![FARSI-ARABIC-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY] Polnyi persidsko-arabo-russkiy slovar’ [i.e. Complete...](/images/noimage.png)
Tashkent: Electr.-steam typo-lithography of Turkestani military district HQ, 1909. [2], IV, 1815, [4] pp. Contemporary half-leather. Small piece of the title page is missing from the top (restored). Otherwise near fine copy. First and the only edition. The first attempt to create the universal dictionary for Turkic people of..... More
![ERZYA LANGUAGE] Moksherziatnen eriamo pingest [i.e. The History of Mordva]. M. T. Markelov](/pictures/thumb/952.jpg?v=1582650200)
Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1929. 184 pp., 1 map. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers with the strict constructivist design. Illustrated throughout including the map of Finno-ugric speaking nations in USSR. Very good, few tears of the spine. The book is printed in Erzya language, spoken in Republic of Mordovia, by nearly..... More
![THE SECOND BOOK BY TOLSTOY] Detstvo i otrochestvo [i.e. Childhood and Boyhood]. L. Tolstoy](/pictures/thumb/951.jpg?v=1582649993)
St. Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1856. [4], 307 pp. 18,4x12 cm. Contemporary half-leather. Narrow strip of paper added to the top of the title page. Very good and clean copy. First edition of Tolstoy’s second book. Rare. Tolstoy’s second book encapsulates the first two parts of his well-known semi-autobiographical..... More
Odessa: Kinaret, [1920s]. Printed wrappers, the spine is restored. Otherwise good. The completely unrecorded brochure by the pioneer of jewish opera inscribed by him to Chaliapin on the front wrapper ‘To Fiodor Ivanovich Chaliapin fro devoted M. Golinkin’. Mordekhai Golinkin (1885-1963) is considered the first one who started..... More
1875. XVI, 262, [1] pp., 12 ill. 34x17 cm. Contemporary binding. Overall in a very good condition. First edition. One of the most important works on the elasticity of gases. Mendeleev became engaged in the study of the topic in the early 1870s, after the publication of the final..... More
![MENDELEEV ON AERONAUTICS] O soprotivlenii zhidkostey i o vozdukhoplavanii [i.e. On the...](/pictures/thumb/947.jpg?v=1582649372)
Issue 1 [and all]. St-Petersburg: V.Demakov, 1880. [2], 160, 80 pp., 14 folding plates, printed separately at the cartographer A.Iliyin in Saint-Petersburg. Contemporary quarter-leather binding. Slightly foxed. Pre-revolutionary stamps of Tiflis Arsenal on the title page, p.1 and front endpapers. The most important Mendeleev’s work on the aeronautics. His..... More
![MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS: BETWEEN FILMMAKERS] Tekhnika kombinirovannoi kinos’emki [i.e. Technique...](/pictures/thumb/946.jpg?v=1582649253)
Moscow: Gizlegprom, 1933. 140 pp.: ill. 23x15,5 cm. In original constructivist cardboards by N. Sedel’nikov. Bumped, minor defects of covers, otherwise very good and neat. Signed and inscribed by the author “To M.A. Kaufman - a colleague in occupation. Moscow. November 20, 1933”. Mikhail Kaufman (1897-1980) was a brother of..... More
![TCHAIKOVSKY] 1812. Torzhestvennaya uvertura dlia bolshogo orkestra, sochinennaya po sluchaiu...](/pictures/thumb/943.jpg?v=1582646487)
Moscow: Yurgenson, [1883]. 21 pp. 32,5x25 cm. Original chromolithographed wrappers. Mild restoration of the spine, minor foxing, otherwise very good. First edition. The sketch of the newly built cathedral on the front wrapper. The score was printed for the first performance of the overture, on the 20th of..... More
![UNKNOWN TELINGATER POSTER] Podpisivaites’ na gazetu ‘Bakinskiy rabochiy’ na 1925 god [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/940.jpg?v=1582645756)
