![Item #1283 [CHEKHOV FOR TAJIK CHILDREN] Kaştanka [i.e. Kashtanka]. A. Chekhov](/pictures/thumb/1283.jpg?v=1634124018)
Stalinobod [Dushanbe]: Sektori adabijjoti bacagona Nasrijjoti davlatiji Tocikiston, 1937. 64 pp.: ill. 27x20 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Some soiling, few tears of front flyleaf, binding corners slightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise very good copy. Second edition. One of 7000 copies. Extremely rare edition printed in Tajik language using..... More
![Item #1280 [MOSCOW PLANETARIUM] Zvezdy [i.e. Stars]. P. Zhigankov](/pictures/thumb/1280.jpg?v=1634123550)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1932. 16 pp.: ill. 18,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine, otherwise near fine. First and only edition. Scarce. The children’s book was dedicated to a newly organized institution, Moscow planetarium. Opened in 1929, it became a part of the atheistic..... More
![Item #1279 [INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF RUSSIA] Tenemi: Povest’ iz zhizni chukchei [i.e. Tenemi: A...](/pictures/thumb/1279.jpg?v=1634123343)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1932. 144 pp.: ill., map. 19,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, covers chipped, some soiling, otherwise very good. The second enlarged edition with a map of the Chukchi peninsula. One of 10 000 copies. Design was produced by artist Lev Sychev (1911-1990)..... More
![Item #1275 [AIRCRAFT] Tseppelin [i.e. Zeppelin]. L. Kassil&rsquo](/pictures/thumb/1275.jpg?v=1634120914)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 16 pp.: ill. 16,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed, tears of the spine, minor fragments of covers lost, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. Design was produced by Feodor Kondratov (1897-1944), graphic and theatrical artist, book illustrator, and member of OST society..... More
![Item #1273 [PHOTO DOCUMENTATION OF THE NOVEMBER 7, 1938 MILITARY PARADE IN TBILISI] Diadi...](/pictures/thumb/1273.png?v=1632151703)
Tbilisi, 1938. In original full-cloth with gilt lettering and two small photographs (ca. 3.3x3.4cm) mounted on the front cover. Date “7 November 1938” printed on the label and mounted on the front pastedown. Twenty-five vintage prints ca. 9x14.3cm. Minor wear to the edges of the covers, a couple of photos..... More
![Item #1271 [JEWISH RENAISSANCE] Graviury na dereve [i.e. The Woodcuts] / text by I. Ioffe and E....](/pictures/thumb/1271.jpg?v=1632152027)
Leningrad: printed by the author, typography of the Academy of Arts, 1928. 47, [1] pp. 24,5x18 cm. One of 1200 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. First and only edition. The book summarizes the works of Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954), Jewish..... More
![Item #1249 [FIRST NEKRASOV’S WHO IS HAPPY IN RUSSIA?] Komu na Rusi zhit’ khorosho [i.e. Who...](/pictures/thumb/1249.jpg?v=1631710606)
St. Petersburg: M. Stasyulevich, 1880. [8], 145, 207 pp. 21,5x14 cm. Original publisher’s cloth with few bumps on the edges of the spine, but generally a very good copy. Extremely rare. No auction records found. The first separate edition of the poem which social resonance in Russian society is..... More
![Item #1246 [LOMONOSOV’S THEORY OF COLOR] Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam...](/pictures/thumb/1246.jpg?v=1631710057)
Petropoli: Typis Academiae Scientiarum, [1756]. [2], 40 pp. 21,9x17,5 cm. Modern half-leather. Very good internally. First edition. One of the major works by Mikhail Lomonosov and his main contribution to optics. On the basis of many years of research and numerous experiments, Lomonosov developed a theory of light..... More
![Item #1243 [DOSTOEVSKY’S FIRST COMPLETE WORKS] Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [i.e. The Complete...](/pictures/thumb/1243.jpg?v=1631709565)
