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MAYAKOVSKY AGAINST WORLD WAR I] Voyna i mir: [Poema] [i.e. The War and the World: [A Poem]]. V....

[MAYAKOVSKY AGAINST WORLD WAR I] Voyna i mir: [Poema] [i.e. The War and the World: [A Poem]]

Mayakovsky, V.

Petrograd: Parus, 1917. 48 pp. In original publisher’s wrappers. Front cover detached from block, otherwise very good and clean copy. The first separate edition of Mayakovsky’s poem The War and The World, which became the culmination of the author’s anti-war pathos. The outburst of World War I received..... More

Price: $950.00

STRAKHOV: PERIODICAL FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS] Student revoliutsii [i.e. Student of the Revolution]...

[STRAKHOV: PERIODICAL FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS] Student revoliutsii [i.e. Student of the Revolution] #1 for 1925

Kharkiv: Derzhavne vydavnytstvo, 1925. 65 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of spine and back cover with fragments lost, blank corner of p. 21/22 lost, Soviet stamp ‘Press’ on front cover, otherwise uncut and very good copy. One of 5000 copies. In Ukrainian and..... More

Price: $2,500.00

MARSHAK & LEBEDEV COLLABORATION] Bagazh [i.e. The Luggage]. S. Marshak

[MARSHAK & LEBEDEV COLLABORATION] Bagazh [i.e. The Luggage]

Marshak, S.

Moscow: Detizdat, 1936. 8 pp. 19,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed and chipped, tanned traces on rear sides of covers and near pages, otherwise very good. Tenth edition. Since the story has debuted in a collection ‘Sovetskie rebiata’ (1926) and simultaneously in a separate edition of..... More

Price: $750.00

ERZYA LANGUAGE] Moksherziatnen eriamo pingest [i.e. The History of Mordva]. M. T. Markelov

[ERZYA LANGUAGE] Moksherziatnen eriamo pingest [i.e. The History of Mordva]

Markelov, M.T.

Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1929. 184 pp., 1 map. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers with the strict constructivist design. Illustrated throughout including the map of Finno-ugric speaking nations in USSR. Very good, few tears of the spine. The book is printed in Erzya language, spoken in Republic of Mordovia..... More

Price: $1,500.00

PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi pavil’on-stantsiia v...

[PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi pavil’on-stantsiia v Mar’inoi roshche postroiki 1924-25 g. [i.e. Reinforced Concrete Pavilion-Station in Mar’ina Roshcha, Built in 1924-1925] / Photographs by N. Lebedev

[Moscow: M.G.Zh.D., 1925]. Ca. 26,5x22 cm. Sixteen mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 11x15 cm. No captions. In original cloth folder with gilt lettering. Soiling of folder and foxing on the inner side, but the leaves are near fine. An attractive album of rare photos proving triumph of..... More

Price: $1,950.00

PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA & TURKESTAN] Ocherki novogo Turkestana [i.e. Sketches of New Turkestan....

[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA & TURKESTAN] Ocherki novogo Turkestana [i.e. Sketches of New Turkestan. The Light and the Shadows of the Russian Colonization]

Voshchinin, V.P.

St. Petersburg: Nash svet, 1914. 86 pp.: ill. 24x17 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the eagle over the mountains: the metaphor of Russian Empire spreading its influence across the region. Minimal restoration of the spine, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. The work by the young historian..... More

Price: $950.00

THE STALINIST MOSCOW] Moskva rekonstruiruetsia: al’bom diagramm, toposkhem i fotografii po...

[THE STALINIST MOSCOW] Moskva rekonstruiruetsia: al’bom diagramm, toposkhem i fotografii po rekonstruktsii gor. Moskvy [i.e. Moscow Is Being Reconstructed: An Album of Diagrams, Topographic Plans, and Photographs Relating to the Reconstruction of the Moscow City]

Moscow: Institut izobrazitel’noi statistiki sov. str-va i khoz-va TsUNKhU Gosplana SSSR, 1938. [234] leaves (including fold-out and small format): ill. 34,5x34,5 cm. In original blue cloth with blind lettering and blind embossed images of the Kremlin tower and the Palace of Soviets on the front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Very good..... More

SOVIET DEPARTMENT STORES AND THEIR DESIGN] Al’bom obraztsov torgovykh vitrin [i.e. An Album of...

[SOVIET DEPARTMENT STORES AND THEIR DESIGN] Al’bom obraztsov torgovykh vitrin [i.e. An Album of Sample Display Windows]

Moscow: tip. Narkomoborony, 1935. 103 pp. : ill. 22x30 cm. In original illustrated cardboards; illustrated endpapers. Rubbed and bumped, spine slightly soiled, otherwise very good and clean internally. First edition. One of 4,400 copies. Very rare. Layout by Sakulin. This early Soviet work is devoted to display window..... More

Price: $6,500.00

RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA

[RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA]

A two-volume collection of Joseph Stalin’s works. 1: Stalin, J. Ob osnovakh leninizma: Lektsii, chitannye v Sverdlovskom universitete v nachale aprelia 1924 goda [i.e. On the Basis of Leninism: Lectures Given at the Sverdlovsk University in Early April 1924]. M.: Partizdat, 1934. 264 pp., 1 portrait. 2: Stalin, J. K...... More

LISSITZKY] Ravvi: P’essa v triokh deistviiakh [i.e. Rabbi: A Play in Three Acts]. A. Terek, O....

