![RODCHENKO] Den Shi-Khua: Bio-interv’iu [i.e. Tan Shih-hua: A Bio-Interview]. S. Tretyakov](/pictures/thumb/915.jpg?v=1580220409)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. 392 pp.: ill. 21,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Good. Tears and small losses of the spine, soiling, some pages detached from block, tears and small fragments of margins lost occasionally, ink note on p. 37. Second edition. One of 7500 copies. Very rare... More
![PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EXPEDITION INTO THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN ALASKA] Peshekhodnaya...](/pictures/thumb/913.jpg?v=1580219940)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of Karl Kray, 1847-1848. First edition. 23x15,5 cm. Two vols. bound together. [2 – t.p.], 182, [2]; [2 – t.p.], 120, [2], 43 pp. With a large folding copper engraved map bound at rear. Period half leather with papered boards. Front free endpaper with an ink presentation..... More
![RARE RUSSIAN AFRICAN HUNTING ACCOUNT] V Dzhungliakh Afriki: Dnievnik Okhotnika [i.e. In the...](/pictures/thumb/912.jpg?v=1580219711)
Kiev: Polskaya typ. 1914. First Edition. Quarto (ca. 30x21,5 cm). [2], 182, [2 - errata] pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, two maps and many photo illustrations in text. Original publisher’s brown quarter sheep with decorative carved ornaments on wooden boards with a gilt lettered title on the front board; decorative..... More
![ROSTA WINDOWS]. B. Zemenkov](/pictures/thumb/911.jpg?v=1580219533)
Udarnoe iskusstvo okon satiry [i.e. Striking Art of Satirical Windows]. Moscow: Khudozhestvennoe izdatel’skoe aktsionernoe obshchestvo AKhR, 1930. 104 pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Slightly bumped and chipped, signature on half-title, otherwise very good and clean copy. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Cover design by..... More
![CONCEPTUALIST BULGAKOV] Zapiski na manzhetakh [i.e. Notes on the Cuffs]. M. Bulgakov](/pictures/thumb/910.jpg?v=1580219297)
New York: Serebriannyi vek, 1981. 117, [3] p.: ill. 19x12 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Pale stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First separate edition. Design was produced by Vagrich Bakhchianian (1938-2009), Armenian-American conceptualist artist, known for his provocative art, mocking the classical soviet images. He placed the title on the..... More
![VRUBEL IN RUSSIAN MUSEUM] M.A. Vrubel’ [i.e. M. Vrubel: [Catalogue]]. A. Ivanov](/pictures/thumb/908.jpg?v=1576166455)
Leningrad: Izdanie Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo muzeia, 1928. 76, [4] pp.: ill. Size. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Tears of edges of oversized covers, pencil signature on t.p. was erased. One of 1500 copies. Rare. Catalogue of artworks by Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) located in the Russian State Museum. The book lists..... More
![SUBURB FOR THE SOVIET WRITERS] Peredelkinskie foto [i.e. Peredelkino Photos](/pictures/thumb/906.jpg?v=1576166196)
Moscow, 1958. Handmade photo album. 27 photographs and 1 newspaper clipping are mounted on 8 leaves, 3 photographs are loosely inserted. Handwritten lettering on the front cover and captions. 20,5х29 cm. Some tears of the spine and edges, otherwise very good. Some photographs signed by Korney Chukovsky, Agniia..... More
![THE FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION TO MKINVARTSVERI] Sakartvelos geograpiuli sazogadoebis...](/pictures/thumb/905.jpg?v=1576165978)
Tbilisi: Sakartvelos geograpiuli sazogadoeba, 1928. 65pp.: ill. 16.7x24.6cm. Loss of the front wrapper and the spine, tears of the rear wrapper, previous owner’s inscription on the foretitle: “To our little Vaniko from the aunt Nutsa. 2/III/1929”. Good. Extremely scarce first edition. One of 1000 copies. The narrative is in Georgian..... More
![ODESSA AVANT-GARDE STAGE] Odes’kii Derzhavnii teatr opery ta baletu: Sezon 1929-30 roku [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/904.jpg?v=1576165683)