St. Petersburg: Fyodor Stellovsky, 1865-1870. Vol.1-4. 274,[1]; 256,[1]; 374,[2]; 225 pp. 26x19 cm. Two half-leather period bindings. New endpapers. Pre-revolutionary stamps of St. Petersburg bookseller on title pages. The owner’s inscription in pencil (Nikitin) on the title page of vol.3. Otherwise very good. Complete with advertisement of the publisher in..... More
![Item #1234 [LITTLE KNOWN LISSITZKY DESIGN] Ijaillit Une Larme [i.e. The Tear Has Appeared]....](/pictures/thumb/1234.jpg?v=1617194986)
Moscow: Obschestvo evreiskoy muziki, 1919. 5 pp. 35x26 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor tears, otherwise in good condition. Jewish sheet music piece, the wrapper is designed by Lazar (EL) Lissitzky. Text in Yiddish and Russian. The design by Lissitzky has been done in his Moscow period, which..... More
![Item #1230 [THE LAST NOVEL BY SHOLEM ALEICHEM IN KULTUR-LIGE] Motl Peysi dem khazns (ksovim fun a...](/pictures/thumb/1230.jpg?v=1617193742)
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. 110, [2] pp. 21x14,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, pale contemporary stamps and ink marks of Ukrainian evening courses, a pencil note written on the front cover translates Yiddish lettering into Russian, the rear side of the cover features student’s pencil drawings, otherwise..... More
![Item #1228 [ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONSTRUCTIVIST HOUSE] Zhilishche. Opyt piatiletnei raboty nad...](/pictures/thumb/1228.jpg?v=1617192530)
Moscow: Gosstroyizdat, 1934. 192 p.: ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. 1 of 4000 copies. Original cloth binding. No dust-jacket. Some soiling, but otherwise very good. Contemporary owner’s inscription on the title page (A. Molokin, 1931). Provenance: the book belonged to the well-known Kharkiv-based architect professor Alexander Molokin (1880-1951), the contributor..... More
![Item #1227 [LATE EDITION OF KIEV KULTUR-LIGE] Geklibene verk = Vybranni tvory [i.e. Selected...](/pictures/thumb/1227.jpg?v=1617192246)
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1930. 221, [2] pp. 21x15 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Uncut. Fragment of the spine lost, tears of covers, contemporary Ukrainian institute stamps and notes, otherwise very good. Lifetime edition. One of 3000 copies. In Yiddish. This book came out as a part of a Kultur-Lige..... More
![Item #1226 [THE SOCIALIST ZIONISM] Di ḳlasen-inṭeresen un di natsionale frage [i.e. Class...](/pictures/thumb/1226.jpg?v=1617191890)
Kiev: Der hamer, 1917. 38, [2] pp. 21x14 cm. No covers. In a good condition, the lower inner corner chipped. Second edition of the major work by a leading member of the Labor Zionist movement, Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917). The first edition was published in Vilna in 1906. In..... More
![Item #1225 [YIDDISH PUBLISHING DURING THE WORLD WAR I] Tsum yohrtsayt [i.e. For the Anniversary]....](/pictures/thumb/1225.jpg?v=1617191768)
Vilnius: B.A. Kletskin, 1916. 47 pp. 22,5x16 cm. Original illustrated front cover preserved. Good. No back cover, front cover and spine repaired with paper, tears of edges and soiling, the early 1920s Soviet bookshop’s stamps on t.p. and front cover. Extremely rare and remarkable wartime edition of Vilna publisher..... More
Moscow: Der Farband, 1932. 20 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from the text block, tears to spine, small pieces of paper glued to the first and last pages, otherwise very good. One of 4000 copies. In Yiddish. An issue of the first..... More
![Item #1211 [WARTIME EDITION OF SONG OF THE SONGS] Pesn’ pesnei [i.e. The Song of the Songs] /...](/pictures/thumb/1211.jpg?v=1617187110)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. 64 pp.: ill. 20x12 cm. Original publisher’s cardboard binding with the portrait of the author on the front cover. Covers rubbed, with small tears. Otherwise very good. The wartime edition of Sholem Aleichem’s (1859-1916) classical short stories. According to Russian National Library, ‘Der Emes’..... More
