Two books on sex, originating from the same source: 1. Entsiklopediya intimnoi zhizni [i.e. The Encyclopedia of Intimate Life]. [N.p., 1970s]. 44 leaves. 30x22 cm. Typescript. In owner’s plastic folder. Soiling and deformations of the folder, clean text block. The Soviet underground translation of an American book from..... More
![Item #1611 [DISSIDENT SAMIZDAT] Razmyshleniia o progresse, mirnom sosushchestvovanii i...](/pictures/thumb/1611.jpg?v=1673280590)
[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
![Item #774 [SAMIZDAT OF THE BEST-KNOWN WORK BY STRUGATSKY BROTHERS] Gadkiie lebedi [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/774.jpg?v=1563927429)
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
![Item #214 [SYNOPSIS OF TOLSTOY] Kratkoe izvlechenie iz Evangeliya v perevode L.N. Tolstogo [i.e....](/images/noimage.png)
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
1880-1890s. [311 leaves]. 22,5x17,5 cm. Manuscript with the extracts of the printed text glued to some pages. Contemporary half-leather binding. Owner’s inscription on the title page ‘Presented to my dear friend Taniechka by M. What is to be done? is the publicistic discourse that Tolstoy wrote in 1884-1886 as..... More
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
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
![Item #197 [HANDMADE CHILDREN’S MAGAZINE] Nash zhurnal “Yunye druzia” [i.e. Our Magazine...](/pictures/thumb/197.jpg?v=1483910121)
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
[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
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
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
![Item #1575 [A SAMIZDAT BOOK ABOUT RUSSIAN BANYAS] Banya lechit, banya pravit, banya vse popravit...](/pictures/thumb/1575.jpg?v=1669219726)
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
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
![Item #186 Moskva–Petushki [i.e. Moscow to the End of the Line]. Venedikt Erofeev](/pictures/thumb/186.jpg?v=1528813657)
Moscow: Self-published, 1981. [3], 67 leaves. 30x20,5 cm. Light green card binding. Original carbon copy typescript; first 52 leaves printed on translucent onion paper with thicker white paper interpolated for ease of reading. A few corrections in ink. Very good. Traces of moisture to card boards and parts of the..... More