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Item #1250 [AVANT-GARDE ARCHITECTURE FOR PROLETARIAT] 10 rabochikh klubov Moskvy: Arkhitektura...

[AVANT-GARDE ARCHITECTURE FOR PROLETARIAT] 10 rabochikh klubov Moskvy: Arkhitektura klubnogo zdaniia [i.e. Ten Workers’ Clubs of Moscow... Architecture of a Club Building] / edited by D.E. Arkin.

Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1932. 108 pp.: ill. 17x18 cm. Designed by M.A. Il’in. In the original photomontage dust wrapper. In white blank wrappers. Very good. Spine is slightly restored and the dust-jacked is rubbed at the creases. Very rare, especially with a fragile dust wrapper. One of 5000 copies. The..... More

Item #1028 [BALCONIES] Arhitektura i konstruktsiia balkonov [i.e. Architecture and Construction...

[BALCONIES] Arhitektura i konstruktsiia balkonov [i.e. Architecture and Construction of Balconies] / Z. Chernysheva, M. Tupolev, Iu. Rubinstein

Moscow: Izd. Vsesoiuznoi akademii arhitektury, 1938. 204 pp.: ill. 25,5x18,5 cm. In original full-cloth with colored lettering. Rubbed and slightly soiled, spots on some margins. First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. This is the earliest Soviet book on balconies as a regular and important element of..... More

Item #878 [BOLSHEVIZING SIBERIA] Pereimenovanie ulits, ploshchadei i predmestii g. Irkutska [i.e....

[BOLSHEVIZING SIBERIA] Pereimenovanie ulits, ploshchadei i predmestii g. Irkutska [i.e. Renaming Streets, Squares and Suburbs of Irkutsk city]

[Irkutsk: Ispolnitel’nyi Komitet Irkutskogo Gorsoveta, 1920]. One typeset leaf. 35x20,5 cm. Tears of edges with tiny losses, some creases, otherwise very good. Extremely rare survival of time and a glimpse into the very beginning of the Communist changes. During the Civil War Irkutsk was an epicenter of political..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #1303 [CONSTRUCTION OF MOSCOW CANAL] Soyedineniye Volgi s Moskvoy-rekoy: Sb. materialov po...

[CONSTRUCTION OF MOSCOW CANAL] Soyedineniye Volgi s Moskvoy-rekoy: Sb. materialov po soyedineniyu verkhov’yev Volgi s Moskvoy-rekoy [i.e. Junction of Volga with Moscow-River: A Collection of Materials on the Junction of the Upper Reaches of Volga with Moscow River].

Moscow: izd-vo Mosoblispolkoma, 1932. 64 pp., 1 map: ill., maps. 20x12.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Fine. Scarce. First edition. Edited by S. Chernyavsky. A book dedicated to the junction of Volga with Moscow River. Printed in 1932, the same year the construction of the Moscow canal began..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #1244 [CONSTRUCTIVIST TRANSFORMERS] Sbornie dereviannye doma: konstruktsii [i.e....

[CONSTRUCTIVIST TRANSFORMERS] Sbornie dereviannye doma: konstruktsii [i.e. Prefabricated Wooden Houses: Constructions] / edited by V. Belousov.

Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ, 1931. [2], 206 pp. Oblong folio. 26,4x38 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Owner’s (?) illustrated folder and slipcase that preserve the shape of this unevenly sized edition very well. Covers are carefully restored, mostly at the edges. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. The book..... More

Item #1305 [THE EARLIEST MOSCOW METRO HANDBOOK] Chto dolzhen znat’ passazhir Metropolitena...

[THE EARLIEST MOSCOW METRO HANDBOOK] Chto dolzhen znat’ passazhir Metropolitena [i.e. What Metro Passenger Should Know] / compiled and edited by I. Kattsen

Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1935. 25, [39] pp.: ill. 6,5х14 cm. In original oversized wrappers with an illustrated flap of the front cover. In very good condition. Minor tears, pale water stain on the outer edge, some double-leaves detached from the middle of the book. Very rare edition related to..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Item #1332 [THE FANTASTIC BOTANICAL GARDEN PROJECT IN THE CITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD] Eskiznyy...

