![Item #1162 [AVIATION ‘FEVER’ IN THE EARLY SOVIET UNION] Shturm neba: Sb. izbr. avio-stikhov...](/pictures/thumb/1162.jpg?v=1612376427)
Kharkiv: Ukrvozdukhput’, 1924. [78] pp. 11x15.4cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Title-page lacks a small fragment at the top (no text affected). Otherwise in a very good condition. First edition. This is an extremely rare collection of an early Soviet verses dedicated to aviation. The edition, which was printed..... More
![Item #1302 [A FAREWELL TO VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY] Klubnyy repertuar [i.e. Club Repertoire](/pictures/thumb/1302.jpg?v=1634127906)
Moscow: VTSSPS, 1930. #5 of 12 published. 48 pp.: ill. 25x18 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Extremely rare. This fifth issue of the Club Repertoire magazine is dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). Printed in Moscow in 1930, the Club Repertoire was a supplement to a bimonthly illustrated..... More
![Item #1046 [FIRST RUSSIAN COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING POETS] Angliiskie poety v biografiiakh...](/pictures/thumb/1046.jpeg?v=1601474980)
St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Kotomina, 1875. XXXII, 448 pp. 26,5x19 cm. In contemporary red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and colored decorative elements on the front cover. Some rubbing and foxing, lack of the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is the..... More
![Item #767 [GUDIASHVILI AS CONSTRUCTIVIST] Gruzii poety i pisateli SSSR [i.e. To Georgia! The...](/pictures/thumb/767.jpg?v=1563926208)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1931. XV, 160 pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. Minor soiling. Partly uncut. 21,5x14,5 cm. 1 of 3000 copies printed. The collection of poetry and prose, gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Georgian Soviet Republic. All of the text is in..... More
![Item #508 [MAYAKOVSKY’S WORK FOR ADVERTISING] Izvestiya. #175 (August 2nd, 1924](/pictures/thumb/508.jpg?v=1533145411)
Moscow: Krasnyi mayak, 1924. 8 pp.: ill. 65x54 cm. Very good. A very fragile newspaper with tears of the extremities and spine, ink stamp of the non-existing library (Lenin’s institute). An extremely rare survival of the time. Page 8 with advertisements including an illustrated ad for ABC with poem..... More
![Item #1289 [ANONYMOUS KHARKIV AVANT-GARDE] Gromy o mramor: Stikhi 1924-25 goda [i.e. Thunders...](/pictures/thumb/1289.jpg?v=1634124963)
Kharkiv: Proletarii, 1926. 102, [2] pp. 17x15 cm. In original avant-garde wrappers with an unknown monogram. Spine, covers and title page repaired, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Scarce. Anonymous cover design shows a typical contemporary approach of illustration of a two-word expression. The..... More
![Item #1304 [THE CIVIL WAR] Semen Proskakov: Stihotvornye primechanija k materialam po istorii...](/pictures/thumb/1304.jpg?v=1634128237)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1928. 51 pp., 6 ills. 21x14 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine repaired, some stains, minor tears of edges of oversized covers, p. 3-14 detached from text block, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. The book is written by futurist poet..... More
![Item #102 [BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like...](/pictures/thumb/102.jpg?v=1528812957)
Moscow: Knigoizdatelstvo Skorpion, 1903. [2], 290 pp. 8vo. The copy is in exceptionally fine contemporary half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers and gilt lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper illustrated by Fidus (the famous German symbolist artist Hugo Hoppener) preserved. A fine copy. First edition. This is..... More
![Item #1406 [A PROVINCIAL EDITION] Inaya derevnya. Stikhi i poemy 1916-1923 godov [i.e. Another...](/pictures/thumb/1406.jpg?v=1658796915)
Samara: Samarskiy gubizdat, 1923. 82 pp. 17,5x12 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, faded, otherwise very good and clean internally. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 1,500 copies. K. Avdeev’s ex-libris (designed by artist Likdenbaum) on the verso of the front wrapper. A collection of..... More
![Item #499 [SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/499.jpg?v=1533142331)
Shanghai: 1930. [6], 317 pp. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A.A. Yaron. Very good/near ne condition. The spine is very carefully fixed. Extremely rare. First and only edition. Lev Grosse (1906-1950), writer and son of Viktor Grosse (1869-1931), Russian diplomat, one of the active members of the..... More
![Item #1335 [AN EARLY COLLECTION OF POEMS BY ONE OF THE LAST SOVIET FUTURISTS] Opyty: Kniga...](/pictures/thumb/1335.jpg?v=1642546906)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 128, [4] pp. 19,8x13,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Previous owner’s pencil inscription on the title-page. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Geometrical wrapper design echoes avant-garde tendencies prevalent among supremacist and modernist artists of the late 1910s... More
![Item #129 [DESIGN BY TELINGATER] Slovo predostavlyaetsya Kirsanovu [i.e. The word belongs to...](/pictures/thumb/129.jpg?v=1472313452)
Moscow: GIZ, 1930. [84] pp. 20,5х9 cm. Original wrappers with letterpress lettering and photomontage illustrations. A very good copy. Some restoration of the covers. One of 3000 copies. An exceptional example of innovative constructivist typographic design by Telingater that intended to enhance the work of the leftist poet Semyon..... More
![Item #997 [ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH – LIFETIME EDITION] Golodnyak: [Stikhi] [i.e. Hunger: [Verses]]....](/pictures/thumb/997.png?v=1591802665)