[LISSITZKY] Ravvi: P’essa v triokh deistviiakh [i.e. Rabbi: A Play in Three Acts]

Terek, A. [Forsh, O.]

Berlin: Skythen, 1922. 62, [2] pp. 20x14 cm. In original avant-garde wrappers with letterpress design. Slightly soiled and small scuff of the front cover (design isn’t affected), otherwise very good. Very rare. Title pages in German and Russian, text in Russian only. The cover design was created by one..... More

Price: $3,500.00

FAR EASTERN FUTURISM] K dialektike iskusstva. Ot realizma do iskusstva, kak odnoi iz...

[FAR EASTERN FUTURISM] K dialektike iskusstva. Ot realizma do iskusstva, kak odnoi iz proizvodstvennykh form: Teoreticheski-polimicheskie stat’i [i.e. To the Dialectics of Art. From Realism to Art as One of the Production Forms: A Theoretical and Polemical Article]

Chuzhak, N.

Chita: Dal’pechat’: Tip. Ob’edin. Soiuza Zabaik. Kooperativa, 1921. 120 pp. 26,5x19 cm. Original front cover. The back cover and spine renewed, edges of pages and front cover restored, few stains on the front cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. Scarce. A collection of..... More

Price: $3,500.00

AVANT-GARDE IN GEORGIA] Fakt: Stikhi [i.e. Fact: Poems]. I. Terentyev

[AVANT-GARDE IN GEORGIA] Fakt: Stikhi [i.e. Fact: Poems]

Terentyev, I.

Tiflis: 41°, 1919. 32 p. 17×14 cm. In publisher’s illustrated cover designed by Ilia Zdanevich. Printed on pink paper. The block is clean. The illustration on p. 16 was also used in the collection Sofia Georgievna Melnikova. Fantasticheskiy kabachiok [i.e. To Sofia Georgievna Melnikova. Fantastic Tavern]. Some rust on the..... More

Price: $19,500.00

SHOSTAKOVICH’S AUTOGRAPH] 24 preliudii: dlia fortep’ano, Op. 34 [i.e. 24 Preludes: For Piano....

[SHOSTAKOVICH’S AUTOGRAPH] 24 preliudii: dlia fortep’ano, Op. 34 [i.e. 24 Preludes: For Piano. Op. 34]

Shostakovich, D.

Moscow: Muzgiz, 1934. 43 pp.: sheet music. 30x23 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Small tears of the spine, soiling of the back cover, with a small fragment lost, central double-leaf detached from the block, otherwise very good and clean internally. Signed by the composer on the title page: To..... More

Price: $1,500.00

JEAN COCTEAU’S AUTOGRAPH] Orphée: film [i.e. Orpheus: Film]. J. Cocteau

[JEAN COCTEAU’S AUTOGRAPH] Orphée: film [i.e. Orpheus: Film]

Cocteau, J.

Paris: La Parade, cop. 1950. [16], 116 pp., 8 ills. 18x11,5 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with title in Russian mounted on the spine. Spine faded, otherwise near fine. A screenplay of the French experimental film Orpheus (1950). The edition is supplemented with photographs by Roger Corbeau (1908-1995) printed..... More

Price: $3,500.00

THE VIEWS OF NIKOLAEV] Vidy Nikolaev [i.e. The Views of Nikolaev

[THE VIEWS OF NIKOLAEV] Vidy Nikolaev [i.e. The Views of Nikolaev]

[Nikolaev, the 1870s]. [44] pp. 6x11 cm. Original illustrated boards. Unbound as issued. An album of engravings published in the southern town of Nikolaev. At the time, Nikolaev served as the center of both the ship construction of the Russian Empire and the governance of the Black Sea..... More

Price: $2,950.00

THE FIRST EDITION OF TURGENEV’S FATHERS AND SONS] Otsy i deti [i.e. Fathers and Sons]. I. Turgenev

[THE FIRST EDITION OF TURGENEV’S FATHERS AND SONS] Otsy i deti [i.e. Fathers and Sons]

Turgenev, I.

Moscow: tip. V. Grachiova, 1862. 304 pp. In contemporary Italian half-leather. Gilt ornament on the spine. 24x17 cm. Pre-revolutionary stamps of the Russian library in Rome on the title page alongside the inventory numbers, otherwise a good tall fresh copy of an important and rare book. The first..... More

Price: $10,000.00

GOGOL’S SECOND BOOK] Mirgorod. N. Gogol

[GOGOL’S SECOND BOOK] Mirgorod

Gogol, N.

