Moscow: P. Yurgenson, 1906. 255 pp.: music. 30,5x24 cm. Contemporary bright red binder’s cloth with title in gold and decoration in color (art nouveau style) on the front board and blind decorative border and binder’s name on the back board. Original illustrated front cover is preserved. Endpapers are of paper..... More about GLINKA & BILIBIN] Ruslan i Lyudmila. Volshebnaya opera v 5 deistviyakh. Syuzhet zaimstvovan...

Moscow: Commission for Improving Life of Children, 1923. 150 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. 150 illustrations in text by Fyodor Kriger. Mint condition. 1 of 6000 copies. The first edition of the propaganda fables by Demian Bedny – the genre he invented and excelled at in 1920s. Fyodor Kriger was... More about LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!

29, [2] pp., 9 pl. 22x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears and rubbings of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Extremely rare. One of 1150 copies. First and only edition. Published by History Society of Kaluga... More about NATIONAL COSTUMES OF KALUGA] Krestianskaya odezhda Kaluzhskoi Gamayunshchiny: Etnografichesky...