Petrograd: Komitet skul’pturiv Sorabis, 1922. 10 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrates wrappers. Lithographed edition. Written and drawn by G.P. Liubarsky. Fine. Very rare. One of 500 copies. This is a catalogue of the exhibition which was held in autumn of 1922 and it had a numbered list..... More
![Item #792 [ARMENIAN ART] Iskusstvo Armenii: Kratkii bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ [i.e. Art of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/792.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1567042641)
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
![Item #812 [ART BOOKS TRADE CATALOGUE] Iskusstvo: Katalog knig [i.e. Art: Book Catalogue](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/812.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1567062037)
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
Leningrad: tipografiya Drukar’, [1927]. 10 leaves. 12x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Light foxing on covers, otherwise near fine. First edition. Scarce. 1 of 2,000 copies. With 10 black and white illustrations. An extremely scarce edition printed by the Russian State Museum and intended to showcase the life and art..... More
![Item #1398 [CHILDRENS’ ART OF THE 1930S] Moskva v gravyurakh detey [i.e. Moscow in...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1398.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658795420)
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
![Item #537 [CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/537.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1542807313)
Leningrad: Gosudartsvennyi Ermitazh, 1934. [2], 70, [2], [2] pp.: ill., 15 pl. 17x12 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, small tears of the spine and wrappers rubbed in general, pen marks on the front cover and t.p. Otherwise a good and internally clean copy... More
![Item #439 [FIREBIRD – RUSSIAN ART REBORN] Zhar-ptitsa: Ezhemesiachnyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/439.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1519822856)
Berlin; Paris: Russkoe iskusstvo, 1921-1926. #1-14. Ca. 32x25 cm. Every issue in illustrated wrappers. Generally very good, some mild soiling, with tiny tears and losses of the spine (#1,2,12,14), foxing and piece of tape on the spine (#13). A complete set. Extremely rare in wrappers. Lavishly illustrated throughout with..... More
![Item #270 [INDUSTRIAL ART] Katalog Peredvizhnoi vystavki: Zhivopis’, risunok, grafika,...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/270.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1492003319)
Moscow: Khudozhnik, 1931. 31 pp., 23 ill. 17x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Few tears of the spine, few pages with pale damp stain. Otherwise very good. Scarce. One of 6000 copies. A very distinctive evidence of an interesting time in Soviet Russia’s art history - industrial art exhibition..... More
![Item #1092 [IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1604431141)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1939. XII, 302 pp., СХХIV ill.: ill. 34.6x27.2 cm. In original publisher’s full cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Edges slightly bumped with the tear to the lower right edge of the front board, two last pages are slightly..... More
![Item #837 [IZORAM] Izo rabochei molodezhi Leningrada: (Katalog) [i.e. The Art of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/837.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1569967661)
Moscow: Tretiakov Gallery, 1929. 68, [3] pp.: ill. 16х14 cm. In original wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. Illustrated with 11 photogravures. Two-color avant-garde wrappers attributed to Ilya Chasnik. This catalogue was published on..... More
[Moscow]: Ob-vo russkikh skul’pturov, 1929. 14 pp.: ill. 22,15 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. The catalogue for the 3rd exhibition (of only 4 held by the Society) that was held in 1929 includes introduction “ORS in 1929” by A. Bakushinsky (short..... More
Moscow: Shk. FZU 1-i tip. Gosizdata, 1925. 31 pp. 17x13 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine, some creases of the wrappers and wear of the spine. Very rare, one of 1000 copies. This is the catalogue for the exhibition held in 1925 by a short-term association of young..... More
![Item #1466 [ROLAND HAYES IN THE SOVIET PRESS] Rabis. Organ TsK Vserabisa [i.e. Rabis. Organ of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1466.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1660906387)
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
![Item #159 [THE RUMYANTSEV MUSEUM] Gosudarstvennyi Rumyantsevsky muzei: Putevoditel': 1....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/159.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1475086766)
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo L.D. Frenkel', 1923. 237, [3] pp.: ill. 19,5x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Book is separated in two parts, lacks small pieces of the spine, faded Soviet bookshop's stamps on the back cover. 1 of 3000 copies. First edition. The Rumyantsev Museum was Moscow's first public museum..... More
![Item #300 [SHORT LIFE OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN SCULPTORS] Katalog 2-i vystavki skul’ptury...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/300.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1502282211)
Moscow: Glavnauka, 1927. 16 pp. 17,2x13,3 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, two close tears of the spine and some spots near the spine. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. The catalogue for the 2nd exhibition (of only 4 held by the Society) which took place in 1927..... More
![Item #1571 [THE SOVIET UNION AGAINST WESTERN MUSIC] Dovesti do kontsa bor’bu s n·epmanskoy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1571.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669218389)
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
![Item #1320 [UKRAINIAN THEATER] K 1-i Vsesoiuznoi olimpiade teatrov i iskusstv narodov SSSR [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1320.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1634133013)
Kharkiv: 1930. 41 pp. 20,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Near fine, few tears of the spine. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. The edition describes early experimental years of one of the largest Ukrainian drama theatres which developed as a propaganda tool. The earliest..... More
Leningrad, 1943. 16 pp.: ill., 1 pl. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Very rare. One of 500 copies. The personal exhibition of Vladimir Konashevich (1888-1963) was opened on 12th of September in 1943 in Leningrad which was still in the siege at that time with 295 graphic..... 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&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 #910 [CONCEPTUALIST BULGAKOV] Zapiski na manzhetakh [i.e. Notes on the Cuffs]. M. Bulgakov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/910.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1580219297)
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
![Item #682 [ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOVIET ART] Knizhnaia i stankovaia grafika za 15 let [i.e. Book...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/682.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1558660566)
Moscow: Izogiz, 1933. 127 pp.: ill. In original printed wrappers. Near fine. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Rare. This is small but important book overviews all art movements and career of their members for the first 15 years of Soviet state. An art..... More
![Item #1348 [FAR EASTERN FUTURISM] K dialektike iskusstva. Ot realizma do iskusstva, kak odnoi iz...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1348.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650338784)
Chita: Dal’pechat’: Tip. Ob’edin. Soiuza Zabaik. Kooperativa, 1921. 120 pp. 26,5x19 cm. Original front cover. The back cover and spine renewed, edges of pages and front cover restored, few stains on the front cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. Scarce. A collection of..... More
![Item #87 [GEORGIAN AVANT-GARDE THEATRE] Teatr Rustaveli [i.e. The Rustaveli Theatre]. A. Duduchava](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/87.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1450189712)
Tiflis: Gosizdat, 1930. 79 pp. 19x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original wrapper illustrated by Irakly Gamrikeli. Illustrations of the decorations from different performances throughout the text. Very good. Some tears at the edges of the wrapper. Very rare. The book is dedicated to the main Georgian..... More
![Item #443 [BORIS EFIMOV: SOVIET CARTOON ICON] Two handmade albums of newspaper clippings. B. E....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/443.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1519831488)
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