A collection of letters that gives a fortunate insight into the life of 16-year-old Alexei Kruchyonykh. Very little is known about Kruchyonykh’s life prior to his graduation from Odessa Art School in 1906. Probably the first fact of the poet’s biography that is being mentioned is the acquaintance with..... More
![Item #241 [KUKRYNIKSY] Working sketchbook of Nikolai Sokolov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/241.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724763590)
Ca. second half of 1940s. Drawings in ink and pencil. 20 leaves. 17,5x12,2 cm. On the front cover artist’s self-portrait in a classical satirical manner, on the verso - an image of the notebook with artists’s caricature character ‘walking out of it’. Among other images are portraits, cartoons, political caricatures..... More
![Item #612 [PASTERNAK AND GEORGIA] Three letters and signed book by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960),...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/612.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551107329)
1. Pasternak, Boris. Okhrannaia gramota [i.e. The Protection]. Leningrad, 1931. 128 pp. 18x12,5 cm. In original cardboards. First edition of Pasternak’s autobiographical book, dedicated to his pre-revolutionary life. Inscribed by Pasternak on the half-title: “To Ilamaz Mitsishvili for the happiness and memory of those magnificent hours, that I spent at..... More
14 of July, 1935. [3] pp. Fine condition. Light tears of the edges. Sergey Korolev (1906-1966) was the Soviet engineer and spacecraft designer who now considered the father of practical astronautics and the founder of the Soviet space program. He led Soviet efforts to build and test the nation's..... More
Moscow: izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1943. Issue #6. 24 pp. 25,2х16,8 сm. In original wrappers. Soiling and rubbings of covers, tear of the spine and p.19. Otherwise good copy. Inscribed on the front cover by Kapitsa: «Tov[arishch] Zverev look on p.13 about Narkomfin. P. Kapitsa»;. Markings in text by..... More
![Item #877 [SOVIET VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC REGION] Tikhookeanskii dnevnik [i.e. The Pacific Ocean...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/877.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1573091694)
Moscow: Federatsiia, 1929. 222, [2] pp. 19,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine with small fragments lost, vertical crease of the front cover and some leaves, otherwise very good and clean copy. Signed by author on the half title (1929). First edition. One of..... More
![Item #756 [THEATRE COSTUME DESIGN] Rabota laboratorii MKhAT po sostavleniyu al’bomov formennoi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/756.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563921889)
[Moscow, 1946]. 25 leaves. 31x21 cm. Typewritten. Leaves are gathered in paper folder with pencil title written on the front flap. Signed and with correction by the author. Unpublished manuscript. This is a unique material on history of theatre costume design. Vladislav Lukomsky (1882-1946) was a Russian historian and..... More
Saint Léger en Yvelines: 1915. 12х14,5 сm. Thank you note on the Pasteur Institute stationery: «Saint Léger en Yvelines, 22 June 1915. Dear Mr. Chairman, Let me express tremendous gratitude to you as the face of Russian Veterinary Society for electing me as honorary member and for wishes on..... More
Borovikha: 1935. Borovikha, the 5th of December of 1935. 6 pp. 30х21 сm. This letter is Meyerhold’s response to memo sent to him by accountant-general of Meyerhold Theatre about employees getting personal salaries. This letter is addressed to Vladimir Glinsky (1888-1938), assistant director for the Theatre. The handwritten part..... More
![Item #1690 [AUTOGRAPH BY BORIS PASTERNAK] Poverkh bar’erov [i.e. Over the Barriers]. B. Pasternak](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1690.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1682081321)
Moscow: Tsentrifuga, 1917. 94 pp.+ 2 pp. of ads. 23x15 cm. In original wrappers with title mounted. Slightly faded, some foxing on front cover, minor tear of spine, otherwise very good. Signed by the author on a leaf inserted: “To dear sister Olya, with regular for relatives feeling of..... More
Moscow: 1898. 15,7х10,6 cm. Photographed in the studio by V. Chekhovsky. Early Shalyapin’s autographs are very rare. Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin (1873-1938) was a remarkable Russian opera singer whose vivid declamation, great resonance, and dynamic acting made him the best-known singer-actor of his time. He was very involved in..... More
![Item #1203 [STRAVINSKY - SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH] Signed portrait, ‘A Monsieur Jantos Baruro Sinceres...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1203.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1615202144)
A vintage gelatin silver print photograph, head and shoulders portrait in part profile with shadow [by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1934], inscribed and signed in blue ink on the upper right-hand area of the photograph, 8,5x13,5 cm, original mount, framed, and glazed. This original vintage photograph of Igor Stravinsky (1882 -..... More
Moscow, [1910s]. Paper, ink. Phototype made by K. Fisher. 22x14,3 cm. Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev (1843-1920), famous Russian botanist and physiologist, highly-regarded popularizer of science widely known for his enthusiastic public lectures, and moreover, a confirmed Darwinian, a point of view rarely espoused in czarist Russia. In 1910s Timiryazev was..... More
