Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1941. 44 pp. 22x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Slightly rubbed, with some creases, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. The earliest Soviet identification guide of world’s languages written by eminent Russian linguist, Semitics scholar Nikolai Iushmanov (1896-1946)..... More

Two books on sex, originating from the same source: 1. Entsiklopediya intimnoi zhizni [i.e. The Encyclopedia of Intimate Life]. [N.p., 1970s]. 44 leaves. 30x22 cm. Typescript. In owner’s plastic folder. Soiling and deformations of the folder, clean text block. The Soviet underground translation of an American book from..... More

Moscow: Posrednik, 1933. 102, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped with small tears, covers slightly soiled, few minor stains on pages, tiny hole of p. 49-50, otherwise very good and clean. First Russian edition. One of 10 400 copies. Rare. Translation was undertaken by..... More

Petrograd: Svobodnaia Rossiia, [1917]. 16 pp. 25x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, spine restored, stains on the last leaf. Very rare anti-monarchist lubok published between February and October Revolutions of 1917. The printer’s information had announced issue #2 to be published in the following..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatel’stvo, 1931. 56 pp.: ill. 20x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed with minor fragments lost, pencil marks and underlinings occasionally, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Very rare. Dneprostroi meant the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, one of the giants of the..... More

Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Narkomtorgov SSSR i RSFSR, 1930. 16 pp.: ill. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small hole around rusty staple, covers detached from block, otherwise very good. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat. This mass-audience lithographic brochure was produced for advertising purposes and for raising the literacy..... More

Kiev: Izd. gazety ‘Molodoi proletarii’, 1924. 96 pp.: ill. 17,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine with small fragments lost, light soiling of covers, narrow blank fragment of upper margin of two first leaves lost, ink signature on front cover (1924), otherwise very good and clean internally... More

Moscow: Sovetskoe zakonodatel’stvo, 1932. 104 pp. 14,5х11 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design on front cover and two photos on back cover. Covers rubbed, with creases, small tears and creases of p. 25-28, otherwise very good. First edition. Extremely rare. Revolutionary legality meant the necessity to comply..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 16 pp.: ill. 16,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, pre-war stamps of school library, otherwise very good and clean. Second edition. The classic example of the photobook created by one of the pioneers of the Soviet photomontage, Malevich’s student and Klutsis’ right hand..... More

Leningrad: Gos. izd. 1924. 38, [1] pp. In original publisher’s wrappers. Upper inner corner of front cover lost, some soiling, tear of outer edge throughout copy, otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Text of the speech delivered by the prominent Soviet politician Lev Kamenev (1883-1936) at a party gathering..... More

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. 122, [2] pp. 18x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and some pages’ edges restored, covers rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good and clean internally. Second edition. Collection of 6 articles by Leonid Krasin, Erikh Gollerbakh, Ivan Fomin, Lev Ilyin and Iakov Tugenkhold... More

[Riga]: Izglitibas ministrijas izdevums, [1930s]. 149, [3] pp.: ill., 2 maps. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very rare example of Belarusian textbooks printed in Latvia in the interwar period. Translated into Belarusian by Piatro Massal’ski. According to this particular book and common statistics, about 36 thousand Belarusians..... More

Moscow: Zhurgazob’edinenie, 1934. 48 pp.: ill. 25x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped, tear of upper edge of front cover and following three leaves, water stain on upper edge of most pages, otherwise very good. Issue of mass non-fiction magazine on radio engineering and amateur technics published..... More