![Item #1503 Mul’tiplikatsiia fil’my [i.e. Animation Movie]. A. Ptushko](/pictures/thumb/1503.jpg?v=1663076527)
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1931. 62 [2] pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Ink marks and signature on front cover and title page, spine chipped, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Photomontage cover design was created by Natalia Bukharova-Pinus (1901–1986). Having graduated from VKHUTEMAS..... More
![Item #1502 Sbornik: Pereklichka narodov [i.e. Collection : Roll Call of Ethnic Groups] /...](/pictures/thumb/1502.jpg?v=1663075274)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 333, [3] pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers rubbed, with tears of spine, otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of 10,300 copies. Constructivist cover design by V. Shcheptev. The front cover features small groups of indigenous women undertaking traditional..... More
![Item #1501 Povstannia na “Potemkine” [i.e. The Mutiny on the “Potemkin”]. A. Platonov](/pictures/thumb/1501.jpg?v=1663075024)
Kharkiv: Na varti, 1930. 32 pp. 18x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed, numbers and publisher’s stamps on front cover and title page, otherwise very good. One of 7000 copies. In Ukrainian. The anonymous constructivist cover design features a photomontage of three film stills from “Battleship Potemkin” (1925)..... More
![Item #1500 Malye formy klubnogo zrelishcha [i.e. Small Forms of Club Spectacle] #1 and #8 for 1929](/pictures/thumb/1500.jpg?v=1663074709)
#1 Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1929. 64 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, spine and tears of covers restored. One of 5000 copies. #8 Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1929. 64 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, spine..... More
![Item #1499 Pod maskoi razoruzheniia [i.e. Under Mask of Disarmament]. A. Nikonov](/pictures/thumb/1499.jpg?v=1663073408)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo otdel voennoi literatury, 1929. 48 pp.: ill., tabl. 19x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, stamp of private library on title page otherwise very good and clean copy. Second enlarged and revised edition. The anonymous constructivist cover design consists of a background, partly in orange, with..... More
Leningrad: Teakinopechat’, [1928]. [8] pp.: ill. 25x16,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Restored, otherwise very good. One of 12,000 copies produced. Libretto of a Soviet silent film that has not been preserved. Directed by Sergei Timoshenko, the moving picture “Dva bronevika” (1928) was set in 1917 and showed how..... More
[Moscow]: Fizkul’tura i sport, [1928]. 170 pp.: ill. 23x31 cm. In original dark blue cloth with colored lettering and decoration. Rubbed, ink signature (1928) on front flyleaf, light soiling of corners occasionally, otherwise very good and clean internally. Together with: Advertising brochure. Spartakiada [i.e. Spartakiad]. Moscow: Fizkul’tura i sport, [1928]..... More
![Item #1496 Fizkul’tura i byt [i.e. Physical Culture and Daily Routine]. A. Zikmund](/pictures/thumb/1496.jpg?v=1662995885)
Moscow: Vserossiiskii proletkul’t, 1925. 56 pp.: ill. In original photomontage wrappers. Very good, spine rubbed and chipped. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Constructivist cover design was produced by a member of Moscow Proletkult, one of the earliest female artists in cinematography, Valentina Khmeleva (1903–?)..... More
Leningrad: Priboi, 1925. 48 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good and clean copy, covers slightly bumped, spine chipped, blank upper corners of last two leaves lost. First and only edition. One of 10 130 copies produced. This handbook on the common topic of “how..... More
![Item #1494 Oktiabrevichi [i.e. The Young Octobersits]. Sergei Tretiakov](/pictures/thumb/1494.jpg?v=1662991059)
Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1924. 32, [1] p. 23x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Rear wrapper is supplied, the front wrapper has some restoration on the edges, otherwise in very good condition. No physical copies are recorded in Worldcat. A classic example of the Molodaya Gvardiya publication created by..... More
![Item #1493 [HOW TO CREATE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES] Zagolovok v gazete [i.e. Newspaper Headlines]. B....](/pictures/thumb/1493.jpg?v=1661884449)
Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1947. 87 pp.: ill. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Covers and spine partly detached from block, some rusty stains on back cover, minor tear of spine, otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. One of the first Soviet works on the typographic production of newspaper headlines written by..... More
![Item #1492 [AESTHETICS OF FONTS BY ARCHITECT CHERNIKHOV] Postroenie shriftov [i.e. Construction...](/pictures/thumb/1492.jpg?v=1661884267)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1958. 116 pp.: ill. 35x27 cm. In original cloth with two-color lettering on the front cover. Binding slightly rubbed, some Soviet bookshop stamps on endpapers, few pale stains, otherwise very good copy. First edition, posthumous publication. One of 10000 copies. Rare. Design by the book and type..... More
![Item #1491 [SOVIET CONSTRUCTION OF MEAT INDUSTRY] Chasti zdanii miasokombinatov: Uchebnik dlia...](/pictures/thumb/1491.jpg?v=1660932238)
Moscow: Pishchepromizdat, 1939. 288 pp.: ill., schemes. 20x14 cm. In original cardboards. Rubbed and soiled, crease of spine after title page, foxing on front endpaper and t.p. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. Comprehensive work on construction of all details of a butchery complex... More
