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[YIDDISH THEATRE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION] Yidisher teater. 1887-1917 [i.e. Yiddish Theatre. 1887-1917].

Oyslender, N.

Moscow: Emes, 1940. 319 pp. 22x15 cm. In original full-cloth binding with colored and blind lettering. In very good condition. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. In Yiddish. A phenomenon of the Yiddish theatre stood alive in the Russian Empire even if tsarism restricted it in 1883...

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[UKRAINIAN OPERA IN MOSCOW] Zaporozhets za Dunaem: Postanovka Gos. akad. teatra opery i baleta USSR: Gastroli v Moskve 11-21 marta 1936 g. v Bol’shom teatre SSSR [i.e. A Zaporozhian Beyond the Danube: Production of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of USSR: Tour in Moscow from 11 to 21 March of 1936 at the Bolshoi Theatre].

[Kiev]; Kharkiv: Mistetstvo, 1936. 70, [2] pp.: ill., 2 pl. 25х17,5 cm. In original blank wrappers and illustrated dust wrappers with Ukrainian folk floral decoration. Vertical crease of the whole book, small tears of the spine, Soviet bookshops’ stamps both on the wrapper and dust wrapper, tears and losses of...

Price: $950.00

[THEATRE TRAVELS FROM UKRAINE TO FAR EAST] Dramatichesky Krasnozavodsky teatr. 1922-1928: Shest’ let sushchestvovaniya [i.e. Dramatic Red Factory Theatre. 1922-1928: Six Years of Existence].

[Moscow, 1928]. 32 pp.: ill. 26x18 cm. In publisher’s constructivist wrappers. Very good. Soiling and spots on rubbed wrappers, tears of the spine, inscription on the verso of the front cover (pencil). First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. Wrapper design by E. Mel’nikova. A very...

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[DRAMATIZATION OF A FICTITIOUS POLITICAL TRIAL] Sel’korka: (Politsud) [i.e. Female Village Correspondent: Political Trial].

Leningrad: Priboi, 1925. 40 pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. In publisher’s photomontage wrappers. Very good. Small tears of the spine, small black square painted on the t.p. (painted over), traces of something glued to the verso of the front wrapper. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Very rare...

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[WOMEN’S CLUB IN THE VILLAGE] Zhenskii klub v derevne [i.e. Women’s Club in the Village].

Tumim, O.

2nd ed. Petrograd: Nachatki znanii, 1919. 32 pp. 18x15 cm. Publisher’s printed wrappers with yellow ornamented frame on the front wrapper. Very good. Some rubbing and soiling of the wrappers. Second edition (first edition was printed earlier the same year). Very rare. This edition consists of two parts. In...

Price: $400.00

Ekspressionizm [i.e. Expressionism].

Zivel’chinskaya, L.Ya.

Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1931. 139, [2] pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. Publisher’s wrappers. Near fine. wrappers slightly rubbed. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. This is an extensive work on the theory of expressionism by Lia Zivel’chinskaya (1894-1985), professor and doctor of philology, Soviet literary and art...

Price: $750.00

[HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE GROUPS] Khudozhestvennye gruppirovki za poslednie 25 let [i.e. Art Groups for the Last Twenty Five Years].

Lobanov, V.M.

Moscow: Khud. izd. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 148 pp. 19x13 cm. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very good. Restoration of the wrappers (original spine is lost), Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the recto of the rear cover, a few underlining in text (pencil). First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. Viktor Lobanov...

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[SOVIET MURALS] Tekhnika stennykh rospisei [i.e. The Technique of Murals].

Chernyshev, N.M.

Moscow: Khudozhestv.-izdat. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 114, [2] pp.: ill. 19x13 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. A very good internally clean copy, signature on t.p. (pencil), rubbed wrappers, small tears and losses of the spine, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear cover and last page. First and only edition.....

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[MAYAKOVSKY ON THE PARISIAN ART SCENE] Gore pakharia: Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyi i obshhestvennyi dvuhnedel’nyi zhurnal [i.e. Woe of the Ploughman: Artistic, Literary and Social Two Weeks Magazine] #3, 1923.

Vladivostok: Primgubkompomgol, 1923. 34 pp.: ill. 26x24 cm. In original illustrated covers, a small tear of the illustration. Good, restored cover and margins. Very rare. One of 2000 copies. One issue of six ever published, the last one under this title (#4 appeared under the title ‘Typhoon’). Cover with...

