![Item #2019 [THE MYSTERY OF STALIN’S DEATH - BANNED] Zagadka smerti Stalina: (Zagovor Beriya)...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2019.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1714484660)
Moscow: Posev, 1976. 168 leaves (text printed on one side). 30.5x20.6 cm. In owner’s cardboards. Original carbon copy typescript. Loss of the spine, occasional soiling, otherwise in a very good condition. Text in Russian. An extremely rare samizdat copy of the prominent Soviet émigré historian Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov’s acclaimed work..... More
![Item #1913 [JEWISH LIFE IN ODESA] Odesskie rasskazy [i.e. Odesa Stories]. I. Babel](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1913.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704892006)
Moscow: GIKHL, 1931. 140, [3] pp. 19x12,5 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Slightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise mint. First full edition of the well-known literary cycle. Jewish writer Isaak Babel (1894-1940) was born in Odesa. He graduated from the Odesa Commercial School and the Kyiv Commercial Institute. While..... More
![Item #2055 [BULGAKOV TAUGHT] Zhanrovye raznovidnosti russkoi dramy [i.e. Genre Varieties of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2055.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718637019)
Vologda: University Press, 1989. 95 pp. 1 of 800 copies. 19,5x14 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Pencil note on the title page, otherwise very good. Rare. Likely the first course in USSR, entirely dedicated to the writings of Mikhail Bulgakov – it has been composed before all his..... More
![Item #2006 [EARLY CRITIQUE OF THE FAMOUS SOVIET AVANT-GARDE ARCHITECT KONSTANIN MELNIKOV]...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2006.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1714481225)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo khud. lit., 1931. 72 pp.: ill. 21.4x14.6 cm. In original publisher’s constructivist wrappers. Fine. Scarce. First and only edition. With numerous black-and-white illustrations and schemes throughout. An interesting Soviet book about the design of club stages by a Russian film director Nikolay Baklin (1887-1967) and Konstantin..... More
![Item #685 Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]. Dmitrii Baltermants](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/685.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559602815)
Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent..... More
![Item #2106 [THE CHERRY ORCHARD IN KHARKIV] Dramaturgiya Chekhova : K postanovke p'yesy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2106.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721166964)
[Kharkiv]: Khar'k. teatr rus. dramy, 1935. 206, [2] pp., 3 ill.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding. Fine condition. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 3,200 copies. Binding and bass-relief of Anton Chekhov by the noted Russian graphic artist and book illustrator Vladimir Konashevich (1888-1963). In the period..... More
![Item #2458 [BORIS KRIUKOW] Pro tramvai [i.e. About a Tram]. A. Barto](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2458.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752081192)
Kyiv: Kultura, 1930. 12 pp.: ill. 23,5x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and front cover, spine slightly repaired, some soiling, otherwise good. In Russian. Printed by students of the printing shop “Kiev-Pechat’”. Very rare. The book contains excellent children’s verses about street traffic by Soviet Jewish..... More
![Item #1889 [A REAL-LIFE DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN RUSSIAN] Ogonek: Istoriya odnogo lisenka [i.e. The...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1889.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703319666)
Moscow: Posrednik, 1931. 55 pp., 1 ad.: ill. 21x14.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers by Nikolay Troshin. Soiling of the wrappers, small stains on the front wrapper and the title page, spine with tears, previous owner’s ink inscription of the verso of the front wrapper. Otherwise in good condition..... More
![Item #2475 [STUDY OF REFLEXES] Biologicheskoye razvitiye mimiki s ob"yektivno-psikhologicheskoy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2475.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752091010)
St. Petersburg: Tovarischestvo Khudozhestvennoi Pechati, 1910. 3-38 p.: ill.; 24,4x15,6 cm. Printed without the title page. First and only edition. Signed by Bekhterev on the title page ‘To Pavel Alekseevich Neznamov. From V.Bekhterev’. Speech delivered at the ceremonial meeting of the Council of the Psychoneurological Institute, dedicated to the..... More
![Item #2278 [SOLOMON BOIM] Nash kolkhoz [i.e. Our Collective Farm]. F. Belkin](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2278.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736344453)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1950. 24 pp.: ill. 28x22 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. First and only edition. Fyodor Belkin (1911-[after 1959]) is considered the author of quite talentless and ideologically imbued poems, published five collections from 1947 to 1958: "The Village", "Our Collective Farm", "Native Land", "Native..... More
