St. Petersburg: komitet populyarizatsii khudozhestvennykh izdaniy pri Ros. akad. istorii mater. kul’tury, 1922. 88 pp., 11 black-and-white plates, frontispiece: ill. 20,8x16 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Binding worn with tears and pencil/ink marks, front wrapper and the text block loose, several pages detached, but otherwise good. Scarce. 1..... More

Moscow: Pravda, 1962. [84] pp.: ill. 35x26,8 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding. Original illustrated dust-wrapper preserved. Dust-wrapper with tears, but otherwise internally clean copy; with issue no. 103 of the 1961 newspaper Pravda [i.e. Truth] tipped in. 6 pp.: ill. 60x41,5 cm. Fine. Scarce with the dust-wrapper. First..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlya I fabrika, 1925. 68 pp.: 4 full-page black and white ill. 20,3x14,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine, wrappers worn, oil stains on the rear wrapper, but otherwise good condition. Scarce. First and only edition. Text in Russian. Edited..... More

Leningrad: Tea-Kino-Pechat’, 1928. 4 pp. 24,3x18,2 cm. Fold marks, closed tears, tale of the spine neatly restored with a tape, but otherwise in good condition. Scarce. 1 of 3,000 copies. Text in Russian. According to the colophon, the booklet was published by the Leningrad branch of “Tea-Kino-Pechat” and was officially..... More

Bridgeport, Conn.: Appliance and Merchandise Dept., General Electric Co., [1941?]. 30 pp.: ill. 22,4x14,9 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers detached, tears of the spine, but otherwise very good condition. Scarce. Text in English. Historically important wartime brochure, issued by the General Electric Consumers Institute, providing comprehensive instructions..... More

Moscow: OGIZ RSFSR, 1937. 152 pp. 13,3x17,9 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding. Covers slightly worn, the rear cover with mild ink stains, but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. Text in Chinese and Russian. Compiled by V. Bark. Edited by Khu-Dzia. An extremely rare Russian–Chinese..... More

St. Petersburg: Polyarnaya zvezda, 1922. 84 pp. 18,6×12,5 cm. In owner’s contemporary cardboards (without original wrappers). Very good. Tears of the title-page. Ex-library copy: library bookplate to the front pastedown and a blind library stamp on the title page. Scarce. First book edition. Text in Russian. A fascinating document..... More

Tokyo, Osaka: Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha, 1906. [4], XII, 596, 4, [2] pp. 19x13,2 cm. Original publisher’s full-cloth binding with gilt-lettered title (in Russian) and gilt-tooled ornaments on the spine. Binding reinforced with scotch tape. Traces of a library pocket on the verso of the front cover, inventory numbers on the..... More

Prague: Mladá fronta, 1951. 179 pp.: frontispiece. 20,9x14,7 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Edges slightly worn, but otherwise near fine. Scarce. First Czech edition. English original published in 1948. Translated from English by Vladimir Bernášek. Forward by George Wheeler. The book cover by Jan Brychta shows a grimacing..... More

[Moscow]: Izogiz, 1933. 48 pp. 12,3x9,9 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Light soiling of the wrappers, minor tears of the rear wrapper, but otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Text in Russian. An uncommon theoretical manifesto documenting the decisive shift of Soviet art from the experimental avant-garde culture..... More

Berlin: R.S.F.S.R. Gos. izd-vo, 1923. VIII, 252 pp., 49 full-page ill (ca. 14 color). 24,7x17,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Ivan Mozalevsky. Previous owner’s contemporary ink inscription (N. Khomutetsky) on the front wrapper. Very good. Wrappers worn, light damp stains throughout the copy, Soviet bookshop paper label on..... More

Kharkiv: Proletariy, 1925. 56 pp. 19,6x13,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by “Vs. A.” Damp stain in the upper left corner throughout the copy, but otherwise very good. Author’s ink inscription on the title-page: Tat’yane Nikolayevne Preobrazhenskoy s tovarishcheskim privetom ot avtora A. D. Popov. Moskva. 26/V/28 [i.e. To..... More

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1935. 144 pp: 2 maps, 26 black and white ill. 19,5x13,7 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated cardboards by Alexander Radishchev. Binding worn, loss of the pieces of the spine, but otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First Russian edition. English original published in 1926. Translated..... More