Price: $1,200.00

[RODCHENKO DESIGN] Ob agit- i proz-iskusstve [i.e. On Agitation and Production Art].

Arvatov, B.I.

Moscow: Federatsia, 1930. 224 pp. 17x13 cm. In original card boards. Very good, fragile spine with half of it missing, some rubbing and small losses of the extremities of the covers, a couple of underlinings in the text (pencil), traces of damp stain near the spine on the front and...

Price: $1,750.00

[LIFE OF SANATORIUM] Sbornik, posviashchennyi desiatiletiiu sanatoriia #1 im. 10 let Oktyabrya v Kislovodske. 1924-1934: 20 risunkov v tekste i 21 ris. na vkleikakh [i.e. Collection Dedicated to a Ten Year Anniversary of 10 Year of October Sanatorium #1 in Kislovodsk. 1924-1934: 20 Drawings in Text and 21 Plates].

Moscow; Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1935. 63 pp., 21 pl.: ill. 23x30 cm. In publisher’s cloth with stamping. A bleak damp stain on the front board. Otherwise very good/near fine. First and only edition. Very rare. One of 2200 copies. Inscribed by director of sanatorium and editor of album Moisei Bolotner...

Price: $1,000.00

[WHAT WAS PUBLISHED FOR JEWISH PEOPLE DURING NEP] Katalag #5 [i.e. Catalogue #5]

Moscow: Aktsyen gezelshaft ‘Shul un bukh’, 1927. 40 pp.: ill., [8] ads. 19x13,5 cm. In original covers. Restored, glue traces on the inner margin of first and last pages, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Scarce. One of 15000 copies. Constructivist cover is printed in Yiddish and...

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[PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINIAN SCHOOLS] 400 piramid i elementiv: Metodichnyi pidruchnik dlya shkoli i gurtkiv fizkul’tury. Z 457 maliunkami [i.e. 400 Pyramids and Elements: Methodical Textbook for Schools and Sport Sections. With 457 Drawings]

Kostiuk V.A., Shishmariova E.S.

Kharkiv: Na varti, 1931. 174, [2] pp.: ill. 17x14 cm. Publisher’s illustrated Constructivist wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed, a few bleak stains on the rear cover, small tear of t.p. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Very rare. In Ukrainian. This beautiful edition dedicated to...

Price: $750.00

[TO KANDINSKY FROM HIS YOUNGER AVANT-GARDE BROTHER] Russkaia ikona kak iskusstvo zhivopisi [i.e. The Russian Icon As The Art of Painting]

Gritchenko, A.

Moscow: Izd. avtora, [1917]. [2], 266 pp.: ill. 26,5x18,5 cm. In original covers with mounted illustration. Small fragments of spine lost, broken spine - p. 209-266 detached. First and only edition. Very rare. #500 of 500 copies. Autograph with inscription for Vasily Kandinsky: “To the artist Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky...

Price: $2,500.00

[UNIQUE FUND OF ORIENTAL FONTS] Akademia nauk SSSR. Obraztsy vostochnykh shriftov Akademicheskoi tipografii [i.e. Academy of Sciences of USSR. Specimens of Oriental Scripts of Academy’s Press]

Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1928. XI, 73 pp. 20x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Some rubbings of the wrappers, spine of the wrapper is slightly detached from the text block. Otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. One of 2000 copies. Title in Russian and German on...

Price: $600.00

[KABARDINO-CIRCASSIAN LANGUAGE] Doktor Aibolit [i.e. Dr. Aibolit]

Chukovsky, Korney

Nalchik: Kabardinobalkarskoe GIZ, 1940. 110, [2] pp.: ill. 26x19 cm. Original illustrated cardboards. Bleak stains on the title page, remains of a label on the spine, tears and small losses of boards extremities. One of 3000 copies. First translation to Kabardino-Circassian language. The book originally published in 1936...

Price: $700.00

[YAKUT LATIN SCRIPT] Sehenner [i.e. Andersen’s Fairy Tales]

Andersen, H.C.

Yakutsk: GIZ, 1937. 56 pp.: ill. 26x20 cm. Original cardboards. Loose, some pages are detached, stains on the spine, boards are slightly rubbed. Overall a good internally clean copy. Stamp ‘signalny ekzempliar’ on the title page suggests that this copy was a proof copy. We couldn’t find a copy of.....

