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Item #969 [CREATING MODEL SOVIET PARK] Za sotsialisticheskiy park. Obzor proyektov...

[CREATING MODEL SOVIET PARK] Za sotsialisticheskiy park. Obzor proyektov general’nogo plana Tsentral’nogo parka kul’tury i otdykha Mossoveta [i.e. In Support of a Socialistic Park. A Survey Proposals for the General Plan of the Central Park of Culture and Leisure of the Moscow City Council] / edited by Betty Glan

Moscow: izdatelstvo Mosoblispolkoma, 1932. 32 pp., 7 folded plates. 28x21,4 cm. Original oversize wrappers. The edges of the wrappers are restored. First edition. One of 4750 copies. Constructivist design of the edition by Boris Iordanoskiy (1903-1983) and Georgiy Rubliov (1902-1975), the artists widely known for their designs in Moscow..... More

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Item #505 [DESIGN BY VARVARA STEPANOVA] Moskovskii metropoliten [i.e. Moscow Metro

[DESIGN BY VARVARA STEPANOVA] Moskovskii metropoliten [i.e. Moscow Metro]

Moscow: Izogiz, 1953. [126] pp.: ill. 30x22,5 cm. In original grey cloth with the red lettering and stamped emblem. Two minor ink stains on the top edge and back cover, previous owner’s note on the free leaf of front endpaper, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of..... More

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Item #261 Doma-kommuny. Materialy konkursov: Vsesoiuznogo mezhvuzovskogo konkursa na...

Doma-kommuny. Materialy konkursov: Vsesoiuznogo mezhvuzovskogo konkursa na studencheskii dom-kommunu, [i] Konkursa Leningradskogo soveta na doma-kommuny dlya rabochikh [i.e. Communal Apartment Buildings. Materials from Competitions: All-Union Students’ Competition for Communal Apartment Building, [and] Leningrad Soviet Competition for Workers Apartment Building]

Leningrad: Kubuch, 1931. 84 pp.: ill. 26x36 cm. In original publisher’s card boards with cloth spine. Boards are rubbed with some soiling and small tears. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Very rare. The first and only edition. One of 5100 copies. This book is an incredible compilation of..... More

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Item #783 [KEY PROJECT OF THE FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN] Moskva Magnitostroiu [i.e. Moscow to...

[KEY PROJECT OF THE FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN] Moskva Magnitostroiu [i.e. Moscow to Magnitostroi]

Moscow: VTsSPS, 1931. 31 pp.: ill. 14,5x10 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Contemporary colored pencil marks, some ink stains, otherwise very good condition. First and only edition. Very rare. Constructivist design for the front cover contains the photograph of construction and attractive letterpress design. A very curious edition is an..... More

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Item #280 [LAST CONSTRUCTIVIST DESIGNS] Sbornik kompozitsionnykh rabot studentov. #2 [i.e....

[LAST CONSTRUCTIVIST DESIGNS] Sbornik kompozitsionnykh rabot studentov. #2 [i.e. Collection of Architectural Designs by Students. #2].

Leningrad: Vserossiiskaia akademiia hudozhestv, 1936. 154 pp.: ill. In original publisher’s wrappers. Rubbed, small tears of the spine, water stains on the margin throughout the copy. Otherwise good. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. Book design by Mikhail Minkus (1905–1963). This collection includes four student projects by Minkus of..... More

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Item #1087 [LENINGRAD VKHUTEMAS] Otdel proektirovaniia Proizvodstvennogo biuro Akademii...

[LENINGRAD VKHUTEMAS] Otdel proektirovaniia Proizvodstvennogo biuro Akademii hudozhestv [i.e. Department of Projects in Production Bureau of Academy of Arts] Issue 3.

Leningrad: Tipografiia Akademii khudozhestv, [1926]. 28, [4] pp.: ill. 15,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers in constructivist style. In very good condition, slightly rubbed. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. Design was produced by Iakov Rubanchik (1899-1948), the Soviet architect and artist who studied in Vkhutein at that time. The..... More

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Item #724 [MODEL CIVIL BUILDING IN UKRAINE] Tipovi proekti robitnichikh budinkiv = Tipovye...

