![LIBERATED BELARUS] Osvobozhdennaya Belarus’ [i.e. Belarus Liberated] / edited by E. Gvozdeva....](/pictures/thumb/1272.jpg?v=1631717651)
Moscow: lithography of the factory of board games, [1939-1940]. [14 pp.] 16,5x21,5 cm. Cardboards. Very good. Rare first unrecorded edition. Not in the Worldcat, Russian National or State Libraries. The propaganda book produced for Belarusian children soon after WWII began and the Western part of nowadays Belarus was annexed..... More
![JEWISH RENAISSANCE] Graviury na dereve [i.e. The Woodcuts] / text by I. Ioffe and E. Gollerbakh....](/pictures/thumb/1271.jpg?v=1632152027)
Leningrad: printed by the author, typography of the Academy of Arts, 1928. 47, [1] pp. 24,5x18 cm. One of 1200 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. First and only edition. The book summarizes the works of Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954), Jewish..... More
![EARLY TSIOLKOVSKY’S PROJECT] Issledovanie mirovykh prostranstv reaktivnimi priborami [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1270.jpg?v=1631717346)
Kaluga: printed by the author, 1914. 16 pp. 26x18 cm. Original illustrated wrappers featuring Tsiolkovsky’s drawing of the ‘rocket’ with an image of a man inside. Restoration of the spine. Otherwise a very good copy in original condition. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) is a man whose ideas made space exploration possible..... More
![BECCARIA IN RUSSIA] Rassuzhdenie o prestupleniyakh i nakazaniyakh [i.e. On Crime and Punishments]...](/pictures/thumb/1269.jpg?v=1631716924)
St. Petersburg: V Gubernskom Pravlenii, 1803. XLIV, 268 pp. 20,6х12,7 cm. Contemporary full leather. Near fine, uncharacteristic of Russian books from the 1800s. Stamp ‘Otrada’ [i.e. Joy] on the title page, likely 19th century. First Russian edition (the second one being 1879). Extremely rare. The edition opens with..... More
![CHERNIKHOV MANUSCRIPT] Chertezh i risunok [i.e. The Draft and the Sketch]. Yakov Chernikhov](/pictures/thumb/1268.jpg?v=1631716437)
St. Petersburg, 1919. [64] pp., [12] pp. (separately). 25,7x20,5 cm. Original cloth binding. Block is a bit shaky, otherwise very good. Manuscript book created by one of the legends of Soviet constructivism Yakov Chernikhov (1889-1951). The book under the same title has never been published. An incredible insight..... More
![THE SOCIALIST CITY] Problema stroitelstva sotsialisticheskikh gorodov [i.e. The Problem of...](/pictures/thumb/1267.jpg?v=1631716298)
Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ; Krasny proletarii, 1930. 84 pp.: ill. 23,5x27,5 cm. One of 7000 copies printed. Original silver stamped yellow and blue cloth binding with the original red and white dust-jacket. Few bits of dust-jacket are restored and replicated, but most of it is preserved. The book itself is in..... More
![THE WOODEN MAUSOLEUM] Childrens’ constructor, a movable calendar in shape of Lenin’s...](/pictures/thumb/1266.jpg?v=1631716171)
Leningrad: Priboy, [1925-1929]. 43x56,5 and 24,5x36 cm. The extremely rare example of this game that provides the additional insights into the ‘byt’ of Soviet children. The principle of puzzle: the sheet number two was serving as a base (the description advises to glue on the sheet with the..... More
![THE ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN MUSIC] Psaltyr rifmotvornaya [i.e. The Psalms in Verse]. Simeon Polotsky](/pictures/thumb/1263.jpg?v=1631715956)
Moscow: Verkhnaya tipografiya, 1680. 167 pp. 31x19,5 cm. Contemporary full leather binding. Later clasps and the spine. Lacks l.3 and the last leaf. Few margins are restored in the 19th century, in a couple of cases the restoration affects the text. Two 19th century owner’s inscriptions on the first leaves..... More
![RARE MAYAKOVSKY’S CHILDREN’S BOOK] Prochti i katai v Parizh i Kitay [i.e. Read and Roll to...](/pictures/thumb/1262.jpg?v=1631715702)
