![HOW TO DRAW A FONT] Osnovy i risovanie pechatnogo shrifta [i.e. Basics and Drawing of Printed...](/pictures/thumb/736.jpg?v=1563915946)
Petrograd: Gos. izd-vo inostrannykh i nats. slovarei, 1922. 69 pp.: ill. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original printed wrappers with ornament and dust wrappers with white lettering. Very good, some light fading, barely visible Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover of dust wrapper, overlapped wrapper with a few small chips... More
![ART WORKERS’ UNION] Khudozhnik: Ezhemesyachnyi informftsionnyi biulleten’ Vserossiiskogo...](/pictures/thumb/733.jpg?v=1563914751)
Moscow, 1931-1935. April, 1931 [under the title “Biulleten’ Vserossiiskogo Kooperativnogo Tovarishchestva ‘Khudozhnik’ ”]. 50, [2] pp.: ill., 3 pl. 26x17,5 cm. One of 2000 copies. Fine. In publisher’s wrappers. June, 1932 [under the title “Biulleten’ Vserossiiskogo Kooperativnogo Tovarishchestva ‘Khudozhnik’ ”]. 60 pp.: ill., 1 pl. 26x17,5 cm. One of..... More
![ART & LEISURE] I. Iskusstvo i otdykh; II. O rezhime ekonomii v khudozhestvennom trude [i.e. Art...](/pictures/thumb/731.jpg?v=1563914137)
Moscow: Proletkul’t, 1927. 63, [1] pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated constructivist styled wrappers. Very good, some pages uncut. Small tears of the spine, some slight erosion of the staples, stamp on non-existent library on t.p., stamp “For review” on t.p. First and only edition. One of 1500 copies..... More
![ART IN REGIONS] Ekskursionnaya grafika [i.e. The Excursion Graphics]. A. Arkhangelskiy](/pictures/thumb/730.jpg?v=1563913916)
Ulianovsk: Got-tipolit. #1, 1926. 28 pp. 22x15 cm. One of 1200 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Very rare. No copies found in the Worldcat. First and only edition. An interesting example of the provincial printing, that gives us the inside into the art education process. Ulianovsk..... More
![ART AND PEOPLE] Iskusstvo i narod / Sbornik pod red. Konstanina Erberga [i.e. Art and People /...](/pictures/thumb/728.jpg?v=1563913375)
St. Petersburg: Kolos, 1922. 229, [2] pp.: ill. 25x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the wrappers, cracks of the spine. Otherwise a very good clean copy. First edition. One of 1200 copies. Very rare. Wrappers, logo, headpieces and endpieces by K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Collection of articles and essays..... More
![THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE STALINIST ARCHITECTURE] O realisticheskikh osnovakh sovetskoi...](/pictures/thumb/727.jpg?v=1563913188)
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
![ARCHITECTURE FOR ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS] Arkhitekturnye formy i kompozitsiya zdaniya [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/723.jpg?v=1563912053)
Moscow; Leningrad: Mosk. aktsionernoe izdatel’skoe ob-vo, 1926. 139, [5] pp.: ill. 22x14 cm. In original card boards. Very good, small losses and soiling of the covers, Soviet bookshops’ stamps on the back endpapers. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Volume 6 from the series ‘Encyclopedia..... More
![KHARBIN FICTION] Arabeski [i.e. Arabesques]. Pavel Tutkovsky](/pictures/thumb/722.png?v=1563412486)
Kharbin: M.V. Zaitsev, 1938. 126, [6] pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary owner’s carton binding. The private stamp of ‘war officer A.V. Vostroknutov’ on the title page. First and only edition. Pavel Tutkovskiy (1889-1959) was the Russian novelist, who has lived in Belgrade, Kharbin, and emigrated to USA after the cultural..... More
![MIDDLE EAST - ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY] Ta’likat Mir Sayyid Sharif fi sharh-e shamsiya [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/721.jpg?v=1563407617)
Tehran (?)., n.d. Commentaries added in 1283 H. [1866]. Octavo (ca. 22x16,5 cm). Lithographed edition. 48 unnumbered leaves. Text and commentaries on the margins in Arabic: main text in ruq’ah script, commentaries - in nastaaliq script. Weak typography stamp on verso of the first leaf. Pastedown endpapers are leaves from..... More
![FIRST EDITION OF BROTHERS KARAMAZOV] Brat’ia Karamazovy [i.e. The Brothers Karamazov]: [In 2...](/images/noimage.png)
St. Petersburg: Brothers Panteleev, 1881. Vol.1. 509 pp. Vol.2. [2], 699 pp. 8vo. Two modern period-style binding. Very rare, especially in contemporary binding. The first edition of the one of the most important books in the Russian language, a masterpiece of immense influence. This was the final work by..... More
Moscow: Nauka, 1989. 400 pp. Original cloth. Very good. This is the most detailed account of the Russian expeditions to the North Pacific at the time. Supplied with the indexes of ships, names and geographical places. The documents themselves include letters, orders, short accounts of the trips undertaken, etc. More
Moscow: Mysl, 1964. 623 pp.: ill., folding maps. Cloth binding with the illustrated dust wrapper. Illustrated throughout. Very good, the dust wrapper is slightly torn. Translation of: Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, v. 2, Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure / edited by J.C. Beaglehole..... More
