![THEODORE DREISER IN RUSSIAN] Kraski N’yu-Yorka [i.e. Colors of a Great City]. T. Dreiser](/pictures/thumb/1336.jpg?v=1642547440)
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
![AN EARLY COLLECTION OF POEMS BY ONE OF THE LAST SOVIET FUTURISTS] Opyty: Kniga stikhov...](/pictures/thumb/1335.jpg?v=1642546906)
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
![BLACK LOVE STORY] Yesli Biyl-strit mogla by zagovorit’ [i.e. If Beale Street Could Talk]. J....](/pictures/thumb/1334.jpg?v=1642546483)
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...](/pictures/thumb/1333.jpg?v=1642546044)
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
![THE FANTASTIC BOTANICAL GARDEN PROJECT IN THE CITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD] Eskiznyy proyekt...](/pictures/thumb/1332.jpg?v=1642545663)
[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
![ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR FOREIGNERS LIVING IN THE USSR] The Iron Heel. J. London](/pictures/thumb/1331.jpg?v=1642545370)
Moscow; Leningrad: Co-operative publishing society of foreign workers in the U. S. S. R., 1934. [4], 308 pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. Wrappers with illustrated dust-jacket. Tears and soiling to the dustjacket. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce especially with dust-jacket. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Editor L. Talmy..... More
![ORIGIN OF ONE MISSION SOCIETY IN RUSSIA] Potoki v stepi [i.e. Streams in the Desert]. L. Cowman](/pictures/thumb/1330.jpg?v=1642545156)
Paris: Imp. de Navarre, 1939. 343 pp. 18,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine and front cover slightly restored, ink signature on t.p. covered up with sticker, otherwise very good. First Russian edition of a devotional book Streams in the Desert sharing ideas of One Mission Society. Its..... More
![SPORTS ARCHITECTURE] Fizkul’turnye sooruzheniia [i.e. Physical Culture Constructions]. S....](/pictures/thumb/1329.jpg?v=1642544862)
Leningrad: Fizkul’tura i turizm, 1932. 292 pp.: ill. 21x13,5 cm. In original full-cloth binding with lettering on the front cover and the spine. Slightly rubbed and weakened, no back flyleaf, contemporary signature on t.p., some pencil notes, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. One of 7,000 copies. Rare..... More
![CUBIST LENIN] Na sovetskom postu [i.e. On Soviet Duty] #21 for 1930](/pictures/thumb/1328.jpg?v=1642544539)
Novosibirsk: Zapkraisibispolkom, 1930. 24 pp.: ill. 30x21 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and outer edge of pages, stamps of Soviet government library on p.1, 17 and canceled stamp of Russian state library on last page, otherwise very good and clean. Extremely rare Siberian periodical. An issue..... More
![ISRAELI CULTURE IN THE USSR] Albom temunot u-te’udot: ha-Mishlahat ha-Tsiyonit-halutsit...](/pictures/thumb/1327.jpg?v=1642543880)
Tel-Aviv, 1957. [22] leaves: ill., including one folding. 17x23,5 cm. In original cloth with small drawing of flag. Rubbed, small damage of bookworm in front cover and minor wormhole throughout copy. In Hebrew. Photobook relating to the VI World Festival of Youth and Students organized in Moscow. For..... More
![SOVIET YOUTH WITHOUT THE IRON CURTAIN] Zdravstvui, drug! [i.e. Hello, Friend!]. I. Dolgopolov](/pictures/thumb/1326.jpg?v=1642542950)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardia, 1957. 96 leaves. 29,5х23 cm. In original cloth with colored debossed logo. Covers slightly soiled, tears of two leaves restored, otherwise very good. Introduction and captions are printed in Russian, English, French and German. This photobook was produced specially for the VI World Festival of..... More
![CONSTRUCTIVISM IN LITERATURE] Biznes. Sbornik Literaturnogo tsentra konstruktivistov / Pod red....](/pictures/thumb/1325.jpg?v=1642542465)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929. 260 pp.: ill., graphs, schemes, notes. 22x15 cm. 1 of 2,000 copies. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and edges of covers restored, light water stains on outer margin of some pages, few pencil marks, otherwise very good. First edition. Wrapper design by Alexander Rodchenko. Literary..... More
![ONE OF THE GREATEST SOVIET PHYSICIANS] Glaz i solntse: O svete, solntse i zrenii [i.e. The Human...](/pictures/thumb/1324.jpg?v=1642542254)
Moscow: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1938. 96 pp.: ill. 16,3x12,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Couple of pale small stains on the wrappers, otherwise in very good condition. Previous owner’s stamp and inventory number on the title page. Scarce. Third edition. First and second editions published in 1927..... More
![RODCHENKO DESIGN] Narodnyye massy v russkoy revolyutsii [i.e. Through the Russian Revolution]....](/pictures/thumb/1323.jpg?v=1642507017)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1924. XII, 188, [1] pp., [11] ill. 20,5x14,3 cm. In original publisher’s constructivist wrappers. Modern spine and rear wrapper. Front wrapper is restored. Previous owner’s ink inscription on the half-title: “G. Rozhdestvensky 31/X/24“. Otherwise in good condition. Second edition. First edition published earlier the same year..... More
