![Item #1422 [FIRST RUSSIAN HEMINGWAY] Smert’ posle poludnya [i.e. Death in the Afternoon]. E....](/pictures/thumb/1422.jpg?v=1660732508)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1934. 266, [5] pp., 1 ill. 19,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Bumped, stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First separate edition of Hemingway in Russia. One of 8000 copies. This is a collection of Hemingway’s stories published along with an article by Ivan Kashkin, the major..... More
![Item #1421 [FAIK TAGIROV] Baski. Byki. Araby: Kniga ob Ispanii i Marokko [i.e. Basques. Bulls....](/pictures/thumb/1421.jpg?v=1660732308)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1929. 234, [4] pp. 22x14 cm. In original constructivist cardboards. Restored, slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. First and only Russian edition of ‘Basken, Stiere, Araber - Ein Buch über Spanien und Marokko’ by one of the leaders of German expressionism, Kasimir Edschmid (1890-1966)..... More
![Item #1420 [CONCENTRATION CAMP PASS FOR THE MUSIC TEACHER] Lager-Pass [i.e. Camp Passport] #1923](/pictures/thumb/1420.jpg?v=1660731933)
[Aflenz concentration camp, 1945]. 15x10,5 cm. In original printed covers. Some soiling, otherwise very good. Extremely rare document of the wartime. The Aflenz concentration camp (also known as the Graz-Leibniz subcamp) existed from February 1944 to April 1945 in the Austrian town of Aflenz an der Sulm as..... More
![Item #1417 [SHARK FISHING IN THE SOVIET UNION] Promysel akuly, lov i obrabotka [i.e. Shark...](/pictures/thumb/1417.jpg?v=1658799192)
Moscow: Snabtekhizdat, 1932. 53, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine with minor fragments lost, creases of the back cover, p. 54 soiled, pale private stamps on the title page and p.54, pencil marks on margins and colored pencil number on the back..... More
![Item #1416 [THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPEECH] Myshlenie i rech’ [i.e. Thinking and Speech]. L. Vygotsky](/pictures/thumb/1416.jpg?v=1658798966)
Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ, 1934. XXXVI, 324 pp., 1 ill. (front). 23x15 cm. Original publisher’s cloth. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Bumped and slightly rubbed, some soiling of the covers, minor tear of the title page, otherwise very good and clean internally. One of 10,000 copies. Rare. Lev..... More
![Item #1414 [SYSTEM PROGRAMMING IN THE USSR] Tekhnologiia programmirovaniia: Kurs lektsii [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1414.jpg?v=1658798640)
Moscow: n.p., 1989. 481 pp.: ill. 20,5x16 cm. In original cardboards. Rubbed and bumped, some ink and pencil marks, otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of 150 copies produced. Very rare. A Soviet typewritten textbook on the basics of system programming, compiled for..... More
21 black and white photographs depicting Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s triumphant return to his homeland after 20 years of exile. 1994. Each photo 6,7x9 cm. Fine. First and only edition. One of 150 copies produced. Very rare. Eager to reacquaint himself with a country “altered beyond recognition,” Solzhenitsyn landed..... More
![Item #1410 [EARLY SOVIET PRINTMAKING] Rukovodstvo po steklografii [i.e. Guide on Vitreography]....](/pictures/thumb/1410.jpg?v=1658797679)
Ekaterinburg: 1922. [2], 13 pp. 22x14,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine with small fragments lost, some soiling, a private stamp of a provincial artist on p. [1]. Otherwise very good. Very rare provincial edition. An entirely vitreographic and fragile brochure. This handbook on planographic..... More
![Item #1408 [THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR: SOVIET-CHINESE PROPAGANDA] Dva goda geroicheskoi...](/pictures/thumb/1408.jpg?v=1658797257)
Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 44 pp. 20 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. A private library stamp on the title page and p. 3, a couple of tears, otherwise very good. Rare. An important example of a Soviet propaganda edition on the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). The..... More
![Item #1407 [FOREIGN POLICY OF THE RSFSR IN 1917-1922] Vneshnyaya politika RSFSR: 1917-1922 [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1407.jpg?v=1658797101)
Moscow: Kras. nov’, 1923. [4], 194, [1] pp.+ 5 pp. of ads. 23x15,5 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Good. Fragments of the spine and front cover edges lost, pale water stains on the covers, a private library’s paper sticker on the front cover, a signature on the front cover and..... More
![Item #1406 [A PROVINCIAL EDITION] Inaya derevnya. Stikhi i poemy 1916-1923 godov [i.e. Another...](/pictures/thumb/1406.jpg?v=1658796915)
Samara: Samarskiy gubizdat, 1923. 82 pp. 17,5x12 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, faded, otherwise very good and clean internally. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 1,500 copies. K. Avdeev’s ex-libris (designed by artist Likdenbaum) on the verso of the front wrapper. A collection of..... More
![Item #1405 [THE FIRST BOOK BY OSIP MANDELSTAM] Kamen’: Stikhi [i.e. A Stone: Verses]. O....](/pictures/thumb/1405.jpg?v=1658796788)
St. Petersburg: Akme [printed at the author’s expense by Iu. Mansfeld], 1913. [2], 34 pp. 21x14 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, some pale stains on the covers, few pencil marks, otherwise very good. A good copy of the first edition of the first book by..... More
![Item #1404 [CHEKHOV] Povesti i rasskazy [i.e. Novellas and Short Stories]. A. Chekhov](/pictures/thumb/1404.jpg?v=1658796642)
Moscow: Tip. vysochaishe utverzhd. T-va I.D. Sytina, 1894. 285, [3] pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. In contemporary half leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Lifetime edition. Chekhov is the author of over 550 stories. This collection consists of eleven stories written in the late 1880s and the early 1890s..... More
![Item #1403 [UKRAINIAN THEATER] V maskakh epokhy: Iosyp Hirniak [i.e. In Masks of an Epoch: Iosyp...](/pictures/thumb/1403.jpg?v=1658796509)
[Germany]: Ukraina, 1948. 107, [2] pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, small tears of the edges (some repaired with tape), small fragments of the spine lost (one repaired with a tape), some soiling, ink signature on the title page, otherwise very good. In Ukrainian. Very..... More
![Item #1401 [UNCLE TOM’S CABIN IN ODESA] Khizina dyadi Toma [i.e. Uncle Tom’s Cabin]. H....](/pictures/thumb/1401.jpg?v=1658796079)
Odesa: Knigoizd-vo «Odespoligraf», [1925]. 141, [2] pp.: ill., 6 ills. 21,5x17,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated cardboards; illustrated endpapers. Binding worn, with creases and small fragments of illustrated paper lost, upper outer corner of the front cover lost (letterpress design not affected), stains on the back cover, soiling of pages..... More
![Item #1398 [CHILDRENS’ ART OF THE 1930S] Moskva v gravyurakh detey [i.e. Moscow in...](/pictures/thumb/1398.jpg?v=1658795420)
Moscow: Tipo lit. Dvortsa kul’tury avtozavoda im. Stalina, 1938. [6] pp., 12 pp. of black and white ill. 32x25 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very good, slightly restored. Extremely scarce. 1 of 500 copies. First edition. Published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Komsomol. A foreword..... More
![Item #1395 [A PARADE EDITION - SOVIET SHOCK-WORKERS] Stalinskoe plemia stakhanovtsev [i.e. A...](/pictures/thumb/1395.jpg?v=1658794465)
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo izobrazitel’nykh iskusstv, 1936. [2], XX, 71, [1], 72-82, [2], 83-86 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 29x30 cm. In original cloth binding with a flap of the back cover, with silver lettering and blind debossed image on the front cover, silver design on the spine; publisher’s blind logo on..... More