[THE FANTASTIC BOTANICAL GARDEN PROJECT IN THE CITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD] Eskiznyy proyekt Botanicheskogo sada Gor’kovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [i.e. Draft Design of the Botanical Garden of the Gorky State University]

[Gor’kiy]: Gor’k. krayev. izd-vo, 1936. 74, [2], 1 plan: ill., plans. 16,8x26 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. Extremely rare. 1 of 650 copies. First edition. Wrapper design by the Soviet artist YU. Porfir’ev. With 1 folded map and 24 black and white illustrations, including 14 photographs..... More

Item #230 [IN THE HEART OF CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ezhegodnik MAO. #5. (Yubileinyi vypusk) [i.e. Yearbook...

[IN THE HEART OF CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ezhegodnik MAO. #5. (Yubileinyi vypusk) [i.e. Yearbook of Moscow Architecture Society. #5. Anniversary Issue]

Moscow: Izd-vo Moskovskogo Arkhitekturnogo Obshchestva, 1928. VIII, 135, [6] pp.: ills., photographs, plans. 33х26 cm. In original wrappers and illustrated dust-wrapper. Very good. Front cover not attached to the text block and the spine, tiny tears of the top and bottom of the spine, spots, tears and losses of the..... More

Item #698 [MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY] Arkhitektura: Ezhemesiachnik. 1-2 [i.e. Architecture:...

[MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY] Arkhitektura: Ezhemesiachnik. 1-2 [i.e. Architecture: Monthly Review. #1-2].

[Moscow]: Moskovskoie Arkhitekturnoie Obshchestvo, 1923. 50, [14] pp.: ills. 32,2х25 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Small tears of the front wrapper, light restoration of the tears and spine, spots on the title page. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. Early constructivist wrapper designed by A. Vesnin (one..... More

Item #1370 [PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi...

[PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi pavil’on-stantsiia v Mar’inoi roshche postroiki 1924-25 g. [i.e. Reinforced Concrete Pavilion-Station in Mar’ina Roshcha, Built in 1924-1925] / Photographs by N. Lebedev

[Moscow: M.G.Zh.D., 1925]. Ca. 26,5x22 cm. Sixteen mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 11x15 cm. No captions. In original cloth folder with gilt lettering. Soiling of folder and foxing on the inner side, but the leaves are near fine. An attractive album of rare photos proving triumph of..... More

Price: $1,950.00

Item #501 [POST CONSTRUCTIVIST SCHOOLS] Shkoly gotovy! Kak my borolis’ za vypolnenie...

[POST CONSTRUCTIVIST SCHOOLS] Shkoly gotovy! Kak my borolis’ za vypolnenie postanovleniia SNK SSSR i CK VKP(b) o novom shkol’nom stroitel’stve [i.e. Schools Are Ready! How We Fought for the Implementation of the Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b.) on the New School Construction]

Moscow: Sovet RK i KD Kirovskogo raiona, 1935. In original cardboards with gilt lettering on the front cover. Very good. First and only edition. One of 300 copies. Extremely rare. This is a triumphal report of the ful lled plan of school construction in the transitional stage between..... More

Item #978 [RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE DESTROYED BY THE NAZIS] Pamiatniki zodchestva, razrushennie...

[RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE DESTROYED BY THE NAZIS] Pamiatniki zodchestva, razrushennie nemetskimi zakhvatchikami [i.e. The Monuments of Architecture Destroyed by the German Invaders]

Volumes 1-2 [all published]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Arkhitekturnoe Izdatelstvo Akademii Arkhitektury SSSR, 1942-1944. Vol 1. 1942. 79 pp.: ill. 22,5x17 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. Vol 2. 1944. 72 pp.: ill. 21,7x17,4 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. The edition was prepared by the Academy of the Architecture of..... More

Price: $550.00

Item #1113 [SOVIET ARCHITECTURE: GINZBURG, KHIGER AND SEMENOV] Voprosy arkhitektury: Sbornik...