![UKRAINIAN CINEMA] Al’bom Ukrains’kogo kino [i.e. Album of the Ukrainian Cinema](/pictures/thumb/1322.jpg?v=1634133354)
Kyiv: Vufku, 1928. 52 pp.: ill. 26x17.5 cm. In the original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities, worn, decompressed Ukrainian library stamps and inventory numbers on the title-page, p.17, soiled wrappers. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Text in Ukrainian and French. With numerous black..... More
Collection of five fragile sheet music brochures of Ukrainian folk songs. Four of them were published in one series with similar anonymous designs resembling national embroidery schemes. One was printed in another publishing house with a different design. All of them were most likely issued in the 1930s. The 1920s..... More
![UKRAINIAN THEATER] K 1-i Vsesoiuznoi olimpiade teatrov i iskusstv narodov SSSR [i.e. For the...](/pictures/thumb/1320.jpg?v=1634133013)
Kharkiv, 1930. 41 pp. 20,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Near fine, few tears of the spine. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. The edition describes early experimental years of one of the largest Ukrainian drama theatres which developed as a propaganda tool. The earliest Ukrainian..... More
![WEST UKRAINE] Vystavka suchasnoi ukrains’koi hrafiky: Katal’oh [i.e. Exhibition of...](/pictures/thumb/1319.jpg?v=1634132895)
Lviv: Vidannia A.N.U.M., 1932. 32, [2] pp., 16 ill., 20 pp. ads. In original constructivist wrappers. Covers and first two leaves restored, ink note on p.5, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Design was made by Ukrainian avant-garde artist Pavlo Kovzhun (1896-1939). He stood at the forefront of Polish..... More
![WEST UKRAINE: MYHAILO RUDNYTSKY AND PAVLO KOVZHUN] Ochi ta usta [i.e. Eyes and Lips]. M. Rudnytskyi](/pictures/thumb/1318.jpg?v=1634132672)
[Lviv: Izmarahd, 1932]. 91, [5] pp. 9x13 cm. Three unbound stacks of unsewn and folded in half leaves. Near fine. One of 100 copies. The edition by the famous Ukrainian literary critic, writer, and poet Mykhailo Rudnystky (1889–1975). His works began to appear in print from 1908 while the author..... More
![PHOTOMONTAGES OF MILITARY ACTIONS] Frontovaia illiustratsiia [i.e. Frontline Illustration] #12,...](/pictures/thumb/1317.jpg?v=1634132533)
Moscow: Voenizdat NKO SSSR, 1944-1945. Generally, very good. No back cover of #1, 4 for 1945, tears, creases and stains, small fragments of spines occasionally lost. The organ of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army published in 1942-1960. Titled initially as ‘Frontline illustration’, it was issued after..... More
![AVIATION] Aeroplany [i.e. Airplanes]. V. Abramovsky](/pictures/thumb/1316.jpg?v=1634132308)
Warsaw: Tipografiya okruzhnogo shtaba, 1910. 154, [2] pp.: ill. 21.5x14 cm. In the owner’s contemporary binding with original wrappers preserved. Rubbed spine, Soviet library stamp on the front wrapper, title-page, p.17 “fundamental library of the Military Engineering Academy”. Otherwise internally clean. Scarce. First edition. Written by the military engineer V...... More
![SUKHAREV TOWER AND MOSCOW STREET LIFE] Abdulka. A. Shul’gin](/pictures/thumb/1315.jpg?v=1634132168)
Moscow: Novaia Moskva, 1924. 48 pp. 18,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Pale water stains, minor tears of oversized covers, otherwise very good. Signed by the author on the title page. First and only edition. One of 8000 copies. Very rare. Cover design was created by Galina Chichagova (1891-1967)..... More
![STALIN BEFORE HE BECAME A LEADER: NATIONAL POLICY OF THE USSR] Politika sovetskoi vlasti po...](/pictures/thumb/1313.jpg?v=1634131442)
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo, 1920. 185 pp., 1 ill. 27x18,5 cm. No front cover, original back cover preserved. Back cover and inner edge of title page restored, spine repaired, small corners of portrait and some pages restored, pale Soviet Georgian stamp on p.17, underlinings occasionally. Otherwise very good copy. An early..... More
![SYNTHESIS OF MUSIC AND POETRY] Muzyka rechi: Esteticheskoe Issledovanie [i.e. Music of Speech:...](/pictures/thumb/1312.jpg?v=1634131375)
Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniya, 1923. 190, [1] pp., 4 leaves. of tables: sheet music and charts. In original wrappers with decorative frames. Spine and covers restored, some foxing, pencil underlinings occasionally, otherwise very good and clean copy. Extremely scarce first edition. One of 2 000 copies. One of the first..... More
![YOUTH ENTERTAINMENTS IN THE 1920S USSR] Massovoye deystvo: Rukovodstvo k organizatsii i...](/pictures/thumb/1311.jpg?v=1634131278)
Moscow; Leningrad: Giz, 1927. 288, [30] p.: ill.; 15x22.5 cm. In owner’s contemporary cloth binding. Slightly rubbed boards. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. An interesting Soviet book on the organization of revolutionary celebrations in the USSR with the method of mass actions. In the early 1920s, A. Kharlampiev organized..... More