![Item #2138 [DOSTOEVSKY ON NEKRASOV] Na pamyat' o Nikolae Alekseeviche Nekrasove [i.e. In memory...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2138.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724785504)
St. Petersburg: F.S. Suchinsky, 1878. 147, III pp. 8vo. Frontispiece is a drawing from a photo of Nekrasov on his deathbed by William Carrick. Contemporary quarter-leather. Good condition. Spine leather restored. Rare. A volume of stories collected to commemorate the death of the Russian classic poet, N. A...... More
![Item #2120 [FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT BYRON] Zapiski o lorde Bairone [i.e. Journal of the...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724759543)
St. Petersburg: tip. N. Grecha, 1835. Vol.1. [4], VIII, 197 pp., [1] front.; Vol.2. [4], 153 pp. 8vo. Lord Byron's portrait on the frontispiece. Two volumes in contemporary quarter-leather bindings, with gilt-lettering on spines. Labels on spines, some rubbings to covers, pre-revolutionary library stamps (Tallinn), foxing. Rare, especially with..... More
![Item #176 [MENDELEEV’S FAMILY CHRONICLE] Semeinaia khronika v pis’makh materi, otsa, brata,...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/176.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483893275)
St. Petersburg: 1st Mendeleev congress, 1908. [2], 239 pp.: ill., 8 port. and 5 ill. on separate leaves. 23x15.5 cm. Original publisher’s wrappers. Very good. The frontispiece is detached from the text block, some minor tears to the wrapper. Rare. One of the first books about Dmitry Mendeleev’s life..... More
![Item #1463 [AVIATION] Brat’ia Rait = The boys’ life of the Wright brothers [i.e. The Wright...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1463.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660905234)
Moscow: Posrednik, 1933. 102, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped with small tears, covers slightly soiled, few minor stains on pages, tiny hole of p. 49-50, otherwise very good and clean. First Russian edition. One of 10 400 copies. Rare. Translation was undertaken by..... More
Berlin; St. Petersburg; Moscow: Izdvo Z.I. Grzhebina, 1922. 340 pp. 19,4x12,9 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Tear of the spine, foxing of the wrapper, foretitle and title-page detached, but otherwise in good condition. Scarce. First edition. Text in Russian. Published as part of the Letopis Revolutsii series. According..... More
![Item #1440 [THE MAIN BIOGRAPHER OF GORKY] Maksim Gor’kii : Biograficheskii ocherk : (Po novym...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1440.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660818708)
Leningrad: Kubuch, 1925. 79 pp. 23x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. No spine, covers almost detached, water stain on the upper inner corner. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Rare. Cover design features a small industrial composition dedicated to a proletarian writer Maxim Gorky. This is the..... More
![Item #139 [FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT LINCOLN] Avraam Linkol'n i velikaya bor'ba mezhdu...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/139.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472301241)
St. Petersburg: tip. Kukol'-Yasnopol'skogo, 1867. [2], 474, IV pp., 1 port. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding with gilt-lettering and decoration on the spine, decorations on boards in blind. Very good. Rubbed, few spots and owner's ink stamp on the title-page. First edition. The book is translated from German the year..... More
![Item #43 [MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RUSSIAN] Avtobiografiya [i.e. Autobiography] / translated and...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446496332)
St.Petersburg: V. Tushnov, 1874. 332 p. 18x13 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Good condition. First edition of John Stuart Mill's autobiography that was printed in Russian the next year after it appeared in English. Grigory Evlampievich Blagosvetov (1824-1880) who translated this book into Russian was the editor in chief..... More
![Item #2010 [MEMOIRS ABOUT VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV] Vospominaniya o Velemire Khlebnikove [i.e. Memoirs...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2010.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1714482314)
Moscow: Ogonek, 1926. 48 pp. 15x11.5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Soiling of the front wrapper, mild damp stain in the upper right and lower corners throughout the copy, otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. Front wrapper with Velimir Khlebnikov’s black-and-white portrait. The reminiscences of..... More
![Item #2168 [KIRILL ZDANEVICH’S TRIBUTE TO NIKO PIROSMANI] Niko Pirosmani:...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2168.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730199560)
Tbilisi: Literatura i iskusstvo, 1963. 139 pp., 20 full-page black-and-white ill. 20,4x13,7 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated cardboards. Worn edges, eight pages detached, but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Edited by G. Bebutov. Design by Kirill Zdanevich. 20 black-and-white reproductions of..... More
![Item #132 [ZDANEVICH BROTHERS] Kirill Zdanevich. Ilya Zdanevich. Katalog vystavki [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/132.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472323731)
Tbilisi: Gos. muzei iskusstv Gruzii, 1989. 80 pp.: ill. 22x31 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Extremely rare. In October of 1989 in the State Museum of Arts of Georgia (Tbilisi) was opened exhibition dedicated to Zdanevich brothers. Elen Zdanevich- Ilyazd, widow of Ilya Zdanevich (1894-1975), brought part of..... More
![Item #101 [FIRST RUSSIAN BIOGRAPHY OF BEECHER STOWE] Uchitel vzroslykh i drug detei:...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1450217902)
Moscow: Yunaya Rossiya, 1914. 126, [2] pp.: port. 19,5x15 cm. Later owner's binding. Cut edges, narrow piece of paper glued between pp. 4-5. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Uncle Tom's Cabin was very popular in Russia. It was first published in 1857 in Russia in periodical. Soon after..... More
![Item #1415 [A WELL-ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF LENIN] Zhizn’ Lenina [i.e. Kerzhentsev, P....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1415.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658798820)
Moscow: Partizdat TsK VKP(b), 1936. 332 pp.: ill. 32x26 cm. In publisher’s binding, with Lenin’s debossed gold and red portrait on the front cover and gold and red lettering on the spine; chased edges; in original cloth case with a small paper sticker. Professional restoration of the bottom of the..... More
![Item #65 [RODCHENKO DIARIES] Opyty dlya budushchego: Dnevniki. Statyi. Pis'ma. Zapiski [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/65.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472321319)
Moscow: Grant, 1996. 415 pp.: ill., port. 21x14 cm. In original publisher's binding. Fine. This book contains all diaries, programs, essays and major articles written by famous Russian artist and photographer Alexander Rodchenko in 1911-1956. Autobiographical notes, diaries accompanied by his photographs and images of his work. But the..... More
![Item #1209 [THE GREATEST POET OF THE HOLOCAUST] Fun Vilner geto = Vilenskoe Getto [i.e. From...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1209.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617186629)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1946. 256 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original cardboards. Good, covers rubbed and chipped, tear of the spine, stains occasionally. One of 10 000 copies. The laconic design of the book was created by Soviet artist Hersh Inger (1910-1995). In 1926-1930 he studied under Marc Epstein..... More