![Item #1121 [THE FIRST SOVIET MANUAL ON THE PRODUCTION OF BRECCIA MARBLE] Iskusstvennyy...](/pictures/thumb/1121.jpg?v=1608113653)
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
Moscow: Fabrika detskoy knigi izd-va detskoy literatury TSK VLSKM, 1939. 44, [4] pp.: ill. 18.5x10.5 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. Very good, tiny tears of the spine, some notes on the back cover (pencil). Extremely rare first edition. One of 7,000 copies. The promotion of physical education and..... More
![Item #1114 [HOW THE SOVIET CREMATION BEGAN] Krematsiia [i.e. Cremation] / compiled by G. Bartel](/pictures/thumb/1114.jpg?v=1608111302)
Moscow: Izd. M.K.Kh. 1925. 95, [3] pp.: ill., 2 ills. 17x13. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some spots, pale water stains on the first leaves. One of 10 000 copies. Rare. Cover design was produced by Ol’ga Amosova (1888-1965), known as production designer in Khandzhonkov film studio in..... More
![Item #1113 [SOVIET ARCHITECTURE: GINZBURG, KHIGER AND SEMENOV] Voprosy arkhitektury: Sbornik...](/pictures/thumb/1113.jpg?v=1604439740)
[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
![Item #1112 [SOVIET CIRCUS LEGEND] Advertising Poster. Zhonglery. Iunost’. Rukovoditel’...](/pictures/thumb/1112.jpg?v=1604440865)
[Moscow]: Soiuzgostsirk, [1960s]. 86x57 cm. Very good, creases, minor tears. Extremely rare. One of 3000 copies. Design was produced by Marat Beliaev (born in 1932), a graphic artist and industrial designer. Since 1965 he was actively involved in the creation of posters, including circus advertisements. This poster..... More
![Item #1111 [FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ANTHEM OF THE SOVIET UNION IN GERMAN] Hymne der Sowjet...](/pictures/thumb/1111.jpg?v=1604439206)
Moscow: Verlag für Fremdsprachige Literatur, 1944. [4] pp. 27.7x21.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Previous owner’s ink inscription on the front wrapper. Otherwise near fine. STRIKING FIRST GERMAN-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE SOVIET UNION. In 1943, the Soviet regime announced a contest for a new..... More
![Item #1110 [ARMENIAN WRITERS DEFENDING THE SOVIET UNION] My pobedim. Armyanskiye pisateli...](/pictures/thumb/1110.png?v=1604439068)
Yerevan: ARMGIZ, 1942. 224 pp. 15.4x22.2 cm. In original publisher’s cardboards. Light soiling, previous owner’s ink inscription on the verso of the title-page. Otherwise near fine. First edition. Scarce. 1 of 4,000 copies. Book design including illustrated endpapers by the noted Soviet artist Iosif Karalyan (1897-1981). This is a...... More
![Item #1108 [FIGHTING FORMALIST ART] Formalizm v zhivopisi: 24 illustratsii [i.e. Formalism in...](/pictures/thumb/1108.jpg?v=1604438638)
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
![Item #1107 [NEW SOVIET STYLE] Novyi stil’ [i.e. New Style]. I. Ioffe](/pictures/thumb/1107.jpg?v=1604438378)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izogiz, 1932. 156, [4] pp.: ill. 17,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, rubbed, tiny fragments of covers lost, partly restoration of spine and front cover. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. Jeremiah Ioffe (1891-1947), Soviet art historian and critic, belonged to a...... More
![Item #1106 [MAKE YOUR OWN SHOES AT HOME] Rukovodstvo k domashnemu izgotovleniyu prostoy i...](/pictures/thumb/1106.jpg?v=1604438110)
St. Petersburg: Izdaniye T-va A.F. Marks, [1911]. 72, [2] pp., 1 folding plate, 4 tables: ill. 23.8x16.4 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Soiling and light foxing of the wrappers, spine slightly rubbed, rear wrapper and 2 tables lack small pieces (no text affected). Otherwise in a good condition. Scarce..... More
![Item #1104 [FIRST AERODYNAMIC INSTITUTE IN EUROPE] Aerodinamicheskiy institut v Kuchine:...](/pictures/thumb/1104.jpg?v=1604437075)
Moscow: tipo-lit. t-va I.N. Kushnerev i K°, 1914. 7 pp., 4 ill. 28x19.5 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Soiling of the wrappers, loss of the upper left piece of the front wrapper, loss of the pieces of the spine, pencil markings on the wrappers, several pages detached. Otherwise a good..... More
![Item #1100 [TELINGATER, KUKRYNIKSY, ARKHANGELSKY] O Babele, Gladkove, Zharove, Zoriche,...](/pictures/thumb/1100.jpg?v=1604436299)
Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlya i fabrika, 1930. [46] pp., 1 ill: ill. 29×22 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards by Kukryniksy. Minor tears at the hinges of the spine. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Introduction by the head of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers Leonid Averbakh (1903-1937). The..... More
![Item #1098 [SANS-SERIF SPREAD ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION] Normal’nyi shrift dlia nadpisei na...](/pictures/thumb/1098.jpg?v=1604435916)
Moscow: Izdanie avtora, 1927. 36 pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. In very good condition, minor fragment of the spine lost, pale water stain on the back cover. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. The earliest manual on neutral technical fonts in the Soviet Union..... More
