![Admiral M.P. Lazarev [Steel Engraved Portrait]](/pictures/thumb/201.jpg?v=1483912574)
London: ca. 1840s. Steel engraving, print size 39x34,5 cm on a large sheet 65,5x48,5 cm. “B.R. Davies direxit., J. Thomson sculpt.” underneath the image. With an engraved title in Russian and Lazarev’s coat of arms engraved on the lower margin. Blank margins with minor repaired tears, creases on the upper..... More
![Fedorino gore [i.e. Fedora’s Grief]. K. Chukovsky.](/pictures/thumb/198.jpg?v=1483910467)
Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. [16] pp.: ill. 27,8x21,8 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some restoration of the spine and last page, some general wearing. Otherwise a very good copy. Rare first edition. One of 8000 copies. Illustrated by Vladislav Tvardovsky (1888-1942), Russian Soviet children’s book graphic artist, was working as... More
![[AGRONOMIC PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN] Na vystavku! [i.e. To the Exhibition!]. O. I. Vysotskaya.](/pictures/thumb/195.jpg?v=1483909363)
Leningrad: GIZMESTPROM, 1938. 18 pp. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers and illustrations by A.N. Viktorova. Restoration of the spine. The first and only edition. A coloring book. On every turn of the page there’s an image in color and the same image and outline of the same image opposite for..... More
![[GIGANTIC TURNIP BY SIMONOVICH-EFIMOVA] Skazka Repka [i.e. The Gigantic Turnip]](/pictures/thumb/194.jpg?v=1483909032)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1937. [12] pp.: ill. 24,5x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the extremities. Otherwise very good. Lithographed edition. Covers and illustrations by Nina Simonovich-Efimova (1877-1948), Russian Soviet artists, who worked in etching and autolithography techniques; one of the creators of the professional puppet theater in Russia... More
![[MATCH AND CANDLE] Spichka I svechka. Iz nauchnykh skazok Byurgelya [i.e. A Match and a Candle. From Scientific Tales of Burgel]. M. Lugansky.](/pictures/thumb/193.jpg?v=1483908745)
Moscow: G.F. Mirimanov, 1924. 15 pp.: ill. 30x21 cm. In original illustrated lithographed wrappers. Some wearing, Georgian stamp on the title page, tear of the back cover. Overall very good. Rare. One of 10000 copies. Illustrated by Anatoly Andronov (1869-1947), graphic artist. Studied in Repin class at Higher Art... More
![[FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT BY DOSTOYEVSKY] Bednye liudi [i.e. Poor Folk] // Peterburgskii sbornik, izdannyi N. Nekrasovym [St. Petersburg Collection Published by N. Nekrasov]. F. M. Dostoyevsky.](/images/noimage.png)
St. Petersburg: V tipografii Eduarda Pratsa, 1846. [4], 560 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half leather binding. Some light foxing, corners worn, spine rubbed with a couple of small abrasions, but sound; early ink ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, later bookplate of A.V. Leont’ev to front pastedown. First edition... More
![[SOVIET POSTER FOR 8½] Film poster for 8½ by I. Maistrovskii](/pictures/thumb/190.jpg?v=1483904148)
Moscow: Reklamfilm, 1987. 86,5x55 cm. Fine. In this year the film by Fellini was widely distributed in Soviet cinemas for the first time. More
![[THE FIFTH COLUMN IN RUSSIAN] Pyataya kolonna i pervye tridtsat’ vosem’ rasskazov / Per. s angl. pod red. I.A. Kashkina [i.e. The Fifth Column and the First Thirty-Eight Stories]. E. Hemingway.](/pictures/thumb/187.jpg?v=1494607124)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. Fine. This is the first edition of the play The Fifth Column and anthology of the writings by Ernest Hemingway (first published in 1938). The original edition was of forty-nine stories which was also the title. A few less... More
![Moskva–Petushki [i.e. Moscow to the End of the Line]. Venedikt Erofeev.](/pictures/thumb/186.jpg?v=1528813657)
Moscow: Self-published, 1981. [3], 67 leaves. 30x20,5 cm. Light green card binding. Original carbon copy typescript; first 52 leaves printed on translucent onion paper with thicker white paper interpolated for ease of reading. A few corrections in ink. Very good. Traces of moisture to card boards and parts of the... More
