![SOVIET PROTECTION OF MOTHERHOOD] Mat’ i ditia: Sbornik dlia materei [i.e. Mother and Child :...](/pictures/thumb/1093.jpg?v=1604431435)
Moscow: Izd. Moszdravotdela, 1929. 40, [1] pp. 25,5x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. small tear of the spine, pale water stains on the outer edge, ink signature on t.p. One of 5000 copies. Cover design features a photomontage dedicated to a healthy baby with a red socialist flag and female..... More
![LIBERALIZATION OF WOMEN IN EASTERN REPUBLICS] Oktiabr’ i zhenshchina Vostoka [i.e. The October...](/pictures/thumb/1075.jpg?v=1604423242)
Moscow: Partizdat, 1932. 56 pp.: ill. 20x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some foxing, red pencil marks. Second edition. Constructivist cover design features three pictures of socialist women: without veils, working and smiling. The book outlines socialist methods to improve the everyday life of Oriental women and summarizes..... More
![WOMEN MOVEMENT IN THE SOVIET EAST] Trud i byt zhenshchiny Vostoka: Materialy Vsesoiuznogo...](/pictures/thumb/1041.jpg?v=1601473473)
Moscow: Izdanie TsIK Souza SSR, 1928. VIII, 180 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, small fragments of the spine lost, crease of the title page with a small tear of the lower edge and minor tears of the upper edge. Semi-erased pencil marks on the front cover..... More
![WWI FRONTLINE NOTES MADE BY THE SISTER OF MERCY] Narod na voine: Frontovye zapisi [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/1040.jpg?v=1601467453)
Kiev: Izdanie Izd. podotdela Komiteta Iugo-zapadnogo fronta Vseros. Zemskogo Soiuza, 1917. 140 pp. 23x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some tears and soiling of covers, the first and last pages faded, otherwise very good. First edition. Cover design and 7 vignettes were produced by artist Eugeniia Pribyl’skaia (1899-1938)..... More
![FIRST RUSSIAN LESBIAN NOVEL] Tridtsat’ tri uroda: povest’ [i.e. Thirty-Three Abominations:...](/pictures/thumb/1036.jpg?v=1595855509)
Saint Petersburg: Ory, 1907. 96, [8] pp. 13,5x10 cm. In original two-color printed wrappers with publisher’s vignette (doubled on t.p.) designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. Near fine. Second edition printed the same year. Rare. First Russian novel that openly discussed lesbianism. It was created by female poet and writer Lydia..... More
1) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Iz istorii zhenskogo dvizheniia v Rossii [i.e. From the History of Women’s Movement in Russia]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D. Sytina, 1908. 60 pp. 2) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Zhenskoe dvizhenie v Evrope i Amerike [i.e. Women’s Movement in Europe and America]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D...... More
![FIRST ALARM OF FASCISM] Nastupleniye fashizma i zadachi proletariata / (Dokl. t. Klary Tsetkin na...](/pictures/thumb/990.jpg?v=1591798721)
Moscow: Krasnaia nov’, 1923. 48 pp. 12,9x17,1 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Number on the title page. Otherwise near fine. ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT WOMAN COMMUNIST LEADERS GIVES AN EARLY WARNING OF FASCISM. First edition. This interesting edition features a report presented by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)..... More
![FOR FEMALE PHARMACISTS] Zaslugi zhenshchin na vrachebno-farmatsevticheskom poprishche:...](/pictures/thumb/881.jpg?v=1576155710)
Moscow: tipo-lit. V.G. Dempel’, 1892. 58 pp., 1 ill., 8 leaves of advertisement. 22,5x14,5 cm. In original printed covers. Small fragments of spine lost, some soiling and foxing, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is a public lecture by pharmacist Arkadii Semenov promoting the emancipation of women..... More
![HOMOPHOBIA VS PHILANTHROPY] Puteshestviye miss Marsden v Yakutskuyu oblast' i poseshcheniye yeyu...](/pictures/thumb/833.png?v=1569962348)
Moscow: O-vo rasprostraneniya polez. knig, 1892. XII, 77 pp., 10 ill., map. 22.3x16cm. Period half-leather binding. Worn, lower part of the spine lacks a fragment, pre-revolutionary private library stamp (The Library of Prokhorov) on the title-page and p.12. Otherwise in a very good condition. Extremely scarce first edition..... More
![WOMEN’S CLUB IN THE VILLAGE] Zhenskii klub v derevne [i.e. Women’s Club in the Village]. O....](/pictures/thumb/570.jpg?v=1547729089)
2nd ed. Petrograd: Nachatki znanii, 1919. 32 pp. 18x15 cm. Publisher’s printed wrappers with yellow ornamented frame on the front wrapper. Very good. Some rubbing and soiling of the wrappers. Second edition (first edition was printed earlier the same year). Very rare. This edition consists of two parts. In..... More
![FEMALE RUSSIAN WRITERS] Nashi pisatel’nitsy: (‘‘Bibliographichesky slovar’ russkikh...](/pictures/thumb/363.jpg?v=1513596662)
St. Petersburg: typ. Akademii Nauk, 1891. [2], 78 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. Without wrappers. Very good, occasional foxing, with later spine and back cover. Very rare. Offprint from Sbornik otdeleniya russkogo yazyka i slovesnosti Akademii nauk (V. 52, #7) [i.e. Digest of the Department of Russian Language of Academy of..... More
![SOVIET WOMEN STORIES] Zhenshchiny strany sotsializma [i.e. Women of the Country of Socialism](/pictures/thumb/352.jpg?v=1513337866)
Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 164 pp.: port. 20x14 cm. In original blue cloth with gilt title, blind stamping of the imprint and embossed image on the front board. Near fine, slightly bumped on the corners and spine, couple of erased pencil markings on endpapers, bookshop’s stamp on p.51. Twenty five..... More
![WOMEN IN AMERICA IN 19th CENTURY] Sovremennaya zhenshchina. Eye polozheniye v Evrope i Amerike...](/pictures/thumb/137.jpg?v=1528813595)
St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov, 1896. 4, 158, 2 pp. 19,5х13,5 cm. In contemporary half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettering on the spine (the title and owner's initials). Soviet bookshop's stamp on the free back endpaper, slightly rubbed, pencil scribbles on two pages. Otherwise a very good clean copy..... More