St. Petersburg: tipografiya departamenta vneshney torgovli, 1835. Part 1. [4], 224 p. Part 2. 215 p. 21x13,6 cm. Contemporary half-leather. Gilt lettering on the spine. All four publisher’s printed wrappers preserved under the binding. The first one is backed on the blue paper probably in the early 20th century, otherwise..... More

Price: $75,000.00

AN OLD-BELIEVER MANUSCRIPT] Sviatsy s miasetseslovom [i.e. A Calendar and Memorials for the Saints

[AN OLD-BELIEVER MANUSCRIPT] Sviatsy s miasetseslovom [i.e. A Calendar and Memorials for the Saints]

Vyg., 1835. 175 ff. 13,5x10,6 cm. A manuscript. 14 lines. Black and copious red ink. Each chapter starts with vyaz - a calligraphic script with ornamentation. Eleven decorated headpieces. Eight chapters have decorated endings that include birds and flowers in compositions. Gold is used in all of the headpieces and..... More

Price: $14,000.00

THE FIRST MAPS IN CYRILLIC] Maps of the Near and Far Caves of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

[THE FIRST MAPS IN CYRILLIC] Maps of the Near and Far Caves of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

[Kyiv: Lavra typography, 1661]. 2 p. 32,5x31 cm. Scale ~ 1:135. Restored and backed with tissue paper. Both maps have a loss in the bottom right corner. The first printed maps in Cyrillic as well as the first East Slavic maps in the modern sense of the term..... More

Price: $17,500.00

THE RUTHENIAN LANGUAGE] Vertograd dushevniy [i.e. The Vertograd for the Soul] / edited and with a...

[THE RUTHENIAN LANGUAGE] Vertograd dushevniy [i.e. The Vertograd for the Soul] / edited and with a preface by Leontiy Karpovich

Sviatogorets, F.

Vilnius [Vilna]: the typography of Vilna Orthodox Holy Spirit Brotherhood, 1620. 131 leaves. 20x15 cm. Original full leather with elaborate blind gilt on the front and back covers. Later end-papers. Owner’s inscriptions on the half-titles from the 18th century onwards. One later clasp preserved. Ink stamps of the previous owner..... More

Price: $22,500.00

THEODORE DREISER IN RUSSIAN] Kraski N’yu-Yorka [i.e. Colors of a Great City]. T. Dreiser

[THEODORE DREISER IN RUSSIAN] Kraski N’yu-Yorka [i.e. Colors of a Great City]

Dreiser, T.

Leningrad: Mysl’, [1927]. 280 pp. 17,7x13 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Worn, occasional staining of the front cover. Contemporary owner’s inscription on the title page Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Translated from original English by Vladimir Stelletskiy (1905-1985), a noted Soviet philologist, researcher, and..... More

Price: $750.00

AN EARLY COLLECTION OF POEMS BY ONE OF THE LAST SOVIET FUTURISTS] Opyty: Kniga stikhov...

[AN EARLY COLLECTION OF POEMS BY ONE OF THE LAST SOVIET FUTURISTS] Opyty: Kniga stikhov predvaritel’naya. 1925-1926 [i.e. Experiments: A Preliminary Book of Poems. 1925-1926].

Kirsanov, S.

Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 128, [4] pp. 19,8x13,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Previous owner’s pencil inscription on the title-page. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Geometrical wrapper design echoes avant-garde tendencies prevalent among supremacist and modernist artists of the late 1910s... More

Price: $750.00

BLACK LOVE STORY] Yesli Biyl-strit mogla by zagovorit’ [i.e. If Beale Street Could Talk]. J....

[BLACK LOVE STORY] Yesli Biyl-strit mogla by zagovorit’ [i.e. If Beale Street Could Talk]

Baldwin, J.

Moscow: Progress, 1976. 245 pp.: ill. 16,5x10,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. Translated from English by Natalya Volzhina (1903-1981), a Soviet and Russian translator. Edited by M. Finogenova. Designed by V. Alekseev. This is the Russian translation of James Baldwin’s famous..... More

RACHMANINOFF’S FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ABOUT THE COMPOSER] Pamyati Rakhmaninova: [sbornik...

[RACHMANINOFF’S FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ABOUT THE COMPOSER] Pamyati Rakhmaninova: [sbornik vospominaniy i statey] [i.e. In Memory of Rachmaninoff: [Collection of Memoirs and Articles]]

New York: izdaniye S.A. Satinoy, 1946. XXI, [2], 184 pp., 5 photos 22,7x15,5 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Trace of the label on the front cover. Marginal soiling of the covers, otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited and designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957), a noted Russian and Lithuanian artist..... More

Price: $550.00

THE FANTASTIC BOTANICAL GARDEN PROJECT IN THE CITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD] Eskiznyy proyekt...

[THE FANTASTIC BOTANICAL GARDEN PROJECT IN THE CITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD] Eskiznyy proyekt Botanicheskogo sada Gor’kovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [i.e. Draft Design of the Botanical Garden of the Gorky State University]

[Gor’kiy]: Gor’k. krayev. izd-vo, 1936. 74, [2], 1 plan: ill., plans. 16,8x26 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. Extremely rare. 1 of 650 copies. First edition. Wrapper design by the Soviet artist YU. Porfir’ev. With 1 folded map and 24 black and white illustrations, including 14 photographs..... More

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