![Item #1561 [HELPING THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED ] V nogu so zryachimi [i.e. Keeping up with the Sighted](/pictures/thumb/1561.jpg?v=1669214566)
Moscow: Tipografiya Put’ Oktyabrya, 1931-1933. #1 of 1932. 24 pp.: ill. 17.3x25.4 cm. In original publisher’s constructivist wrappers. Soviet library book stamp on the pp.1, 24., inventory numbers on the wrappers. Otherwise near fine. Extremely scarce. 1 of 3,000 copies. A rare issue of the periodical organ of..... More
![Item #1560 [ONE OF THE FIRST SOVIET TRAVEL MAGAZINES] Na sushe i na more [i.e. On Land and Sea](/pictures/thumb/1560.jpg?v=1669214089)
Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1929-1941. #1 of 1931. 20 pp.: ill. 21.7x29 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Tears of the spine with text affected (minor), foxing of the wrappers. Otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. Printrun varied. In 1931 the magazine was published with the printrun of 75,000 copies..... More
![Item #1559 [SPORT IN THE SOVIET UNION] Izvestiya fizicheskoy kul’tury: Dvukhnedel’nyy ill....](/pictures/thumb/1559.jpg?v=1669213861)
[Moscow]: 1924-1927. #20 of 1927 (1 issue of 81 published). 16 pp.: ill. 22.2x 29.6 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Scarce. Front wrapper by S.M. One of the leading 1920s Soviet sports magazines. From the very outset of the Communist regime, Soviet society witnessed the..... More
![Item #1558 [PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIAN SATIRE] Zanoza: Zhurn. khudozh. satiry [i.e. Splinter: A...](/pictures/thumb/1558.jpg?v=1669213684)
St. Petersburg: Izdatel’ S. D. Novikov, 1906. #4, 5 of 1906 (2 issues of 14 printed). 8 pp.: ill. Ca. 24.1x38.7 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Near fine. Horizontal creases in both issues. A rare example of the early Russian satirical magazine. In the wake..... More
![Item #1557 [ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ATLASES OF ARMENIA] Atlas Armyanskoy Sovetskoy...](/pictures/thumb/1557.jpg?v=1669213387)
Erevan: Akademiya nauk Armyanskoy SSR, Glavnoye upravleniye geodezii i kartografii MGiON SSSR, 1961. VIII, 112 pp. 35x33,5cm. Dust jacket. In original red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Dust jacket with tears, previous owner’s ink inscription on the title-page: “To Dear Ioseb Megrelidze with Deep..... More
![Item #1555 [ANALYSIS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASES THAT OCCURRED DURING THE LENINGRAD SIEGE]...](/pictures/thumb/1555.jpg?v=1669212866)
[Leningrad]: Medgiz, Leningr. otd-niye, 1945. (2-ya f-ka det. knigi Detgiza). 128 pp.: tables. 16.7x24.8 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Worn, tears of the spine, light soiling of the wrappers. Otherwise good. Extremely rare. 1 of 1,000 copies. Compiled by Vladimir Myasishchev. Edited by S. Gaukhman... More
![Item #1554 [AN IMPORTANT SOVIET WORK ON THE PROBABILITY THEORY] Teoriya veroyatnostey: uchebnik...](/pictures/thumb/1554.jpg?v=1669211827)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye uchebno-pedagogicheskoye izdatel’stvo, 1937. 136 pp.: tables. 22x15.1 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding. Boards are slightly worn. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Edited by V. Molodshy. Technical editor V. Ivanov. An important Soviet work about probability theory used as a textbook for higher pedagogical educational..... More
![Item #1552 [RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF KOHLER’S LANDMARK WORK] Issledovaniye intellekta...](/pictures/thumb/1552.jpg?v=1669211387)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo kommunisticheskoy akademii, 1930. 4, XXIX, 5-207 pp., 7 ill.: tables, ill. 21.3x15.6 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust-jacket. Dust-jacket with tears and loss of fragments. Otherwise internally clean. First Russian edition. 1 of 4,100 copies. Scarce. The original edition was published in 1917..... More
![Item #1551 [FIRST APPEARANCE OF LOBACHEVSKY IN PRINT] Catalogus praelectionum in Universitate...](/pictures/thumb/1551.jpg?v=1669210861)
