![Item #1669 [HOW TO MOVE HOUSES] Kak peredvigayut doma [i.e. How to Move Houses]. I. Ivanov](/pictures/thumb/1669.png?v=1679423935)
Moscow; Leningrad: Giz, 1949. 65, [3] pp.: ill. 13x19.8 cm. In original printed wrappers with a pictorial vignette. Minor wear, otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 4,000 copies. AN INTERESTING MANUAL ON HOW TO MOVE BUILDINGS WRITTEN BY IVAN IVANOV A FEW YEARS FOLLOWING THE END OF..... More
![Item #1668 [LUNACHARSKY MYSTIC] Magi: Dram. Fantaziya [i.e. Magicians: Dramatic Fantasy]. A....](/pictures/thumb/1668.png?v=1679423756)
Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. izd. 1919. [2], IV, 66 pp. 11.8x17.9 cm. In owner’s contemporary quarter cloth binding. Rubbed spine, otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. A MYSTICAL PLAY WRITTEN BY ANATOLY LUNACHARSKY (1875-1933), THE FIRST BOLSHEVIK SOVIET PEOPLE’S COMMISSAR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION..... More
![Item #1667 [A GUIDE FOR NOVICE WRITERS] Chto nado znat’ nachinayushchemu pisatelyu o...](/pictures/thumb/1667.png?v=1679423021)
Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1929. 84, [2] pp. 15x21.5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. A MANUAL FOR NOVICE WRITERS ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF DRAMATURGICAL WORKS WRITTEN BY ALEXEY KRAISKY (1891-1941), A RUSSIAN SOVIET POET, PLAYWRIGHT, AND LITERARY CRITIC... More
Leningrad: Izd. Leningr. akad. Malogo oper. teatra, 1937. 47 pp.: ill. 30x22.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities, otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 4,200 copies. A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES DEDICATED TO THE PRODUCTION OF MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV’S VIRGIN SOIL UPTURNED AT..... More
![Item #1665 [PHOTOMONTAGES ON AVIATION] Soviet Aviation](/pictures/thumb/1665.jpg?v=1679416792)
Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939. 96 pp.: ill. 40x26 cm. In original full cloth with lettering and design on the front cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Slightly soiled and rubbed, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Illustrated throughout with photomontages and photographs by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova... More
![Item #1664 [RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] The Red Army and Navy](/pictures/thumb/1664.jpeg?v=1679416400)
Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939. [104] pp.: ill., including 2 fold-outs. 39,5x26,5 cm. In original red cloth with lettering on spine and stamped lettering & red star on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Slightly rubbed, otherwise mint. First and only edition. Rare. In English. A parade book propagating the USSR..... More
![Item #1663 [HOW TO INCREASE MENTAL ACTIVITY?] Azbuka umstvennogo truda [i.e. Alphabet of Mental...](/pictures/thumb/1663.png?v=1679416116)
Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1929. 127, [1] pp. 22x15 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities, otherwise in good condition. Scarce. 1 of 5,000 copies. AN INTERESTING SOVIET MANUAL ON THE WAYS OF INCREASING MENTAL ACTIVITY WRITTEN BY THE VICTIM OF SOVIET REPRESSIONS JOSEPH REBELSKY..... More
![Item #1662 [BEST BOOK ON THE PALACE OF SOVIETS] Dvorets Sovetov [i.e. The Palace of Soviets]. N....](/pictures/thumb/1662.jpg?v=1679415505)
Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1940. 164 pp., 20 ills. 22x17,5 cm. In original cloth with lettering and a photograph mounted on the front cover; granite-patterned endpapers. Slightly rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare in this condition. A fascinating example of book..... More
Moscow: Izd-vo Akad. arkhitekturi SSSR, 1940. 8 pp., [11] pp. of ill. 19.5x26 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, light damp stain at the lower left part of the front wrappers, otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Edited by..... More
