![Item #194 [GIGANTIC TURNIP BY SIMONOVICH-EFIMOVA] Skazka Repka [i.e. The Gigantic Turnip](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/194.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483909032)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1937. [12] pp.: ill. 24,5x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the extremities. Otherwise very good. Lithographed edition. Covers and illustrations by Nina Simonovich-Efimova (1877-1948), Russian Soviet artists, who worked in etching and autolithography techniques; one of the creators of the professional puppet theater in Russia..... More
1. [Croquet. Notebook]. [1870s]. 186 pp. 21x17 cm. Blue cloth with gilt lettering (‘Croquet’) on the front cover. Handwritten in black and colored pencils on the graph paper. Author’s occasional crossings. The notebook consists of paragraphs describing different aspects of croquet: general rules, manual how to set up hoops and..... More
![Item #115 [CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER DESIGN BY LAVINSKY] Ne poputchitsa [i.e. Not a Companion]. O. M....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/115.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472300061)
Moscow: LEF, 1923. 36 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. One of 3000. Very rare. Constructivist cover designed by Anton Lavinsky (1893-1968), Soviet artist and designer, member of LEF and artist for LEF magazine. He was close with Mayakovsky and the group of artists of Institute..... More
![Item #118 [COVER DESIGN BY GAMREKELI] Qurdi [i.e. Thief. Poems]. K. Kaladze](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472316802)
Tiflis: Trud, 1927. 14, [2] pp. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Author’s signature on the first page. Near fine. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Rare. Cover design by Irakli Gamrekeli (1894-1943), Georgian Soviet set designer and one of the founders of Georgian avant-garde stage design influenced by..... More
![Item #110 [FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON] Kritika prakticheskogo razuma i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/110.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472312469)
St. Petersburg: tip. A. Transhelya, 1879. XVIII, 110, 192, [3] pp. 20х14 cm. Contemporary half leather with faded gilt-lettering on the spine. Original covers are preserved. Rubbed, private library ink stamps on the front pastedown, cover and last page, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the title page, owner’s markings in text..... More
![Item #109 [FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON] Kritika chistogo razuma / per. M. Vladislavleva...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
St. Petersburg: tip. N. Tiblena (N. Nekludova), 1867. [4], IV, XXXVIII, XXXIV, 627 pp. 21x14,5 cm. In contemporary quarter leather. Scuffed boards and few pieces are missing, Soviet bookshops’ stamps, previous owner’s ink signature on several pages, pen signature and bookplate on the front endpapers («From books of professor D.S...... More
Moscow: izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1943. Issue #6. 24 pp. 25,2х16,8 сm. In original wrappers. Soiling and rubbings of covers, tear of the spine and p.19. Otherwise good copy. Inscribed on the front cover by Kapitsa: «Tov[arishch] Zverev look on p.13 about Narkomfin. P. Kapitsa»;. Markings in text by..... More
![Item #135 [UKRAINIAN BOOK OF JUNGLE] Dzhungli: Oppovidannya pro zhittya ditini mizh zvirima / Z...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/135.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472299315)
Kiev: Derzhavne Vid-vo Ukraini, 1929. 204 pp.: ill. 28x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers with tears and restoration, loss of the small piece and restoration of the spine, general soiling, stain on the upper side of few pages, small restoration of the edge of p.1. Illustrated throughout. Illustrations..... More
![Item #122 [FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/122.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
Saint Léger en Yvelines: 1915. 12х14,5 сm. Thank you note on the Pasteur Institute stationery: «Saint Léger en Yvelines, 22 June 1915. Dear Mr. Chairman, Let me express tremendous gratitude to you as the face of Russian Veterinary Society for electing me as honorary member and for wishes on..... More
![Item #130 [PETROV-VODKIN] Samarkandiya: Iz putevykh nabroskov 1921 g. [i.e. Samarkand. Travel...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/130.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472300225)
St. Petersburg: Akvilon, 1923. 49, [7] pp.: ill. 27x22 cm. In publisher's color lithographed illustrated wrappers. Rubbings and small tears, edges are chipped, tears and small losses of the spine, owner's signature on p.1 and markings on the back endpaper, rare foxing of the wrappers, very light stain of the..... More
![Item #131 [CLASSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY] Ishchem kupit'. Our desiderata [i.e. In Search to Buy. Our...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/131.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1474969391)
Mezhdunarodnaya kniga: Moscow, 1927. 16 pp. 21x13,6 cm. Original wrappers. Very good condition. The brochure was compiled by Petr Shibanov (1864-1935), the most well-known antiquarian bookseller of the time containing the short list of rarest Russian books. There are only 378 books in the list with prices that Mezhdunarodnaya..... More
![Item #195 [AGRONOMIC PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN] Na vystavku! [i.e. To the Exhibition!]. O. I....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/195.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483909363)
Leningrad: GIZMESTPROM, 1938. 18 pp. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers and illustrations by A.N. Viktorova. Restoration of the spine. The first and only edition. A coloring book. On every turn of the page there’s an image in color and the same image and outline of the same image opposite for..... More
![Item #134 [EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472322029)
Moscow: Kryazhev and May, 1806. [4], 362, [13] p., 1 frontispiece. 17,7x11,4 cm. Contemporary full leather. Title of the book gilt on the spine. Tiny hole in the title page, some stains but overall very good condition. Owner’s inscription ‘Shilovoy Tatiany’ on the endpapers done in the first quarter of..... More