Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1931. 139, [2] pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. Publisher’s wrappers. Near fine. wrappers slightly rubbed. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. This is an extensive work on the theory of expressionism by Lia Zivel’chinskaya (1894-1985), professor and doctor of philology, Soviet literary and art... More
Moscow: Khud. izd. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 148 pp. 19x13 cm. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very good. Restoration of the wrappers (original spine is lost), Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the recto of the rear cover, a few underlining in text (pencil). First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. Viktor Lobanov... More
Moscow: Khudozhestv.-izdat. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 114, [2] pp.: ill. 19x13 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. A very good internally clean copy, signature on t.p. (pencil), rubbed wrappers, small tears and losses of the spine, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear cover and last page. First and only edition..... More
Vladivostok: Primgubkompomgol, 1923. 34 pp.: ill. 26x24 cm. In original illustrated covers, a small tear of the illustration. Good, restored cover and margins. Very rare. One of 2000 copies. One issue of six ever published, the last one under this title (#4 appeared under the title ‘Typhoon’). Cover with... More
Praha: Melantrich, 1945. 104 pp.: ill. 31x22 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Few pages detached, slightly rubbed. Second edition of the first Czech translation. Copy signed by translator. Constructivist cover design and 9 original lithographies were made by avant-garde artist Václav Mašek (1893-1973). The Czech version of this epic... More
Leningrad: Gosudartsvennyi Ermitazh, 1934. [2], 70, [2], [2] pp.: ill., 15 pl. 17x12 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, small tears of the spine and wrappers rubbed in general, pen marks on the front cover and t.p. Otherwise a good and internally clean copy... More
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2018. 312 pp.: ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. This amply illustrated reference book on Georgian book design in the 1920s and ’30s is based on a broadly representative private collection of a hundred works. It traces the main trends and developments in Georgian book design at... More
Moscow: 1937. 25 leaves with 47 mounted photographs, 5 charts. 29x41 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering on mounted metal plate. One photograph lost, otherwise very good. A unique photo album depicting the mechanization and experimental projects of the largest ceramic tile factory in the USSR with extraordinary constructivist styled... More
Volume 1 [and only]. Kiev: KHI, 1928. 75, [3] pp. 30x23 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Spine is restored, mild foxing of the rear wrapper. Wrappers designed by the leader of Kazan avant-garde Illarion Pleshchinskiy (1892-1961). Extremely rare. One of 750 copies printed. Not found in the Worldcat... More
Vol.1: [52 leaves: 1924-1936]. Vol.2: [52 leaves: 1937-1938]. 384 images. 29,5x21,5 cm. Cardboards with leather labels on spines with gilt lettering. Bindings with rubbings, occasional foxing, one clipping is lacking fragment. Otherwise very good. Handmade albums of Efimov’s caricatures that were printed in Izvestia and other newspapers during these... More
Berlin; Paris: Russkoe iskusstvo, 1921-1926. #1-14. Ca. 32x25 cm. Every issue in illustrated wrappers. Generally very good, some mild soiling, with tiny tears and losses of the spine (#1,2,12,14), foxing and piece of tape on the spine (#13). A complete set. Extremely rare in wrappers. Lavishly illustrated throughout with... More
Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1927. 85, [2] pp.: ill. 25x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A very good and clean copy. A fragment of the outer edge of yapped front wrapper is missing, closed tear of the front wrapper, small spots and tears of the margins, text block is detached from... More