Odessa: DOTOB, 1929. 64 pp.: ill., 2 folding charts, one of them loosely inserted. In original wrappers with constructivist design. In very good condition. Covers slightly restored, a couple of colored pencil marks on photographs, otherwise very good condition. Both covers were designed in the constructivist style. The front..... More
![SOVIET POLICE PHOTOMONTAGE] Slovesnyi portret: (kratkii spravochnik) [i.e. Verbal Portrait: (A...](/pictures/thumb/903.jpg?v=1576165438)
Moscow: Nauchno-tekhnicheskii otdel UVD Ispolkoma Mosgorsoveta, 1959. 27 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine. For office use only. Copy #1158 (stamped on front cover and t.p.). This is an interesting photomontage edition produced for police officers in the late 1950s. The richly illustrated brochure briefly..... More
![SOVIET FLORICULTURE IN THE 1940S] Tsvety v gorode [i.e. Flowers in the City]. Bazilevskaya N. A](/pictures/thumb/902.jpg?v=1576165210)
[Moscow]: Gos. arkhitekturnoye izd-vo, 1947. 104pp.: ill. 20.7x16.7cm. In original publisher’s cardboards. Slightly bumped, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear board and its recto. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Scarce. First edition. An interesting guide dedicated to the Soviet floriculture of the 1940s written by the famous Russian..... More
![ARCHITECTURE OF MOSCOW ARTERIES] Naberezhnye Moskvy. Arkhitektura i konstruktsiya [i.e. Moscow...](/pictures/thumb/901.jpg?v=1576164952)
Moscow: Izd-vo Akad. arkhitektury SSSR, 1940. 256 pp.: ill, 4 ills. 25,5x18 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Rubbed, ink signature on t.p., otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. An interesting and comprehensive study on the architecture of a...... More
![BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION DURING A WAR] Vosstanovleniye mostov [i.e. Bridge Reconstruction]. V. Gastev](/pictures/thumb/900.jpg?v=1576164592)
Moscow, Leningrad: Gostransizdat, 1932. 272pp., 3 schemes: ill. 25.2x17.8cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards. Loose, horizontal crease on the front cardboard, edges are slightly worn. In good condition. Scarce. First edition. Written by the Soviet scientist in the field of building structures, Vladimir Gastev (1891-1974), this is one of..... More
![FROM ONE ARCHITECT TO OTHERS] Grazhdanskaia arkhitektura. Tekst: Chasti zdanii [i.e. Civil...](/pictures/thumb/899.jpg?v=1576164322)
St. Petersburg: Izd. Studencheskoi biblioteki, 1903. [2], 204, 4, 3 pp.: ill. 27,5x18,5 cm. In period half-leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Good. Rubbed, stains and pencil marks occasionally, first leaves slightly deformed of water. First edition. Extremely rare lithographed edition of lectures on building materials. A...... More
![STAGE IMAGINATION BEATS REALITY] Tvorcheskii metod teatra. Dialektika tvorcheskogo protsessa...](/pictures/thumb/898.jpg?v=1576164097)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1931. 140, [4] pp. 20x13,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Tears of the spine, otherwise very good and clean copy. One of 5000 copies. Extremely rare. An interesting work on the overwhelming power of theatrical performances. The book was written by playwright Alexander Afinogenov (1904-1941). His early..... More
![LEFTIST EPIC POEM ABOUT RUSSIAN ANARCHISTS] Ulialaevshchina: Epopeia [i.e. Ulialaev Adventure:...](/pictures/thumb/897.jpg?v=1576163229)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 160 pp. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering on front cover and spine, with original dust jacket with letterpress design by unknown artist. Dust jacket occasionally repaired, with tears and small losses of edges, but book is in fine condition. Second, revised and..... More
![HOW TO DESIGN A BOOK] Osnovy oformleniya sovetskoy knigi [i.e. Basics of the Soviet Book Design]....](/pictures/thumb/896.jpg?v=1576162819)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1956. 502 pp., 3 tables: ill. 26.6x18.1cm. In original publisher’s cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. Dust-wrapper. Fine. First edition. Scarce. One of the most comprehensive Soviet editions to meticulously analyze and interpret peculiarities of book design and technical editing. Written by a...... More
