Kazan: tip. Pechat, 1925. [8] pp., incl. wrappers. Near fine. Restored. Extremely rare. One of 100 copies. First and only edition. In the 1920s Kazan experienced one of the most independent and unique avant-garde art movements. It started in ARKhUMAS (the most common name for Kazan Architectural and Art... More
Odessa: Yugo-LEF, 1924. Issues #1-4 (of 5 printed). In publisher’s wrappers. #1. 16 pp. 27x17,5 cm.Wrapper design by Nikolay Danilov. Very good. Close tears of the top and bottom of the spine, lacking a small fragment of the front wrapper (not affecting the text). Elements of letterpress design in... More
Tiflis: 41 degrees, 1919. 16 pp. 21x17 cm. Original wrappers designed by Kirill Zdanevich (1892-1969), the founder of ‘orchestral art’ and one of the most influential artists of Russian and Georgian avant-garde. In fine condition. One of the most important editions of the celebrated 41 degrees group in Tiflis... More
Tiflis: 41 degree, 1918. [20] pp. 17x12 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. The hectographic edition of 20-30 copies, but different from the all known copies of the same title. The main difference is the presence of the collages: 8 pages are decorated with the different pieces of paper glued to them... More
Tiflis: 41 degrees, 1918. [22] pp. 15x11 cm. Hectograph edition. Print-run is unknown, usually under 30 copies in similar cases. Abstract illustration on the wrapper by Kirill Zdanevich, as well as 3 full-page illustrations. Some soiling through the book. Sukhoparov in his 1992 paper ‘Alexei Kruchyonykh. Sudba Budetlianina’ gives... More
[Moscow, 1921]. 14, [2] pp. 17,5x11 cm (unfolded two leaves, each leaf 34,5x22,2 cm). Uncut and unbound as issued. Near fine. Previous owner’s ink stamp on p. 3, erased ink stamp and pen mark on the last page. First edition. Very rare. This is a collection of poems by... More
Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1927. 30, [2] pp. 17x13 cm. In publisher’s photomontage wrappers. Very good. Spine is slightly rubbed, bleak damp stain on the lower part throughout the book. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Constructivist photomontage wrappers designed by Alexander Rodchenko. Little has been written about journalist and... 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
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
Moscow: Federatsia, 1930. 224 pp. 17x13 cm. In original card boards. Very good, fragile spine with half of it missing, some rubbing and small losses of the extremities of the covers, a couple of underlinings in the text (pencil), traces of damp stain near the spine on the front and... 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
Tiflis: K.P. Kozlovsky, 1917. 378 pp. 24x16 cm. Original printed wrappers. Spine is restored. Some stains of the wrapper. Otherwise good. The bulletin features the geological article by Ilia Zdanevich ‘Two Attempts to Climb Tbilisis-tsveri (4419 meters) in Uilpaty Mountains’. In the article Ilia described the efforts of the... 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
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
Moscow: GIZ, 1922. 159 pp.: ill. 18x14 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine is slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 2000 copies. Illustrated throughout by modernist artist Dmitriy Mitrokhin (1883-1973). The first edition of the famous poem by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1932), the poem was based on... More
Moscow: MGSPS, [1926]. [32] pp.: ill., port. 17x12,5 cm. In original illustrated constructivist wrappers. Tear of the spine, wrappers are slightly detached from the text block, loss of the small fragment of the front wrapper (restored with paper) and of the back wrapper, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and price written in... More
Moscow: 1927. 32 pp.: ill., port. 26x17,5 cm. Without a wrapper, pencil signature on the title page. Otherwise very good. Very rare. This prospectus is dedicated to the summer tour of 1927 of the Meyerhold Theatre. It includes portraits of the company, e.g. Vsevolod Meyerhold, Igor Il’insky, Zinaida... More
