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Item #1873 [CHURCH IN THE EARLY USSR] Sluzhebnik na russkom iazyke. Sobranie Bozhestvennykh...

[CHURCH IN THE EARLY USSR] Sluzhebnik na russkom iazyke. Sobranie Bozhestvennykh liturgii, sovershaemykh Pravoslavnoiu Rossiiskoiu Tserkov’iu [i.e. Liturgicon in Russian. Collection of the Divine Liturgies Performed by the Russian Orthodox Church].

Nizhny-Novgorod: 1924. [2], XII, 122, [1] pp. 17,5x12 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with front cover glued above. Covers soiled, small hole in cloth on spine, leaves of endpapers and some sections detached from each other, some ink corrections, otherwise good. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies..... More

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Item #1874 [ROCK IN LENINGRAD : SAMIZDAT] Roksi. Biulleten’ Leningradskogo rok-kluba [i.e....

[ROCK IN LENINGRAD : SAMIZDAT] Roksi. Biulleten’ Leningradskogo rok-kluba [i.e. Roxy. Bulletin of the Leningrad Rock Club] #12 for 1987

[Leningrad, 1987]. 83 ll.: ill., on rectos only. 30x21 cm. Leaves not fastened and not bound. Some creases of the title leaf, cigarette smell. Typewritten text and full-page illustrations were created on rectos only and then reproduced by photocopy. Design was created by Iulia Tyshkevich. “Roxy” is considered..... More

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Item #2812 [SAMIZDAT & HANDMADE] Historically Significant Samizdat Archive of Alexander...

[SAMIZDAT & HANDMADE] Historically Significant Samizdat Archive of Alexander Khvoles (1920–?) and his family, consisting of approximately 60 samizdat editions and compilations, together with related correspondence, photographs, and manuscript material

[Tskhinvali–Tbilisi, ca. 1950s–1980s]. Approximately 1,738 pages of typescript and photocopied texts, forbidden for legal distribution in the USSR. Predominantly loose typescript leaves printed on rectos only, stapled. Together with several photocopied samizdat editions (including Sakharov o sebe), four bound volumes of typescripts photocopied manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and related ephemera. Formats..... More

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Item #1611 [DISSIDENT SAMIZDAT] Razmyshleniia o progresse, mirnom sosushchestvovanii i...

[DISSIDENT SAMIZDAT] Razmyshleniia o progresse, mirnom sosushchestvovanii i intellektual’noi svobode [i.e. Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom]

[1968]. 38 pp. 21x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Some soiling of wrappers, otherwise mint. Typewritten edition. A crucial essay written by the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989). In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to the abuse of power and..... More

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Item #774 [SAMIZDAT OF THE BEST-KNOWN WORK BY STRUGATSKY BROTHERS] Gadkiie lebedi [i.e. The...

[SAMIZDAT OF THE BEST-KNOWN WORK BY STRUGATSKY BROTHERS] Gadkiie lebedi [i.e. The Ugly Swans]

N.p., [1970s-1980s]. 132 typewritten pp. 30x21 cm. Unbound. As new. This is a samizdat copy of the novel ‘The Ugly Swans’ by brothers and co-authors Arkady (1925-1991) and Boris (1933-2012) Strugatsky, the leaders of the Soviet science fiction. The ideas of Strugatsky duo were innovative but relevant to..... More

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Item #214 [SYNOPSIS OF TOLSTOY] Kratkoe izvlechenie iz Evangeliya v perevode L.N. Tolstogo [i.e....

[SYNOPSIS OF TOLSTOY] Kratkoe izvlechenie iz Evangeliya v perevode L.N. Tolstogo [i.e. The Brief Extraction From the Gospel by L.N. Tolstoy]

1902. Manuscript. 89 pp. 22x17,5 cm. Inscription ‘K. Gorbachev. Moscow. 1902’ on the endpaper. Owner’s contemporary binding. Brass corners on the front cover. Good condition. Handwritten notes to unrelated book at the back. The rare example of the handwritten summary of Tolstoy’s adaptation of Gospels. It was made in..... More

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Item #332 [ANIMAL FARM

[ANIMAL FARM]