[SOVIET ARCHITECTURE: GINZBURG, KHIGER AND SEMENOV] Voprosy arkhitektury: Sbornik statei [i.e. Architecture Issues: A Collection of Articles]

[Moscow]: Izogiz, 1935. 208 pp.: ill. 30x21,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, minor fragments of spine lost, slightly soiled. A valuable piece of a historical evidence on Moscow reconstruction of 1935, Ginzburg’s constructivist project of Moscow- Donbass Highway and Khiger’s civil housing critics (communal houses). Illustrated throughout..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #456 [SOVIET WORKER MUST REST] Doma otdykha: Sbornik statei i materialov [i.e. Pensions:...

[SOVIET WORKER MUST REST] Doma otdykha: Sbornik statei i materialov [i.e. Pensions: Collection of Materials and Articles]

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923. 225, [5] pp.: ill., 4 pl. 27x18 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good. Partially uncut. Tears and small losses of the spine and extremities of the wrappers, signature on the t.p. (ink), damp stains on margins of pages. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Very..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #795 [STANDARD OF THE HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION] Mediko-sanitarnoie stroitel’stvo:...

[STANDARD OF THE HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION] Mediko-sanitarnoie stroitel’stvo: Rukovodstvo dlia vrachei i arkhitektorov [i.e. Health Facility Construction: A Manual for Physiсians and Architects]

Kiev: UISOZ, 1936. 344 pp.: ill. 26x20 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. In good condition, bumped, some foxing on the t.p., water stains, p.15 party detached. One of 1500 copies. An excellent guide dedicated to the health facilities, what they consisted of and how to build them. The book..... More

Price: $1,100.00

Item #889 [TEN YEARS OF COAL AND METAL CITY] Desiat’ let goroda uglia i metalla: Sbornik [i.e....

[TEN YEARS OF COAL AND METAL CITY] Desiat’ let goroda uglia i metalla: Sbornik [i.e. Ten Years of Coal and Metal City]

Stalinsk: Iubil. komissiia po organizatsii prazdnovaniia 10-letiia Kuznets. metallurg. zavoda im. Stalina i goroda Stalinska, 1939. 288 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 25x18,5 cm. In original red cloth with mounted photograph and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly bumped, small ink stain on t.p., otherwise mint... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1026 [YEAR RUN OF THE IMPORTANT ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICAL] Stroitel’naia...

[YEAR RUN OF THE IMPORTANT ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICAL] Stroitel’naia promyshlennost’ [i.e. Construction Industry]

#1, 2/3, 4-10, 11/12. Overall 10 issues. Moscow: Gosnauchtechizdat, 1931. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine with fragments lost, occasionally spots on covers and pale water stains throughout margins, ink signatures on t.p. and pencil direction on subscriber on the back cover, otherwise very good..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #902 [SOVIET FLORICULTURE IN THE 1940S] Tsvety v gorode [i.e. Flowers in the City]....

[SOVIET FLORICULTURE IN THE 1940S] Tsvety v gorode [i.e. Flowers in the City]

Bazilevskaya N.A.

[Moscow]: Gos. arkhitekturnoye izd-vo, 1947. 104pp.: ill. 20.7x16.7cm. In original publisher’s cardboards. Slightly bumped, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear board and its recto. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Scarce. First edition. An interesting guide dedicated to the Soviet floriculture of the 1940s written by the famous Russian..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #839 [LEARNING TO FANTASIZE LIKE CHERNIKHOV] Iskusstvo nachertania [i.e. The Art of Graphic...

[LEARNING TO FANTASIZE LIKE CHERNIKHOV] Iskusstvo nachertania [i.e. The Art of Graphic Representation]

Chernikhov, Y.G.

