![ONE OF THE FIRST ANTI-NAZI CARICATURES OF THE WWII] Ogonyok [i.e. The Twinkle](/pictures/thumb/88.jpg?v=1450190185)
Moscow. 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 front wrapper..... More
![PHOTOMONTAGES OF MILITARY ACTIONS] Frontovaia illiustratsiia [i.e. Frontline Illustration] #12,...](/pictures/thumb/1317.jpg?v=1634132533)
Moscow: Voenizdat NKO SSSR, 1944-1945. Generally, very good. No back cover of #1, 4 for 1945, tears, creases and stains, small fragments of spines occasionally lost. The organ of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army published in 1942-1960. Titled initially as ‘Frontline illustration’, it was issued after..... More
![TELINGATER, KUKRYNIKSY, ARKHANGELSKY] O Babele, Gladkove, Zharove, Zoriche, Zoshchenko, Inber,...](/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
![UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary...](/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
![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
![FROM ARKHANGELSK TO VLADIVOSTOK] Chetyre tysiachi mil’ na Sibiriakove [i.e. Four Thousand Miles...](/pictures/thumb/1037.jpg?v=1595855663)
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo pisatelei, 1934. 64 pp., 36 ills. 32x28 cm. In original cloth with silver lettering on the spine and stamped image of the ship on the front cover; in original cloth case with mounted illustrations on both sides; illustrated endpapers. Foxing on the covers, tears of the front endpapers..... More
![UKRAINIAN BOOK OF JUNGLE] Dzhungli: Oppovidannya pro zhittya ditini mizh zvirima / Z angl....](/pictures/thumb/135.jpg?v=1472299315)
Kiev: Derzhavne Vid-vo Ukraini, 1929. 204 pp.: ill. 28x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers with tears and restoration, loss of the small piece and restoration of the spine, general soiling, stain on the upper side of few pages, small restoration of the edge of p.1. Illustrated throughout. Illustrations..... More
![ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi knige 1932 g....](/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
![Mamatsi mgzavrebi [i.e. Brave Passengers]. Stepan Lisiciani](/pictures/thumb/81.jpg?v=1450242570)
Tbilisi: Progress, 1907. [12] pp. 26x18 cm. Lithographed illustrated wrappers by unknown Armenian artist as well as plates and illustrations in text. Near fine. Minor stains on the wrapper. Very rare. The first edition of this Armenian folktale. Stepan Lisiciani (1865-1947) who adapted it for this book was..... More
![MARTIROS SARYAN DESIGN] Lirichesky front [i.e. The Lyrical Front]. V. Norents](/pictures/thumb/48.jpg?v=1446527311)
Yerevan: GIZ, 1932. 102 pp. 1 of 4000 copies. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated wrapper. Wrapper is rubbed at the edges, soilings, bits of the spine are missing. Cover design by Martiros Saryan. Rare example of the book design by the founder of Armenian national school of..... More
![RUSLAN AND LYUDMILA ILLUSTRATED BY KUSTODIEV] Ruslan and Lyudmila. A. Pushkin](/pictures/thumb/1010.jpg?v=1591961374)
Petersburg: Gosizdat, 1921. 120 pp.: ill. 19,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears with small losses of spine, tears and small losses of blank margin of p. 115-117, stains occasionally. Cover design and 25 illustrations, head-, tail-pieces and a small portrait of Pushkin were produced by well-known artist..... More
![REED'S THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE] Vdol' fronta / Per. s angl. I.V. Sablina i V.F. Korsha [i.e....](/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
![BOOK DESIGN BY SOLOMON TELINGATER] Napostovsky svistok: Stikhi i epigrammy [i.e. Post Whistle:...](/pictures/thumb/500.jpg?v=1533142567)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1932. [42] pp.: ill. 20x12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Very good, loss of the spine, covers rubbed, illustrated bookplate on the front pastedown (from the collection of O.S. Kuzmy). First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. A rare poetry book by satire poet Sergei Shvetsov..... More
![AGRONOMIC PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN] Na vystavku! [i.e. To the Exhibition!]. O. I. Vysotskaya](/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