![Item #1393 [ALEXANDER RODCHENKO] Internationale Literatur [i.e. International Literature]. #1,2...](/pictures/thumb/1393.jpg?v=1658794081)
Moscow: Staatsverlag für schöne literatur, 1932. No.1: 160 pp.: ill., 2 ills. No.2: 118, [2] pp.: ill. 25,5x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers with flaps of the back covers. #1: Tears of the spine, rubbed, some stains, otherwise very good. #2: Small fragments of the spine lost, faded, minor tears..... More
![Item #1391 [RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Krasnoe studenchestvo [i.e. Red Studentship] #5 for 1929/1930](/pictures/thumb/1391.jpg?v=1658500095)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929. 24 pp.: ill. 30x21 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A small tear of the spine, some soiling of the back cover, otherwise very good and clean copy. Edited by the old revolutionary Samuil Chudnovskii (1889- 1937) who later became a victim of the Great Purge. An..... More
![Item #1390 [A FUTURIST PLAY] Klop: Feericheskaya komediya: 9 kartin [i.e. The Bedbug. A Faery...](/pictures/thumb/1390.jpg?v=1658499957)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1929. 69, [2] pp. 20x14 cm. Original color wrappers. Slightly rubbed, damp stains in the bottom right corner throughout the book. Otherwise a very good copy. First separate edition. Rare. According to S. Khan-Magomedov (Alexandre Rodtchenko: L’Oeuvre complet, P. 139), Anonymous cover design was..... More
![Item #1389 [MAYAKOVSKY-RODCHENKO] No. S Novye Stikhi [i.e. No. S. New Poems]. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/1389.jpg?v=1658499859)
Moscow: Federatsiya, 1928. 108 pp., 1 portrait. 18x13,5 cm. In original publisher’s constructivist wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko. Small fragments of spine lost, oversized covers slightly rubbed and bumped, minor tears and spots. Previous owner’s signature on the title page (1924). Otherwise very good. First edition. 1 of 3,000 copies..... More
![Item #1388 [MAYAKOVSKY ON AMERICA. RODCHENKO DESIGN] Moe otkrytie Ameriki [i.e. My Discovery of...](/pictures/thumb/1388.jpg?v=1658499741)
Moscow: GIZ, 1926. 142, [2] pp.: ill. 18.6x14.2 cm. Original wrappers designed by Alexander Rodchenko. Loss of pieces of the spine, very light damp stains on the upper part throughout. Otherwise in a good condition. First edition. 1 of 3,000 copies. This collaboration between Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko..... More
![Item #1386 [A TREASURY OF CONSTRUCTIVIST PROJECTS] Ezhegodnik obshchestva...](/pictures/thumb/1386.jpg?v=1658499410)
Leningrad: Izd. Leningradskogo soiuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov, 1935. [6], 272, [10] pp.: ill. 30,5x24,5 cm. In original cloth with blind debossed lettering and a colored image on the front cover, blind embossed lettering on the spine. Tears of the spine, chipped, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. One of 3,600..... More
![Item #1384 [A SOVIET AGITATIONAL PLAY] ROST [i.e. GROWTH]. A. Glebov](/pictures/thumb/1384.jpg?v=1658495563)
Moscow: Tea-kino-pechat’, 1927. 112 pp.: ill. 18x13,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated avant-garde cardboards by Roman Usov. Spine repaired, light soiling of the back cover, Soviet public club’s stamps and marks on the title page, p. 17, and p. 112. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of..... More
![Item #1383 [ICON PAINTER BECOMES A SUPREMATIST] Vystavka kartin i risunkov K.N. Red’ko....](/pictures/thumb/1383.jpg?v=1658495388)
Moscow: Glavnauka, 1926. 16 pp., ill. 21,8x14,9 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the abstraction Dynamite. The catalogue also includes 3 reproductions of Redko’s other works. Very good condition. Extremely rare. Redko’s only personal exhibition of works that was held during his lifetime in Russia showcased 200 works..... More