Kazan’: Universitatis Officina Typographica, 1816. [1], 62, 6, 2, 8 pp. 28x21,6 cm. Wrappers. Soiling, tears of the wrappers, losses of the pieces of the spine, rubbed, worn out. Otherwise in good condition. Extremely scarce. First edition. This valuable piece of early Russian printing contains the..... More
![Item #1549 [A BOOK OF AFRICAN ADVENTURES] V serdtse Afriki: [Vospominaniya] [i.e. In Brightest...](/pictures/thumb/1549.jpg?v=1669209766)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1930. (Moskva: 1-ya Obraztsovaya tip.). 224 pp.: ill., portrait. 13.4x19.3 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Rubbed spine, frontispiece is slightly loose. Otherwise near fine. With numerous photographs and illustrations throughout. Scarce. Second corrected edition. First edition published in 1929. Translated from the original English..... More
![Item #1548 [EHRENBURG-TRANSLATOR] Bass-Bassina-Bulu: Roman [i.e. Bass-Bassina-Boulou: Novel]. F....](/pictures/thumb/1548.jpg?v=1669209476)
Leningrad: Petrograd, 1925. 200 pp. 13.7x19.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers by YU. CH. Rubbed spine. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First Soviet Edition. Original French edition published in 1922. First Russian edition was printed the same year in Berlin. Translated from French by the noted Soviet writer..... More
![Item #1547 [RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF JACK LONDON’S “MEXICAN”] Meksikanets [i.e. The Mexican]....](/pictures/thumb/1547.jpg?v=1669209072)
Moscow; Leningrad: B. i. Detizdat, 1937. 47 pp: ill. 13.5x19.2 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the small pieces of the spine, previous owner’s inscription on the title page (O. Japaridze. 1937-XII-15), insignificant damp stains throughout the copy. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First..... More
![Item #1546 [OSCAR WILDE IN RUSSIAN] Predannyy drug [i.e. The Devoted Friend]. O. Wilde](/pictures/thumb/1546.jpg?v=1669208839)
Moscow; Leningrad: Detizdat, 1937. 32 pp: ill. 19,5x13,7 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Light damp stains on the wrappers and occasionally throughout the copy, loss of small fragments of the wrappers, loss of the pieces of the spine, previous owner’s inscription on the title page (O. Japaridze. 1937. XI)..... More
![Item #1545 [THE BEGINNING OF THE END] Pushtorg: Roman [V stikhakh] [i.e. Fur Trade: A Novel [In...](/pictures/thumb/1545.jpg?v=1669208576)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1929. 192 pp. 20,1x14,2 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with constructivist dust-wrapper. Near fine. Stamp on the title page ‘From books of Niccolo Mitsishvili’. Rare. One of 3,000 copies. Constructivist design by the Soviet artist Alexey Surikov. The first edition of llya..... More
![Item #1544 [SOVIET MODERNISM] Borisov, L. Leonardi 2: [Rasskazy] [i.e. Leonardi 2: [Short...](/pictures/thumb/1544.jpg?v=1669208216)
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvopisatelei v Leningrade, 1928. 135, [2] pp., [5] pp. of ads. 19.6x14.4 cm. In original illustrated dust-jacket. Loss of the wrappers, neat restoration of the dust-jacket, slight wear to the extremities. In a good condition. Scarce. First edition. Remarkable constructivist dust-jacket by the experimental theatre..... More
![Item #1543 [AN EXTREMELY RARE SURVIVAL OF THE TIME] Komsomoliya. (Stranitsy epopei) [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1543.jpg?v=1669207964)
Moscow: Krasnaya Nov’, 1924. 40 pp.: ill., music sheets. 31.5x24.5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Boris Efimov. Soiling of the wrappers, pp. 17-24 detached, loss of a fragment of the lower left corner throughout the most part of the copy. Otherwise good. Extremely scarce. First edition..... More
![Item #1542 [WALT WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS AS AN APPLE OF DISCORD] Uot Uitmen: Poeziya...](/pictures/thumb/1542.jpg?v=1669207291)
Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 6-ye izd. M.; Petrograd.: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 165, [3] pp., 1 portrait. 23.6x15.6 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. First few pages detached, loss of the pieces of the spine, tears of the wrappers, neat restoration of the front wrapper (tape). Good. Scarce..... More
![Item #1538 [SOVIET PRESCHOOLERS] 50 igr s peniem dlia detei ot 3–8 let (s metodicheskimi...](/pictures/thumb/1538.jpg?v=1667301957)
Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniia, 1930. 64, [3] pp.: sheet music. 21,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Fragments of the spine lost, with some pieces of covers paper along the spine, foxing on covers, pale stamps and numbers of a Soviet institution on p. 3,17 and last one (blank). Otherwise very good..... More
![Item #1537 [BOOK FOR THE NEW SOCIALIST GENERATION] Katin likbez [i.e. Katia’s Literacy...](/pictures/thumb/1537.jpg?v=1667301748)
Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniia, 1929. 64 pp.: ill. 18x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tear of spine, red pencil note on back cover and ink number on front cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies produced. Rare. Cover design was..... More
![Item #1536 [YOUNG PIONEERS PERFORM] Sto igr iunykh pionerov [i.e. One Hundred Games of...](/pictures/thumb/1536.jpg?v=1667301560)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1925. 76, [2] pp.: ill.+ [2] pp. of ads. 25x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with letterpress design. Almost no spine, with some fragments of paper along spine lost, soiling of covers, front wrapper and t.p. partly detached from block, pale stamps of a Soviet institution on..... More
![Item #1535 [SOCIALIST ROUTINE FOR CHILDREN] Utro v sele i utro v gorode [i.e. Morning in...](/pictures/thumb/1535.jpg?v=1667301303)
Kyiv: Kul’tura, [1927]. 12 pp.: 17,5x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Good. Spine strengthened with paper, water stains, some creases and marks. First and only edition. Very rare in condition. An excellent example of Ukrainian lithographic children’s books published in the late 1920s. Through pictures and verses, the author..... More
![Item #1534 [HARBIN] Orfograficheskii slovar’ [i.e. An Orthographic Dictionary](/pictures/thumb/1534.jpg?v=1666183299)
Harbin: Iakor’, 1927. 217 pp.+7 pp. of ads. 13x9,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Good. Rubbed and soiled, corners of front cover lost, pencil marks occasionally. Extremely rare emigre edition. This handbook contains an orthographic dictionary based on 1917 changes. Prepared in the early 20th century, the reform of orthography..... More
![Item #1533 [FOREST INVENTORY AND SOVIET AVIATION] Aeros’emka v lesnom khoziaistve [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1533.jpg?v=1666183151)
Moscow: Goslestekhizdat, 1934. 18, [34] pp.: ill. 35,5x25,5 cm. In original cloth with blind embossed lettering within silver rectangles. Covers slightly soiled, few pages faded, ink numbers on front endpaper and p.17, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. Remarkable early edition on the..... More
![Item #1532 [ARCTIC FISHING INDUSTRY IN THE USSR] Rybnyi Murman : Sbornik rasskazov i ocherkov...](/pictures/thumb/1532.jpg?v=1666182369)
[Moscow]: Snabtekhizdat, 1933. XXIV, 398, [1] pp.: ill. 17,5x13 cm. In original cloth with bronze lettering on front cover and spine, in original constructivist dust jacket. Dust wrappers rubbed and chipped, with tear of front cover flap, rusty staples, some stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One..... More
![Item #1531 [SOVIET HEAVY INDUSTRY : KIROV PLANT] Zheleznyi gorod (Zavod “Krasnyi putilovets”)...](/pictures/thumb/1531.jpg?v=1666181772)
Moscow: Krest’ianskaia gazeta, 1927. 56 pp.: ill. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped, with small tears, otherwise very good copy. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Very rare. Good edition on Soviet exploitation of the huge Putilov Ironworks and its role in industrialization of the..... More