Moscow: Tip. TSIT, 1922. [24] pp. 12,8x17,7 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Fine. Rare especially in such pristine condition. First edition. One of 1000 copies. AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF ZAUM VERSES BY THE WELL-KNOWN RUSSIAN FUTURIST ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH (1886-1968). The author went down in the..... More
![Item #122 [FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric....](/pictures/thumb/122.jpg?v=1472299990)
Moscow: 1930. 19 pp., ill. 21,5х18 сm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, two small closed tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. One of 250 copies. Very rare. Published by the author. Cover design by I. Kliun. Illustrations by I. Terentyev. This is one of the last..... More
![Item #1405 [THE FIRST BOOK BY OSIP MANDELSTAM] Kamen’: Stikhi [i.e. A Stone: Verses]. O....](/pictures/thumb/1405.jpg?v=1658796788)
St. Petersburg: Akme [printed at the author’s expense by Iu. Mansfeld], 1913. [2], 34 pp. 21x14 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine restored, some pale stains on the covers, few pencil marks, otherwise very good. A good copy of the first edition of the first book by..... More
![Item #1159 [MANDELSTAM MASTERPIECE] Egipetskaia marka [i.e. Egyptian Stamp]. O. Mandelstam](/pictures/thumb/1159.jpg?v=1612375538)
Leningrad: Priboi, 1928. 187, [5] pp. 17,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Covers and spine rubbed, with tears and minor fragments lost, some stains, ink note on the last page, otherwise very good. First full publication. Cover design was produced by artist and engraver Evgenii Belukha (1889-1943). In..... More
![Item #1217 [ONE OF THE RAREST MANDELSTAM EDITIONS] Primus. Detskie stikhotvoreniya [i.e. Primus....](/pictures/thumb/1217.jpg?v=1617188714)
Leningrad: Vremia, 1925. [16] pp. 26x21 cm. One of 8000 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Few small tears to the spine, few millimeters cut from the top of the block. Coupe of small stains on p. [3]. Otherwise very good. Legendary rarity. No paper copies located in Worldcat..... More
![Item #1379 [MAYAKOVSKY AGAINST WORLD WAR I] Voyna i mir: [Poema] [i.e. The War and the World: [A...](/pictures/thumb/1379.jpg?v=1650381821)
Petrograd: Parus, 1917. 48 pp. In original publisher’s wrappers. Front cover detached from block, otherwise very good and clean copy. The first separate edition of Mayakovsky’s poem The War and The World, which became the culmination of the author’s anti-war pathos. The outburst of World War I received..... More
![Item #1127 [MAYAKOVSKY INFURIATING LENIN] 150.000.000. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/1127.jpg?v=1608114855)
Moscow: Gos. izd., 1921. 70 pp. 13.6x18 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Light soiling of the wrappers, private library stamp on the front wrapper, title-page, p. 3, and p. 25. Otherwise near fine. Rare. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. SCARCE LIFETIME EDITION OF THE FUTURIST POETRY..... More
![Item #1389 [MAYAKOVSKY-RODCHENKO] No. S Novye Stikhi [i.e. No. S. New Poems]. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/1389.jpg?v=1658499859)
Moscow: Federatsiya, 1928. 108 pp., 1 portrait. 18x13,5 cm. In original publisher’s constructivist wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko. Small fragments of spine lost, oversized covers slightly rubbed and bumped, minor tears and spots. Previous owner’s signature on the title page (1924). Otherwise very good. First edition. 1 of 3,000 copies..... More
![Item #827 [MAYAKOVSKY’S CRY OF THE SOUL] Razgovor s fininspektorom o poezii [i.e. Conversation...](/pictures/thumb/827.png?v=1569960326)
Tbilisi: Zakkniga, 1926. 14 pp., 1 ill. 17.6x13cm. In original photomontage wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko. Tear of the spine, four pages are detached, soviet bookselling stamps on the rear wrapper. Otherwise in a good condition. First edition. 1 of 5000 copies. An epitome of Mayakovsky’s inner struggle that had..... More
![Item #1163 [MAYAKOVSKY’S REQUIEM FOR LENIN] Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/1163.jpg?v=1612376623)
Leningrad: Gosizdat Krym. ASSR, 1925. 94, [1] pp. 17,2x13 cm. In original printed wrappers with constructivist design on the front wrapper. Very good, restoration of the spine, pale stain near spine throught the book, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, front cover sligtly chipped on the lower margin, covers..... More
![Item #1392 [SEN’KIN] Bez doklada ne vkhodit’ [i.e. No Admittance without Being Announced]. V....](/pictures/thumb/1392.jpg?v=1658793894)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 110, [2] pp. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine copy with uncut pages, slightly chipped, pale water stain on the upper edge of the back cover. First and only edition. One of 3,000 copies produced. Rare. Cover design was produced by one..... More
![Item #1387 [MAYAKOVSKY AND TRETYAKOV ON THE SECOND LABOR CODE] Rasskaz pro to, kak uznal Fadey...](/pictures/thumb/1387.jpg?v=1658499602)
Moscow: Trud i Kniga, 1924. 47, [1] pp: ill. 17x13 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Samuil Adlivankin. Spine and pages along the spine restored, otherwise mint. Scarce. First edition. Wrapper design and black and white illustrations by the Soviet artist Samuil Adlivankin (1897-1966). An agitational poem written..... More
![Item #264 [MAYAKOVSKY AS LITERARY CRITIC] Kak delat’ stikhi? [i. e. How are Verses Made?]. V....](/pictures/thumb/264.jpg?v=1491999447)
Moscow: Ogoniok, 1927. 54, [2] pp. 15x11,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, wrappers slightly rubbed several stains and owner’s pencil marks in text. Scarce. One of 14500 copies. First edition of the most elaborate piece of Mayakovsky’s literary criticism (he’s done only few other critical works and..... More