Price: $1,300.00

[CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer while Serving on S.M.S. “Scharnhorst,” the Flagship of the German East-Asia Squadron in 1909-1914, with the Views of Tsingtao/Quigdao, Hong Kong, Amoy/Xiamen, German Colonies in Samoa and New Guinea, Batavia, Singapore, Port Arthur, German Naval Ships and Commanders, and Scenes from the Second Chinese Revolution and the Capture of Nanjing in September 1913]

Ca. 1912-1913. 33,5x23,5 cm. 36 album leaves (14 blank). With 86 original gelatin silver prints from ca. 12x17 cm to ca. 8x11 cm. Most images numbered in negative, all with period manuscript ink captions in German on the mounts, some also dated in ink. Later navy-blue half morocco with moire...

Price: $4,250.00

[CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views and Panoramas of the Newly Built City of Dalny, the Furthermost Russian Outpost in Manchuria in 1898-1905, and Modern-Day Dalian, the Major Seaport of the Liaoning Province of China, Titled in Russian:] Dalny, 1902

[Dalian], ca. 1902. 26,5x38 cm. With 36 photogravures, each with a printed title and a number on a paper label pasted to the lower margin. Original colour lithographed publisher’s wrappers, with a large gilt lettered title on the front wrapper. The leaves and wrappers fastened with original strings. Wrappers slightly...

Price: $3,950.00
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[CHINA – BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY] [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking/Beijing to Hankou (a part of present-day Wuhan), along the Line of the Unfinished Peking-Hankou (Jinghan) Railway, with the Eye-Witness Account on the Railway Construction, Notes on the Meetings with the Railway Company Officials, Chinese Workers, Inhabitants of Nearby Villages, Local Places of Interest etc., Titled:] V – de Pekin à Hankao

6-21 November [1903]. 32 leaves. 22,5x17,5 cm. Manuscript text in French. Black and brown ink on lined white laid paper (one page written in pencil), all entries with dates on the margins. Occasional markings in red or blue pencil in text. Period style half morocco album with cloth boards, spine...

Price: $3,250.00

[RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates. Far Eastern Digest. First book]

Shanghai: Lit-khud. obiedinenie “Vostok" 1934. 1 front., 12 ads, [4], 206 pp.: ill., 3 pl. 26x19,2 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Very good. Loss of small fragments of the spine, staples with rust, a couple of pages a slightly loose. Owner’s ink stamp on t.p. and p.17. First...

Price: $1,500.00

[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]

[Lange, Lorenz]

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1781. Parts 7 & 8 bound together. 942 pp. 20,5x12 cm. With one folding copper engraved plan and three folding copper engraved plates, bound without one copper engraved plate (a blueprint of a handmill). Contemporary Russian full leather with green title label on the...

Price: $7,500.00

[CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art]

Leningrad: Gosudartsvennyi Ermitazh, 1934. [2], 70, [2], [2] pp.: ill., 15 pl. 17x12 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, small tears of the spine and wrappers rubbed in general, pen marks on the front cover and t.p. Otherwise a good and internally clean copy...

Price: $750.00

[HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859 i 1860 godakh [i.e. Sketches in Pen and Pencil from the Circumnavigation in 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860]

Vysheslavtsev, A.V.

St. Petersburg-Moscow: M.O. Wolf, 1867. Second corrected edition. [4], iii, 592 pp. Ca. 24,5x18 cm. With a lithographed title page and twenty-three tinted lithographed plates (complete). Contemporary quarter leather with cloth boards; spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title. Mild water stain on the half title, paper slightly...

Price: $6,500.00

[CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans Illustrating the Third Battle of the Taku Forts during the Second Opium War in July-August 1860, Including Plans of the Forts and a nearby City of Tientsin/ Tianjin, a Scene with British Naval and Troop Ships Approaching the Landing Site at Pehtang/Beitang, and Group Portraits of the Officers of the British 31st Regiment of Foot who took Part in the Battle and were Stationed in Tientsin in 1861-62]

Ca. 1860-1862. 40x29 cm. With three original albumen photos from ca. 13x18,5 cm to ca. 5,5x8,5 cm, one pencil drawing ca. 11,5x28,5 cm, and two watercolour plans, ca. 24,5x38 cm and ca. 21x23 cm, mounted on period album leaves. All items but the last plan with period ink captions on...

Price: $5,250.00

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