![FIRST SOVIET EDITION OF TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD] 10 dnei, kotorye potriasli mir [i.e. Ten...](/pictures/thumb/981.jpg?v=1591794516)
Moscow: Krasnaia Nov’, 1923. 315, [1], 4 pp. 23,5x15,5 cm. Original illustrated wrappers by Sergei Chekhonin. A few small bits of the spine missing, the front wrapper is restored (the right bottom corner is missing, not affecting the image). Overall a very good copy. First edition. Extremely rare..... More
![IVAN PAVLOV – LIFETIME EDITION] Proba fiziologicheskogo ponimaniya simptomologii isterii [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/980.jpg?v=1591794107)
Leningrad: izd. i tip. Akad. nauk, 1932. 36 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Fine. First edition. Very rare. With the dedication leaf: “Dedicated to the deeply respected comrade Alexei Vasilyevich Martynov on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his outstanding scientific, teaching and practical work from..... More
![GRIT YOUR TEETH] Ukhod za zubami [i.e. The Dental Care]. Yu M. Rozovskiy](/pictures/thumb/979.jpg?v=1591793733)
Kharkiv: Nauchnaia mysl, 1929. 40 pp.: ill. 22,3x14,5 cm. One of 5000 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. With black and white illustrations in text. Small tear of the upper left corner, written numbers (pen) close to the tear. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. Extremely rare. An excellent..... More
![RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE DESTROYED BY THE NAZIS] Pamiatniki zodchestva, razrushennie nemetskimi...](/pictures/thumb/978.jpg?v=1591793558)
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
Three fine programs of Meyerhold Theater displaying the last period of its activity. Strongly opposed to socialist realism, Meyerhold’s experimental performances were alien to the Soviet state’s demands but lasted even after the party clamped down on all avant-garde art. Despite the time being already retaliatory towards the avant-garde, the..... More
![STRATOSPHERIC FLIGHT] Potolok mira [i.e. The Ceiling of the World] / A. Harry, L. Kassil’](/pictures/thumb/964.jpg?v=1582651413)
[Moscow]: Sovetskaia literatura, 1934. 130, [2] pp.: ill. 26,5x20,5 cm. In original dust jacket, original cardboard with lettering on the spine and Order of Lenin on the front cover. Restored dust jacket and slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. One of 15 000 copies. Design was produced by VKUTEMAS graduate..... More
![POULTRY PHOTOMONTAGES] Ptitsevodstvo. Krolikovodstvo [i.e. Poultry Breeding. Rabbit Breeding] /...](/pictures/thumb/962.jpg?v=1582651241)
Moscow: Sel’khozgiz, 1940. [126] pp.: ill. 29x23 cm. In original cloth with gilt embossed design and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly rubbed, few defects of the back cover, some soiling of lower outer corner, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies..... More
Five editions connected with Sevvostlag (North-Eastern Camp) that located on the territory of Dalstroy (Far North Construction Trust). Among them are richly illustrated magazine (1946), jubilee collection of essays (1967) and six issues of three newspapers (1940-1946). It all began when the 1920s expeditions to the little-known region of..... More
![LENIN] Velikii vozhd. Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyi sbornik [i.e. The Great Leader. Literary and...](/pictures/thumb/960.jpg?v=1582651029)
Moscow: izdatelstvo komissii pomoshchi detiam pri prezidiume Mossoveta, 1924. 224 pp.: ill. 34x26,5. Original illustrated cardboard. Few bumps of the edges, but generally a very good copy. First edition. One of 10000 copies produced. Very rare. Of all the kaleidoscope of the editions dedicated to the death of..... More
![STALIN AND CHILDREN] Stalin i dity [i.e. Stalin and the Children](/pictures/thumb/959.jpg?v=1582650931)
[Kharkiv]: Ditvidav TsK LKSMU, 1939. 12 leaves of autolithographs in the folder. 31x41 cm. In original cloth portfolio with the photograph inset to front board. Extremely rare. One of 1500 copies. No copies found in the Wordlcat. A very important edition for capturing the peak moment of the cult..... More
![CONSTRUCTIVIST FURNITURE] Za novuiu mebel’ [i.e. For the New Furniture](/pictures/thumb/958.jpg?v=1582650858)
Moscow: GOSTEKHIZD, 1933. 87 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Near fine. Extremely rare. No copies according to the Worldcat. The book includes the two theoretical works by Benenson and Murashov on the development and goals of the Soviet furniture industry and the chapter by N. Guchev..... More
![KIRILL ZDANEVICH ON BOOK DISPLAY] Pokaz knigi v khnizhnom magazine [i.e. The Display of the Book...](/pictures/thumb/957.jpg?v=1582650708)
Moscow: Knigotsentr OGIZa, 1931. 76, [4] pp.: ill. 19,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. The wrappers and the title pages are restored. Overall a good copy. First and only edition. One of 4050 copies. The abridged list of architects and artists, associated with the book, include Kirill Zdanevich, Naum..... More
![CENTRAL ASIA INDUSTRIALIZED] Pervye iarmarki v Amu-Dariyinskom Oasise [i.e. The First Fairs in...](/pictures/thumb/956.jpg?v=1582650500)
Tashkent: Sakomta, Tashobllit, [1920s]. 52x71 cm. Chromolithography. In Russian and Uzbeki. Good, poster is backed, restoration of the edges. One of 1000 copies. Design by unknown artist. The poster shows the approaching of the new Soviet reality in the Central Asian republics. The map on the background covers the..... More
