait = The boys’ life of the Wright brothers [i.e. The Wright...](/pictures/thumb/1463.jpg?v=1660905234)
Moscow: Posrednik, 1933. 102, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped with small tears, covers slightly soiled, few minor stains on pages, tiny hole of p. 49-50, otherwise very good and clean. First Russian edition. One of 10 400 copies. Rare. Translation was undertaken by..... More