Lot of two items that belonged to German Poleshchuk, Ukrainian cinema technician in Odessa in 1920s: 1. Handmade album of frames from silent films. [Odessa, 1920s]. [70 pp.] 2242 individual frames. 21х15 cm (album), 2x3,5 cm (each frame). Handmade cardboard binding. Poleshchuk was working in one of Odessa’s..... More
Collection gathering various pieces of a print chronology of Russian and Soviet cinema in the 1900s-1940s. Starting from one pre-revolutionary book (1909), this collection tied the very beginning of cinematography when it considered just an evolution of a static photograph and the middle of the 20th century when Eisenstein shot..... More
![Item #1322 [UKRAINIAN CINEMA] Al’bom Ukrains’kogo kino [i.e. Album of the Ukrainian Cinema](/pictures/thumb/1322.jpg?v=1634133354)
Kyiv: Vufku, 1928. 52 pp.: ill. 26x17.5 cm. In the original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities, worn, decompressed Ukrainian library stamps and inventory numbers on the title-page, p.17, soiled wrappers. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Text in Ukrainian and French. With numerous black..... More
![Item #579 [RODCHENKO’ S COVER & EHRENBURG AS FILM CRITIC] Materializatsia fantastiki [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/579.jpg?v=1547732609)
Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1927. 30, [2] pp. 17x13 cm. In publisher’s photomontage wrappers. Very good. Spine is slightly rubbed, bleak damp stain on the lower part throughout the book. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Constructivist photomontage wrappers designed by Alexander Rodchenko. Little has been written about journalist and..... More
![Item #771 [SOVIET CINEMA THERAPY] Patokinografiia v psikhiatrii i nevropatologii [i.e. Cinema...](/pictures/thumb/771.jpg?v=1563926933)
Moscow: Biomedgiz, 1936. [2], 244, [6] pp., 20 ills. 21х15,5 cm. In original cloth with silver lettering. Rubbed, water stains on the lower inner corner of p. 222-243 and the last leaf with illustrations. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. This is the first..... More
![Item #354 [TALKS ABOUT CINEMA] Chelovek na ekrane: Chetyre besedy o kinoiskusstve. Dnevnik...](/pictures/thumb/354.jpg?v=1513338326)
Moscow: Goskinoizdat, 1947. 280 pp.: ill., 28 pl. 22,5x16 cm. In original cloth. Design by Solomon Telingater (1903-1969). Endpapers design made by B. Kolesnikov, designed by S. Telingater. Binding slightly rubbed and soiled, small tear of the paper on the front pastedown. Otherwise near fine. Inscribed by the author on..... More