![Item #1490 [SOVIET PARTICIPATION IN MILITARY ACTIONS IN EGYPT] Uchites’ govorit’ na...](/pictures/thumb/1490.jpg?v=1660932101)
Moscow, 1968. 174, [1] pp. 20x16 cm. In original cardboards with lettering on front cover and spine. Slightly rubbed and bumped, few stains on p. 62-63, some marks occasionally and handwritten notes about alphabet on blank p.8, small stamp “checked” on verso of t.p. For internal use only... More
![Item #1489 [AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY] Oshibki i neudachi negativnogo protsessa [i.e. Errors and...](/pictures/thumb/1489.jpg?v=1660931948)
Moscow: Gos. izdat. khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1930. 159, [5] pp., 6 ills. 19x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Rubbed, with small tears of spine and oversized covers, soiling of back cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. Third edition, occasionally revised. Front and back covers feature positive and negative images..... More
![Item #1488 [PULP FICTION FROM RIGA] Prostitutka: Roman [i.e. Prostitute: A Novel]. V. Margueritte](/pictures/thumb/1488.jpg?v=1660931823)
Riga: Knigoizdatel’stvo O.D. Strok, 1924. 170 pp., 4 pp. of advertisements. 20х14,5 cm. In period cardboards, the original front cover preserved. Rubbed, tear of the first two leaves along the spine, spots, otherwise very good internally. Lifetime Russian edition being a part of the Riga pulp-fiction phenomenon. A few..... More
![Item #1487 [FLEETING OFFICIAL ADMIRATION OF PASTERNAK] Dve knigi: Stikhi [i.e. Two Books:...](/pictures/thumb/1487.jpg?v=1660929445)
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo, 1927. 212 pp., 1 portrait. 20x13,5 cm. In original full cloth with lettering on the front cover. No dust jacket. Slightly tanned binding, small hole in front flyleaf, ink inscription on verso of t.p., otherwise very good and clean internally. Traces of pencil note “an enemy..... More
![Item #1486 Mankhetten = Manhattan Transfer : Roman [i.e. Manhattan Transfer: Novel]. J. Dos Passos](/pictures/thumb/1486.jpg?v=1660929323)
Leningrad: Mysl’, [1927]. 412, [4] pp. 16,5x13 cm. In contemporary binding. Rubbed and bumped, soiling and foxing occasionally, small colored pencil not on t.p., stamps of Soviet moving library for self-education on t.p. and page with table of contents. First Russian edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. The..... More
![Item #1485 [THE MAIN SOVIET MAGAZINE ON PRINTING: POST-WAR PRACTICE] Poligraficheskoe...](/pictures/thumb/1485.jpg?v=1660929136)
#1-12 for 1948, #2-12 for 1949. Overall 23 issues in two volumes. Moscow: Gos. izd. tekhn.-teoret. literatury, 1948-1949. 28x23 cm. In two contemporary cloth bindings with lettering on front covers; original printed and illustrated front covers preserved. Very good. Slightly rubbed, water stain on upper inner corner throughout the..... More
![Item #1484 [AMATEUR RADIOFICATION OF THE USSR] Radio-liubitel’ [i.e. Radio Enthusiast] #15/16...](/pictures/thumb/1484.jpg?v=1660928783)
Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1926-1929. In original illustrated wrappers. #15/16 Tears of spine and edges, fragment of back cover cut out (there was a coupon), otherwise very good and clean. #5 out of binding, small fragments of spine lost, otherwise very good and clean. #6 spine repaired with paper band..... More
![Item #1483 [GEORGIAN PHOTOMONTAGES] Drosha: Ork’vireuli samkhat’vro-salit’erat’uro...](/pictures/thumb/1483.jpg?v=1660928620)
Tbilisi, 1932. 18 pp.: ill. 30,5x21,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, spine slightly chipped, ink underlinings. One of 6000 copies. Rare. In Georgian. ‘Drosha’ [Flag] was the main artistic and literary magazine published in Tbilisi from 1923 to 1935. Although initially ‘Drosha’ was a bimonthly periodical..... More
![Item #1482 [GEORGIAN PERIODICAL ON TECHNICAL ISSUES] T’eknik’a da shroma [i.e. Technology and...](/pictures/thumb/1482.jpg?v=1660928453)
Tbilisi: T’eknik’a da shroma, 1932. 25-48 pp. 28,5x20,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine, uncut copy. One of 4000 copies. Rare. The second title of the magazine ‘Technology and Life’, a monthly technical magazine published by the Central Body of Engineer-Technicians from 1925 to 1929. From 1929 to 1938..... More
![Item #1481 [SOVIET PRINTING BUSINESS DURING NEP] Pechatnik [i.e. The Printer] #1 1-28, 29/30 for...](/pictures/thumb/1481.jpg?v=1660928220)
Moscow: TsK SRPP SSSR, 1925. 30x23 cm. In contemporary binding, original constructivist covers of #9-28, 29/30 preserved. Very good, pale pre-war stamps and marks of People’s Commissariat of Labor on p.1 #1-8, front covers of #9-28, 29/30. Colored pencil marks and minor tears of edges occasionally. Printruns varied 14..... More
![Item #1480 [SOVIET SPORTS PROPAGANDA] Fizkul’tura i sport [i.e. Physical Culture and Sport](/pictures/thumb/1480.jpg?v=1660928013)
#1-16, 17/18, 19-43, 44/45, 46-52 for 1929. Overall 50 issues. Moscow, 1929. 30,5x22,5 cm. In contemporary binding with front cover of #1 mounted above; the rest of original illustrated covers preserved. In general, very good. Rubbed, fragments of edges of mounted front cover lost, p. 7-10 (#24) detached from block..... More
![Item #1479 [BOOK & REVOLUTION] Kniga i revoliutsiia: Zhurnal politiki, kul’tury, kritiki and...](/pictures/thumb/1479.jpg?v=1660924831)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929-1930. 26x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Good. Cancelled stamps of Research Institute of Book Science on p. 1, last leaf and front cover of #2-8 (1930). Covers of #1, 7 (1929) detached from text blocks, with foxing. Tears of spine of #3, 7 for 1929, #7 for..... More