![Item #2801 [FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS] Pivnichyi Kavkaz. Ekonomheohrafichnyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2801.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781777362)
Kharkiv: Radians’ka shkola, 1931. 83 pp.: ill. 18x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, covers faded on edges, otherwise very good and clean internally. Allegedly inscribed by the author on the title page. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. In Ukrainian. This..... More
![Item #2794 [ADOLF STRAKHOV] Krutoe pereput’e. Povesti [i.e. A Fateful Crossroads. Stories]. P....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2794.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781774407)
Kharkiv: Proletarii, 1927. 184 pp. 18x13 cm. In late cardboards with original illustrated wrappers mounted above. Slightly rubbed and bumped, few minor stains, otherwise very good and clean pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: “To my dear wife Katya, in memory of the steep and winding paths..... More
Handwritten note by Leo Tolstoy dated 2 March 1893. No envelope or address: “It’s difficult to answer your question in writing. In words I might be able to advise you. Evening after 7 o’clock I'll be home”. More
![Item #164 [SIGNED BY DAVID BURLIUK] 1/2 veka. (Izdano k pyatidesyatiletiyu so dnya rozhdeniya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/164.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1475159394)
New York: Izd. Marii N. Burlyuk, 1932. 18 pp., 1 port. 31х24 cm. In original printed wrappers. Chinese red stamp and private library (Burliuk Gallery) stamp on p.3, Burliuk Gallery's stamp on the front cover. New tissue paper before the portrait. Signed by David and his wife Maria on..... More
![Item #1181 [GOLOVNIN'S AUTOGRAPH] Les Jardins, poème [i.e. The Gardens. Poems]. Jacques Delille](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1181.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613985253)
Paris: P. Didot, 1801. XXXV, 214 pp., 4 ill., 13,5x8 cm. Original full leather. Restoration of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. The first endpaper bears inscriptions and signatures of several interesting individuals which connect the book to Vasily Golovnin’s exploration of the Pacific. On the top..... More
Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff, 1898. 3-167, [1] pp. 35x28 cm. In later cloth. Illustrated front cover preserved. Stains on the boards and some restoration to the cover. Otherwise very good. Inscription by A. Glazunov on the front cover: «To dedicated musician and tireless social activist Boris Iosifovich Narovlyansky for a...... More
![Item #949 [THE BOOK INSCRIBED BY THE FOUNDER OF ISRAELI OPERA TO CHALIAPIN] Evreiskiy teatr v...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/949.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614855851)
Odessa: Kinaret, [1920s]. Printed wrappers, the spine is restored. Otherwise very good. A completely unrecorded brochure by the pioneer of Jewish opera inscribed by him to Fyodor Chaliapin on the front wrapper: ‘‘To Fiodor Ivanovich Chaliapin from devoted M. Golinkin’’. Mordekhai Golinkin (1885-1963) is considered the first..... More
![Item #431 [UNPUBLISHED MANIFESTO BY ILIAZD] Odezhda [i.e. The Clothing. Manifesto]. Iliazd, I. M....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/431.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519819985)
St. Petersburg, January of 1912. 72 pp. 27,5x15 cm. Typescript and manuscript on paper. Annotated and corrected in red ink and blue crayon. On the title page in blue crayon ‘write the drama or an epic’. Green card folder. Disbound. Very good, slightly soiled. This unpublished manifesto could be..... More
![Item #119 [PHOTOMONTAGE COVER DESIGN BY RODCHENKO] Chelovek na kryshe: Vtoraya kniga stikhov...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/119.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472130560)
Tiflis: Izd-vo ob-va «Zakkniga», 1928. 91 pp. 21x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page (in poetic form). First and only edition. Scarce. One of 3000 copies. Photomontage design of the cover by Alexander Rodchenko (defined by reference). Georgy Vladimirovich Kreitan..... More
![Item #1541 [FIRST BOOK BY GRIGOL ROBAKIDZE, INSCRIBED] Portrety [i.e. Portraits]. G. Robakidze](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1541.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669205925)
Tbilisi: Kavk. posrednik, 1919. 68 pp. 12.1x17.4 cm. In original printed wrappers. Loss of the tiny piece of the spine. Otherwise fine. Scarce. First edition. Text in Russian. Author’s ink inscription on the dedication page: To Elene Barnaveli. 23 March 1920. Wanderer. The first book published by the..... More
![Item #1346 [SHOSTAKOVICH’S AUTOGRAPH] 24 preliudii: dlia fortep’ano, Op. 34 [i.e. 24...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1346.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650338227)
Moscow: Muzgiz, 1934. 43 pp.: sheet music. 30x23 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Small tears of the spine, soiling of the back cover, with a small fragment lost, central double-leaf detached from the block, otherwise very good and clean internally. Signed by the composer on the title page: To..... More
24,7x16 cm (cardboard - 30x20 cm). Inscribed by Shostakovich under the photo in Russian: «To dear Vladimir Petrovich Nemeshaev for a good memory. D. Shostakovich. 29 VIII 1969 Moscow». Autograph addressed to V.P. Nemeshaev, the director of copyright department and employee of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers and..... More