Moscow: GiZ, 1929. [16] pp. 22,5x19,5 cm. One of 10000 copies printed. Lithographed throughout. Original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In a near fine condition, remarkable for the children’s book of the period. Extremely rare with no copies found in US institutional holdings according to the Worldcat. The first mention of the..... More
![AKHRR EXPRESSIONISM] Voina voine [i.e. War to War](/pictures/thumb/1260.jpg?v=1631715547)
Moscow: published by the association of the revolutionary artists; Transpechat, 1925. 42 pp.: ill. 25,5x35 cm. One of 1500 copies. Original illustrated wrappers showing the chaotic collection of skulls and the letterpress design in golden and black over the skulls. The spine is neatly restored. Otherwise in a very good..... More
![VLADIMIR MARKOV - ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE] Faktura [i.e. The Texture]....](/pictures/thumb/1258.jpg?v=1631715166)
St. Petersburg: Soyuz Molodezhi, 1914. 70, [2] pp. Original printed wrappers. Tears of the spine, owner’s inscription on the front wrapper (pencil). Otherwise good. The signature on the front wrapper by Oscar Voltsenburg (1886-1971), a Russian-born German librarian and bibliographer, best known as the head of the Hermitage library..... More
![UNDERSTANDING RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE] Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [i.e. The Wolf’s Sun....](/pictures/thumb/1257.jpg?v=1631715091)
Moscow: printed by the literary publishers Gileya and Ko. (printed in Kherson in ‘Economia’ typography), 1914. 57, [5], [4], 59-64 pp., 5 ill. 17,7x11,3 cm. One of 480 copies printed. Original printed wrappers. Spine is restored. Very good and clean. First edition. Very rare. The pivotal edition in understanding..... More
![RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE RARITY, ONE OF 25 COPIES] Gorod. Graviury na linoliume [i.e. The City....](/pictures/thumb/1256.jpg?v=1631711918)
[Moscow, 1921]. 10 leaves. 28x24 cm. One of 25 copies produced. In the original two-colored folder. Light foxing on the front of the folder. Otherwise near fine. Each linocut is signed by the artist. A great rarity of Russian avant-garde. We couldn’t locate this folder in any institutional or..... More
![RARE IMAGE OF NATALIA GONCHAROVA] Grimasy v iskusstve [i.e. Grimaces in Art] // Teatr v...](/pictures/thumb/1252.jpg?v=1631711238)
St. Petersburg: Russkaya pechatnia, 1913. Pp.14-15. 30,5x21 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Bookseller’s stamp on the front wrapper, small tear of the spine, otherwise very good. ‘Natalie Goncharova’ is written on the front wrapper in contemporary pencil. The article titled ‘’Grimaces in Art. News on the Project of Futuristic Theatre..... More
![FROM THE LIBRARY OF IVAN PAVLOV] Sokrashchenie astronomii ili zvezdozakoniya [i.e. The Account of...](/pictures/thumb/1251.jpg?v=1631710923)
St. Petersburg: The Academy of Science, 1789. [54], 633, [7] pp., 17 leaves of folding plans, schemes and maps. Contemporary full leather. Spine is restored, otherwise very good. Modern sticker on the spine. The stamp of the private library of Ivan Pavlov on the last page. Previous provenance: Yakov Schetinin..... More
![AVANT-GARDE ARCHITECTURE FOR PROLETARIAT] 10 rabochikh klubov Moskvy: Arkhitektura klubnogo...](/pictures/thumb/1250.jpg?v=1631710727)
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1932. 108 pp.: ill. 17x18 cm. Designed by M.A. Il’in. In the original photomontage dust wrapper. In white blank wrappers. Very good. Spine is slightly restored and the dust-jacked is rubbed at the creases. Very rare, especially with a fragile dust wrapper. One of 5000 copies. The..... More
![FIRST NEKRASOV’S WHO IS HAPPY IN RUSSIA?] Komu na Rusi zhit’ khorosho [i.e. Who ls Happy in...](/pictures/thumb/1249.jpg?v=1631710606)
St. Petersburg: M. Stasyulevich, 1880. [8], 145, 207 pp. 21,5x14 cm. Original publisher’s cloth with few bumps on the edges of the spine, but generally a very good copy. Extremely rare. No auction records found. The first separate edition of the poem which social resonance in Russian society is..... More