Ferma zhivotnykh [i.e. Animal Farm]. [N.p., 1970s]. Typescript. 61 leaves. 30x21 cm. Owner’s cardboard binding. Fine. The first page contains a short biography of George Orwell, taken from Big Soviet Encyclopedia, printed in 1974. Orwell’s satire on the totalitarian regime was too candid for Soviet censors, so the author..... More

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Item #336 [CHILDREN’S LITERARY GAME

[CHILDREN’S LITERARY GAME]

Literaturnyi kvartet [i.e. Literary Quartet]. [N.p., 1930s]. 60 cards. Heavy paper, black and red ink. Very good. Some staining and pencil corrections, general wear. A rare survival of the time. The cards are supposed to resemble playing cards. Each card has a suite - it’s a name of Russian..... More

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Item #197 [HANDMADE CHILDREN’S MAGAZINE] Nash zhurnal “Yunye druzia” [i.e. Our Magazine...

[HANDMADE CHILDREN’S MAGAZINE] Nash zhurnal “Yunye druzia” [i.e. Our Magazine “Young Friends”] / sotrudniki zhurnala [i.e. employees of the magazine]: Tekik Reihard, Vanya Egorov, Olushek Dvezhitskaya Marisya Burzi, Tasya Egorieva [and others]

N.p.: “Strela”, [1924]. [15] pp. 35,5x22 cm. In colored illustrated wrappers. Text block sewed together with white thread. Text is typewritten. Tears, stains, covers not attached to the block. Otherwise good. Unique example of children’s samizdat. There are table of contents, two stories, a riddle, a poem, a retelling..... More

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Item #333 [HOW TO MAKE CAMPARI IN SOVIET KITCHEN

[HOW TO MAKE CAMPARI IN SOVIET KITCHEN]

[Soviet cooking book]. Handwritten album, with newspaper clippings to illustrate courses. [N.p., 1970-80s]. 265 pp. 29x21 cm. Cloth folder. Fine. An interesting and somewhat naive document of the time. Apparently the complier of this book tried to include as many ‘international’ recipes as possible, often putting the originating country..... More

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Item #562 [LAUNCH OF AN EARLY JUVENILE SAMIZDAT

[LAUNCH OF AN EARLY JUVENILE SAMIZDAT]

1. Nasha mysl’: Izdanie uchashchikhsia 17 sovetskoi trudovoi shkoly II stupeni Sok. Raion [i.e. Our Thought : Edition of the Students of the 17th Soviet Labor School of the II Stage of Sok. District]. [1920]. 8 handwritten leaves with mounted illustrations. 38x23 cm. In original oversized wrappers with mounted illustration..... More

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Item #331 [RADIO PRISON

[RADIO PRISON]

Hand-made congratulatory charter. [Leningrad: 1st correctional labor colony, 1933]. 45x30 cm. Hand-written, watercolor. The charter was made by the prisoners of LFZITK #1 on the 16th anniversary of the Revolution. In the colony there was a radio workshop presumably consisting of engineers and workers of the radio industry. In..... More

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Item #1575 [A SAMIZDAT BOOK ABOUT RUSSIAN BANYAS] Banya lechit, banya pravit, banya vse popravit...

[A SAMIZDAT BOOK ABOUT RUSSIAN BANYAS] Banya lechit, banya pravit, banya vse popravit [i.e. Banya Heals, Banya Cures, Banya will Fix Everything]

Ca. [1960s]. [38], 124 pp. 20.8x30 cm. Owner’s cloth binding, 1 page detached, previous owner’s ink inscription on the verso of the front cover (“From the books of E. G. Selipanov. Tbilisi”). Otherwise fine. An interesting samizdat book about bathhouses published in the Soviet Union in the 1960s..... More

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Item #335 [UNPUBLISHED CHILDREN’S BOOK

[UNPUBLISHED CHILDREN’S BOOK]

Skazka kak Lyon’ka-Buza pionerom stal [i.e. Fairy Tale of How Shindy Lyon’ka Became a Pioneer]. [N.p., 1930s]. 10 pp.: ill. 28,5х22 cm. In paper boards with a colored front cover. Squared notebook, violet pencil, drawings on separate leaves of paper bound in. Manuscript layout for a children’s book that..... More

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