Ca. 1896. Twenty-six albumen photographs ca. 20,5x26,5 cm (8 x 10 ¼ in), all captioned in negative and mounted on the original photographer’s card with gilt-lettered stamps “L. Rogozinsky, Vladikavkaz.” All photos numbered, either in negative or in period ink on the mounts (from 1 to 30, with omissions). Original..... More

Ca. 1930s. Fourteen loose real photo postcards ca.8x13 cm (3 ¼ x 5 in), one original gelatin silver photo ca. 8,5x12,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 in), all with pencil captions in Russian on versos. Overall a very good collection of strong images. Interesting collection of Soviet real photo..... More

Ca. 1931. Oblong Folio album ca. 26,5x35 cm (10 ¼ x 13 ¾ in). 15 card stock leaves. With 54 mounted original gelatin silver prints including five large photos from ca. 17,5x23 cm (7x9 in) to ca. 13x17 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in), the rest of the photos are..... More

Moscow, [1930s]. 19,5x14,5 cm. Near fine. Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova lived and created together since the 1910s. In 1920, VKHUTEMAS was established and they were invited to teach there. The following year the spouses got an apartment in the VKHUTEMAS building (Myasnitskaya Street, 21). Rodchenko took famous foreshortened pictures..... More

1932. 18x12 cm. Near fine. Sighed on the rear side by Rodchenko’s grandson Alexander Lavrent’ev. Interesting evidence of physical practices in Moscow universities, as well as contemporary styles of Soviet underwear. This roof of the student campus was adapted to sport exercises and a pool was also placed. Rodchenko..... More

Moscow: Detizdat, 1938. 104 pp.: ill. 27x20 cm. In original illustrated cardboards; illustrated endpapers. Covers rubbed and bumped, small tear of the spine, but very good internally. On verso of front flyleaf an official inscription to schoolboy, dated 1938 and stamped. Very rare. Cover design was produced by book..... More

Moscow: Sel’khozgiz, 1940. [126] pp.: ill. 29x23 cm. In original cloth with gilt embossed design and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly rubbed, few defects of the back cover, some soiling of lower outer corner, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies..... More

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

Moscow: GIKhL, 1931. 64 pp.: ill. 18,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored, some creases, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. This is one of the well-known Soviet photobooks and one of the earliest literary works on triumphal projects of the First Five-Year Plan. The poem by..... More

Moscow: Pravda, 1963. 128 pp.: ill. 26,5x20,5 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dust-jacket. Fine condition. The photo book is dedicated to the first visit of Castro to Moscow. In 35 days he managed to see the country from Murmansk to Tashkent. As a result of this trip two..... 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