![Item #1678 [LARIONOV’S DRAWING] The drawing of Nikolay Gogol’s head on the back of the...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1678.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681398950)
Image: 12,5x9,5 cm. Frame: 21x17,5 cm. In a contemporary frame. Mint. Provenance: lot 114 in Etude Couturier Nicolay sale of Guillaume Apollinaire collection, 25th of June, 1986. This portrait was created on the rear side of an invitation to a debut exhibition of Gallerie Paul Guillaume – a solo show..... More
Moscow: Goznak, 1927. 72 pp., VIII ills. 20x14 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tears of spine with small fragments lost, light soiling of covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 1,000 copies. An interesting overview of the pantheon of northern Buddhism and Lamaism by..... More
![Item #1590 [1920S EUROPEAN MODERNISM] Khudozhestvennaia kul’tura Zapada [i.e. The Art Culture...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1590.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1673277491)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1928. [2], 191 pp.: ill. 24,5x20 cm. In 20th-century binding with original wrappers mounted above. Decorated endpapers. Covers rubbed, fragments of back cover paper repaired, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Collection of articles by art historian and critic..... More
![Item #1589 Po iskusstvu Azerbaydzhana [i.e. On the Art of Azerbaijan]. A. Alekperov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1589.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1673277386)
Baku: O-vo obsledovaniya i izucheniya Azerbaydzhana, 1928. 26x17 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tear of spine, ink signature on front cover, otherwise mint. Extremely scarce. 1 of 150 copies. An extract from the Proceedings of the Society for the Survey and Study of Azerbaijan in 1928 (#5). A short..... More
Leningrad: tipografiya Drukar’, [1927]. 10 leaves. 12x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Light foxing on covers, otherwise near fine. First edition. Scarce. 1 of 2,000 copies. With 10 black and white illustrations. An extremely scarce edition printed by the Russian State Museum and intended to showcase the life and art..... More
![Item #1587 Revolyutsionnyye zadachi iskusstva [i.e. Revolutionary Tasks of Art]. M. Frantsev](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1587.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1673277227)
Orel: Kras. kn. 1923. 41 pp. 17,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Spine rubbed, minor tears of edges, otherwise very good. Scarce. Second edition. First edition published under the title Iskusstvo i proletarskoye gosudarstvo [i.e. Art and Proletarian State] in 1921. The front wrapper was most likely designed by..... More
![Item #1572 [A SOVIET DRAWING MANUAL] Rukovodstvo po chercheniyu [i.e. Drawing Manual]. V. Bromley](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1572.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669218797)
Moscow; Leningrad: Vsesoyuz. koop. ob'yedin. izd-vo, 1932. (Moskva: Tip. «Gudok»). 77, [3] pp.: schemes. 14.8x22.4 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. Second edition printed later the same year. Written by..... More
![Item #1571 [THE SOVIET UNION AGAINST WESTERN MUSIC] Dovesti do kontsa bor’bu s n·epmanskoy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1571.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669218389)
Moscow: Gos. muz. izd-vo, 1931. 112 pp.: ill. 17x12 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Tears of the spine, soiling and staining to the wrappers, previous owner’s ink inscription on the front wrapper, Soviet bookshop stamp on the last page. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited by..... More
![Item #1570 [POSTER PROPAGANDA IN CLUBS AND READING ROOMS] Rabota s plakatom v klube i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1570.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669218080)
Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz - Izogiz - Gos. izd-vo izobrazitel’nykh iskusstv, 1931. ([Moskva]: «Internatsional’naya» tip.). 54, [2] pp.: ill. 13x18 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the tiny pieces of the spine, previous owner’s pen inscription on the front wrapper, wrappers slightly loose. Otherwise a very good copy... More
![Item #1569 [THE ART OF PAINTING] Zametki po tekhnike zhivopisi [i.e. Notes on Painting...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1569.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669216822)
Moscow: Khudozhestvenno izd-vo AKHR, 1930. 96 pp. 17.5x12.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine, several pages detached. Otherwise in good condition. Scarce. 1 of 5,000 copies. Second edition. First edition printed in 1929. Woodcut on the front wrapper by the Soviet..... More
![Item #1568 [THEATRICAL PROPERTY IN THE USSR] Teatral’naya butaforiya i yeye izgotovleniye [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1568.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669216602)
Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1926. 103 pp.: ill. 18.5x14 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and edges of the wrappers. Otherwise in a good condition. Scarce. First edition. Wrapped design by B. Pyatunin. An interesting publication dedicated to the theatrical property and the peculiarities..... More
![Item #1567 [THE ART OF ETCHING AND ENGRAVING] Ofort i gravyura reztsom [i.e. Etching and...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1567.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669216438)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1925. 122, [2] pp., ill. Tear of the spine and front wrapper, previous owner’s ink inscription on the front wrapper. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,500 copies. An interesting book about etching and engraving with a chisel written by Vadim Falileev..... More