Moscow: Vsekokhudozhnik, 1934. 80 pp., 47 pl. 18x15 cm. In original printed overlapped wrappers. Very good. A few pale stains on the spine, tears of the wrapper’s extremities. One of 1000 copies. Rare. This is a catalogue of graphic art from the exhibition «Artists of the RSFSR for 15... More
Moscow: Glavnauka, 1927. 16 pp. 17,2x13,3 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, two close tears of the spine and some spots near the spine. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. The catalogue for the 2nd exhibition (of only 4 held by the Society) which took place in 1927... More
[Moscow]: Tsentr. pervomaiskaya khudozh, podkomissia Mossoveta, [1933]. 48 pp. 17,5x12,5 cm. In original constructivist-style wrappers. Very good, small tears of the spine, diagonal crease of the upper part of the back cover and a few pages. One of 3000 copies. First and only edition. Rare. This edition is... More
Moscow: Khudozhnik, 1931. 31 pp., 23 ill. 17x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Few tears of the spine, few pages with pale damp stain. Otherwise very good. Scarce. One of 6000 copies. A very distinctive evidence of an interesting time in Soviet Russia’s art history - industrial art exhibition... More
Moscow: Izd-vo Budetlian, 1915. 32 pp.: ill. 23x19 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine but otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. One of 450 copies printed. First edition. This book is the only known collaboration of three key figures of Russian avant-garde - Kazimir Malevich... More
Ca. second half of 1940s. Drawings in ink and pencil. 20 leaves. 17,5x12,2 cm. On the front cover artist’s self-portrait in a classical satirical manner, on the verso - an image of the notebook with artists’s caricature character ‘walking out of it’. Among other images are portraits, cartoons, political caricatures..... More
Prague: Odeon, 1928. 63, [4] pp.: ill. 19x13,1 cm. In later binding. Near fine, clean and sound copy. Without original wrappers. Signed by the author postcard with author’s photograph laid in. Legendary work containing Karel Teige’s full page typography and colored typographical design experiments. The second, but first illustrated... More
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
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
Moscow: 1928. 18, [2] pp: ill. 22х15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, small tears of the spine and extremities. Cover designed by A. Mogilevsky. 1 of 700 copies. Rare. Exhibition included 1450 divided into these sections: picture book and book for play; fairy tales, legends... More
Tbilisi: Gos. muzei iskusstv Gruzii, 1989. 80 pp.: ill. 22x31 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Extremely rare. In October of 1989 in the State Museum of Arts of Georgia (Tbilisi) was opened exhibition dedicated to Zdanevich brothers. Elen Zdanevich- Ilyazd, widow of Ilya Zdanevich (1894-1975), brought part of... More
St. Petersburg: Akvilon, 1923. 49, [7] pp.: ill. 27x22 cm. In publisher's color lithographed illustrated wrappers. Rubbings and small tears, edges are chipped, tears and small losses of the spine, owner's signature on p.1 and markings on the back endpaper, rare foxing of the wrappers, very light stain of the... More
Moscow: P. Yurgenson, 1906. 255 pp.: music. 30,5x24 cm. Contemporary bright red binder’s cloth with title in gold and decoration in color (art nouveau style) on the front board and blind decorative border and binder’s name on the back board. Original illustrated front cover is preserved. Endpapers are of paper..... More
![Ekspressionizm [i.e. Expressionism]. L. Ya Zivel’chinskaya.](/pictures/thumb/569.jpg?v=1547728870)
![[HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE GROUPS] Khudozhestvennye gruppirovki za poslednie 25 let [i.e. Art Groups for the Last Twenty Five Years]. V. M. Lobanov.](/pictures/thumb/568.jpg?v=1547728546)
