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Item #1059 [A STUDY OF THE BOOK COVER] Oblozhka knigi: Opyt istoricheskogo issledovaniia. I....

[A STUDY OF THE BOOK COVER] Oblozhka knigi: Opyt istoricheskogo issledovaniia. I. Proiskhozhdenie oblozhki. II. Evoliutsiia. III. Perspektivy [i.e. The Book Cover. A Historical Study. I. Origin of the Book Cover. II. Evolution. III. Future Prospects]

Brylov, G.

Leningrad: Izdanie Akademii Khudozhestv, 1929. 120 pp.: ill., 1 ill. In original cardboards. Very good. First edition. One of 600 copies. Very rare. Cover design produced by the author, graphic artist Georgy Brylov who contributed to the Soviet design of books and posters and wrote 5 works about his..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #1056 [THE EARLY SOVIET BOOK DESIGN

[THE EARLY SOVIET BOOK DESIGN]

Four 1920s book and magazine covers. All of them differ from each other in style, number of colors, artists, publishers and even readers. Yet, they were printed for the propaganda of contemporary (and mostly proletarian) culture. All of them are very rare. Proletarskie prazdniki v rabochikh klubakh [i.e. Proletarian..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1055 [ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi...

[ILLUSTRATING TEXTBOOKS] Illiustrirovanie uchebnoi knigi: Illiustratsiia v uchebnoi knige 1932 g. Instruktsiia po illiustrirovaniiu uchebnikov [i.e. Illustrating Educational Books. Illustration in the 1932 Educational Books. A Manual on Textbook Illustration]

Kuzminskii, K

Moscow: NII Ogiza, 1933. 86, [26] pp.: ill.; 17x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine glued by tape, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. This is the first manual on how the model Soviet textbooks had to be designed, constructed and produced. After..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #1054 [HARVEST MARCH: COLLECTIVIZATION PROPAGANDA] Urozhainyi marsh: Dlia smeshannogo khora...

[HARVEST MARCH: COLLECTIVIZATION PROPAGANDA] Urozhainyi marsh: Dlia smeshannogo khora s soprovozhdenii f.-p. [i.e. Harvest March. For Mixed Choir Accompanied by a Fortepiano] / Music by V. Bogdanov-Berezovskii, text by V. Mayakovsky

Leningrad: Triton, [1930s]. 15 pp. 21,5x15 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Covers detached, small fragments of covers and blank corners of two first leaves lost, otherwise very good. One of 1000 copies. Very rare with no copies located in Worldcat. Sheet music for ‘Harvest March’ (1929)..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1053 [EARLY SOVIET GLIDING] Aerodinamicheskii raschet planera [i.e. Glider Aerodynamic...

[EARLY SOVIET GLIDING] Aerodinamicheskii raschet planera [i.e. Glider Aerodynamic Calculations]

Fadeev, N.

Moscow: Aviakhim, 1926. 173 pp.: ill., 4 pp. of ads. 26,5x18 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine repaired with a paper band, the covers with minor tears and losses, otherwise very good and clean internally. One of 5000 copies. Interesting edition from the early period of Soviet aviation..... More

Price: $800.00

Item #1052 [THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE] Vashingtonskaia konferentsiia po ogranicheniiu...

[THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE] Vashingtonskaia konferentsiia po ogranicheniiu vooruzhenii i Tikhookeanskim i Dal'nevostochnym voprosam 1921-1922 g. [i.e. Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament and the Pacific and Far East Questions. 1921-1922].

Moscow: Litizdat NKID, 1924. 139, [3] pp. 25х17 cm. In contemporary binding with the original front cover mounted. In a very good condition, colored pencil underlines and marks occasionally. First and only Russian edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. The book was printed by People's Commissariat for Foreign..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1051 [HANDBOOK OF A CHOIRMASTER] Khorovye pesni [i.e. Choir Songs]. I. Nemtsev

[HANDBOOK OF A CHOIRMASTER] Khorovye pesni [i.e. Choir Songs]

Nemtsev, I.