![Item #1209 [THE GREATEST POET OF THE HOLOCAUST] Fun Vilner geto = Vilenskoe Getto [i.e. From...](/pictures/thumb/1209.jpg?v=1617186630)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1946. 256 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original cardboards. Good, covers rubbed and chipped, tear of the spine, stains occasionally. One of 10 000 copies. The laconic design of the book was created by Soviet artist Hersh Inger (1910-1995). In 1926-1930 he studied under Marc Epstein..... More
![Item #1208 [MINSK GHETTO] Mstiteli getto [i.e. The Avengers of the Ghetto]. H. Smolar](/pictures/thumb/1208.jpg?v=1617186220)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1947. 128 pp: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some soiling of the spine, otherwise near fine. The Russian edition of wartime memoirs ‘Fun Minsker geto’ by Hersh Smolar who was one of the leading members of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto and a...... More
![Item #1206 [A PRAISE TO ‘A WELL-KNOWN JEWISH BOURGEOIS NATIONALIST’] Mikhoels. M. Zagorskiy](/pictures/thumb/1206.jpg?v=1617184865)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Kinopechat’, 1927. 32 pp.: ill. 17.9x13.3 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. The spine is slightly rubbed. Soviet bookshop stamp on the recto of the rear wrapper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Art-nouveau style wrapper design with Mikhoel’s portrait by the..... More
![Item #1205 [ANALYSIS OF SOLOMON MIKHOELS’ CREATIVE PATH] Mikhoels: Tvorcheskiy put’ nar....](/pictures/thumb/1205.jpg?v=1617184613)
Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1938. 116 pp., 1 frontispiece: ill. 19,9x13,8 cm. In original cloth binding with lettering on the front board. The spine is slightly rubbed. Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear endpaper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. One of 4,000 copies. This monograph on one..... More
![Item #1203 [STRAVINSKY - SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH] Signed portrait, ‘A Monsieur Jantos Baruro Sinceres...](/pictures/thumb/1203.jpg?v=1615202144)
A vintage gelatin silver print photograph, head and shoulders portrait in part profile with shadow [by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1934], inscribed and signed in blue ink on the upper right-hand area of the photograph, 8,5x13,5 cm, original mount, framed, and glazed. This original vintage photograph of Igor Stravinsky (1882 -..... More
![Item #1181 [GOLOVNIN'S AUTOGRAPH] Les Jardins, poème [i.e. The Gardens. Poems]. Jacques Delille](/pictures/thumb/1181.jpg?v=1613985254)
Paris: P. Didot, 1801. XXXV, 214 pp., 4 ill., 13,5x8 cm. Original full leather. Restoration of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. The first endpaper bears inscriptions and signatures of several interesting individuals which connect the book to Vasily Golovnin’s exploration of the Pacific. On the top..... More
![Item #1180 [WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY RUSSIA] Russkaya zhenshchina na...](/pictures/thumb/1180.jpg?v=1612382997)
Moscow: S. Skirmunt, 1901. Unofficial edition. VI, 264, 499 pp. 13x19.1 cm. In owner’s contemporary half-leather binding. General wear and rubbing, pre-revolutionary library stamp (“A Library of the Z. K. ZH. D. Employee Control”) on the front endpaper, title-page, p. III, rear endpaper, and the recto of the rear board..... More
![Item #1179 [TO THE ROOTS OF WOMEN’S MOVEMENT] Chto takoye zhenskaya emansipatsiya? Rech’...](/pictures/thumb/1179.jpg?v=1612382901)
Odessa: G. Beylenson i I. Yurovskiy, 1893. 32 pp. 17.7x11.7 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers loose, loss of the pieces of the spine, mild damp stains on the wrappers. Otherwise in a good condition. Scarce. First edition. Translated into Russian by I. Naumenko. This interesting piece features a...... More