![Item #1096 [LUBOK IN UKRAINIAN] Evrei [i.e. The Jew](/pictures/thumb/1096.jpg?v=1604432765)
[Ukraine, late 19th c.]. 44х34,5 cm. Steel engraving. Very good, a few tears. Text in simplified Ukrainian. An example of antisemitic anecdote printed for the folk in the form of lubok. The text tells the story of the Jewish seller who came to the nobleman to sell some..... More
![Item #1094 [BEFORE CHERNOBYL] Lotsmanskaia karta Kievskogo vodokhranilishcha, r. Dnepr ot...](/pictures/thumb/1094.jpg?v=1604431847)
Kiev: Kartofabrika VMF, 1968. [2] pp., 13 double-page charts. 50x33 cm. In original cardboards. Very good and clean internally. Covers rubbed and bumped, with water stains on them and endpapers, with small fragments of cover paper lost. The previous owner’s corrections on some leaves. For inner circulation only. Copy..... More
![Item #1092 [IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i...](/pictures/thumb/1092.jpg?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 #1088 [THE LARGEST HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION ON DNIEPER RIVER] Dneprostroy i novoye...](/pictures/thumb/1088.jpg?v=1604429859)
Kharkiv: gospodarstvo Ukraini, 1932. [1], 45 pp.: ill. 26.4x35.4 cm. In owner’s cloth binding with original wrappers preserved. In a good condition. Front endpaper, front wrapper, title-page and few pages detached. Scarce. Second edition. First edition published in 1930 with design by Mark Kirnarsky. In contrast to the previous edition..... More
![Item #1085 [LOBACHEVSKY IN FRENCH] Nouveaux principes de la géométrie avec une théorie...](/pictures/thumb/1085.jpg?v=1604425836)
Bruxelles: Hayez, 1901. 132 pp., 9 plates. 23.5x16.1 cm. Contemporary owner’s half-leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Near fine. Minor tear at the hinge of the spine. Ex Libris on the verso of the front board Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927), a Swedish mathematician and a member of the Nobel..... More
![Item #1084 [MAKEUP FOR AMATEUR THEATRE] Prakticheskoe rukovodstvo po grimu dlia kruzhkov...](/pictures/thumb/1084.jpg?v=1604425671)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1940. 48 pp., 32 ills. 18x15 cm. In original cloth folder with silver lettering and blind debossed silhouette: text brochure and separate illustration leaves inside. Folder is slightly soiled, small tear of the spine of the text brochure with minor tear of the t.p. outer edge, some foxing..... More
![Item #1082 [AELITA, ONE OF THE EARLIEST FULL-LENGTH FILMS ABOUT SPACE TRAVEL] Aelita. Kino-lenta...](/pictures/thumb/1082.jpg?v=1604424548)
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
![Item #1079 [CUBA] Natsional’nyy atlas Kuby [i.e. National Atlas of Cuba](/pictures/thumb/1079.jpg?v=1604424119)
Havana: 1970. [8], 132, [11] pp.: ill., maps. 49x39 cm. In original publisher’s cardboards with dust-wrapper. Minor tear of the dust jacker otherwise good. Scarce. Text in Russian. Scales of the maps vary from 1: 75,000 to 1:170,000,000. THE FIRST NATIONAL ATLAS OF CUBA PRODUCED WITH THE JOINT EFFORTS OF..... More
![Item #1075 [LIBERALIZATION OF WOMEN IN EASTERN REPUBLICS] Oktiabr’ i zhenshchina Vostoka [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1075.jpg?v=1604423242)
Moscow: Partizdat, 1932. 56 pp.: ill. 20x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some foxing, red pencil marks. Second edition. Constructivist cover design features three pictures of socialist women: without veils, working and smiling. The book outlines socialist methods to improve the everyday life of Oriental women and summarizes..... More
![Item #1074 [FIRST BOOK IN GERMAN, PRINTED IN RUSSIA TOGETHER WITH AN EARLY GRAMMAR] Teutsh-...](/pictures/thumb/1074.jpg?v=1604420045)
St. Petersburg: printed at the Academy of Science typography, 1731. [4], 788, 48 pp. 23x18 cm. One of 1200 copies printed. Full-leather period binding. Spine is restored. New endpapers. Occasional stains, more substantial stains on the pp. 140-141 (traces of wax). Occasional restoration of the margins. Overall a very good..... More
![Item #1071 [SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1071.jpg?v=1601556572)
Moscow: Partiinoe izdatel’stvo, 1933. V, [2], 520, [4] pp., 6 folding maps. 23x16 cm. In original red cloth with silver plate around embossed blind lettering in Chinese on the front cover; the same design of lettering in Russian printed on the spine. No dust wrappers. Some soiling on binding, otherwise..... More
![Item #1068 [Orthopaedics IN RUSSIA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENT.] Ortopedicheskaia klinika...](/pictures/thumb/1068.jpg?v=1601556020)
St. Petersburg, 1913. 58 pp.: ill., 9 ills. 21x15,5 cm. In original illustrated covers. Some stains on covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat. Interesting evidence of the early period of orthopedic surgery in Russia. In contrast to..... More