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Item #1014 [ART OF THE PEOPLE] Iskusstvo narodov SSSR: Sbornik statei i materialov / GAKhN [i.e....

[ART OF THE PEOPLE] Iskusstvo narodov SSSR: Sbornik statei i materialov / GAKhN [i.e. Art of People of the USSR: Collection of Articles and Materials / State Academy of Art Science]

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 160 pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Minor losses and tear of the spine, signature on t.p. otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. This is a collection of articles dedicated to the renaissance of national arts of..... More

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Item #1799 [FOLK ART] Iskusstvo narodov SSSR : Sbornik statei i materialov / GAKhN [i.e. Art of...

[FOLK ART] Iskusstvo narodov SSSR : Sbornik statei i materialov / GAKhN [i.e. Art of People of USSR : Collection of Articles and Materials] / State Academy of Art Science

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 160 pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Small fragments of spine lost, some foxing on covers, signature on t.p., otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. This collection of articles is dedicated to the..... More

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Item #1608 [FOLKLORE IN THE USSR] Pesni narodov SSSR [i.e. Songs of Peoples of the USSR] /...

[FOLKLORE IN THE USSR] Pesni narodov SSSR [i.e. Songs of Peoples of the USSR] / Compiled by A. Globa

Moscow: GIHL, 1933. 194 pp. 18,5x12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Ornamental endpapers. Binding rubbed and bumped, slightly soiled, otherwise very good and clean internally. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. Songs were collected by writer and playwright Andrei Globa (1888-1964). He also supervised adaptation into Russian. Design..... More

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Item #178 [RUSSIAN FOLK LEGENDS] Narodnye russkiye legendy, sobrannye Afanasievym [i.e. Russian...

[RUSSIAN FOLK LEGENDS] Narodnye russkiye legendy, sobrannye Afanasievym [i.e. Russian Folk Legends Collected by Afanasiev]

Moscow: N. Shchepkin i K.Soldatenkov, 1859. XXXII, 204, II pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary half leather binding. Very good, rubbed binding, loss of a few small pieces of the spine, no free leaf of the back endpapers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back pastedown. First edition. Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasiev (1826-1871)..... More

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Item #2465 [FOLK ART OF CRIMEAN TATARS] Ornamental’noe shit’e Kryma [i.e. Ornamental...

[FOLK ART OF CRIMEAN TATARS] Ornamental’noe shit’e Kryma [i.e. Ornamental Needlework of Crimea]

Moscow: Vsesoiuznoe kooperativnoe ob’edinennoe izdatel’stvo, 1938. 62, [2] pp.: ill. 25x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, ink signature on title page, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. This well-illustrated book is an example of pre-war Crimean Tatar cultural renaissance..... More

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Item #2101 [SOVIET MYSTICS] Serebriannaia priazha [i.e. The silver yarn. The fairy-tales of...

[SOVIET MYSTICS] Serebriannaia priazha [i.e. The silver yarn. The fairy-tales of Ivanovo textile workers]

Moscow: Sovetskiy pisatel, 1946. 260 p. 20x14 cm. Original publisher’s textile binding with floral ornament. Overall good condition. First and only edition. Mikhail Kochnev (1914-1974) was a Soviet folklorist and a poet, who was born and raised in Yuriv-Polskiy area of Ivanovo region, close to the border with..... More

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Item #2464 [UKRAINIAN FOLK ART] Motivy ukrainskogo ornamenta [i.e. Motifs of Ukrainian...

[UKRAINIAN FOLK ART] Motivy ukrainskogo ornamenta [i.e. Motifs of Ukrainian Ornaments]

Kharkiv; Saint Petersburg: Izmailovskii polk 6 rota, [early 20th century]. 40 plates of illustrations. 17x27 cm. Illustrated front part of original folder preserved. In custom folder and cardboard case, both duplicate original design. Creases and narrow lost fragments of front cover restored, pale water stains on blank margins of plates..... More

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Item #366 [NATIONAL COSTUMES OF KALUGA] Krestianskaya odezhda Kaluzhskoi Gamayunshchiny:...

[NATIONAL COSTUMES OF KALUGA] Krestianskaya odezhda Kaluzhskoi Gamayunshchiny: Etnografichesky ocherk [i.e. Peasants Clothing of Gamayunshchina of Kaluga: Ethnographical Study]

29, [2] pp., 9 pl. 22x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears and rubbings of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Extremely rare. One of 1150 copies. First and only edition. Published by History Society of Kaluga..... More

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Item #2571 [AFGHANISTAN] Afganskiye skazki i legendy [i.e. Afghan Tales and Legends: Tranlated....

[AFGHANISTAN] Afganskiye skazki i legendy [i.e. Afghan Tales and Legends: Tranlated. from Pashto] / Complied, preface and notes by K.A. Lebedev; Typological analysis of plots and motifs of the tales by A.A. Yaskelyain.

Moscow : Nauka, 1972. 280 p. : il. 20,2x13,5 cm. First edition. The edition came out in the series ‘Tales and Myths of the Nations of the East’, supervised by the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. Soviet anthology of Aghan tales, it was prepared from original Pashto editions..... More

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Item #103 [COLLECTION OF FOLK UKRAINIAN SONGS COMPILED BY LESYA UKRAINKA] Narodnye melodii, z...