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1928. 92, [4] pp. 15х12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed with minor fragments of the spine lost, water stains on verso of the covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. Third edition printed the same year as the second. Very rare. Lithographic cover design doesn’t..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1048 [PARADE EDITION BY RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Soviet Aviation

[PARADE EDITION BY RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Soviet Aviation

Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939. 96 pp.: ill. 40x26 cm. In original full cloth with lettering and design on the front cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Slightly soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Illustrated throughout with photomontages and photographs by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova... More

Item #1046 [FIRST RUSSIAN COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING POETS] Angliiskie poety v biografiiakh...

[FIRST RUSSIAN COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING POETS] Angliiskie poety v biografiiakh i obraztsakh [i.e. English Poets in Biographies and Selected Works] / compiled by N. Gerbel’.

St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Kotomina, 1875. XXXII, 448 pp. 26,5x19 cm. In contemporary red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and colored decorative elements on the front cover. Some rubbing and foxing, lack of the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is the..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1045 [ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v...

[ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v piati deistviiakh [i.e. Romeo and Juliet. Opera in Five Acts] / Music by С. Gounod.

[Shakespeare, W.]

St. Petersburg: Izdanie knigoprodavtsa M.O. Vol’fa, 1871. 23 pp. 26x18,5 cm. In original printed covers. Good, tears of the spine, lacking upper outer corner of last page (text slightly affected) and the back cover, foxing and water stains occasionally. First and lifetime edition of the libretto. Very rare. Italian..... More

Price: $850.00

Item #1040 [WWI FRONTLINE NOTES MADE BY THE SISTER OF MERCY] Narod na voine: Frontovye zapisi...

[WWI FRONTLINE NOTES MADE BY THE SISTER OF MERCY] Narod na voine: Frontovye zapisi [i.e. The People at War: Frontline Notes]

Fedorchenko, S.

Kiev: Izdanie Izd. podotdela Komiteta Iugo-zapadnogo fronta Vseros. Zemskogo Soiuza, 1917. 140 pp. 23x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some tears and soiling of covers, the first and last pages faded, otherwise very good. First edition. Cover design and 7 vignettes were produced by artist Eugeniia Pribyl’skaia (1899-1938)..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1039 [USSR AT THE 1939 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR

[USSR AT THE 1939 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR]

Collection of eight brochures from the Soviet Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair [numeration is alternative]: 1) Prokofiev, A. The Palace of Soviets. 2) Papanin, I. The Soviet Wintering Station on the Drifting Ice. 3) Fyodorov, E. Scientific Work of Our Polar Expedition. 4) Komarovsky, A. The Moscow-Volga..... More

Price: $2,200.00

Item #1036 [FIRST RUSSIAN LESBIAN NOVEL] Tridtsat’ tri uroda: povest’ [i.e. Thirty-Three...

[FIRST RUSSIAN LESBIAN NOVEL] Tridtsat’ tri uroda: povest’ [i.e. Thirty-Three Abominations: Novel]

Zinov’eva-Annibal, L.

Saint Petersburg: Ory, 1907. 96, [8] pp. 13,5x10 cm. In original two-color printed wrappers with publisher’s vignette (doubled on t.p.) designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. Near fine. Second edition printed the same year. Rare. First Russian novel that openly discussed lesbianism. It was created by female poet and writer Lydia..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #1035 [COLLECTION OF THE RUSSIAN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST LITERATURE

[COLLECTION OF THE RUSSIAN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST LITERATURE]

1) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Iz istorii zhenskogo dvizheniia v Rossii [i.e. From the History of Women’s Movement in Russia]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D. Sytina, 1908. 60 pp. 2) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Zhenskoe dvizhenie v Evrope i Amerike [i.e. Women’s Movement in Europe and America]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D...... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #1034 [WARTIME CHILDREN’S BOOK] Timur i ego komanda [i.e. Timur and His Squad]. A. Gaidar

[WARTIME CHILDREN’S BOOK] Timur i ego komanda [i.e. Timur and His Squad]

Gaidar, A.

Sverdlovsk: 1942. 28, 31-80 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Complete edition with printer’s error of page numbering, oversized cut of p. 33-40, some black typographic stains. In a very good condition, a couple of tears around staple. Extremely rare edition printed in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) during the..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1031 [EXEMPLARY PIONEER CAMP] Artek. Ia Taits

[EXEMPLARY PIONEER CAMP] Artek

Taits, Ia.

