Moscow: University press, 1895. XIV, 325, [1] pp. 24,5x17 cm. Contemporary quoter-leather. Small crack of the spine. Otherwise good. The stamp of the private library on the title page as well as the signature of the author. The owner was Alexander Nikolaevich Linkov, the St. Petersburg collector in the beginning... More about FIRST SYSTEMATIZED BOOK ON ACOUSTICS IN RUSSIAN] Vvedenie v akustiku I optiku [i.e. The...

Volume 1 [and only]. Kiev: KHI, 1928. 75, [3] pp. 30x23 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Spine is restored, mild foxing of the rear wrapper. Wrappers designed by the leader of Kazan avant-garde Illarion Pleshchinskiy (1892-1961). Extremely rare. One of 750 copies printed. Not found in the Worldcat... More about UKRAINIAN VKHUTEIN] Mistetsko-tehknichniy VYSH. Zbirnyk kievskogo hudozhnogo institutu [i.e. Art...

Berlin: Gelikon, 1923. 2nd edition. 187, [1] pp. 19x14 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Very good, wrappers are slightly rubbed. Cover design by Nathan Altman. The first book of prose by Ilya Erenburg (1891-1967), poet, journalist and translator. The book contains his memories of the WWI. Gelikon was one of the... More about DESIGN BY NATHAN ALTMAN] Lik voiny [i.e. The Face of the War

Erevan: Lenizo. 26 pp.: ill., 7 pl. 16,5x12,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, soiling of the wrappers. One of 500 copies. A very rare provincial edition and survival of the time. This is a catalogue of the exhibition which took place in 1939 in Erevan. There were... More about LENINGRAD GRAPHICS GO TO EREVAN] Vystavka proizvedenii grafiki leningradskikh khudozhnikov....

1) Katalog 1-i Usebelaruskai mastatskai vystauki [i.e. Catalogue of the First All-Belarusian Art Exhibition]. Minsk, 1925. 44, [1] pp. 17,5x13 cm. One of 2000 copies. 2) Katalog 2-i Usebelaruskai mastatskai vystauki [i.e. Catalogue of the Second All-Belarusian Art Exhibition]. Minsk, 1927. 28, [1] pp. 17,5x13 cm. One of 500... More about ART OF BELARUS] Two catalogues of art exhibitions in Minsk

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923. [4], 155 pp. 17,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and back cover are renewed, previous owner’s signature on p. 7, private library stamp on p.2, couple of bleak stains and neat restoration of the front cover, otherwise very good, internally clean. First edition. Rare. One... More about STUDY OF TOYS] Igrushki [i.e. Toys

Moscow: KOIZ, 1932. 2nd ed. 80 pp.: ill. 24x16 cm. In modern quarter leather, front constructivist cover is preserved in the binding. Small losses of the cover restored with paper, small tears of t.p. One of 15060 copies, yet scarce. With 75 photographs and 18 drawings. This is... More about HOW TO BUILD MODELS] Iskusstvo modelirovaniya: Populyarnoe rukovodstvo [i.e. The Art of Modeling:...

Moscow: Teakinopechat, 1930. 120, [2] pp.: ill. 23x16 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good. Signed by the author on the t.p. (‘To Kolya Travin, an old friend, master of a sharp word on stage. Author. 20/ VIII-1930’). Some rubbings, numbers on the front cover and t.p. (ink), occasional markings... More about HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SPEECH FOR CLUB THEATRE] Rechevoi trenazh v klube: Osnovy proiznositel’noi...

Vol.1: [52 leaves: 1924-1936]. Vol.2: [52 leaves: 1937-1938]. 384 images. 29,5x21,5 cm. Cardboards with leather labels on spines with gilt lettering. Bindings with rubbings, occasional foxing, one clipping is lacking fragment. Otherwise very good. Handmade albums of Efimov’s caricatures that were printed in Izvestia and other newspapers during these... More about BORIS EFIMOV: SOVIET CARTOON ICON] Two handmade albums of newspaper clippings

Moscow: GIZ, 1922. 159 pp.: ill. 18x14 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine is slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 2000 copies. Illustrated throughout by modernist artist Dmitriy Mitrokhin (1883-1973). The first edition of the famous poem by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1932), the poem was based on... More about TSAR GIRL] Tsar-devitsa. Poema-skazka [i.e. The Tsar Girl. The Fairytale Poem

St. Petersburg: A. Transhel, 1876. Parts 1-3. [2], 247, [2], 184, [2], 277 pp. 21x14 cm. Contemporary half leather. The ticket of Borodin’s bindery in Saint Petersburg on the rear endpaper. Gilt lettering on the spine. Very good, some foxing. First edition. The fourth of the ‘Dostoevsky’s big... More about DOSTOEVSKY’S FIRST EDITION] Podrostok [i.e. The Adolescent

The sammelband on electricity: 1. Lomonosov, Mikhail. Oratio de Meteroris vi Electrica Ortis [i.e. Discourse on Atmospheric Phenomena Originating from Electrical Force]. St, Petersburg: Academy of Science typography, [1753]. [6], 68 pp., 3 pl. 21x17 cm. In modern period styled half leather. The original endpapers of the sammelband preserved... More about LOMONOSOV AS A PHYSICIST

Ca. 1867-81. Large folio album ca. 46x33 cm with 50 large original albumen photographs, each 28x22 cm, mounted loosely one per leaf on brown paper leaves. All captioned in French and/or English, and signed and/or numbered in negative by the studio ‘Bonfils’. Period red quarter leather with marbled boards. Mild..... More about MIDDLE EAST – ISRAEL, PALESTINE (HOLY LAND)] [Album with 50 Large Original Albumen Photographs...