![[REMEMBERING REVOLUTION] Revoliutsia 1905 goda v Zakavkazii [i.e. Revolution of 1905 in Transcaucasia]. I. Shakhdin.](/pictures/thumb/184.jpg?v=1483900863)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1930. 72 pp. 17,5х12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrapper design by Mayakosvky. Tears of the spine, owner’s signature on the title page. Otherwise very good. Rare. 1 of 5000 copies. Front-cover is illustrated with one of ROSTA’s images by Vladimir Mayakovsky. No copies in Worldcat. More
![[BOR-RAMENSKY] Pamyatka krasnoarmeitsa: 1901-1902 [i.e. Memo for Red Army Man]](/pictures/thumb/181.jpg?v=1483894676)
Tiflis: Zakkraikom RKSM, 1924. 192 pp.: ill., 1 map. 17,5х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A couple of light cracks on the spine (no damage to the general condition), rusty staple is visible on the title page, red pencil mark on the front wrapper. Otherwise a very good sound and... More
![[LUBOK-PROP] A vse-taki! [i.e. But All the Same!]. D. Bedny.](/pictures/thumb/180.jpg?v=1483894502)
Moscow: Commission for Improving Life of Children, 1923. 150 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. 150 illustrations in text by Fyodor Kriger. Mint condition. 1 of 6000 copies. The first edition of the propaganda fables by Demian Bedny – the genre he invented and excelled at in 1920s. Fyodor Kriger was... More
![[MALEVICH ON SUPREMATISM] Ot Sezanna do suprematizma [i.e. From Cezanne to Suprematism]. K. S. Malevich.](/pictures/thumb/179.jpg?v=1483894002)
Moscow: Otd. izobraz. iskusstv Narkomprosa, 1920. 16 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Wrappers rubbed, bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, previous owner’s label on the recto of the front cover and initials on the title page, markings in text. Very rare. Kazimir Malevich’s (1879-1935) work on the essence of suprematism and..... More
![[RUSSIAN FOLK LEGENDS] Narodnye russkiye legendy, sobrannye Afanasievym [i.e. Russian Folk Legends Collected by Afanasiev]. A. N. Afanasiev.](/pictures/thumb/178.jpg?v=1528814777)
Moscow: N. Shchepkin i K.Soldatenkov, 1859. XXXII, 204, II pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary half leather binding. Very good, rubbed binding, loss of a few small pieces of the spine, no free leaf of the back endpapers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back pastedown. First edition. Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasiev (1826-1871)... More
![[MENDELEEV’S FAMILY CHRONICLE] Semeinaia khronika v pis’makh materi, otsa, brata, sestior, diadi D.I. Mendeleeva. Vospominania o Mendeleeve ego plemianitsy N.I. Gubkinoi [i.e. The Family Chronicle in Letters of Mother, Father, Brother, Sisters and Unсle of Dmitry Mendeleev. The Memoirs of His Niece N.I. Gubkina].](/pictures/thumb/176.jpg?v=1483893275)
St. Petersburg: 1st Mendeleev congress, 1908. [2], 239 pp.: ill., 8 port. and 5 ill. on separate leaves. 23x15.5 cm. Original publisher’s wrappers. Very good. The frontispiece is detached from the text block, some minor tears to the wrapper. Rare. One of the first books about Dmitry Mendeleev’s life... More
Moscow: Grif, 1905. 135, [9] pp. 20x16 cm. Contemporary half leather. The publisher’s original wrapper is preserved under the boards. Very good clean copy. Rare. 1 of 1200 copies printed. One of the most important Russian poetry books of the period. First edition of Alexander Blok’s (1880-1921) first book... More
![[GEORGIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER] Plamia [i.e. The Flame. The Supplement to Zarya Vostoka]](/pictures/thumb/172.jpg?v=1483913421)
Tbilisi: Zarya Vostoka, 1924. No. 5. 24 pp.: ill. 32x24 cm. Original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. A very good copy with light rubbing of the wrappers. On the rear wrapper Constructivist in Rodchenko style photomontage advertisement with a poem agitating to subscribe to 'Zarya Vostoka' [i.e. The Day-spring of The East]... More