Knigoizdate’stvo Akademii khudozhetsv: [Leningrad], [1927]. 77, [3] pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine copy. Tiny tear of the spine. First edition of the first book. Yakov Chernikhov (1889-1951) was one of the most unusual and innovative talents of the time, known for his..... More

Price: $2,900.00

Item #1121 [THE FIRST SOVIET MANUAL ON THE PRODUCTION OF BRECCIA MARBLE] Iskusstvennyy...

[THE FIRST SOVIET MANUAL ON THE PRODUCTION OF BRECCIA MARBLE] Iskusstvennyy brekchiyevidnyy mramor zavodskogo proizvodstva [i.e. Factory Made Artificial Breccia Marble]

Elinzon, M.

Moscow: Izd-vo Vses. akad. arkhitektury, 1938. 44 pp., 6 ill.: ill. In original publisher’s wrappers. Very good, small tears of the spine, front cover is slightly detached from the spine, The first Soviet manual on the production of artificial breccia marble. Printed in 1938, this book serves as the..... More

Price: $1,200.00

Item #900 [BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION DURING A WAR] Vosstanovleniye mostov [i.e. Bridge...

[BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION DURING A WAR] Vosstanovleniye mostov [i.e. Bridge Reconstruction]

Gastev, V.

Moscow, Leningrad: Gostransizdat, 1932. 272pp., 3 schemes: ill. 25.2x17.8cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards. Loose, horizontal crease on the front cardboard, edges are slightly worn. In good condition. Scarce. First edition. Written by the Soviet scientist in the field of building structures, Vladimir Gastev (1891-1974), this is one of..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #291 [ONE OF THE NEW ERA TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS] Elementy...

[ONE OF THE NEW ERA TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS] Elementy arkhitekturno-prostranstvennoi kompozitsii [i.e. Elements of Architectural and Spatial Composition]

Krinsky, V.F.

Moscow: Gosstroiizdat, 1934. 172 pp.: ill., 5 ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. In publisher’s cloth with red lettering. General soiling, title page is toned, owner’s signature on the front board and title page. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white drawings and photographs. The..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #764 [SOVIET CITY DEMONSTRATIONS AT ITS BEST] Oformlenie goroda v dni revolutsionnykh...

[SOVIET CITY DEMONSTRATIONS AT ITS BEST] Oformlenie goroda v dni revolutsionnykh prazdnenst [i.e. The Decoration of the City During Revolutionary Celebrations]

Kuznetsova, A., Magidoon, A., Schukin, U.

Moscow; Leningrad: IZOGIZ, 1932. 140 pp.: ills. 27x15 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Very good condition, spine is restored with fragments lacking. First edition. Illustrated throughout. Kuznetsova and Magidoon are responsible for the design of the book, as well as the design of many decorations for street celebrations..... More

Item #1267 [THE SOCIALIST CITY] Problema stroitelstva sotsialisticheskikh gorodov [i.e. The...

[THE SOCIALIST CITY] Problema stroitelstva sotsialisticheskikh gorodov [i.e. The Problem of Building Soviet Cities]

Miliutin, N.A.

Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ; Krasny proletarii, 1930. 84 pp.: ill. 23,5x27,5 cm. One of 7000 copies printed. Original silver stamped yellow and blue cloth binding with the original red and white dust-jacket. Few bits of dust-jacket are restored and replicated, but most of it is preserved. The book itself is in..... More

Item #727 [THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE STALINIST ARCHITECTURE] O realisticheskikh osnovakh sovetskoi...

[THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE STALINIST ARCHITECTURE] O realisticheskikh osnovakh sovetskoi arkhitektury [i.e. On the Realist Base of the Soviet Architecture]

Tsapenko, M.

Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo literatury po stroitel’stvu i arkhitekture, 1952. 393, [3] pp.: ill. 22,5x18 cm. In original full-cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, with blind design on the cover and laconic colored design on the spine. Rubbed, pencil underlinings occasionally, otherwise in very good condition... More

Price: $750.00

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