[COLLECTION OF FOLK UKRAINIAN SONGS COMPILED BY LESYA UKRAINKA] Narodnye melodii, z golosu Lesi Ukrainki / zapisav i uporyadiv Kliment Kvitka. Chast' I [i.e. Folk Songs, from the Voice of Lesya Ukrainka, Written down and Organized by Kliment Kvitka. Part I].

Kiev: 1917. [1], 128 pp.: music. 8vo. Original publisher's wrappers. Lithographed edition. Spine rubbed with small tears, wrappers is unattached to the text, some creases to the covers. First edition of the first collection. Scarce. Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) was a Ukrainian writer, translator, civil activist. Besides poetry and journalism..... More

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Item #1077 [FOLKLORE OF THE REPRESSED] Skazki i legendy tatar Kryma [i.e. Folk Tales and...

[FOLKLORE OF THE REPRESSED] Skazki i legendy tatar Kryma [i.e. Folk Tales and Legends of Crimean Tatars] / Compiled by K. Useinov

[Simferopol]: Gosizdat Krym. ASSR, 1936. 373, [3] pp.: ill. 18х13 cm. In original full-cloth with floral decoration. No dust jacket. Rubbed, text block weakened, with title double-leaf detached, tears of endpapers and frontispiece, otherwise very good and clean internally. First edition. Rare. An introductory article by philologist Sergei Kotsubinskii (1909-1943)..... More

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Item #826 [A GAME OF DESTINY] Gadal'nyye karty “Russkiye poslovitsy i pogovorki” / po...

[A GAME OF DESTINY] Gadal'nyye karty “Russkiye poslovitsy i pogovorki” / po risunkam N.F. Petrova [i.e. Fortune Telling Cards “Russian Proverbs and Sayings” / Drawings by N.F. Petrov

St. Petersburg: Kartochnaya fabrika Imperatorskogo Vospitatel'nogo doma, 1909. A full set of 36 cards. 7,8x7,8 cm. In a very good condition. Several cards lack small pieces at the edges. The lot includes a booklet of fortune-telling interpretations. Kartochnaya fabrika Imperatorskogo Vospitatel'nogo doma, 1909. 30pp. 8.3x16.2cm. In publisher’s wrappers..... More

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Item #1072 [THE PAMIRIS’ ART] Ornament gornykh tadzhikov Darvaza (Nagornaia Bukhara) [i.e....

[THE PAMIRIS’ ART] Ornament gornykh tadzhikov Darvaza (Nagornaia Bukhara) [i.e. Ornament of Darvaz Pamiris (Bukhara)]

Moscow: Tipo-lit. t-va I.N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1900. [4] pp., 20 ills. 37х29 cm. In original cardboards. Very good, foxing occasionally, slightly rubbed, bookplate on the rear side of the front cover. First edition. Scarce. An interesting survey of traditional ornaments of Pamiris, an ethnic group of Tajik people..... More

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Item #1156 [HOW TO MAKE WOODEN TOYS: A MASTERCLASS FROM THE SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST] Reznaya igrushka...

[HOW TO MAKE WOODEN TOYS: A MASTERCLASS FROM THE SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST] Reznaya igrushka iz dereva: So mnogimi ris. [i.e. Carved Wooden Toys: With Multiple Illustrations]

Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 64 pp.: ill., schemes. 19.8x13.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the small pieces of the spine, Soviet bookshop stamp on the rear wrapper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Wrappers by an unknown artist. With black-and-white photographs and schemes throughout..... More

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Item #117 Raymonda. Ballet en trois acte. Sujet de Lydie Pachkoff et de Marius Petipa [i.e....

Raymonda. Ballet en trois acte. Sujet de Lydie Pachkoff et de Marius Petipa [i.e. Raymonda. Ballet in three acts. Libretto by Lidia Paskova and Marius Petipa].

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

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Item #173 [RUSSIAN WOODEN ARCHITECTURE] Pamyatniki derevyannykh tserkovnykh sooruzheniy....

[RUSSIAN WOODEN ARCHITECTURE] Pamyatniki derevyannykh tserkovnykh sooruzheniy. Starinnye khramy vo Vladimirskoy gubernii [i.e. The Wooden Religious Architecture. Old Churches of Vladimir Region] / drawings by Golyshev

Mstera: N. Golyshev, 1879. [4], 6 p., 21 ill. 41.5x29 cm. Original cloth. The title page is lithographed as well as illustrations. Good condition. The label of the pre-revolutionary Architecture Society on the endpaper as well as the bookplate of Maria Pribylova. Good condition overall, some soiling (result of turning..... More

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Item #1129 [RUSSIAN FOLK RHYMES ABOUT ANTI-RELIGION AND KOMSOMOL] Dlya derevni: Sb. pesen i...

[RUSSIAN FOLK RHYMES ABOUT ANTI-RELIGION AND KOMSOMOL] Dlya derevni: Sb. pesen i chastushek [i.e. A Collection of Songs and Limericks]

Moscow: Muz. sektor gos. izd-va, 1925. 28, [2] pp.: ill., musical sheets. 17.5x13 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers rubbed and soiled, big stain on the front cover, otherwise very good and internally clean. First edition. Scarce. A collection of some of the most popular Russian songs and..... More

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Item #143 [REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami...

[REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]

St. Petersburg: tip. A. Benke, 1905. [8] pp.: ill. 25,5x17 cm. In original chromolithographed wrappers. Fine. Small stain on the front cover. Unique charity edition of the Community of St. Eugene (the biggest pre-revolutionary publishing house of postcards) with two illustrations and six highly artistic initials. A great example..... More

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