![Item #1472 [MAYAKOVSKY’S LAST PLAY] Bania: Drama v 6 deistviiakh s tsirkom i feierverkami [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1472.jpg?v=1660923268)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 78, [2] pp.: ill. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine restored, small pale stains on front cover, otherwise very good and clean. First and lifetime edition. One of 5000 copies. Cover design by artist Alexander Surikov (1907-1946), one of newly discovered designers of the 20-30s. He..... More
![Item #1471 [ENGLISH FOR SOVIET WORKERS] Our Way = Nash put’ #1-4 for 1929](/pictures/thumb/1471.jpg?v=1660922913)
Moscow: Tsentral’noe izdatel’stvo narodov SSSR, 1929. 26x18 cm. In contemporary binding; original constructivist covers preserved. Rubbed, block weakened, tear of front endpaper and stamp of Soviet private library on it. Ink signature on p. 1 (#3). Stain on outer edge throughout the copy, some foxing, some ink marks. Tear of..... More
![Item #1470 [PHOTOMONTAGE AND PUSHKIN] Pushkin v Tsarskom Sele (Literaturnaia progulka po Detskomu...](/pictures/thumb/1470.jpg?v=1660921461)
Leningrad: Izd. Ekskursionno-lektorskoi bazy OBLONO, 1929. 55 pp.: ill., 4 ills. 17,5x12,5 cm. In original wrappers with the organization’s mark and lettering reproducing handwritten title. In very good condition, pale water stains on covers, rubbed, 1920s stamps of the Central bureau of local lore. First edition. One of 2000..... More
![Item #1469 [TREBLINKA CAMP] Treblinker genem = Treblinskii ad [i.e. The Treblinka Hell]. V. Grossman](/pictures/thumb/1469.jpg?v=1660907923)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1945. 88 pp.: ill. 14x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of spine and blank leaves lost, some tears, creases and soiling, otherwise very good. First separate edition. One of 15 000 copies. Translated to Yiddish by B. Kotik. One of the earliest Soviet..... More
![Item #1468 [THE FIRST RUSSIAN MANUAL ON TAXIDERMY] Kratkoye nastavleniye k prigotovleniyu...](/pictures/thumb/1468.jpg?v=1660907249)
St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Benke, 1894. 40 pp.: ill. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Small fragments of spine and covers lost, numbers in red pencil on front cover, otherwise very good and clean. Scarce. Fifth edition. First edition was printed in 1868. The subsequent editions came out in 1875..... More
![Item #1467 [MANUAL ON HOW TO DETERMINE ANY LANGUAGE] Opredelitel’ iazykov [i.e. Languages...](/pictures/thumb/1467.jpg?v=1660906697)
Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1941. 44 pp. 22x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Slightly rubbed, with some creases, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. The earliest Soviet identification guide of world’s languages written by eminent Russian linguist, Semitics scholar Nikolai Iushmanov (1896-1946)..... More
![Item #1466 [ROLAND HAYES IN THE SOVIET PRESS] Rabis. Organ TsK Vserabisa [i.e. Rabis. Organ of...](/pictures/thumb/1466.jpg?v=1660906387)
Moscow: TsK Rabis, 1928. 20 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. The weekly about theater, cinematography, circus, stage performing, music, art and photography that was published by the Trade Union of Art Workers as ‘Herald of Art Workers’ in 1920-1926 and as ‘Rabis’ in..... More
Two books on sex, originating from the same source: 1. Entsiklopediya intimnoi zhizni [i.e. The Encyclopedia of Intimate Life]. [N.p., 1970s]. 44 leaves. 30x22 cm. Typescript. In owner’s plastic folder. Soiling and deformations of the folder, clean text block. The Soviet underground translation of an American book from..... More
![Item #1464 [PROPAGANDA OF THE STALINIST MOSCOW] U nas v Moskve [i.e. At home, in Moscow]. L....](/pictures/thumb/1464.jpg?v=1660905508)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1947. 36 pp.: ill. 28x20 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, slightly rubbed, stains occasionally, small tear of the back cover, some illustrations were hand-colored by two pencils. First edition. Very rare. Cover design includes a photograph with light lettering in the dark..... More
![Item #1463 [AVIATION] Brat’ia Rait = The boys’ life of the Wright brothers [i.e. The Wright...](/pictures/thumb/1463.jpg?v=1660905234)
Moscow: Posrednik, 1933. 102, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped with small tears, covers slightly soiled, few minor stains on pages, tiny hole of p. 49-50, otherwise very good and clean. First Russian edition. One of 10 400 copies. Rare. Translation was undertaken by..... More
1) Ustav Kalinkinskogo pivovarennogo i medovarennogo tovarishchestva [i.e. The Charter of Kalinkin Brewing and Mead Production Company]. Saint Peterspurg: Tip. Dzh. Iv. Shumakher, 1912. 16 pp. 21x13,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Small fragments of covers lost, some minor stains and numbers of pre-revolutionary library on the front cover, private..... More
![Item #1461 [ANTI-MONARCHIST EROTICS] Tsarskie amury. Tainye pokhozhdeniia Alisy. Liubovnik...](/pictures/thumb/1461.jpg?v=1660901358)
Petrograd: Svobodnaia Rossiia, [1917]. 16 pp. 25x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, spine restored, stains on the last leaf. Very rare anti-monarchist lubok published between February and October Revolutions of 1917. The printer’s information had announced issue #2 to be published in the following..... More
![Item #1460 [EARLY MAGADAN INHABITANTS] V Kolymo-Indigirskoi taige : Zapiski zhurnalista [i.e. In...](/pictures/thumb/1460.jpg?v=1660824472)
Moscow: Izd-vo Glavsevmorputi, 1947. 141, [3] pp.: ill. 20x14,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, spine chipped, light soiling of t.p. and back cover. A witness-account about the construction of Magadan and people involved. A rare example of photo books about the Far East city. It was illustrated..... More
