![Item #1573 [SOVIET CLUBS AND THEATRICAL STAGES] Oborudovaniye klubnoy stseny [i.e. Stage...](/pictures/thumb/1573.jpg?v=1669219326)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1935. 153, [5] pp.: ill. 21.3x15.2 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with gilt lettering and ornaments on the front board and the spine. Very light soiling of the binding. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Design by the Soviet graphic artist and book illustrator of..... More
Lviv: 1925-1939. 24 separate issues. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. 20 issues feature wrapper design by the noted Ukrainian modernist artist Mykola Butovych (1895- 1961). 1 issue (#3 of 1934) features wrapper design by the famous Ukrainian modernist artist and illustrator Galina Mazepa-Koval’ (1910- 1995). 1 issue (#6 of 1935)..... More
![Item #1561 [HELPING THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED ] V nogu so zryachimi [i.e. Keeping up with the Sighted](/pictures/thumb/1561.jpg?v=1669214566)
Moscow: Tipografiya Put’ Oktyabrya, 1931-1933. #1 of 1932. 24 pp.: ill. 17.3x25.4 cm. In original publisher’s constructivist wrappers. Soviet library book stamp on the pp.1, 24., inventory numbers on the wrappers. Otherwise near fine. Extremely scarce. 1 of 3,000 copies. A rare issue of the periodical organ of..... More
![Item #1560 [ONE OF THE FIRST SOVIET TRAVEL MAGAZINES] Na sushe i na more [i.e. On Land and Sea](/pictures/thumb/1560.jpg?v=1669214089)
Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1929-1941. #1 of 1931. 20 pp.: ill. 21.7x29 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Tears of the spine with text affected (minor), foxing of the wrappers. Otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. Printrun varied. In 1931 the magazine was published with the printrun of 75,000 copies..... 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 #1540 [IDEOLOGICALLY CORRECT SOVIET DRESSMAKING] Kroyka zhenskogo plat’ya [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1540.jpg?v=1669205556)
Moscow: Gos. nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel’stvo legkoy promyshlennosti, 1953. 192 pp.: ill. 23x15.5cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards. Edges worn. Otherwise in good condition. Scarce. Second edition.The first edition was published in 1950. An interesting Soviet edition about ‘ideologically correct’ dressmaking. Written by the Soviet fashion artists and designers..... More
![Item #1539 [HOW TO RAISE A BABY IN THE SOVIET UNION?] Sovety materi po vospitaniyu grudnogo...](/pictures/thumb/1539.jpg?v=1669205053)
Tbilisi: P/otd. medpomoshchi zastrakhovannykh Narkomzdravom Gruzii, 1927. 34 pp.: ill. 17.2x12.4 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Light damp stains and soiling on the wrappers, occasional damp stains throught. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. Second edition. 1 of 3,000 copies. An extremely rare book of..... More
![Item #1538 [SOVIET PRESCHOOLERS] 50 igr s peniem dlia detei ot 3–8 let (s metodicheskimi...](/pictures/thumb/1538.jpg?v=1667301957)
Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniia, 1930. 64, [3] pp.: sheet music. 21,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Fragments of the spine lost, with some pieces of covers paper along the spine, foxing on covers, pale stamps and numbers of a Soviet institution on p. 3,17 and last one (blank). Otherwise very good..... More
![Item #1536 [YOUNG PIONEERS PERFORM] Sto igr iunykh pionerov [i.e. One Hundred Games of...](/pictures/thumb/1536.jpg?v=1667301560)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1925. 76, [2] pp.: ill.+ [2] pp. of ads. 25x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with letterpress design. Almost no spine, with some fragments of paper along spine lost, soiling of covers, front wrapper and t.p. partly detached from block, pale stamps of a Soviet institution on..... More
![Item #1532 [ARCTIC FISHING INDUSTRY IN THE USSR] Rybnyi Murman : Sbornik rasskazov i ocherkov...](/pictures/thumb/1532.jpg?v=1666182369)
[Moscow]: Snabtekhizdat, 1933. XXIV, 398, [1] pp.: ill. 17,5x13 cm. In original cloth with bronze lettering on front cover and spine, in original constructivist dust jacket. Dust wrappers rubbed and chipped, with tear of front cover flap, rusty staples, some stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One..... More
![Item #1531 [SOVIET HEAVY INDUSTRY : KIROV PLANT] Zheleznyi gorod (Zavod “Krasnyi putilovets”)...](/pictures/thumb/1531.jpg?v=1666181772)
Moscow: Krest’ianskaia gazeta, 1927. 56 pp.: ill. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped, with small tears, otherwise very good copy. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Very rare. Good edition on Soviet exploitation of the huge Putilov Ironworks and its role in industrialization of the..... More
![Item #1527 [PHYSICAL CULTURE OF PIONEERS] Zariadka dlia detei 10-12 let [i.e. Morning Exercises...](/pictures/thumb/1527.jpg?v=1666181201)
Moscow: Fizkul’tura i sport, 1941. [21] pp. : ill. 9,3x8,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Mint. First and only edition. Very rare. Remarkable miniature photobook giving instructions on daily physical exercises. Physical culture of proletarian masses established in the youth. Schools held sports competitions, Osoaviakhim branches organized military clubs for..... More
