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[AELITA, ONE OF THE EARLIEST FULL-LENGTH FILMS ABOUT SPACE TRAVEL] Aelita. Kino-lenta na temu romana A. N. Tolstogo [i.e. Aelita. A Film Based on the Novel by A. N. Tolstoy]

Moscow: Proizvodstvennyy organ Mezhrabpoma Khudozhestvennyy Kollektiv «Rus’», [1924]. 48 pp.: ill. 22.2x19.8 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Spine and edges are slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. This brochure is dedicated to the Soviet silent film classic ‘Aelita’, which came out in 1924 and became a...... More

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[EXPERIMENT IN FILMMAKING] Krasnye partizany. Geroicheskaia poema v 10 pesniakh po stsenariiu B. Leonidova [i.e. Red Partisans. A Heroic Poem in 10 Songs Based on Screenplay by B. Leonidov]

Leningrad: Sovkino, 1924. 16 pp.: ill. 25x17 cm. In original avant-garde wrappers. Tears of the spine, a few spots on the front cover, otherwise very good. Stamp of movie theater on the front cover. First edition. Very rare. This is an interesting edition containing a film libretto and an interview..... More

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[SOVIET FILM ART] Kollezhskii registrator [i.e. The Stationmaster]

Moscow: Mezhrabpom- Rus’, 1925. 16 pp.: ill., photographs. 30,5х22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by I. Bograd. Near fine. Some soiling and slightly rubbed spine. One of 15000. This edition is dedicated to the Soviet silent film which came out in 1925. Scenes from the film with captions followed..... More

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[SOVIET POSTER FOR 8½] Film poster for 8½ by I. Maistrovskii

Moscow: Reklamfilm, 1987. 86,5x55 cm. Fine. In this year the film by Fellini was widely distributed in Soviet cinemas for the first time. More

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[STARS OF THE 1920s: A COLLECTION OF 20 BROCHURES]

A COLLECTION OF 20 BROCHURES (INCLUDING 1 DUPLICATE) DEDICATED TO SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS SOVIET AND FOREIGN MOVIE STARS AND DIRECTORS OF THE 1920S. The 1920s was a pivotal point in the history of Soviet film industry: the decision to import foreign movies into the Soviet Union..... More

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[UKRAINIAN CINEMA] Al’bom Ukrains’kogo kino [i.e. Album of the Ukrainian Cinema].

Kyiv: Vufku, 1928. 52 pp.: ill. 26x17.5 cm. In the original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities, worn, decompressed Ukrainian library stamps and inventory numbers on the title-page, p.17, soiled wrappers. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Text in Ukrainian and French. With numerous black..... More

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[SOVIET LEADING STUDY ON CHAPLIN’S FILMS] Charl’z Spenser Chaplin: Ocherk rannego perioda tvorchestva [i.e. Charles Spencer Chaplin: A Sketch of the Early Period of Activity]

Avenarius, G.

Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, [1959]. 266, [1] pp.: ill., 1 portrait. 27x21 cm. In original cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. First and only edition. A foreword by notable film critic Rostislav Yurenev. Book design was..... More

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[HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It]

Boltiansky, G.M.

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 75 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Some wear of the wrappers, loss of the small piece of the rear cover, Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear cover, very rare foxing in text, otherwise very good. Rare. First edition of the second book..... More

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[AVANT-GARDE CINEMA] Chelovek i kino: Estetiko-sotsiologicheskii etiud [i.e. Mankind and Cinematography: An Aesthetic and Sociological Study]

Levidov, M.

Moscow: Kino-izdatelstvo RSFSR Kinopechat, 1927. 112 pp. 13,5 x 17,5 cm. Original illustrated photomontage wrappers. Tiny tears of the spine, Georgian stamp on the title page ‘From books of Nico Mitsishvili’. Otherwise very good. Very rare. First and only edition. One of 3500 copies. The constructivist edition by Mikhail..... More

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[MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS: BETWEEN FILMMAKERS] Tekhnika kombinirovannoi kinos’emki [i.e. Technique of Combined Filming] / edited by E. Tisse

Nilsen, V.

Moscow: Gizlegprom, 1933. 140 pp.: ill. 23x15,5 cm. In original constructivist cardboards by N. Sedel’nikov. Bumped, minor defects of covers, otherwise very good and neat. Signed and inscribed by the author “To M.A. Kaufman - a colleague in occupation. Moscow. November 20, 1933”. Mikhail Kaufman (1897-1980) was a brother of..... More

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[PUDOVKIN’S FAMOUS EDITING TECHNIQUES] Kinostsenarii: Teoriya stsenariya [i.e. Film Script: The Theory of a Script]

Pudovkin, V.I.

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 64 pp. 15x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rear wrapper is detached and the front wrapper is almost detached from the text block, low margin of p.19 is cut off. Otherwise very good. The first book by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953), a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter..... More

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