![FIRST TOUR OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN IN THE USSR] N’iu-Iorkskii simfonicheskii orkestr (SShA) [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/895.jpg?v=1576162057)
Moscow: Tip. Krasnaia Zvezda, 1959. 45x30,5cm. Near fine. One of 3000 copies. Extremely rare. This is an advertising poster of the first tour of New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the Soviet Union. Conducting by Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, the Orchestra had given concerts at Moscow Conservatory in..... More
![ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GUIDES TO THE SOVIET SPORTS ARCHITECTURE] Fizkul’turnyye sooruzheniya...](/pictures/thumb/894.jpg?v=1576161883)
[Moscow]: Onti. Glav. red. stroit. lit-ry, 1935. 359 pp.: ill. 26.2x18.4cm. With dust-jacket. In original cloth binding with the letterpress design on the front board and the spine. Neat restoration of the dust-jacket, previous owner’s inscription on the front board (in pen) and its verso (in pencil), a couple of..... More
![FIGHTING STARVATION IN ARMENIA] The Moscow Committee of Assistance to the Armenian SSR. Vestnik...](/pictures/thumb/893.jpg?v=1576161438)
[M.]: Kom. pomoshchi Armenii, 1923. 28x20cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Fine. Scarce. One of 1500 copies. This is the first and only issue of the non-periodical organ of the Moscow Committee of Assistance to the Armenian SSR. After the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, the Armenian..... More
![SOVIET ORATORY] Masterstvo chtetsa: Teoriia i metodika khudozhestvennogo chteniia [i.e. Craft of...](/pictures/thumb/892.jpg?v=1576161014)
Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1930. 222, [2] pp. 1 ill. was probably printed separately and loosely inserted. 17,5x13 cm. In original oversized wrappers with letterpress design. Rubbed, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 6000 copies. An interesting work by the theorist of reciting and founder of the first..... More
![ORIGINS OF THE SOVIET CHILDREN'S THEATRE] Pinokkio / Moskovskii teatr dlia detei Moskovskogo...](/pictures/thumb/891.jpg?v=1576160689)
Moscow: Tipo-litografiia GUVUZ, 1923. Folded in half leaf of pink paper with loosely inserted half-sized leaf. 19x14,5 cm. Slightly deformed of water with few pale water stains. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Extremely rare pamphlet with an avant-garde theater logo by unknown artist. This is..... More
![LITTLE-KNOWN DESIGN BY RODCHENKO] Vestnik silikatnoi promyshlennosti [i.e. Herald of Silicate...](/pictures/thumb/890.jpg?v=1576160377)
Moscow, 1923. 86, 93-106, 111-112 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Uncut. Restored, pale, blurred stamps and pale water stains, otherwise very good and clean copy. An apology letter from the editorial board informs readers that, due to the mistake of printer, p. 87-92, 107-110 had been..... More
![TEN YEARS OF COAL AND METAL CITY] Desiat’ let goroda uglia i metalla: Sbornik [i.e. Ten Years...](/pictures/thumb/889.jpg?v=1576159894)
Stalinsk: Iubil. komissiia po organizatsii prazdnovaniia 10-letiia Kuznets. metallurg. zavoda im. Stalina i goroda Stalinska, 1939. 288 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 25x18,5 cm. In original red cloth with mounted photograph and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly bumped, small ink stain on t.p., otherwise mint... More
![FREEDOM THROUGH THE KROKODIL MAGAZINE] Krokodil [i.e. Crocodile] #4-35 for 1989. Overall 32...](/pictures/thumb/888.jpg?v=1576159369)
Moscow: Pravda, 1989. 35,5x27 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some tears of edges and ink marks (#31). Crosswords in most issues are filled out. Almost complete year set of issues printed in a period of glasnost (i.e. publicity) marking the last years of the Soviet rule. They..... More