Devushka s korobkoi [i.e. The Girl with a Hatbox]. Leningrad: Izd. kinoteatra ‘Gigant’, [1936]. Lithographed two-colored leaflet. 20,5x28 cm. Mint. One of 1200 copies. Extremely rare. This is an advertisement of Boris Barnet's film ‘The Girl with a Hatbox’ (1927) for showing it in the largest Soviet movie... More
![MEZHRABPOMFILM] Kto ty takoi? [i.e. Who Are You?](/pictures/thumb/759.jpg?v=1563922374)
Leningrad: Tea-kino pechat’, 1927. Leaflet folded into thirds. 23x15,5 cm. In very good condition. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Very rare. Constructivist design of leaflet was produced by Maxim Litvak (1898-1943), the Soviet graphic artist who created the posters of the silent films... More
![CONSTRUCTIVIST CLASSICS] Kino-Fot [i.e. Film Photo]. Issue #2 of only 6](/pictures/thumb/686.png?v=1559604214)
8-15 of September, 1922. St. Petersburg: Kino-Fot, 1922. 16 pp.: phot.,. 28x22 cm. Original photomontage wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko who used his wife Varvara Stepanova’s photomontage which juxtaposed a photo of Charlie Chaplin with photos of industrial objects. Very good. A few tears on the spine, rust on the staples... More
![HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It]. G. M....](/pictures/thumb/340.jpg?v=1507834338)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 75 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Some wear of the wrappers, loss of the small piece of the rear cover, Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear cover, very rare foxing in text, otherwise very good. Rare. First edition of the second book... More
![AVANT-GARDE CINEMA] Chelovek i kino: Estetiko-sotsiologicheskii etiud [i.e. Mankind and...](/pictures/thumb/283.jpg?v=1494863494)
Moscow: Kino-izdatelstvo RSFSR Kinopechat, 1927. 112 pp. 13,5 x 17,5 cm. Original illustrated photomontage wrappers. Tiny tears of the spine, Georgian stamp on the title page ‘From books of Nico Mitsishvili’. Otherwise very good. Very rare. First and only edition. One of 3500 copies. The constructivist edition by Mikhail... More
![SOVIET FILM ART] Kollezhskii registrator [i.e. The Stationmaster](/pictures/thumb/282.jpg?v=1494863214)
Moscow: Mezhrabpom- Rus’, 1925. 16 pp.: ill., photographs. 30,5х22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by I. Bograd. Near fine. Some soiling and slightly rubbed spine. One of 15000. This edition is dedicated to the Soviet silent film which came out in 1925. Scenes from the film with captions followed... 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
![PUDOVKIN’S FAMOUS EDITING TECHNIQUES] Kinostsenarii: Teoriya stsenariya [i.e. Film Script: The...](/pictures/thumb/271.jpg?v=1492003799)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 64 pp. 15x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rear wrapper is detached and the front wrapper is almost detached from the text block, low margin of p.19 is cut off. Otherwise very good. The first book by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953), a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter... More
![SOVIET POSTER FOR 8½] Film poster for 8½ by I. Maistrovskii](/pictures/thumb/190.jpg?v=1483904148)
Moscow: Reklamfilm, 1987. 86,5x55 cm. Fine. In this year the film by Fellini was widely distributed in Soviet cinemas for the first time. More
![SOVIET PROPAGANDA BY WARNER BROTHERS] Missiya v Moskvu [i.e. The Mission to Moscow](/pictures/thumb/168.jpg?v=1483885097)
Moscow: GLAZKINOPLAKAT, 1943. 63x80 cm. Good condition with some minor tears and losses at the margin of the poster. 1 of 3500 copies. Poster design by Kashcheev. The soviet poster for the notorious film by Michael Curtiz. It was ‘one of three pro-Soviet films made in Hollywood’ by The... More