![Item #1545 [THE BEGINNING OF THE END] Pushtorg: Roman [V stikhakh] [i.e. Fur Trade: A Novel [In...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1545.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669208576)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1929. 192 pp. 20,1x14,2 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with constructivist dust-wrapper. Near fine. Stamp on the title page ‘From books of Niccolo Mitsishvili’. Rare. One of 3,000 copies. Constructivist design by the Soviet artist Alexey Surikov. The first edition of llya..... More
![Item #1544 [SOVIET MODERNISM] Borisov, L. Leonardi 2: [Rasskazy] [i.e. Leonardi 2: [Short...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1544.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669208216)
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvopisatelei v Leningrade, 1928. 135, [2] pp., [5] pp. of ads. 19.6x14.4 cm. In original illustrated dust-jacket. Loss of the wrappers, neat restoration of the dust-jacket, slight wear to the extremities. In a good condition. Scarce. First edition. Remarkable constructivist dust-jacket by the experimental theatre..... More
![Item #1140 [CHUKOVSKY AGAINST FUTURISTS] Futuristy [i.e. Futurists]. K. Chukovsky](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1140.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1608120255)
St. Petersburg: Polyarnaya zvezda, 1922. 84 pp. 19.5×13 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Small tears, losses and light foxing of the wrappers, otherwise very good. The highest point of the polemics between Korney Chukovsky and Russian Futurists. Ever since futurism in Russia took on a large scale in..... More
![Item #1127 [MAYAKOVSKY INFURIATING LENIN] 150.000.000. V. Mayakovsky](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1127.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1608114855)
Moscow: Gos. izd., 1921. 70 pp. 13.6x18 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Light soiling of the wrappers, private library stamp on the front wrapper, title-page, p. 3, and p. 25. Otherwise near fine. Rare. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. SCARCE LIFETIME EDITION OF THE FUTURIST POETRY..... More
![Item #1126 [RARE PROVINCIAL EDITION] Zheleznyye tsvety. Stikhi [i.e. Iron Flowers. Verses]. M....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1608114786)
Samara: Tsentropechat’, 1919. 96 pp. 18x11 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears and foxing of the wrappers, label and written number on the front wrapper, some toning, otherwise good/very good. First edition. Scarce. An extremely rare provincial edition with remarkable avant-garde design by Georgy Ryazhskiy (1895-1952)..... More
![Item #1010 [RUSLAN AND LYUDMILA ILLUSTRATED BY KUSTODIEV] Ruslan and Lyudmila. A. Pushkin](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1010.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591961374)
Petersburg: Gosizdat, 1921. 120 pp.: ill. 19,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears with small losses of spine, tears and small losses of blank margin of p. 115-117, stains occasionally. Cover design and 25 illustrations, head-, tail-pieces and a small portrait of Pushkin were produced by well-known artist..... More
![Item #910 [CONCEPTUALIST BULGAKOV] Zapiski na manzhetakh [i.e. Notes on the Cuffs]. M. Bulgakov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/910.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1580219297)
New York: Serebriannyi vek, 1981. 117, [3] p.: ill. 19x12 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Pale stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First separate edition. Design was produced by Vagrich Bakhchianian (1938-2009), Armenian-American conceptualist artist, known for his provocative art, mocking the classical soviet images. He placed the title on the..... More
![Item #906 [SUBURB FOR THE SOVIET WRITERS] Peredelkinskie foto [i.e. Peredelkino Photos](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/906.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1576166196)
Moscow, 1958. Handmade photo album. 27 photographs and 1 newspaper clipping are mounted on 8 leaves, 3 photographs are loosely inserted. Handwritten lettering on the front cover and captions. 20,5х29 cm. Some tears of the spine and edges, otherwise very good. Some photographs signed by Korney Chukovsky, Agniia..... More
Full set for 11 years (1962-1972). Overall 132 issues in 22 cloth bindings (original blue wrappers preserved). Occasional foxing, damp stains (vol.2 1968), front cover damaged (#12 1968). Otherwise very good. Novy mir is one of the oldest monthly literary magazines in modern Russian. It has been published in..... More
![Item #875 [LIFETIME EDITION BY MANDELSTAM] Vtoraia kniga [i.e. The Second Book]. O. Mandelstam](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/875.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1573091174)
Moscow: Krug, 1923. 85, [9] pp. 13,5x11 cm. In original printed wrappers. Restored, otherwise very good and clean copy. Ownership (embossed) blindstamp of Ernest Heitetz. One of 3000 copies. Constructivist publisher’s mark (on half title and back cover) created by Iu. Annenkov. There are four lifetime editions of Osip..... More
![Item #787 [PUSHKIN’S RELATIVES ABOUT HIM] Konchina Aleksandra Sergeevicha Pushkina [i.e. Demise...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/787.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1567041560)
St. Petersburg: Izdanie P.P. Soikina, 1899. 103 pp. 18x10,5 cm. In original wallpaper wrappers. Good, spine is repaired with paper stripe, foxing, a couple of ink marks. First and only edition. Extremely rare. The memories of people around Pushkin and their relations that were gathered by the poet’s nephew Lev..... More
![Item #784 [UTOPIA AS FORERUNNER OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS] Russkii utopicheskii roman [i.e. The...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/784.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1567036361)
Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoie izdatel’stvo, 1922. 52, [1] pp. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. One of 2000 copies. Cover design produced by Evgenii Belukha (1889-1943), the artist and designer who contributed to 1920-1930s Soviet book illustration. This is an overview of the Russian utopian novels..... More
![Item #774 [SAMIZDAT OF THE BEST-KNOWN WORK BY STRUGATSKY BROTHERS] Gadkiie lebedi [i.e. The...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/774.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1563927429)
N.p., [1970s-1980s]. 132 typewritten pp. 30x21 cm. Unbound. As new. This is a samizdat copy of the novel ‘The Ugly Swans’ by brothers and co-authors Arkady (1925-1991) and Boris (1933-2012) Strugatsky, the leaders of the Soviet science fiction. The ideas of Strugatsky duo were innovative but relevant to..... More
![Item #722 [KHARBIN FICTION] Arabeski [i.e. Arabesques]. Pavel Tutkovsky](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/722.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1563412486)
Kharbin: M.V. Zaitsev, 1938. 126, [6] pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary owner’s carton binding. The private stamp of ‘war officer A.V. Vostroknutov’ on the title page. First and only edition. Pavel Tutkovskiy (1889-1959) was the Russian novelist, who has lived in Belgrade, Kharbin, and emigrated to USA after the cultural..... More