Warsaw: PWN, 2018. This amply illustrated reference book on Georgian book design in the 1920s and '30s is based on a broadly representative private collection of a hundred works. It traces the main trends and developments in Georgian book design at that time, and identifies the main artists involved. The book..... More
![DON QUIXOTE IN RUSSIAN] Don-Kihot Lamanchskiy [i.e. Don Quixote, the Night of Sad Countenance and...](/pictures/thumb/714.jpg?v=1562883236)
St. Petersburg: A.F. Devrien, 1883. [2], 64 pp., 6 chromolithographic plates. 26x19 cm. Original cardboard binding. First edition. The spine is scuffed, the pages are soiled towards the end, few tears. Generally in good condition for the Russian children’s book of the 1880s. More
![SONNETS COMPILATION] Sonety [i.e. Sonnets]. W. Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/713.jpg?v=1562883060)
[Supplement to the magazine ‘Probuzhdenie’ (i.e. Awakening)]. St. Petersburg: Tovarishhestvo hudozhestvennoi pechati, 1912. 32 pp. 30x21 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In a very good condition. This collection of sonnets gathered the highlights of the early translations. Among all pieces of Shakespeare’s heritage the sonnets came last into Russian literature..... More
The archive consisting of one signed photo by Shostakovich, 6 letters (with the envelopes in maestro’s handwriting), 1 congratulatory telegram with the photo pasted on it and one family photo. All of the letters are addressed to Kazan to Isaia Sherman. Isai Sherman (1908-1972) the Ukrainian born conductor, who has..... More
![JAPAN] Edinstvenniy iaposnko-russkii slovar [i.e. The Only Japanese-Russian Dictionary]. K....](/pictures/thumb/710.jpg?v=1562881279)
Tokyo; Osaka: Marusen-Kabushiki-Kaisha, 1910. [2], XII, 596, 6 pp. Original cloth binding, with tape over it. Two private stamps in Russian and Japanese on the title verso. Otherwise good. The third edition of the first Japanese-Russian dictionary written in Japan. The first edition came out in 1906, second in..... More
![AUSTRALIAN TANKS] Tanki. Spravochnik. 1943-1957. [i.e. The tanks. The reference book. 1943-1957](/pictures/thumb/706.jpg?v=1562725636)
Moscow: Voennaya Ordena Lenina Akademiya Bronetankovikh Voysk, 1961. 482 pp. 19x13 cm. Original cloth binding. Binding is slightly deformed. Otherwise good. Owner’s signature on the endpaper. The book is largely based on the book by F. Von Senger und Etterlin ‘Taschnbuch der panzer. 1943-1957’ with additional material and..... More
Handwritten note by Leo Tolstoy dated 2 March 1893. No envelope or address: “It’s difficult to answer your question in writing. In words I might be able to advise you. Evening after 7 o’clock I'll be home”. More
![AUSTRALIAN METHOD] Samouchitel sportivnogo plavaniya. Avstraliyskiy sposob [i.e. The tutorial on...](/pictures/thumb/702.jpg?v=1562724200)
Pskov: printed by the author, 1913. 18 p., 7 full-page ills. Original illustrated wrapper. Block is slightly bent and the wrappers are soiled, otherwise good. This curious self-published regional brochure is dedicated largely to the Australian crawl stroke. First recorded in Australia in 1870s, this is probably the..... More
![MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY] Arkhitektura: Ezhemesiachnik. 1-2 [i.e. Architecture: Monthly...](/pictures/thumb/698.jpg?v=1561148013)
[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
[End of 19th cent.] 220 leaves. 36x24 cm. Manuscript. The title page and frontispiece is decorated in colors. Every chapter starts with illuminated headpiece and initial. Contemporary red morocco with raised bands and gilt and blind stamping. One of two claps preserved. The covers are slightly rubbed. Otherwise very good..... More
Petrograd, 1917. 20 leaves. 20x13 cm. Original printed wrapper. Losses of the parts of the wrapper, otherwise good and clean internally. Owner’s stamp on the front wrapper. Contemporary notes in pencil on the last page, drafting the plan to create ‘the storage of maps’ in the Bureau, mentioning that somewhere..... More
![Posle Rossii [i.e. After Russia. 1922-1925]. Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva](/pictures/thumb/691.png?v=1559609657)
Paris: I.E. Povolotzky, 1928. 160 pp. 18,8x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. The spine is restored. Wrapper is slightly soiled. Rare. One of 500 copies produced. The first edition of Tsvetaeva’s last book of poems, including the poems written after she emmigrated to France from Soviet Russia. Tsvetaeva wanted..... More
![Traktor STZ-NATI [i.e. The tractor STZ-NATI]. Z. Zaretskiy](/pictures/thumb/690.png?v=1559608412)
Moscow: Nauchno-issledovatelelskiy institut poligraficheskoy i izdatelskoy tekhniki OGIZ’a pri SNK RSFSR, [1945]. [65] pp. 24x37 cm. Original card boards. Tear on the inside of the front endpaper, binding is slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. First and only edition. The album is dedicated to the tractor STZ-NATI that was in..... More