![Item #1529 [LITHUANIAN ART] Moters gimimas [i.e. Birth of a Woman]. S. Krasauskas](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1529.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666181513)
Vilnius: Vaga, 1979. [3] pp.+ 16 ills. 40,5x31 cm. In original illustrated folder. Minor horizontal tears of folder on folds, with their edges chipped, some soiling of folder, ink note in brochure, otherwise very good and clean. Third revised edition. Scarce. A series of autozincography works created by notable Lithuanian..... More
![Item #1466 [ROLAND HAYES IN THE SOVIET PRESS] Rabis. Organ TsK Vserabisa [i.e. Rabis. Organ of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1466.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1660906387)
Moscow: TsK Rabis, 1928. 20 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. The weekly about theater, cinematography, circus, stage performing, music, art and photography that was published by the Trade Union of Art Workers as ‘Herald of Art Workers’ in 1920-1926 and as ‘Rabis’ in..... More
![Item #1398 [CHILDRENS’ ART OF THE 1930S] Moskva v gravyurakh detey [i.e. Moscow in...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1398.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658795420)
Moscow: Tipo lit. Dvortsa kul’tury avtozavoda im. Stalina, 1938. [6] pp., 12 pp. of black and white ill. 32x25 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very good, slightly restored. Extremely scarce. 1 of 500 copies. First edition. Published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Komsomol. A foreword..... More
![Item #1386 [A TREASURY OF CONSTRUCTIVIST PROJECTS] Ezhegodnik obshchestva...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1386.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658499410)
Leningrad: Izd. Leningradskogo soiuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov, 1935. [6], 272, [10] pp.: ill. 30,5x24,5 cm. In original cloth with blind debossed lettering and a colored image on the front cover, blind embossed lettering on the spine. Tears of the spine, chipped, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. One of 3,600..... More
![Item #1348 [FAR EASTERN FUTURISM] K dialektike iskusstva. Ot realizma do iskusstva, kak odnoi iz...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1348.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650338784)
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
![Item #1325 [CONSTRUCTIVISM IN LITERATURE] Biznes. Sbornik Literaturnogo tsentra konstruktivistov...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1325.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
![Item #1320 [UKRAINIAN THEATER] K 1-i Vsesoiuznoi olimpiade teatrov i iskusstv narodov SSSR [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1320.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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..... More
![Item #1285 [DADA VS FUTURISM] Dada // Khudozhestvennaia mysl’: ezhenedel’nik teatra,...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1285.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1634124284)
Kharkiv: Pomoshch', 1922. P. 10-12. 22x26 cm. In very good condition, some tears of the spine and edges, few stains, the outer corners of the front cover were lost. Extremely rare. In Russian. The issue presents a less-known article criticizing dadaism in a short period of its existence in..... More
![Item #1271 [JEWISH RENAISSANCE] Graviury na dereve [i.e. The Woodcuts] / text by I. Ioffe and E....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1271.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1632152027)
Leningrad: printed by the author, typography of the Academy of Arts, 1928. 47, [1] pp. 24,5x18 cm. One of 1200 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. First and only edition. The book summarizes the works of Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954), Jewish..... More
![Item #1108 [FIGHTING FORMALIST ART] Formalizm v zhivopisi: 24 illustratsii [i.e. Formalism in...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1108.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1604438638)
Moscow: Vsekokhudozhnik, 1933. 87, [1] pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original wrappers. Very good, chipped, some general soiling, pale water stains on covers, clean internally. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. This is not just another book on fighting ‘escapist’ formalism by accusing artists of the total ignoring..... More
![Item #1092 [IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1604431141)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1939. XII, 302 pp., СХХIV ill.: ill. 34.6x27.2 cm. In original publisher’s full cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Edges slightly bumped with the tear to the lower right edge of the front board, two last pages are slightly..... More
![Item #1014 [ART OF THE PEOPLE] Iskusstvo narodov SSSR: Sbornik statei i materialov / GAKhN [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1014.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1595852053)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 160 pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Minor losses and tear of the spine, signature on t.p. otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. This is a collection of articles dedicated to the renaissance of national arts of..... More
![Item #1000 [SOVIET CLASSIC OF COLOR SCIENCE] Еlementarnyi kurs tsvetovedeniia [i.e. Basics of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1000.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591803204)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1939. 132 pp.: ill., 10 ills. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original full cloth with lettering on front cover and spine. Very good, slightly rubbed and soiled, pencil marks occasionally. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Second, significantly revised edition of work by a classic of Soviet color..... More