Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1939. 62, [2] pp. 21,5x15 cm. In original wrappers with decorative ornament. Tears of the spine with small fragments lost, rusty staples, otherwise very good. One of 2000 copies. Cover design by Anatoly MacReady-Stenroos, the Russian artist who emigrated with fascist forces in 1941 and kept the anti-Soviet..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928. 160 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. This is a trade catalogue of Gosizdat, the State Publishing House. It was formed in 1919 by merging the largest departmental and cooperative publishing houses as..... More

Moscow: Tipo lit. Dvortsa kul’tury avtozavoda im. Stalina, 1938. [6] pp., 12 pp. of black and white ill. 32x25 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very good, slightly restored. Extremely scarce. 1 of 500 copies. First edition. Published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Komsomol. A foreword..... More

Ca. second half of 1940s. Drawings in ink and pencil. 20 leaves. 17,5x12,2 cm. On the front cover artist’s self-portrait in a classical satirical manner, on the verso - an image of the notebook with artists’s caricature character ‘walking out of it’. Among other images are portraits, cartoons, political caricatures..... More

Moscow: TsK Rabis, 1928. 20 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. The weekly about theater, cinematography, circus, stage performing, music, art and photography that was published by the Trade Union of Art Workers as ‘Herald of Art Workers’ in 1920-1926 and as ‘Rabis’ in..... More

[Late 19th century]. 65x88,5cm. Some tears of edges, vertical crease in center with small hole, small fragment of right edge lost. Handwritten note “303. Mamaevo poboishche” citing to Rovinsky’s reference book listing an early lubok on the same event. Otherwise very good. A lithographic lubok on a popular historical..... More

Moscow: Gos. muz. izd-vo, 1931. 112 pp.: ill. 17x12 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tears of the spine, soiling and staining to the wrappers, previous owner’s ink inscription on the front wrapper, Soviet bookshop stamp on the last page. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited by..... More

1835. 16.5x22.6; 15.6x22.3cm. Two pencil drawings mounted on plain paper with date and title captioned in English. A very good condition. Unidentified artist (signature E.C. in the left bottom corner). Rare historical evidence of one of the most famous fires in the 19th century England. The..... More

Moscow: Izd-vo Assotsiatsii khudozhnikov rev. Rossii, 1926. 121, [7] pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Good, small tears of the spine and extremities, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, damp stains. One of 3100 copies. Rare. Wrappers, head and end pieces by S. Pavlov. The..... More

Baku: O-vo obsledovaniya i izucheniya Azerbaydzhana, 1928. 26x17 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tear of spine, ink signature on front cover, otherwise mint. Extremely scarce. 1 of 150 copies. An extract from the Proceedings of the Society for the Survey and Study of Azerbaijan in 1928 (#5). A short..... More

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

New York: Serebriannyi vek, 1981. 117, [3] p.: ill. 19x12 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Pale stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First separate edition. Design was produced by Vagrich Bakhchianian (1938-2009), Armenian-American conceptualist artist, known for his provocative art, mocking the classical soviet images. He placed the title on the..... More

Vol.1: [52 leaves: 1924-1936]. Vol.2: [52 leaves: 1937-1938]. 384 images. 29,5x21,5 cm. Cardboards with leather labels on spines with gilt lettering. Bindings with rubbings, occasional foxing, one clipping is lacking fragment. Otherwise very good. Handmade albums of Efimov’s caricatures that were printed in Izvestia and other newspapers during these..... More