Kaluga: Kn. izd-vo, 1964. 55 pp.: ill. 4vo. A fine copy. Original cloth binding with the decoration in ink. The title page is signed by Yuri Gagarin. Together with: a postcard, ‘The Day of Cosmonautics’ (1965) depicting the monument in Tsiolkovsky’s honor in Kaluga. The postcard is signed by..... More

Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1975. [1], 72 pp., [12] plates. 21,5x17 cm. Near fine. Association copy: signed on the title page by four Soviet cosmonauts: Anatoly Filipchenko (from the backup crew of Apollo–Soyuz, 2 spaceflights) , Vasily Lazarev (2 spaceflights), Vitaly Sevastyanov (2 spaceflights), Alexei Gubarev (2 spaceflights). The book comes..... More

Kaluga: 4-ia Sovetskaia tipografiia, 1920. [4], X, 188 pp. 24,5x17 cm. In original printed wrappers. Small fragments of covers and spine lost, lack of blank corner of p. 89, but clean internally. First complete edition. Extremely rare. This is a science fiction novel written by the Russian father..... More

Two works in one binding: Tsiolkovsky, K.E. Samostoiatel’noe gorizontal’noe dvizhenie upravliaemogo aerostata (novye formuly soprotivleniya vozdukha i dvizheniya aerostata) [i.e. Independent Horizontal Movement of Aerostat. New Formulas of Windage and Flights of the Aerostat]. Odessa: Tsentralnaia tipo-litogra ya, 1898. 22 pp. Tsiolkovsky, K.E. Prostoe uchenie o vozdushnom korable..... More

Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1982. 128 pp.: ill. 21,5x14 cm. One of 2700 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. A rare professional publication, giving in detail the system of ammunition of a Soviet cosmonaut. It was written by Semyon Umanskii (1909-2005), one of the leading Soviet equipment engineers from the..... More