![Item #888 [FREEDOM THROUGH THE KROKODIL MAGAZINE] Krokodil [i.e. Crocodile] #4-35 for 1989....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576159366)
Moscow: Pravda, 1989. 35,5x27 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some tears of edges and ink marks (#31). Crosswords in most issues are filled out. Almost complete year set of issues printed in a period of glasnost (i.e. publicity) marking the last years of the Soviet rule. They..... More
![Item #2485 [KUKRYNIKSY] Kukryniksy. Pochti portrety: Druzheskiye sharzhy i epigrammy [Kukryniksy....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2485.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755021947)
Moscow, 1932. 92 pp., ill. 29,5×23 cm. Publisher’s card boards. Illustrated paper dust-jacket. Very good condition. With some spots and rubbings on the covers. Tear to the dust-jacket. Kukryniksy was a creative group of three artist mostly famous for their caricatures. Here, they collaborated with Aleksander Arkhangelskiy (1889–1938), poet..... 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
Summelband of 8 editions: 1. Vishnya, O. Rasskazy [i.e. Short Stories]. Leningrad: Gos. tipografiia imeni tov. Zinov’eva, 1926. 61, [1] pp.: ill.+ [1] pp. of ads. 2. Bulgakov, M. Rasskazy [i.e. Short Stories]. Leningrad: Gos. tipografiia imeni tov Zinov’eva, 1926. 58, [3] pp.+[2] pp. of ads. 3. Romanov, P. Iumoristicheskie..... More
![Item #2782 [WARTIME SATIRE] Frontovoi iumor. Izdanie politicheskogo upravleniia Zapadnogo fronta...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2782.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781706933)
N.p., [1941]. 16 pp.: ill. 29x22 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed, rusty spots abound staple, some stains on covers, small tear of outer edge, horizontal crease throughout the issue, stains on upper outer corner of first two leaves, otherwise clean and good pages. The first issue... More
![Item #1100 [TELINGATER, KUKRYNIKSY, ARKHANGELSKY] O Babele, Gladkove, Zharove, Zoriche,...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1100.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604436299)
Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlya i fabrika, 1930. [46] pp., 1 ill: ill. 29×22 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards by Kukryniksy. Minor tears at the hinges of the spine. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Introduction by the head of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers Leonid Averbakh (1903-1937). The..... More
![Item #1435 [SOVIET PHOTOMONTAGE SATIRE] Elektricheskoe kreslo [i.e. Electric Chair]. A. Arnoux](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1435.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660816037)
Moscow: Ogonek, 1925. 40 pp. 14,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Ink signature on front cover, otherwise very good. The only work by the author that was adapted to Russian. The Ogonek book supplement #54 presented a work by French novelist and screenwriter Alexandre Arnoux (1884-1973). Small books, published..... More
![Item #443 [BORIS EFIMOV: SOVIET CARTOON ICON] Two handmade albums of newspaper clippings. B. E....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/443.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724778733)
Vol.1: [52 leaves: 1924-1936]. Vol.2: [52 leaves: 1937-1938]. 384 images. 29,5x21,5 cm. Cardboards with leather labels on spines with gilt lettering. Bindings with rubbings, occasional foxing, one clipping is lacking fragment. Otherwise very good. Handmade albums of Efimov’s caricatures that were printed in Izvestia and other newspapers during these..... More
![Item #141 [SOVIET SATIRE ARTISTS] Desyat' ocherkov o khudozhnikakh-satirikakh [i.e. Ten Essays on...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1474966294)
Moscow: Sovetsky khudozhnik, 1971. 296 pp.: ill., 10 ill. 22x17,5 cm. Original cloth binding with colored stamping on the front board and on the spine. Boards rubbed. Otherwise a very good to near fine condition. Illustrated throughout with a lot of black and white and colored illustrations. The..... More
![Item #2486 [ROSTA WINDOWS AND BEYOND] Vladimir Mayakovskiy. Raboty po izobrazitel’nomu...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2486.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755022514)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1938. 288 pp., ill. 25×19 cm. Publisher’s illustrated dust-jacket and card boards. Good condition. Some tears and losses of the dust-jacket, owner’s inscription on the half-title, otherwise good. Introduction by Osip Brik. Includes the catalogue of Mayakovsky’s work as an artist and a poster designer. Mayakovsky studied..... More
![Item #2061 [CARICATURES FOR INNER CIRCULATION] Politika. 5 carricatures NR. [litografii perom.]...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718632470)
Moscow: [Published by the author], 1922. 9 leaves 15×10,5 cm. Original hand-made wrapper, slightly soiled, but otherwise in very good condition. Likely produced in 1 copy only. As far as we could find out, the images have never been reproduced afterwards. The album produced by Radlov in the year..... More
![Item #500 [BOOK DESIGN BY SOLOMON TELINGATER] Napostovsky svistok: Stikhi i epigrammy [i.e. Post...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/500.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1533142566)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1932. [42] pp.: ill. 20x12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Very good, loss of the spine, covers rubbed, illustrated bookplate on the front pastedown (from the collection of O.S. Kuzmy). First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. A rare poetry book by satire poet Sergei Shvetsov..... More
![Item #289 [THE ESSENCE OF SOVIET SATIRE] Krokodil](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/289.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500465694)
№11, 12, 14, 19, 28-33, 40, 41, 46 for 1923. #2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 15-17 for 1924. #1 for 1925. #15/16 for 1932. All issues in a good condition, with tears of the wrappers (with minor losses of text #40, 41, 17), occasional foxing, soiling and stains; loss..... More
![Item #1095 [SOVIET-JAPANESE CONFLICTS] Samurai proschitalis’: literaturno-khudozhestvennyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1095.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604432495)
Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1939. 482 pp., 15 ills. 22,5x17,5 cm. In original full-cloth with illustrations and silver lettering. Very good, some spots. First and only edition. Very rare with no copies in Worldcat. A curious example of a book design mixing Stalinist parade editions, Krokodil caricatures and chronicles of the..... More
![Item #743 [CARICATURE AND CARTOONS AS PROPAGANDA TOOL] Karikatura na sluzhbu urozhaiu [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/743.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563918265)
Moscow: Krokodil, 1934. 40 pp.: ill. 13x17,5 cm. In original illustrated stapled wrappers. Very good. Wrappers detached, small tears of wrappers, some rust on staple. First and only edition. One of 15000 copies. From the series “Library of Editor of Political Department”. Detailed and illustrated manual for editors and..... More