![RARE EARLY UKRAINIAN BOOK] Kazaniya, pridanniy do knigi Klyuch razumeniya [i.e. The Tales...](/pictures/thumb/1248.jpg?v=1631710413)
Kiev: Lavra typography, 1660. 149 leaves. 30x19 cm. Original full leather boards, 19th century leather spine. Gilt title on the spine. New endpapers. The bottom of the title page is strengthened with later paper (not affecting the text or the engraving). The last three leaves are restored, margins affected and..... More
![NEW ABSTRACT ART] Realistichesky manifest [i.e. The Realistic Manifesto](/pictures/thumb/1247.jpeg?v=1631710239)
Moscow: 2ya Gosudarstvennnaya tipografiya, 1920. 80x55 cm. Restored, the fragment of the text is lost because the poster was originally folded. Extremely rare. The poster was printed for the outdoor exhibition of artists Gabo, Pevsner and Klutsis and hung on the Tverskoy boulevard in Moscow in the August of..... More
![LOMONOSOV’S THEORY OF COLOR] Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam colorum in publico...](/pictures/thumb/1246.jpg?v=1631710057)
Petropoli: Typis Academiae Scientiarum, [1756]. [2], 40 pp. 21,9x17,5 cm. Modern half-leather. Very good internally. First edition. One of the major works by Mikhail Lomonosov and his main contribution to optics. On the basis of many years of research and numerous experiments, Lomonosov developed a theory of light..... More
![BIBLE OF UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION POSTER DESIGN] Ukrainsky revoliutsionny plakat [i.e. Ukrainian...](/pictures/thumb/1245.jpg?v=1631709878)
Kiev: KKHI, 1932-1933. Two volumes in red wrappers and white dust-jackets. Jackets are slightly restored, strengthened. Very good. One of 1000 copies printed. Extremely rare, unfindable in dust-jackets. Inscription by Zinoviy Tolkachiov (1903-1977) on the title page of the first volume dated October of 1932 to a fellow artist..... More
![CONSTRUCTIVIST TRANSFORMERS] Sbornie dereviannye doma: konstruktsii [i.e. Prefabricated Wooden...](/pictures/thumb/1244.jpg?v=1631709675)
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ, 1931. [2], 206 pp. Oblong folio. 26,4x38 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Owner’s (?) illustrated folder and slipcase that preserve the shape of this unevenly sized edition very well. Covers are carefully restored, mostly at the edges. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. The book..... More
![DOSTOEVSKY’S FIRST COMPLETE WORKS] Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [i.e. The Complete Works of...](/pictures/thumb/1243.jpg?v=1631709565)
St. Petersburg: Fyodor Stellovsky, 1865-1870. Vol.1-4. 274,[1]; 256,[1]; 374,[2]; 225 pp. 26x19 cm. Two half-leather period bindings. New endpapers. Pre-revolutionary stamps of St. Petersburg bookseller on title pages. The owner’s inscription in pencil (Nikitin) on the title page of vol.3. Otherwise very good. Complete with advertisement of the publisher in..... More
![LITTLE KNOWN LISSITZKY DESIGN] Ijaillit Une Larme [i.e. The Tear Has Appeared]. Alexandr Crein](/pictures/thumb/1234.jpg?v=1617194986)
Moscow: Obschestvo evreiskoy muziki, 1919. 5 pp. 35x26 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor tears, otherwise in good condition. Jewish sheet music piece, the wrapper is designed by Lazar (EL) Lissitzky. Text in Yiddish and Russian. The design by Lissitzky has been done in his Moscow period, which..... More
![THE LAST NOVEL BY SHOLEM ALEICHEM IN KULTUR-LIGE] Motl Peysi dem khazns (ksovim fun a yingl a...](/pictures/thumb/1230.jpg?v=1617193742)
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. 110, [2] pp. 21x14,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, pale contemporary stamps and ink marks of Ukrainian evening courses, a pencil note written on the front cover translates Yiddish lettering into Russian, the rear side of the cover features student’s pencil drawings, otherwise..... More