![Item #1660 [MOSCOW AND NOVGOROD’S CHURCH ARCHITECTURE] Kratkiy ocherk istorii Novgorodskoy i...](/pictures/thumb/1660.png?v=1679414463)
Kyiv: tipografiya T-va I. N. Kushnerev i K. Karavayevskaya, №5, 1912. 50 pp.: ill. 16.8x24.1 cm. In the owner's quarter cloth binding with original wrappers is preserved. Fine condition. Scarce. First edition. With 35 black and white illustrations showing specimens of church architecture from the past of Moscow and Novgorod..... More
Globus Books; Bookvica, 2022. Paperback, 159 pp., with illustrations throughout. A catalog of books, periodicals and other printed material featuring photomontage compositions. Concept & Idea: Pavel Chepyzhov Text: Valentina Gavrilova & Pavel Chepyzhov Editor: Stuart Eagles Graphic Design: Anastasiia Rozhkova Photo: Petr Baranov This catalog consists of..... More
![Item #1658 [ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPT IN SCROLL] Hmail [i.e. The Collection of Spells](/pictures/thumb/1658.jpg?v=1677503107)
Manuscript in scroll. Upper Armenia, 1680. 13 meters 87 cm in length (42,9 ft). 9 cm in width (3,5 inch). Composed of 35 pieces glued together. Text written in one column. 31 illuminated miniatures, 44 ornamented book initials. The manuscript is complete. Tears and wears of the scroll, with minor..... More
![Item #1657 [EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED WWII MEMOIRS OF A GERMAN POW] A Wartime Log: A Remembrance...](/pictures/thumb/1657.jpg?v=1676910478)
Geneva: War Prisoner’s Aid of the YMCA, late 1940s. 24.8x17 cm. Three beige cloth-covered volumes, containing original pencil sketches, pen-and-ink drawings, watercolors, as well as several photographic prints, all extensively captioned in German. In protective synthetic wrappers. Cloth lightly rubbed, one volume lacking a section, of approximately 50 pp., the..... More
![Item #1656 [AN ALBUM OF THE STATE EMBLEMS OF THE UNION REPUBLICS] Gosudarstvennyy gerb SSSR....](/pictures/thumb/1656.jpg?v=1676900773)
Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1950. 3 pp., 17 pp. of ill. 29x20 cm. In original publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. Near fine. Spine is slightly rubbed. Scarce. First edition. Published in 1950, this beautiful piece of Soviet print contains 17 chromolithograph images of the state..... More
![Item #1655 [WORLD WAR II] Sovetskaya molodezh’ v otechestvennoy voyne [i.e. Soviet Youth in...](/pictures/thumb/1655.jpg?v=1676900555)
Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1945. 240 pp.: ill. 25,5x19 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering and blind debossed image of the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. Spine and covers slightly bumped, small stains occasionally. Otherwise very good. Designed by the Soviet artist G. Manuilov. A photo book about..... More
![Item #1651 [LENINGRAD IS OUT OF THE SIEGE] Leningrad dvazhdy ordenonosnyy: Sbornik materialov...](/pictures/thumb/1651.jpg?v=1676900132)
Leningrad: Gospolitizdat, 1945. 128 pp.: ill., 9 ills. 27,5x18,5 cm. In original full cloth with gilt lettering on front cover, and gilt and colored lettering on spine. No dust jacket. Rubbed, minor spots on p. 61/62 and insert near. Otherwise very good. First and only wartime edition. One of..... More
![Item #1650 [ATTRACTING POTENTIAL NAZI COLLABORATORS] Eight Agitational Leaflets Disseminated...](/pictures/thumb/1650.jpg?v=1676899996)
[1945]. 17,5x13,5 cm. All the leaflets have been originally folded in 12 to fit in soldiers’ pockets. Traces of those folds remain. Two leaflets also have rust on the creases. A curious collection of eight propaganda leaflets directed at the Red Army and disseminated by the Committee for the Liberation..... More