[MODEL CIVIL BUILDING IN UKRAINE] Tipovi proekti robitnichikh budinkiv = Tipovye proekty rabochikh domov [i.e. Model Projects of Workers’ Houses]

Kharkiv: Derzhavne vidavnitstvo Ukraini, 1928. 12 pp., 23 projects on 39 separate leaves. 35,3x22 cm. In original full-cloth with constructivist design gilt lettering. Soiling, some small tears, otherwise very good.  First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Text in Ukrainian and Russian. Extremely rare.  This is..... More

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Item #1065 [MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro

[MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]

Moscow: Société por les relations culturelles entre l'U.R.S.S. et les pays étrangers (VOKS), 1938. 8, [2], 21-66, [7] pp., 24 ills. 25x18 cm. In original red cloth with Metro logo on the front cover. Rubbed, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Very rare. Complete edition. The..... More

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Item #1027 [PERIODICAL OF UNREALIZED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS] Arkhitekturnaia gazeta. Prilozhenie...

[PERIODICAL OF UNREALIZED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS] Arkhitekturnaia gazeta. Prilozhenie [i.e. Architectural Newspaper. Supplement]

Moscow: [1934]-1939. Some issues have no year of publication but, most likely, they are dated 1934-1935. 165 issues altogether. 1935: #6, 7, 9, 10, 11/12 (x2), 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 56, 58, 59, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72. 1936: #4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11..... More

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Item #1370 [PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi...

[PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi pavil’on-stantsiia v Mar’inoi roshche postroiki 1924-25 g. [i.e. Reinforced Concrete Pavilion-Station in Mar’ina Roshcha, Built in 1924-1925] / Photographs by N. Lebedev

[Moscow: M.G.Zh.D., 1925]. Ca. 26,5x22 cm. Sixteen mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 11x15 cm. No captions. In original cloth folder with gilt lettering. Soiling of folder and foxing on the inner side, but the leaves are near fine. An attractive album of rare photos proving triumph of..... More

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Item #1089 [POST-CONSTRUCTIVIST SCHOOLS IN MOSCOW] Raport Lenintsev - shkoly postroeny [i.e....

[POST-CONSTRUCTIVIST SCHOOLS IN MOSCOW] Raport Lenintsev - shkoly postroeny [i.e. Report of Leninists - Schools Are Built]

Moscow: Leninsk. raikom VKP(b) i Raisovet, 1935. [32] pp.: ill. 37x27 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Slightly restored and soiled, double-leaf in the middle partly detached. First and only edition. One of 2500 copies. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat. Photomontage design was produced by Sergei Pomanskii..... More

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Item #785 [PRE-WAR HISTORY OF THE PALACE OF SOVIETS] Dvorets Sovetov / sost. Otdel...

[PRE-WAR HISTORY OF THE PALACE OF SOVIETS] Dvorets Sovetov / sost. Otdel tekhpropagandy stroitel’stva DS [i.e. The Palace of Soviets] / compiled by Department of Technical Propaganda of Building the Palace of Soviets

Moscow: Izd. Vsesoiuznoi akademii arkhitektury, 1939. 48 pp.: ill. 21x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine repaired, some stains, otherwise very good and clean internally. Very rare. “Palace of Soviets will be built definitely at the time set by the party and government” - this book stressed in 1939..... More

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Item #678 [READING ROOMS AS THE CULTURAL CENTERS IN PROVINCE] Tipovoi proekt raionnoi...

[READING ROOMS AS THE CULTURAL CENTERS IN PROVINCE] Tipovoi proekt raionnoi izby-chital’ni / sost. gub. inzh. I.P. Sukhanovym [i.e. Model Project of Provincial Reading Rooms / Drawn by Provincial Engineer I.P. Sukhanov]

[Ulyanovsk]: Izd. Ul’ianovskoi gubernskoi planovoi komissii, 1928. 8 pp., 5 ills. 34,5x46,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine, vertical creases in the middle of covers with small fragments of the front cover lost, pale stamps of the closed Soviet oil organization, otherwise very good and clean..... More

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Item #1807 [SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION THROUGH CAMERA LENS] Stroim [i.e. We Are Building] June for...

[SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION THROUGH CAMERA LENS] Stroim [i.e. We Are Building] June for 1930, #23/24, 61/62 for 1931, 34/35 for 1933, #2, 8, 9/10 for 1937. Overall 7 issues

Moscow, 1930-1937. 47x33 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. 1930 – 16 pp.: ill. Small fragments of spine and covers, tears of edges restored, pale coloured water stains, some soiling, otherwise very good. #23/23 (1931) – 8 pp.: ill. Spine restored, some soiling, otherwise very good. #61/62 (1931) – 8 pp...... More

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Item #564 [SOVIET CERAMICS] Stroitel’naia keramika: Katalog-spravochnik [i.e. Building...

[SOVIET CERAMICS] Stroitel’naia keramika: Katalog-spravochnik [i.e. Building Ceramics: Catalogue]

2nd ed. Kiev: Gostekhizdat USSR, 1954. 122 pp.: ill., 1 pl. 28x42 cm (oblong). In original publisher’s cloth. Lacking cardboard case, otherwise very good. One of 5000 copies. Design by artist T.D. Zinchenko. Very rare. A great collection of images of Kiev’s architecture with focus on ceramics used for..... More

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Item #679 [SOVIET IMPRESSIONS OF THE AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE] Opyt stroitel’stva za rubezhom: V...

[SOVIET IMPRESSIONS OF THE AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE] Opyt stroitel’stva za rubezhom: V Soedinennykh Shtatakh Ameriki (Po materialam otchetov delegatsii sovetskikh specialistov-stroitelei) [i.e. The Construction Abroad: In the United States of America (Based on the Reports of the Soviet Architects Delegation)]

Mosсow: Gosstroiizdat, 1956. 266 pp.: ill. 26,5x17,5 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. Slightly rubbed, previous owner’s signature on the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Rare. This is the book written after two trips of the Soviet..... More

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Item #1352 [THE STALINIST MOSCOW] Moskva rekonstruiruetsia: al’bom diagramm, toposkhem i...

[THE STALINIST MOSCOW] Moskva rekonstruiruetsia: al’bom diagramm, toposkhem i fotografii po rekonstruktsii gor. Moskvy [i.e. Moscow Is Being Reconstructed: An Album of Diagrams, Topographic Plans, and Photographs Relating to the Reconstruction of the Moscow City]

Moscow: Institut izobrazitel’noi statistiki sov. str-va i khoz-va TsUNKhU Gosplana SSSR, 1938. [234] leaves (including fold-out and small format): ill. 34,5x34,5 cm. In original blue cloth with blind lettering and blind embossed images of the Kremlin tower and the Palace of Soviets on the front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Very good..... More

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Item #799 [TWO PROSPECTUSES OF LENINGRAD VKHUTEIN

[TWO PROSPECTUSES OF LENINGRAD VKHUTEIN]

1. Otdel proektirovaniia Proizvodstvennogo biuro Akademii hudozhestv [i.e. Department of Projects in Production Bureau of Academy of Arts]. Issue 3. Leningrad: Tipografiia Akademii khudozhestv, [1926]. 28, [4] pp.: ill. 15,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers in constructivist style. In very good condition. 2. Arhitekturno-stroitel’nyj otdel Proizvodstvennogo bjuro pri Akademii Hudozhestv..... More

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Item #1218 [UKRAINIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE DESTROYED IN WWII] Kharkov

[UKRAINIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE DESTROYED IN WWII] Kharkov

Moscow: Editions en langues etrangeres, 1943. 32 pp., 2 ills. 19,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, slightly rubbed, spots occasionally, ink signature in French (J. Kléur. 5 Mars 1944. Ville Armavir) on p. 3. South Russian city Armavir twice became the scene of wartime actions: in..... More

