Tbilisi, 1938. In original full-cloth with gilt lettering and two small photographs (ca. 3.3x3.4cm) mounted on the front cover. Date “7 November 1938” printed on the label and mounted on the front pastedown. Twenty-five vintage prints ca. 9x14.3cm. Minor wear to the edges of the covers, a couple of photos..... More

1871. Oblong Folio (ca. 28x34,5 cm). 21 thick stock album leaves. With 20 mounted albumen prints, including twelve large images ca. 19x25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 ¾ in), the rest are ca. 12x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ½ in). All but two captioned in English or French in..... More

Ca. 1910s. Seventeen loose gelatin silver photographs, each ca. 17x23 cm (6 ¾ x 8 ¾ in). Three photos with pencil captions in Russian on verso. One photo with a tear on the corner neatly repaired; overall a very good collection of interesting strong images. Rare original photographs of..... More

1931. Oblong Folio album (ca. 29x41,5 cm). 13 card stock leaves. With 78 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including three panoramas from ca. 9,5x58,5 cm (3 ¾ x 23 in) to ca. 10x43 cm (4x17 in); the rest are ca. 11x16,5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ½ in). One panorama signed..... More

1932. 16,5x11,5 cm. Near fine. Sighed on the rear side by Rodchenko’s grandson Alexander Lavrent’ev. An idyllic picture: a worker is reading the Pravda newspaper. Rodchenko was looking for new perspectives and angles since the late 1920s, following the slogan “Our duty is to experiment!”. He used..... More

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, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Illustrated throughout with photomontages and photographs by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova... More

Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1966. 575 pp.: ill., 32 ill. 20,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated full-cloth with lettering on the spine; in original illustrated dust-wrapper; illustrated endpapers. Very good, small fragment of the spine lost, covers slightly rubbed. First edition. Solomon Telingater’s later yet brilliant book design. Resembling the..... More

Moscow: Ogoniok [and others], 1926-1941. 171 issues altogether. Complete sets for the years 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941. The years 1926-1934 are bound in contemporary bindings. Years 1935-1937, 1940-1941 are in original wrappers. All of the wrappers, except three ones..... More

Stalinsk: Iubil. komissiia po organizatsii prazdnovaniia 10-letiia Kuznets. metallurg. zavoda im. Stalina i goroda Stalinska, 1939. 288 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 25x18,5 cm. In original red cloth with mounted photograph and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly bumped, small ink stain on t.p., otherwise mint... More

Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923. 225, [5] pp.: ill., 4 pl. 27x18 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good. Partially uncut. Tears and small losses of the spine and extremities of the wrappers, signature on the t.p. (ink), damp stains on margins of pages. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Very..... More

Ca. 1900. Eighteen albumen prints mounted on the official photographer’s card leaves with printed name and credentials on the lower margins, images ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in), mounts ca. 21x27 cm (8 ¼ x 10 ½ in). All but two images captioned and numbered in negative. Several..... More

Moscow: Sherer, Nabgolts i Ko. 1894. 16,4x10,8 cm. Fine condition. Most Leo Tolstoy’s photograph portraits in 1880s and 90s were made on Sofia Andreevna’s initiative. For almost quarter of the century photos of Tolstoy’s family were made by the most famous and biggest pre-Revolutionary photo studio «Sherer, Nabgolts i...... More