Baku: Azpoligraftrest, [1924]. 72x44 cm. One of 1000 copies produced. Very good. Few small scuffed pieces from the sides. An excellent example of poster design by one of the most complex classics of Soviet design Solomon Telingater (1903-1969), from the rarest of his periods when he was starting out..... More
![WWII PROPAGANDA] Nazi anti-Soviet poster with the caricature on Stalin](/pictures/thumb/939.jpg?v=1582645078)
[1941-1943]. 27x19 cm. The posters like this one have been distributed by the German troops (including Luftwaffe) in the occupied Soviet territories. The anti-semitic poem on the back reads ‘The secret of the communism is simple / Some gets some, some not / Jews get the money / Simple..... More
![SOVIET PORCELAIN] Khudozhestvennoe oformlenie massovoi posudy [i.e. The Design of the Mass...](/pictures/thumb/937.jpg?v=1582644336)
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ; IZOGIZ, 1932. 145, 2 pp., 1 folding plate.: ills. 25x17 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Very good. Extremely rare. One of 5000 copies. The ceramics and porcelain became the important field for mass art in Soviet Russia in the 1920s-30s. It started in the early 1920s..... More
![THE GENIUS AND THE BUTCHER] Stalin. Zhivopis’. Plakat. Grafika. Skulptura [i.e. Stalin. Fine...](/pictures/thumb/936.jpg?v=1582644131)
Moscow: OGIZ, IZOGIZ, 1934. [66] pp. 34x35 cm. Publisher’s cloth binding. Each illustration is supplied with the tissue paper, all present. Copy from the smaller part of the print run with the publisher’s blank dust wrapper preserved and Stalin’s silhouette printed in silver on the frontispiece and Stalin’s signature printed..... More
[Baku]: Zaktag, 1926. 50 pp.: ill. + 16 leaves of advertising. 21х23 cm. In original cardboards with constructivist design. Chipped, tears of the spine with some fragments lost, creases of covers, but clean and very good internally. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Extremely rare survival..... More
![PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi pavil’on-stantsiia v...](/pictures/thumb/933.jpg?v=1582642988)
[Moscow: M.G.Zh.D., 1925]. Ca. 26,5x22 cm. Sixteen mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 11x15 cm. No captions. In original cloth folder with gilt lettering. Soiling of folder and foxing on the inner side, but the leaves are near fine. An attractive album of rare photos proving triumph of constructivism..... More
![GEORGIAN DADA] P’oet’is q’epa. Ts’. 1 [i.e. A Poet’s Bark. First Book]. G. Tsetskhladze](/pictures/thumb/932.png?v=1582642810)
Tbilisi: Stamba samkhedro komisariatisa, 1924. 32 pp. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of spine lost, some soiling, ink note and marks, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A Cubist portrait of the author by Irakli Gamrekeli on the front cover. This is one of..... More
![GEORGIAN JOHN REED] Jon Ridi: P’oema [i.e. John Reed: A Poem]. G. Tabidze](/pictures/thumb/931.png?v=1582642688)
Tbilisi: S.s.m.u.s. p’oligrap. ganq’. lit’ograpia, 1924. 32 pp. 26.8x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Soiling and foxing occasionally, tears of the spine with small fragments lost, small tears of edges, blurred signature on the front cover. First edition. One of 5000 copies. The book is a collaboration between Galaktion Tabidze..... More
![GAMREKELI AT HIS BEST] Sharavandedi: Leksebi da p’oemebi. Ts’, 1 [i.e. Aureole: Verses and...](/pictures/thumb/930.png?v=1582642606)
Tbilisi: Samkhedro stamba, 1923. 139, [4] pp. 22.5x15.5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored and slightly soiled, blank lower corners of p. 41-44 lost, some pale water stains and small tears, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A very rare collaboration between two esteemed..... More