![Item #231 [BELLAMY IN POLISH] W roku 2000 [i.e. In the Year of 2000]. E. Bellamy](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/231.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724765562)
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 #1890 [ABC FOR THE GERMAN CHILDREN LIVING IN THE SOVIET UNION] Fibel [i.e. Primer]. N....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1890.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703319930)
Engels: Deutscher Staatsverlag, 1937. 96 pp.: ill., frontispiece. 22.7x14.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards. Worn, rubbed edges, boards slightly loose, several pages detached. Otherwise good. Scarce. Second edition. First edition published in 1935. Black and white illustrations throughout by A. Diel. In German. A textbook for German printed..... More
![Item #1476 [KONASHEVICH] Sto oktiabriat [i.e. One Hundred Little Octobrists]. I. Belyshev](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1476.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660924019)
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....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/138.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472324982)
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 #1543 [AN EXTREMELY RARE SURVIVAL OF THE TIME] Komsomoliya. (Stranitsy epopei) [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669207963)
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 #2598 [LEBEDEV ART SCHOOL] Gde raki zimuiut [i.e. Where Crayfish Spend Winter]. V. Bianki](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2598.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767877360)
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo detskoi literatury, 1935. 16 pp.: ill. 22 × 17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed, with small tears, fragments of back cover edges lost, light soiling of covers, otherwise very good and clean pages. Second edition. A good example of the Lebedev-school children’s books. The..... More
![Item #1460 [EARLY MAGADAN INHABITANTS] V Kolymo-Indigirskoi taige : Zapiski zhurnalista [i.e. In...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1460.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660824471)
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 #1226 [THE SOCIALIST ZIONISM] Di ḳlasen-inṭeresen un di natsionale frage [i.e. Class...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1226.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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 #2595 [THE JANOWSKA CONCENTRATION CAMP] Literatura w obozie [i.e. Literature in the Camp]....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2595.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767876886)
Kraków: Drukarnia I pod Zarządem Państwowym, 1946. 76 pp.: ill. 23 × 16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tear of the spine with a small fragment missing. Otherwise in good condition. First edition. Design of the edition by Karol Ferster and Abba Fenichel. Michał Maksymilian Borwicz, born Maksymilian Boruchowicz..... More
![Item #137 [WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/137.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724775112)
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
![Item #2589 [SOUTH OSSETIA] Skazka severnogo lesa [i.e. Tales of the Northern Forest]. G. Brezhnev](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2589.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767876374)
Stalinir (Tskhinvali): Gosizdat Iu.O.A.O., 1942. 28 pp. 16,5 × 12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and cover edges restored, some foxing on front wrapper and t.p., ink marks on the last text page, ink signature on t.p., otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of..... More
![Item #2346 [EARLY LISSITZKY] Sichas Cholin: Prager legende [i.e. Small Talk: The Legend of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2346.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742898771)
Moscow: Nashe Iskusstvo, 1917. Scroll. Dimensions: 22x382 cm. Linen-backed (period). The two ends of the scroll are chipped with minor tears and signs of wear. Later wooden case. The edition exists in two variants: the scroll version was produced in 20 copies and hand-painted by the artist, and..... More
![Item #1572 [A SOVIET DRAWING MANUAL] Rukovodstvo po chercheniyu [i.e. Drawing Manual]. V. Bromley](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1572.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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 #1450 [A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES BY STALIN’S CLOSEST ALLY] Ataka [i.e. Attack]. N. Bukharin](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1450.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660821680)
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
![Item #2063 [BEFORE SOVIET REHABILITATION] Sbornik rasskazov [i.e. Collection of Short Stories]....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2063.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718632952)
New York: Izdatel’stvo im. Chekhova, 1952. [4], IV, [2], 199, [1] pp. 22х14,5 cm. In contemporary binding with front cover glued above. Rubbed, new endpapers, block is detached from back cover and spine, small stains occasionally, otherwise good. One of 4990 copies. The editorial is written by V.A. Alexandrova..... More