![[SOVIET MURALS] Tekhnika stennykh rospisei [i.e. The Technique of Murals]. N. M. Chernyshev.](/pictures/thumb/567.jpg?v=1547728379)
![[MAYAKOVSKY ON THE PARISIAN ART SCENE] Gore pakharia: Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyi i obshhestvennyi dvuhnedel’nyi zhurnal [i.e. Woe of the Ploughman: Artistic, Literary and Social Two Weeks Magazine] #3, 1923.](/pictures/thumb/566.jpg?v=1547728135)
![[CZECH CONSTRUCTIVIST MAYAKOVSKY, SIGNED] 150,000.000. V. Mayakovsky.](/pictures/thumb/565.jpg?v=1547727985)
![[CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art]](/pictures/thumb/537.jpg?v=1542807313)
![[RARE FOOTAGE FROM THE LIFE OF THE TILE MAKING FACTORY] Keramiko-plitochny zavod imeni N.A. Bulganina [i.e. N.A. Bulganin Ceramic Tile Factory]](/pictures/thumb/506.jpg?v=1533144768)
![[UKRAINIAN VKHUTEIN] Mistetsko-tehknichniy VYSH. Zbirnyk kievskogo hudozhnogo institutu [i.e. Art and Technical School. The Collection of worlds of Kiev Art Institute]](/pictures/thumb/475.jpg?v=1528816530)
![[BORIS EFIMOV: SOVIET CARTOON ICON] Two handmade albums of newspaper clippings. B. E. Efimov.](/pictures/thumb/443.jpg?v=1519831488)
![[FIREBIRD – RUSSIAN ART REBORN] Zhar-ptitsa: Ezhemesiachnyi literaturno-khudozhestvennyi illustrirovannyi zhurnal [i.e. Firebird: A Monthly Literary Artistic Magazine]](/pictures/thumb/439.jpg?v=1519822856)
![[REVOLUTIONARY ART] Oktyabr’ v iskusstve i literature. 1917-1927 [i.e. October in Art and Literature. 1917-1927]](/pictures/thumb/350.jpg?v=1513337442)
![[YEAR OF 1932: THE END OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE] Khudozhniki RSFSR za XV let (1917-1933): Zhivopis’, skul’ptura, plakat, karrikatura, grafika. Katalog vystavki: Grafika [i.e. Artists of RSFSR for 15 years (1917-1933): Painting, Sculpture, Poster, Cartoon, Graphics. Exhibition Catalogue: Graphics]](/pictures/thumb/301.jpg?v=1502282692)
![[SHORT LIFE OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN SCULPTORS] Katalog 2-i vystavki skul’ptury Obshchestva russkikh skul’ptorov O.R.S. [i.e. The Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Sculpture of the Society of Russian Sculptors O.R.S.]](/pictures/thumb/300.jpg?v=1502282211)
![[ART EXHIBITION ON MOSCOW STREETS] Moskva 1 maia 1933 [i.e. Moscow on the 1st of May of 1933]](/pictures/thumb/292.jpg?v=1500466902)
![[INDUSTRIAL ART] Katalog Peredvizhnoi vystavki: Zhivopis’, risunok, grafika, tekstil’ [i.e. Catalogue of Traveling Exhibition: Painting, Drawing, Graphics, Textile]](/pictures/thumb/270.jpg?v=1492003319)
![[MALEVICH] Taynie poroki akademikov [i.e. The Secret Vices of Academicians]. Kliun Malevich, Kruchionykh.](/images/noimage.png)
![[KUKRYNIKSY] Working sketchbook of Nikolai Sokolov](/pictures/thumb/241.jpg?v=1488458942)
![[CZECH AVANT-GARDE] S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu [i.e. With the Boat that Imports Tea and Coffee. Poetry. 1926-1927]. Konstantin Biebl.](/pictures/thumb/228.jpg?v=1485601820)
![[MALEVICH ON SUPREMATISM] Ot Sezanna do suprematizma [i.e. From Cezanne to Suprematism]. K. S. Malevich.](/pictures/thumb/179.jpg?v=1483894002)
![[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)
![[JAPANESE CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN RUSSIA] Vystavka detskoi knigi i detskogo tvorchestva Yaponii / VOKS and GAHN [i.e. Exhibition of Children's Books and Children's Art of Japan / All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; The State Academy of Artistic Sciences]](/pictures/thumb/144.jpg?v=1483909578)
![[ZDANEVICH BROTHERS] Kirill Zdanevich. Ilya Zdanevich. Katalog vystavki [i.e. Exhibition Catalogue].](/pictures/thumb/132.jpg?v=1472323732)
![[PETROV-VODKIN] Samarkandiya: Iz putevykh nabroskov 1921 g. [i.e. Samarkand. Travel Notes from 1921]. K. S. Petrov-Vodkin.](/pictures/thumb/130.jpg?v=1472300225)
![[GLINKA & BILIBIN] Ruslan i Lyudmila. Volshebnaya opera v 5 deistviyakh. Syuzhet zaimstvovan iz poemy A. Pushkina. Muzyka M. Glinki / Pod red. M. Balakireva i S. Lyapunova [i.e. Ruslan and Ludmila. A Fairy Opera in 5 acts. The plot is adopted from Pushkin’s poem. Music by M. Glinka / Edited by M. Balakirev and S. Lyapunov].](/pictures/thumb/106.jpg?v=1472300755)