![FULL SET OF SOVIET THEATER PERIODICAL] Sovetskii teatr [i.e. Soviet Theater](/pictures/thumb/929.jpg?v=1582642428)
#1, 2, 3/4, 5/6, 7, 8, 9/10, 11/12, 13/16 for 1930, #1, 2/3, 4, 5/6, 7, 8, 9, 10/11, 12 for 1931, #1-6, 7/8, 9, 10/11, 12 for 1932, #1, 2/3 for 1933. Overall 30 issues. Moscow: Teakinopechat: ZiF: OGIZ: Zhurnal’no-gazetnoe ob’edinenie, 1930-1933. 30,5x23,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Repaired..... More
![SOVIET PHOTO: RUN OF 14 YEARS] Sovetskoe foto [i.e. Soviet Photo](/pictures/thumb/928.jpg?v=1582641680)
Moscow: Ogoniok [and others], 1926-1941. 171 issues altogether. Complete sets for the years 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941. The years 1926-1934 are bound in contemporary bindings. Years 1935-1937, 1940-1941 are in original wrappers. All of the wrappers, except three ones..... More
![THE MAIN GEORGIAN SATIRICAL MAGAZINE] Niangi: sat’irisa da iumoris zhurnali [i.e. Crocodile:...](/pictures/thumb/927.jpg?v=1582641401)
Tbilisi, 1923-1946. The collection of 564 issues. Complete sets of the year runs: 1931, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946. Incomplete sets (usually lacking few to several issues): 1923-1928, 1930, 1932, 1934-1937. Full descriptions of all present issues are available upon request. This is a collection of..... More
![MAGNIFICENT KLUTSIS-KULAGINA DUO] Iazyk Lenina: Odinnadtsat’ priemov Leninskoi rechi [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/923.jpg?v=1582640276)
Moscow: Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 60, [2] pp.: ill. 19x14,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers restored, pencil marks, pale water stain on the upper inner corner throughout the copy, pale stamp on publisher’s advertising page, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Constructivist cover design..... More
![KRUCHYONYKH/ILIAZD COLLABORATION] Milliork. Alexei Kruchyonykh](/pictures/thumb/921.jpg?v=1582639596)
Tiflis: 41 degrees, 1919. 32 pp. 22,5x15 cm. Original letterpress design by Ilia Zdanevich. The wrappers used to be folded. Tears and minor restoration, otherwise good. One of approximately 250 copies. The following book is one of the classic examples of the collaboration of the two greats of Russian..... More
Pair of children’s collages, from the first futurist exhibition ‘Mishen’ [i.e. The Target] showing the landscape and the flower. 11,5x19,5 cm and 18x11,5 cm. Provenance: from the collection of architect Nikolay Vinogradov (1885-1980). Both are reproduced in Anthony Parton’s ‘The Art and Life of Natalia Goncharova’ (London, 2010)... More
![EXTREMELY RARE SAMARKAND IMPRINT] Spravochnik i Adres-Kalendar Samarkandskoi Oblasti na 1901/...](/pictures/thumb/918.jpg?v=1580221706)
Samarkand: Typ. “Tovarishchestvo”, [1901].Ca. 16,5x12,5 cm. Two parts in one. [32 - ads], [6], 102; [2], v, [3], 137, [24 - ads] pp. Original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Pre-revolutionary Russian ink stamp “Price 30 cop.” on the front wrapper. Soviet library stamp on verso of the title page and on p...... More
![TO FORM MASS CULTURE THROUGH WALL NEWSPAPERS] Risunok v stennoi gazete : Posobie dlia gorodskikh...](/pictures/thumb/917.jpg?v=1580221501)
Moscow: Khudozhestvennoe izdatel’stvo AKhR, 1929. 58 pp. : ill. 17,5X13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears with losses of edge fragments of oversized covers and spine, otherwise very good and clean internally. Fourth lifetime edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. A manual on designing an immensely influential propaganda tool..... More