![Item #1604 [SPORTS PHOTOBOOK] Grebnoi sport v SSSR [i.e. Rowing in the USSR] / Compiled by B....](/pictures/thumb/1604.jpg?v=1673279623)
Moscow: Fizkul’tura i sport, 1956. 28 pp.: ill. In the original wrappers with photographs. Ink inscription (dated 1975) on front cover. Very good condition, spine slightly rubbed. First and only edition. No title page as issued, all contributors are credited on the back cover. This photo book is devoted to..... More
![Item #1603 [SOVIET PROMOTION OF PHYSICAL CULTURE] 2 pre-WWII brochures issued for annual sports...](/pictures/thumb/1603.jpg?v=1673279542)
1) Programma vsesoiuznogo parada fizkul’turnikov [i.e. Program of the All-Union Athletes Parade]. Moscow, 1939. 44 pp.: ill. 18,5x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tail of spine chipped, number on front cover, pale water stain on lower margin throughout p. 33-36, otherwise very good. One of 7000 copies. Design by V...... More
![Item #1602 [SOVIET SPORT] Mastera sporta i rekordy [i.e. Masters of Sports and Records]. P. Ratov](/pictures/thumb/1602.jpg?v=1673279422)
Moscow: Fizkul’tura i turizm, 1934. 112 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine with fragment lost, covers partly detached from block, few tears of last pages, otherwise very good and clean internally. First edition. Very rare. Cover design was created by E. Konvalevskii and A...... More
![Item #1559 [SPORT IN THE SOVIET UNION] Izvestiya fizicheskoy kul’tury: Dvukhnedel’nyy ill....](/pictures/thumb/1559.jpg?v=1669213861)
[Moscow]: 1924-1927. #20 of 1927 (1 issue of 81 published). 16 pp.: ill. 22.2x 29.6 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Scarce. Front wrapper by S.M. One of the leading 1920s Soviet sports magazines. From the very outset of the Communist regime, Soviet society witnessed the..... More
![Item #1480 [SOVIET SPORTS PROPAGANDA] Fizkul’tura i sport [i.e. Physical Culture and Sport](/pictures/thumb/1480.jpg?v=1660928013)
#1-16, 17/18, 19-43, 44/45, 46-52 for 1929. Overall 50 issues. Moscow, 1929. 30,5x22,5 cm. In contemporary binding with front cover of #1 mounted above; the rest of original illustrated covers preserved. In general, very good. Rubbed, fragments of edges of mounted front cover lost, p. 7-10 (#24) detached from block..... More
![Item #1431 [TEAM BUILDING AND LEISURE TIME IN SOVIET ARMY] Podvizhnye igry Krasnoi Armii [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1431.jpg?v=1660738966)
Moscow: Vysshyi Voennyi Redaktsionnyi Sovet, 1923. 56 pp. 22x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Traces of paper band on spine, title and last pages, fragments of spine lost, pale pre-war stamps and marks on t.p., p. 17, 56., otherwise very good copy with clean pages. First and only edition..... More
![Item #1430 [HOW TO PLAY GORODKI AND LAPTA CORRECTLY] Podvizhnye igry dlia vzroslykh: Sbornik...](/pictures/thumb/1430.jpg?v=1660738859)
Kharkiv: Iunosheskii sektor izdatel’stva ‘Proletarii’, 1925. 78, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine early repaired, then damaged, its fragments lost, covers partly detached, pale pre-war stamps on t.p. and last page. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. A...... More
![Item #1329 [SPORTS ARCHITECTURE] Fizkul’turnye sooruzheniia [i.e. Physical Culture...](/pictures/thumb/1329.jpg?v=1642544862)
Leningrad: Fizkul’tura i turizm, 1932. 292 pp.: ill. 21x13,5 cm. In original full-cloth binding with lettering on the front cover and the spine. Slightly rubbed and weakened, no back flyleaf, contemporary signature on t.p., some pencil notes, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. One of 7,000 copies. Rare..... More
![Item #1311 [YOUTH ENTERTAINMENTS IN THE 1920S USSR] Massovoye deystvo: Rukovodstvo k organizatsii...](/pictures/thumb/1311.jpg?v=1634131278)
Moscow; Leningrad: Giz, 1927. 288, [30] p.: ill.; 15x22.5 cm. In owner’s contemporary cloth binding. Slightly rubbed boards. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. An interesting Soviet book on the organization of revolutionary celebrations in the USSR with the method of mass actions. In the early 1920s, A. Kharlampiev organized..... More
![Item #1293 [EDUCATION FOR PILOTS] Fizicheskaia kul’tura i aviatsiia: Sbornik statei i zametok...](/pictures/thumb/1293.jpg?v=1634126210)
Moscow: Fizkul’tura i sport, 1939. 128 pp.: ill., 1 ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of spine edges lost, two pale stains on front cover and two first leaves, covers slightly rubbed, some colored pencil underlinings, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 8000..... More
![Item #843 [THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA OF SPORTS] Vsesoiuznyi parad fizkul’turnikov na Krasnoi...](/pictures/thumb/843.png?v=1569969571)
Moscow: N.p., [1945]. [60] pp.: ill. 29x24 cm. In original cloth with gilt lettering and logo. Slightly rubbed and weakened, ink inscription on the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This impressive album featured the photographs of the first post-WWII and the last..... More