Moscow: 1928. 30, [2] pp.; ill., facs., port. 26x17,5 cm. In original wrappers. Damp stain on the side margin of the front cover and few pages. Otherwise very good. Very rare. With many black and white photographs of productions and set designs. This prospectus is dedicated to the summer... More
Moscow: Published by the translator, 1930. [2], 46 leaves. 23x19 cm. Original front cover is preserved, spine and rear cover of modern paper. Some light restoration to the front cover, lacking staples so leaves are not bound, some soiling, previous owner’s pencil drawing on the last page and corrections in... More
A collection of rare survivals of the time - small fragile brochures with ‘film librettos’, actors’ biographies, and articles. The 1920s was the decade of the New Economic Policy in the USSR, when a relaxation of state control of some industries gave people a taste of mini-capitalism within the..... 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
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926. 14 pp., 1 ill. 17x13 cm. Original wrappers with constructivist photomontage. Wrappers slightly rubbed, faded bookshop’s stamp and pen marks on the back cover, spine is rubbed with a small tear at the bottom and rusty staple. Otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy. First... 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
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
![[TATLEF] LEF. 2 izo-vystavka laboratorno-proizvodstvennykh rabot [i.e. LEF. The Second Art Exhibition of Laboratory and Production Works].](/pictures/thumb/619.jpg?v=1550587027)
![[BLACK SEA LEF] YUGO-LEF [i.e. The Southern Left Front of Arts]](/pictures/thumb/618.jpg?v=1550586721)
![[KRUCHYONYKH PRAISED] A. Kruchyonykh grandiozar’ [ i.e. A. Kruchyonykh, the Grandiose]. Igor Terentiev.](/pictures/thumb/617.jpg?v=1550586213)
![[FUISM] “A”. [Collection of poems] / B. Pereleshin, A. Rakitnikov, I. Sokolov. R.S.F.S.R., 0,21 XX veka [i.e. RSFSR, 21 Hundredth of the 20th Century].](/pictures/thumb/582.jpg?v=1547734460)
![[RODCHENKO’ S COVER & EHRENBURG AS FILM CRITIC] Materializatsia fantastiki [i.e. Materialization of Fantasy]. I. G. Ehrenburg.](/pictures/thumb/579.jpg?v=1547732609)
![[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)
![[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)
![[RODCHENKO DESIGN] Ob agit- i proz-iskusstve [i.e. On Agitation and Production Art]. B. I. Arvatov.](/pictures/thumb/559.jpg?v=1547034334)
![[LE DANTU MOUNTAIN] Izvestiya kavkazskogo otdela russkogo geogra cheskogo obschestva [i.e. The Bulletin of Caucasus Department of Russian Geographical Society]](/images/noimage.png)
![[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)
![[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)
![[TSAR GIRL] Tsar-devitsa. Poema-skazka [i.e. The Tsar Girl. The Fairytale Poem]. Marina Tsvetaeva.](/pictures/thumb/435.jpg?v=1519821720)
![[NEW TYPE OF THEATRE FOR A NEW SOVIET MAN] Moskovsky dramatichesky teatr imeni MGSPS: Gastrol’naia poezdka 1926 [i.e. Theatre of Moscow Provincial Council of Trade Unions: Tour of 1926]](/pictures/thumb/296.jpg?v=1500468355)
![[EXPERIMENTAL THEATER GOES ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION] Gosudarstvenny teatr imeni Vs. Meierholda. Gastrol’naia poezdka po SSSR. Leto 1927 [i.e. Tour Across the USSR. Summer of 1927].](/pictures/thumb/285.jpg?v=1494864249)
![[EXPERIMENTAL THEATER GOES ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION] Moskovsky gosudarstvenny kamerny teatr. Gastrol’naia poezdka po SSSR. Leto 1928 [i.e. The Moscow Kamerny Theatre. Tour Across the USSR. Summer of 1928]](/pictures/thumb/284.jpg?v=1494863997)
![[MAYAKOVSKY IN FRENCH] Mayakovsky po frantsuzski: 4 poemy / Perevod Andreia Gippiusa [i.e. Mayakovsky in French / Translated by Andrey Gippius]. V. V. Mayakovsky.](/pictures/thumb/275.jpg?v=1494858928)
![[SOVIET CINEMA IN 1920s]](/pictures/thumb/273_10.jpg?v=1492005780)
![[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)
![[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)