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Item #851 [UKRAINIAN PHOTOMONTAGE] Za robitnyche zhytlo [i.e. For Workers’ Dwelling

[UKRAINIAN PHOTOMONTAGE] Za robitnyche zhytlo [i.e. For Workers’ Dwelling]

#1-5, 6/7, 8, 9/10 for 1931. Kharkiv: Ukrzhitlospilka, 1931. Overall 8 issues. 23,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers: #1-5 with constructivist composition; #6/7, 8, 9/10 with constructivist composition and printed illustration. Rubbed, minor fragments of cover paper lost (#1-2) and stains occasionally (#1, 9/10). Issues were disbound, the covers detached..... More

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Item #521 [URBAN RENEWAL IN THE 1930s] Rekonstruktsiya gorodov SSSR: (Al’bom) / Gosplan SSSR...

[URBAN RENEWAL IN THE 1930s] Rekonstruktsiya gorodov SSSR: (Al’bom) / Gosplan SSSR [i.e. Reconstruction of USSR Cities: (Album) / State Plan of the USSR].

Moscow: Standartizatsiya i ratsionalizatsia, 1933. [240] pp.: ill. 15,5x21,5 cm. In original constructivist cardboards. Illustrated endpapers. Very good, vertical crease of the front and back boards, tears and small losses of the spine, darkening of the spine and front endpapers, owner’s signature on the free leaf of the front endpaper..... More

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Item #1266 [THE WOODEN MAUSOLEUM] Childrens’ constructor, a movable calendar in shape of...

[THE WOODEN MAUSOLEUM] Childrens’ constructor, a movable calendar in shape of Lenin’s mausoleum’. 2 lithographed sheets

Leningrad: Priboy, [1925-1929]. 43x56,5 and 24,5x36 cm. The extremely rare example of this game that provides the additional insights into the ‘byt’ of Soviet children. The principle of puzzle: the sheet number two was serving as a base (the description advises to glue on the sheet with the..... More

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Item #1177 [BEST BOOK ON THE PALACE OF SOVIETS] Dvorets Sovetov [i.e. The Palace of Soviets]. N....

[BEST BOOK ON THE PALACE OF SOVIETS] Dvorets Sovetov [i.e. The Palace of Soviets]

Atarov, N.S.

Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1940. 164 pp., 20 ills. 22x17,5 cm. In original cloth with lettering and a photograph mounted on the front cover; granite-patterned endpapers. Spine slightly rubbed, a few small and pale informal stamps of Soviet period, otherwise near fine. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies..... More

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Item #1141 [HOUSES FOR THE PROLETARIAT] Sovremennye rabochie zhilishcha : Materialy dlia...

[HOUSES FOR THE PROLETARIAT] Sovremennye rabochie zhilishcha : Materialy dlia proektirovaniia i planovykh predpolozhenii po stroitel’stvu zhilishch dlia rabochikh [i.e. Contemporary Workers’ Dwellings: Materials for Projecting and Planned Suggestions for Building Dwellers for Workers]

Barkhin, G.

Moscow: Voprosy truda, 1925. 80 pp., 1 folding table. 23x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers with monograph MB. Restored, pale stamps of pre-war Ukrainian construction organization on the title page, pp. 13, 45, 55, 69, otherwise very good and clean copy. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies..... More

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Item #1268 [CHERNIKHOV MANUSCRIPT] Chertezh i risunok [i.e. The Draft and the Sketch]. Yakov...

[CHERNIKHOV MANUSCRIPT] Chertezh i risunok [i.e. The Draft and the Sketch]

Chernikhov, Yakov

St. Petersburg, 1919. [64] pp., [12] pp. (separately). 25,7x20,5 cm. Original cloth binding. Block is a bit shaky, otherwise very good. Manuscript book created by one of the legends of Soviet constructivism Yakov Chernikhov (1889-1951). The book under the same title has never been published. An incredible insight..... More

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