![GEORGIAN WORKERS IN SUPPORT OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT BONDS] Glekhta momgebian 5% seskhi [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/955.jpg?v=1582650428)
[Tbilisi]: Poligraficheskiy trest VSNHG, [1920s]. 96х65 cm. Chromolithography. Carefully restored. In a very good condition. Design by unknown artist. Text in Georgian. A remarkable example of the Georgian poster design. Extremely rare like most of Georgian posters of the 1920s. The graphic visualisation of the government loans in USSR..... More
![FARSI-ARABIC-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY] Polnyi persidsko-arabo-russkiy slovar’ [i.e. Complete...](/images/noimage.png)
Tashkent: Electr.-steam typo-lithography of Turkestani military district HQ, 1909. [2], IV, 1815, [4] pp. Contemporary half-leather. Small piece of the title page is missing from the top (restored). Otherwise near fine copy. First and the only edition. The first attempt to create the universal dictionary for Turkic people of..... More
![ERZYA LANGUAGE] Moksherziatnen eriamo pingest [i.e. The History of Mordva]. M. T. Markelov](/pictures/thumb/952.jpg?v=1582650200)
Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1929. 184 pp., 1 map. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers with the strict constructivist design. Illustrated throughout including the map of Finno-ugric speaking nations in USSR. Very good, few tears of the spine. The book is printed in Erzya language, spoken in Republic of Mordovia, by nearly..... More
![THE SECOND BOOK BY TOLSTOY] Detstvo i otrochestvo [i.e. Childhood and Boyhood]. L. Tolstoy](/pictures/thumb/951.jpg?v=1582649993)
St. Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1856. [4], 307 pp. 18,4x12 cm. Contemporary half-leather. Narrow strip of paper added to the top of the title page. Very good and clean copy. First edition of Tolstoy’s second book. Rare. Tolstoy’s second book encapsulates the first two parts of his well-known semi-autobiographical..... More
Odessa: Kinaret, [1920s]. Printed wrappers, the spine is restored. Otherwise good. The completely unrecorded brochure by the pioneer of jewish opera inscribed by him to Chaliapin on the front wrapper ‘To Fiodor Ivanovich Chaliapin fro devoted M. Golinkin’. Mordekhai Golinkin (1885-1963) is considered the first one who started..... More
1875. XVI, 262, [1] pp., 12 ill. 34x17 cm. Contemporary binding. Overall in a very good condition. First edition. One of the most important works on the elasticity of gases. Mendeleev became engaged in the study of the topic in the early 1870s, after the publication of the final..... More
![MENDELEEV ON AERONAUTICS] O soprotivlenii zhidkostey i o vozdukhoplavanii [i.e. On the...](/pictures/thumb/947.jpg?v=1582649372)
Issue 1 [and all]. St-Petersburg: V.Demakov, 1880. [2], 160, 80 pp., 14 folding plates, printed separately at the cartographer A.Iliyin in Saint-Petersburg. Contemporary quarter-leather binding. Slightly foxed. Pre-revolutionary stamps of Tiflis Arsenal on the title page, p.1 and front endpapers. The most important Mendeleev’s work on the aeronautics. His..... More
![MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS: BETWEEN FILMMAKERS] Tekhnika kombinirovannoi kinos’emki [i.e. Technique...](/pictures/thumb/946.jpg?v=1582649253)
Moscow: Gizlegprom, 1933. 140 pp.: ill. 23x15,5 cm. In original constructivist cardboards by N. Sedel’nikov. Bumped, minor defects of covers, otherwise very good and neat. Signed and inscribed by the author “To M.A. Kaufman - a colleague in occupation. Moscow. November 20, 1933”. Mikhail Kaufman (1897-1980) was a brother of..... More
Collection gathering various pieces of a print chronology of Russian and Soviet cinema in the 1900s-1940s. Starting from one pre-revolutionary book (1909), this collection tied the very beginning of cinematography when it considered just an evolution of a static photograph and the middle of the 20th century when Eisenstein shot..... More
![TCHAIKOVSKY] 1812. Torzhestvennaya uvertura dlia bolshogo orkestra, sochinennaya po sluchaiu...](/pictures/thumb/943.jpg?v=1582646487)
Moscow: Yurgenson, [1883]. 21 pp. 32,5x25 cm. Original chromolithographed wrappers. Mild restoration of the spine, minor foxing, otherwise very good. First edition. The sketch of the newly built cathedral on the front wrapper. The score was printed for the first performance of the overture, on the 20th of..... More
![UNKNOWN TELINGATER POSTER] Podpisivaites’ na gazetu ‘Bakinskiy rabochiy’ na 1925 god [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/940.jpg?v=1582645756)
Baku: Azpoligraftrest, [1924]. 72x44 cm. One of 1000 copies produced. Very good. Few small scuffed pieces from the sides. An excellent example of poster design by one of the most complex classics of Soviet design Solomon Telingater (1903-1969), from the rarest of his periods when he was starting out..... More
![WWII PROPAGANDA] Nazi anti-Soviet poster with the caricature on Stalin](/pictures/thumb/939.jpg?v=1582645078)
[1941-1943]. 27x19 cm. The posters like this one have been distributed by the German troops (including Luftwaffe) in the occupied Soviet territories. The anti-semitic poem on the back reads ‘The secret of the communism is simple / Some gets some, some not / Jews get the money / Simple..... More