Moscow: Detizdat, 1938. 104 pp.: ill. 27x20 cm. In original illustrated cardboards; illustrated endpapers. Covers rubbed and bumped, small tear of the spine, but very good internally. On verso of front flyleaf an official inscription to schoolboy, dated 1938 and stamped. Very rare. Cover design was produced by book..... More

Price: $1,400.00

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 #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 #1025 [CONSTRUCTORS OF THE NEW WORLD] Liudi 30-kh godov [i.e. People of the 30s]. Iu Zhukov

[CONSTRUCTORS OF THE NEW WORLD] Liudi 30-kh godov [i.e. People of the 30s]

Zhukov, Iu.

Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1966. 575 pp.: ill., 32 ill. 20,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated full-cloth with lettering on the spine; in original illustrated dust-wrapper; illustrated endpapers. Very good, small fragment of the spine lost, covers slightly rubbed. First edition. Solomon Telingater’s later yet brilliant book design. Resembling the..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1024 [PERIODICAL ABOUT BOOKS] Knigonosha [i.e. Wandering Bookseller

[PERIODICAL ABOUT BOOKS] Knigonosha [i.e. Wandering Bookseller]

#1-11, 12/13, 14, 15/16, 17-21, 22/23, 24-30, 31/32, 33/34, 35, 36/37, 38, 39/40 for 1925. Overall 35 issues. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1925. 34x26 cm. In contemporary binding; original wrappers preserved. In general, most issues are in a very good condition. Binding with first 18 pages and last issue detached from the..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1022 [LETTERPRESS ABC] Uchenik-naborshchik [i.e. Typesetter Apprentice]. I. Vie

[LETTERPRESS ABC] Uchenik-naborshchik [i.e. Typesetter Apprentice]

Vie, I.

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1927. IV, 80 pp.: ill. 23x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Bumped edges of oversized covers, small tear of the spine and a few spots on front cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. First and only Russian edition. One of 3000 copies. Cover design..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #1021 [EXPERIMENTAL YEARS OF THE UKRAINIAN DRAMA THEATRE] Desiat’ rokiv odes’kogo...

[EXPERIMENTAL YEARS OF THE UKRAINIAN DRAMA THEATRE] Desiat’ rokiv odes’kogo teatru revoliutsіi [i.e. Ten Years of Odessa Theatre of Revolution]

Odesa: Odeskii teatr revoliutsii, 1936. [2], 280 pp., 47 ill. 21,5х15,5 cm. In original cloth with silver embossed design on the front cover. Very good, spine rubbed, previous owner’s underlines and notes complimented the text clarifying the names. In Ukrainian. First and only edition. One of 1500 copies..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1020 [EXPERIMENT IN FILMMAKING] Krasnye partizany. Geroicheskaia poema v 10 pesniakh po...

[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

Item #1018 [SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING] Problema poleta pri pomoshchi raketnykh apparatov: Sbornik...

[SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING] Problema poleta pri pomoshchi raketnykh apparatov: Sbornik statei pod red. M.K. Tikhonravova [i.e. Problem of Flights by Rocket Apparatuses: Collection of Articles Edited by M. Tikhonravov]

Zander, F.

Moscow: Izd. i tip. Oborongiza, 1947. 240 pp.: photos, drawings, charts. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original full-cloth with white lettering and light-blue illustration. Near fine. First edition. Scarce. This is a collection of articles by a pioneer of rocketry Friedrich Zander (Tsander; 1887-1933) who was the first Soviet engineer..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1016 [MASTER OF THE SOCIALIST REALISM] Deyneka. B. Nikiforov

[MASTER OF THE SOCIALIST REALISM] Deyneka

Nikiforov, B.

Moscow: Izogiz, 1937. 121, [3] pp.: ill., 5 ills. 29,5x23 cm. In original cardboards with colored lettering. Very good, minor tear of the spine. Two pencil sketches on the front flyleaf. First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. Rare. A richly illustrated and the earliest monograph on a leading..... More

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