![[SOVIET PROPAGANDA BY WARNER BROTHERS] Missiya v Moskvu [i.e. The Mission to Moscow]](/pictures/thumb/168.jpg?v=1483885097)
Moscow: GLAZKINOPLAKAT, 1943. 63x80 cm. Good condition with some minor tears and losses at the margin of the poster. 1 of 3500 copies. Poster design by Kashcheev. The soviet poster for the notorious film by Michael Curtiz. It was ‘one of three pro-Soviet films made in Hollywood’ by The... More
![[HISTORY OF SOCIALISM] Istoriya sotsializma v Soedinyonnykh Shtatakh / Per. s 4 amer. izd. M.I. Bragina [i.e. History of Socialism in the United States / Translated from the 4th American edition by M.I. Bragin]. M. HILLQUIT.](/pictures/thumb/162.jpg?v=1475159269)
St. Petersburg: Tip. t-va ''Obshchestvennaya pol'za'', 1907. X, [2], 275 pp. 23x16 cm. Original wrappers. Uncut copy. Very good. Few tears of the spine, lacking small piece from the top of the spine. First Russian edition. Morris Hillquit (1869–1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party... More
![[APPEARANCE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN ALPHABET] Novoye russkoye pravopisaniye [i.e. New Russian Orthography]. P. N. Sakulin.](/pictures/thumb/160.jpg?v=1475089341)
Moscow: Tip. tov-va I.D. Sytina, 1917. 16 pp. In original printed wrappers. Covers rubbed with small tears of the spine. Piece of a contemporary newspaper with new alphabet glued to the front cover. Owner's pencil markings in the text. First book on a new Russian orthography with rules of... More
![[THE RUMYANTSEV MUSEUM] Gosudarstvennyi Rumyantsevsky muzei: Putevoditel': 1. Biblioteka [i.e. The State Rumyantsev Museum. Guidebook: V.1. Library]](/pictures/thumb/159.jpg?v=1475086766)
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo L.D. Frenkel', 1923. 237, [3] pp.: ill. 19,5x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Book is separated in two parts, lacks small pieces of the spine, faded Soviet bookshop's stamps on the back cover. 1 of 3000 copies. First edition. The Rumyantsev Museum was Moscow's first public museum... More
![[SINCLAIR FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Izbrannye rasskazy: Rasskaz dlya nachal'nogo chteniya na angliiskom yazyke [i.e. Peter Gudge Becomes a Secret Agent / from "100 Percent". Story for beginners studying English]. U. B. Sinclair.](/pictures/thumb/158.jpg?v=1475084763)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 35 pp. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Front cover is separate from the text block, some rubbings of wrappers, slightly rusted staples. Cover design by illustrator D.A. Bazhanov (1902-1946). The story is followed by small vocabulary. More
![[UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary school / by V. Shor. H. Beecher-Stowe.](/pictures/thumb/157.jpg?v=1475076609)
Leningrad: State text-book Publishing House, 1954. Second edition. 142, [2] pp.: ill. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, loss of the small fragment of the top left corner of the front cover, Soviet bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the p.1. Cover... More
![[BOLSHEVIK CIVIL WAR PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN] Skaz dyadyushki Pakhoma o tom, kak bednota pomogla Moskve [i.e. Tale by Uncle Pakhom how Poor Folk Helped Moscow]](/pictures/thumb/156.jpg?v=1475075883)
Moscow: Izd. Krestianskogo otd. VTSIK, 1918. 16 pp. 23,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the covers and spine, last page separated, Soviet bookshop's stamps, general wear. Otherwise good copy. Extremely rare. Agitation to send food to Moscow for peasants in a form of folk poem... More
![[RUSSIAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA] Starik i more [i.e. The Old Man and the Sea]. E. Hemingway.](/pictures/thumb/155.jpg?v=1475075056)
Kiev: Goslitizdat Ukrainy, 1956. 74 pp. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Soilings and rubbings of the wrappers, owner's markings. First edition printed in Ukraine (it is in Russian). Printed the same year as the first Russian separate edition (Moscow, 1956). “In 1955, after a period of... More