Moscow: tipo-laboratoriya VKIZH, 1935. 42 pp.: ill., 1 pl. 15x11 cm. In illustrated wrappers. Very good. Damp stains on the wrappers. First and only edition. One of 6000 copies. All illustrations are linocuts. From the series “Small Library of Editor”. Another manual on “how to do something” from..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928. 116 pp.: ill., 5 pl. 20x14 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Very good, small tears of the wrappers and spine. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. Mezzotint plates printed on flat machine of Kempe factory with tints from Poligraf trest. A beautifully executed..... More

Moscow: Trest Poligraf, 1925. 64 pp. 23x13 cm. In original stapled wrappers with red stamping. Very good. Previous owner’s bookplate on the verso of the front cover. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Very rare. This trade catalogue is a short extraction from a full book of types published..... More

Moscow, 1931-1935. April, 1931 [under the title “Biulleten’ Vserossiiskogo Kooperativnogo Tovarishchestva ‘Khudozhnik’ ”]. 50, [2] pp.: ill., 3 pl. 26x17,5 cm. One of 2000 copies. Fine. In publisher’s wrappers. June, 1932 [under the title “Biulleten’ Vserossiiskogo Kooperativnogo Tovarishchestva ‘Khudozhnik’ ”]. 60 pp.: ill., 1 pl. 26x17,5 cm. One of..... More

Ulianovsk: Got-tipolit. #1, 1926. 28 pp. 22x15 cm. One of 1200 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Very rare. No copies found in the Worldcat. First and only edition. An interesting example of the provincial printing, that gives us the inside into the art education process. Ulianovsk..... More

Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo literatury po stroitel’stvu i arkhitekture, 1952. 393, [3] pp.: ill. 22,5x18 cm. In original full-cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, with blind design on the cover and laconic colored design on the spine. Rubbed, pencil underlinings occasionally, otherwise in very good condition... More

Kharbin: M.V. Zaitsev, 1938. 126, [6] pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary owner’s carton binding. The private stamp of ‘war officer A.V. Vostroknutov’ on the title page. First and only edition. Pavel Tutkovskiy (1889-1959) was the Russian novelist, who has lived in Belgrade, Kharbin, and emigrated to USA after the cultural..... More

St. Petersburg: Brothers Panteleev, 1881. Vol.1. 509 pp. Vol.2. [2], 699 pp. 8vo. Two modern period-style binding. Very rare, especially in contemporary binding. The first edition of the one of the most important books in the Russian language, a masterpiece of immense influence. This was the final work by..... More

Moscow: Mysl, 1964. 623 pp.: ill., folding maps. Cloth binding with the illustrated dust wrapper. Illustrated throughout. Very good, the dust wrapper is slightly torn. Translation of: Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, v. 2, Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure / edited by J.C. Beaglehole..... More

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[Supplement to the magazine ‘Probuzhdenie’ (i.e. Awakening)]. St. Petersburg: Tovarishhestvo hudozhestvennoi pechati, 1912. 32 pp. 30x21 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In a very good condition. This collection of sonnets gathered the highlights of the early translations. Among all pieces of Shakespeare’s heritage the sonnets came last into Russian literature..... More

The archive consisting of one signed photo by Shostakovich, 6 letters (with the envelopes in maestro’s handwriting), 1 congratulatory telegram with the photo pasted on it and one family photo. All of the letters are addressed to Kazan to Isaia Sherman. Isai Sherman (1908-1972) the Ukrainian born conductor, who has..... More

Moscow: Voennaya Ordena Lenina Akademiya Bronetankovikh Voysk, 1961. 482 pp. 19x13 cm. Original cloth binding. Binding is slightly deformed. Otherwise good. Owner’s signature on the endpaper. The book is largely based on the book by F. Von Senger und Etterlin ‘Taschnbuch der panzer. 1943-1957’ with additional material and..... More