![Item #1459 [DNIEPER CONQUERED] Dneprostroi. B. Vinograd](/pictures/thumb/1459.jpg?v=1660824274)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatel’stvo, 1931. 56 pp.: ill. 20x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed with minor fragments lost, pencil marks and underlinings occasionally, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Very rare. Dneprostroi meant the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, one of the giants of the..... More
1) Ustav Obshchestva bor’by s alkogolizmom [i.e. Charter of the Society for the Fight against Alcoholism]. Moscow: Gos. Meditsinskoe izdatel’stvo, 1928. 16 pp. 14x9 cm. One of 2000 copies. 2) Ustav Obshchestva bor’by s alkogolizmom Petrogradskogo raiona [i.e. Charter of the Society for the Fight against Alcoholism in Petrogradsk..... More
![Item #1457 [500 PIGSKINS PER ONE TRACTOR] Svinye shkury [i.e. Pigskins]. I. Porotskii, V., Perov](/pictures/thumb/1457.jpg?v=1660822871)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Narkomtorgov SSSR i RSFSR, 1930. 16 pp.: ill. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small hole around rusty staple, covers detached from block, otherwise very good. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat. This mass-audience lithographic brochure was produced for advertising purposes and for raising the literacy..... More
![Item #1456 [ANTARCTIC] Zavoevanie Antarktiki po vozdukhu [i.e. Conquest of Antarctica by Air]. R....](/pictures/thumb/1456.jpg?v=1660822716)
Moscow: Ogiz, 1931. 108, [4] pp.: ill. 18x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, tears of spine and some creases of front cover, otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of 10 155 copies. Very rare. Russian translation of Richard Byrd’s early travel notes ‘Little..... More
![Item #1455 [AMATEUR SOVIET PRESS] Rabkormoliia: Sbornik po rabkorovskomu dvizheniiu molodezhi...](/pictures/thumb/1455.jpg?v=1660822525)
Kiev: Izd. gazety ‘Molodoi proletarii’, 1924. 96 pp.: ill. 17,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine with small fragments lost, light soiling of covers, narrow blank fragment of upper margin of two first leaves lost, ink signature on front cover (1924), otherwise very good and clean internally... More
![Item #1454 [MASTER OF SOVIET TRANSLATING, MARSHAK] Dom, kotoryi postroil Dzhek [i.e. The House...](/pictures/thumb/1454.jpg?v=1660822316)
Leningrad: Detizdat TsK VLKSM, 1937. 10 pp.: ill. 7x6 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from text block and slightly soiled, spine rubbed and repaired on rear side with paper band, small rusty stains around staple, ink signature on p. 3, otherwise very good. Lifetime edition. The..... More
![Item #1453 [SOVIET JUSTICE] Revoliutsionnaia zakonnost’ na sovremennom etape : K XV...](/pictures/thumb/1453.jpg?v=1660822182)
Moscow: Sovetskoe zakonodatel’stvo, 1932. 104 pp. 14,5х11 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design on front cover and two photos on back cover. Covers rubbed, with creases, small tears and creases of p. 25-28, otherwise very good. First edition. Extremely rare. Revolutionary legality meant the necessity to comply..... More
![Item #1452 [DISAPPEARED MONUMENTS OF EARLY YEARS OF BOLSHEVIK STATE] Pamiatka chitatelia /...](/pictures/thumb/1452.jpg?v=1660822075)
Petrograd, 1919. [26] pp., 11 ills. 14,5x10,5 cm. In original decorated wrappers. Soviet bookshop stamp and marks on the back cover, covers slightly soiled, middle double-leaf detached from the block, otherwise very good and clean. The book is related to the phenomenon of Monumental Propaganda, the Bolshevik campaign..... More
![Item #1451 [SEN’KIN] Rasskazy o smerti Lenina [i.e. Stories about Lenin’s Death]. A. Grinberg](/pictures/thumb/1451.jpg?v=1660821842)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 16 pp.: ill. 16,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, pre-war stamps of school library, otherwise very good and clean. Second edition. The classic example of the photobook created by one of the pioneers of the Soviet photomontage, Malevich’s student and Klutsis’ right hand..... More
![Item #1450 [A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES BY STALIN’S CLOSEST ALLY] Ataka [i.e. Attack]. N. Bukharin](/pictures/thumb/1450.jpg?v=1660821681)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, [1924]. In original publisher’s wrappers. Uncut. Fragments of spine and front cover lost, few stains on front cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. Scarce. One of the most important theoretical works by Stalin’s closest ally Nikolay Bukharin (1888-1938). Marxist philosopher and prolific author on..... More
![Item #1449 [THE SOVIET UNION IN HOPES OF DEEPENING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE GREAT BRITAIN]...](/pictures/thumb/1449.jpg?v=1660821454)
Leningrad: Gos. izd. 1924. 38, [1] pp. In original publisher’s wrappers. Upper inner corner of front cover lost, some soiling, tear of outer edge throughout copy, otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Text of the speech delivered by the prominent Soviet politician Lev Kamenev (1883-1936) at a party gathering..... More
![Item #1448 [MYSTERIOUS SURVIVAL OF THE TIME - REMINISCING TROTSKY, ZINOVIEV, KAMENEV, ETC.]...](/pictures/thumb/1448.jpg?v=1660820991)
St. Petersburg: Grzhebin, 1919. 100, [12] pp. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Small tears of spine and edges, bottom fragment of spine lost, otherwise very good and clean. Scarce. First edition. Apparently, the first book printed as a part of a series Letopis revoluistii [i.e. Chronicle of the Revolution]..... More