![Item #1649 [A WARTIME BIOGRAPHY OF LENIN] Lenin Vladimir Il’ich. Kratkiy ocherk zhizni i...](/pictures/thumb/1649.jpg?v=1676899755)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye izdatel’stvo politicheskoy literatury, 1944. 247 pp.: ill., 27 ills. 26,5x17 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering and gilt portrait in profile and facsimile of Lenin on front cover; silhouette of Lenin, lettering, and embossed red flags on spine. All edges chased. Very good condition. Minor damage to..... More
![Item #1647 [THE REICHSKOMMISSARIAT OSTLAND] Bal’shavizm raz’bivae Tvae shchast’e [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1647.jpg?v=1676899370)
Berlin: Glavnym Uradam SS, [1941-1944]. 20 pp.: ill. 31x22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine, inner margins, and few outer corners restored. Otherwise near fine. An extremely rare survival of the time as a large-scale and thin wartime brochure. Text in Belarusian. This photomontage propaganda edition was distributed by the..... More
![Item #1646 [A BELARUSIAN SATIRICAL NEWSPAPER RIDICULING THE NAZIS] Razdavim fašysckuju hadzinu:...](/pictures/thumb/1646.jpg?v=1676899194)
[Minsk]: vydanije CK KP(b) Bielarusi, 1941-1945. #13, 18 of 1941; #32, 38, 39, 58 of 1942; #84 of 1943. Overall, 7 issues. Two issues of 1941 in Russian, others in Belarusian. The number of pages varies from 2 to 4. 34,9x24,5 cm. Minor tears and minimal paper loss from the..... More
![Item #1644 [LETTERS FROM SOVIET OSTERBAITERS] Sovetskiye lyudi na nemetskoy katorge: [Sbornik]...](/pictures/thumb/1644.jpg?v=1676898859)
[Moscow] OGIZ Gospolitizdat, 1943. 50, [1] pp.: ill. 16,5x11 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Some general wear and tears of the covers. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited by V. Binder. During the Great Patriotic War, the theme of forced labor was widely employed in Soviet anti-Nazi propaganda..... More
![Item #1643 [EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD] The Defence of Leningrad:...](/pictures/thumb/1643.jpg?v=1676898604)
London; New York; Melbourn: Hutchinson, [1943?]. 136 pp., 15 ill. 18,5x12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. General wear, a couple of small tears and creases of the covers, some light soiling, foxing of the edges. First edition. Scarce. Text in English. This collection of eyewitness accounts of the..... More
![Item #1642 [THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD] The Siege of Stalingrad Told in 52 Pages of Pictures and Text](/pictures/thumb/1642.jpg?v=1676898244)
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, [1943]. 52 pp.: ill. 18,5x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from block and slightly soiled, rusty staples. Otherwise very good. A wartime edition compiled by the Communist Party of Great Britain before the opening of the Second Front. The verso of..... More
![Item #1641 [ANGLO-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP IN AID OF SOVIET CHILD VICTIMS OF THE WAR] This is the Story...](/pictures/thumb/1641.jpg?v=1676897872)
London: Anglo-Soviet Youth Friendship Alliance, [1943?]. 10 pp.: ill. 18,2x12,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Minimal tears to the spine. Otherwise very good. Extremely scarce. First edition. Text in English. Published in 1943 in London, this edition contains personal narratives of children who lived in the Pravda Children’s Home..... More
![Item #1640 [HEROES TURNED ENEMIES] Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom](/pictures/thumb/1640.jpg?v=1676897509)
New York: Joseph Brainin; Jewish assistance Committee, [1943]. 24 pp.: ill. 30,2x22,8 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tear of the spine. Otherwise very good. Extremely scarce. Compiled by Cyrus Porter. Edited by Joseph Brainin. Illustrated wrappers by Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), a Polish-Jewish artist who worked primarily as a...... More