![Item #888 [FREEDOM THROUGH THE KROKODIL MAGAZINE] Krokodil [i.e. Crocodile] #4-35 for 1989....](/pictures/thumb/888.jpg?v=1576159369)
Moscow: Pravda, 1989. 35,5x27 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some tears of edges and ink marks (#31). Crosswords in most issues are filled out. Almost complete year set of issues printed in a period of glasnost (i.e. publicity) marking the last years of the Soviet rule. They..... More
![Item #88 [ONE OF THE FIRST ANTI-NAZI CARICATURES OF THE WWII] Ogonyok [i.e. The Twinkle](/pictures/thumb/88.jpg?v=1450190185)
Moscow: Ogonyok, 1941. No.18. 25 of June 1941. 24 pp. 32x25 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. This issue of 'Ogonyok' was the first one printed after Germany began the war against Soviet Union on the 22 of June 1941. Boris Efimov's iconic caricatures on the..... More
![Item #1100 [TELINGATER, KUKRYNIKSY, ARKHANGELSKY] O Babele, Gladkove, Zharove, Zoriche,...](/pictures/thumb/1100.jpg?v=1604436299)
Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlya i fabrika, 1930. [46] pp., 1 ill: ill. 29×22 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards by Kukryniksy. Minor tears at the hinges of the spine. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Introduction by the head of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers Leonid Averbakh (1903-1937). The..... 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 #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 #198 Fedorino gore [i.e. Fedora’s Grief]. K. Chukovsky](/pictures/thumb/198.jpg?v=1483910467)
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
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1940. 74 pp.: ill., 1 port.; 22,5x17,5 см. In original illustrated card boards. Covers rubbed, tears and losses to the spine, markings and bookshop labels on the rear pastedown, previous owner's pencil markings and a few drawings in the text (p. 50 and 54). Otherwise very good... More
![Item #141 [SOVIET SATIRE ARTISTS] Desyat' ocherkov o khudozhnikakh-satirikakh [i.e. Ten Essays on...](/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
![Item #1055 [ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi...](/pictures/thumb/1055.jpg?v=1601549803)
Moscow: NII Ogiza, 1933. 86, [26] pp.: ill.; 17x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine glued by tape, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. This is the first manual on how the model Soviet textbooks had to be designed, constructed and produced. After..... More
![Item #152 [REED'S THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE] Vdol' fronta / Per. s angl. I.V. Sablina i V.F....](/pictures/thumb/152.jpg?v=1475072042)
Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika, 1928. 324, [2] pp. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Small tears of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back cover. 1 of 6000 copies. First translation. Cover design by P. Miturich. Pyotr Vasilievich Miturich (1887-1956), Russian artist. In 1910-1920..... More
![Item #195 [AGRONOMIC PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN] Na vystavku! [i.e. To the Exhibition!]. O. I....](/pictures/thumb/195.jpg?v=1483909363)
Leningrad: GIZMESTPROM, 1938. 18 pp. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers and illustrations by A.N. Viktorova. Restoration of the spine. The first and only edition. A coloring book. On every turn of the page there’s an image in color and the same image and outline of the same image opposite for..... More
![Item #690 Traktor STZ-NATI [i.e. The tractor STZ-NATI]. Z. Zaretskiy](/pictures/thumb/690.png?v=1559608412)
Moscow: Nauchno-issledovatelelskiy institut poligraficheskoy i izdatelskoy tekhniki OGIZ’a pri SNK RSFSR, [1945]. [65] pp. 24x37 cm. Original card boards. Tear on the inside of the front endpaper, binding is slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. First and only edition. The album is dedicated to the tractor STZ-NATI that was in..... More