![Item #1490 [SOVIET PARTICIPATION IN MILITARY ACTIONS IN EGYPT] Uchites’ govorit’ na...](/pictures/thumb/1490.jpg?v=1660932101)
Moscow, 1968. 174, [1] pp. 20x16 cm. In original cardboards with lettering on front cover and spine. Slightly rubbed and bumped, few stains on p. 62-63, some marks occasionally and handwritten notes about alphabet on blank p.8, small stamp “checked” on verso of t.p. For internal use only... More
![Item #1479 [BOOK & REVOLUTION] Kniga i revoliutsiia: Zhurnal politiki, kul’tury, kritiki and...](/pictures/thumb/1479.jpg?v=1660924831)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929-1930. 26x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Good. Cancelled stamps of Research Institute of Book Science on p. 1, last leaf and front cover of #2-8 (1930). Covers of #1, 7 (1929) detached from text blocks, with foxing. Tears of spine of #3, 7 for 1929, #7 for..... More
![Item #1464 [PROPAGANDA OF THE STALINIST MOSCOW] U nas v Moskve [i.e. At home, in Moscow]. L....](/pictures/thumb/1464.jpg?v=1660905508)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1947. 36 pp.: ill. 28x20 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, slightly rubbed, stains occasionally, small tear of the back cover, some illustrations were hand-colored by two pencils. First edition. Very rare. Cover design includes a photograph with light lettering in the dark..... More
1) Ustav Kalinkinskogo pivovarennogo i medovarennogo tovarishchestva [i.e. The Charter of Kalinkin Brewing and Mead Production Company]. Saint Peterspurg: Tip. Dzh. Iv. Shumakher, 1912. 16 pp. 21x13,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Small fragments of covers lost, some minor stains and numbers of pre-revolutionary library on the front cover, private..... More
1) Ustav Obshchestva bor’by s alkogolizmom [i.e. Charter of the Society for the Fight against Alcoholism]. Moscow: Gos. Meditsinskoe izdatel’stvo, 1928. 16 pp. 14x9 cm. One of 2000 copies. 2) Ustav Obshchestva bor’by s alkogolizmom Petrogradskogo raiona [i.e. Charter of the Society for the Fight against Alcoholism in Petrogradsk..... More
![Item #1457 [500 PIGSKINS PER ONE TRACTOR] Svinye shkury [i.e. Pigskins]. I. Porotskii, V., Perov](/pictures/thumb/1457.jpg?v=1660822871)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Narkomtorgov SSSR i RSFSR, 1930. 16 pp.: ill. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small hole around rusty staple, covers detached from block, otherwise very good. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat. This mass-audience lithographic brochure was produced for advertising purposes and for raising the literacy..... More
![Item #1444 [BACKPACKING THROUGH SUNNY AND PEACEFUL CHECHNYA] Na Assu cherez Armkhi (Turistskie...](/pictures/thumb/1444.jpg?v=1660819437)
Grozny: Checheno-Ingushskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1988. 77, [3] pp., 8 ills., 2 loosely inserted maps (one folding). 19,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, slightly rubbed spine. Late Soviet guide to popular routes through the Chechen-Ingush Republic. In particular, they were organized in the Nazranovsky District that was..... More
![Item #1443 [MAIN SOVIET PERIODICAL ON RADIO ENGINEERING] Radiofront [i.e. Radio Front] №21 for...](/pictures/thumb/1443.jpg?v=1660819241)
Moscow: Zhurgazob’edinenie, 1934. 48 pp.: ill. 25x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped, tear of upper edge of front cover and following three leaves, water stain on upper edge of most pages, otherwise very good. Issue of mass non-fiction magazine on radio engineering and amateur technics published..... More
![Item #1441 [CLUB IN THE KREMLIN] Chetyre goda Kluba imeni Ia.M. Sverdlova: 1919-1923 : Sbornik...](/pictures/thumb/1441.jpg?v=1660818881)
Moscow: Izd. Klubnogo otdela VTsIK, [1923]. 100, [2] s., 5 ills. 22x16 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine and back cover restored, water stains on inserts, nearly erased stamp on front cover, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 500 copies produced. Extremely rare. Issued without the..... More
![Item #1439 [ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIALIST CHILDHOOD: PLAYTHINGS] Sovetskaia igrushka [i.e. Soviet...](/pictures/thumb/1439.jpg?v=1660818582)
Moscow: Vsesoiuz. koop. ob’edinennoe izdatel’stvo, 1936. 32 pp.: ill. 29x21 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design and ornament. Good. Tears of spine with fragment lost, soiling of covers and stains on pages, traces of private stamp on front page. One of 6200 copies produced. An early issue of..... More
Moscow: Co-operative publ. soc. of foreign workers in the USSR, 1932. 32 pp. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Minor stain on outer edge of pages throughout copy, spine slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. First English edition. Scarce. Translated by the schoolteacher and socialist William Wheeldon (1893-1937) from..... 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 #1308 [HOW TO INCREASE MENTAL ACTIVITY?] Azbuka umstvennogo truda [i.e. Alphabet of Mental...](/pictures/thumb/1308.jpg?v=1634130441)
Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1929. 127, [1] pp. In original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities. Otherwise in a good condition. Scarce. 1 of 5,000 copies. An interesting Soviet manual on the ways of increasing mental activity written by the victim of Soviet repressions Joseph Rebelsky in 1929..... More