![Item #888 [FREEDOM THROUGH THE KROKODIL MAGAZINE] Krokodil [i.e. Crocodile] #4-35 for 1989....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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 #194 [GIGANTIC TURNIP BY SIMONOVICH-EFIMOVA] Skazka Repka [i.e. The Gigantic Turnip](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/194.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1483909032)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1937. [12] pp.: ill. 24,5x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the extremities. Otherwise very good. Lithographed edition. Covers and illustrations by Nina Simonovich-Efimova (1877-1948), Russian Soviet artists, who worked in etching and autolithography techniques; one of the creators of the professional puppet theater in Russia..... More
![Item #88 [ONE OF THE FIRST ANTI-NAZI CARICATURES OF THE WWII] Ogonyok [i.e. The Twinkle](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/88.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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 #102 [BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/102.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/157.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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 #141 [SOVIET SATIRE ARTISTS] Desyat' ocherkov o khudozhnikakh-satirikakh [i.e. Ten Essays on...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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 #135 [UKRAINIAN BOOK OF JUNGLE] Dzhungli: Oppovidannya pro zhittya ditini mizh zvirima / Z...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/135.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
![Item #1055 [ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1055.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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 #1010 [RUSLAN AND LYUDMILA ILLUSTRATED BY KUSTODIEV] Ruslan and Lyudmila. A. Pushkin](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1010.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
![Item #152 [REED'S THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE] Vdol' fronta / Per. s angl. I.V. Sablina i V.F....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/152.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/195.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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