The 1930s and 1940s: From Dictatorship to War

The 1930s and 1940s: From Dictatorship to War

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Item #1656 [AN ALBUM OF THE STATE EMBLEMS OF THE UNION REPUBLICS] Gosudarstvennyy gerb SSSR....

[AN ALBUM OF THE STATE EMBLEMS OF THE UNION REPUBLICS] Gosudarstvennyy gerb SSSR. Gosudarstvennyye gerby soyuznykh respublik [i.e. The State Emblem of the USSR. The Emblems of the Union Republics]

Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1950. 3 pp., 17 pp. of ill. 29x20 cm. In original publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. Near fine. Spine is slightly rubbed. Scarce. First edition. Published in 1950, this beautiful piece of Soviet print contains 17 chromolithograph images of the state..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1641 [ANGLO-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP IN AID OF SOVIET CHILD VICTIMS OF THE WAR] This is the Story...

[ANGLO-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP IN AID OF SOVIET CHILD VICTIMS OF THE WAR] This is the Story of the Pravda Children’s Home for Russian Child Victims of the War: Adopted by Young People in Britain

London: Anglo-Soviet Youth Friendship Alliance, [1943?]. 10 pp.: ill. 18,2x12,5 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Minimal tears to the spine. Otherwise very good. Extremely scarce. First edition. Text in English. Published in 1943 in London, this edition contains personal narratives of children who lived in the Pravda Children’s Home..... More

Price: $250.00
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Item #1629 [AN ANTI-SOVIET MAGAZINE FOR THE RUSSIANS LIVING IN GERMANY] Novaya zhizn’ [i.e....

[AN ANTI-SOVIET MAGAZINE FOR THE RUSSIANS LIVING IN GERMANY] Novaya zhizn’ [i.e. New Life]

Berlin: Fremdsprachendienst-Verlags-G.m.b.H., 1941. #11 of 1941. 12 pp.: ill. 46x31,5 cm. Crease in the middle, minor foxing. Otherwise good. Extremely scarce. 1 issue from 18 published. By the late 1930s, Germany was home to over 50,000 Russian emigres who left their homeland shortly after the October Revolution. During the..... More

Price: $1,950.00

Item #1637 [AN ANTI-STALINIST POSTER FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE USSR] Plakat «Trudolyubivomu...

[AN ANTI-STALINIST POSTER FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE USSR] Plakat «Trudolyubivomu krest’yaninu - svoya zemlya!» [i.e. Poster ‘Own Land to Hard Working Peasant!’]

Agrar-Wandzeitung/Russ, 1942. 1 p. 83,5х59,5 cm. Two minor tears in the bottom right corner and on the left margin. Otherwise near fine. In Russian. A scarce anti-Stalinist poster promoting the agricultural policy ‘The New Land Order’ in Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union. The poster includes two color illustrations..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #1650 [ATTRACTING POTENTIAL NAZI COLLABORATORS] Eight Agitational Leaflets Disseminated...

[ATTRACTING POTENTIAL NAZI COLLABORATORS] Eight Agitational Leaflets Disseminated Among Soviet Soldiers by the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

[1945]. 17,5x13,5 cm. All the leaflets have been originally folded in 12 to fit in soldiers’ pockets. Traces of those folds remain. Two leaflets also have rust on the creases. A curious collection of eight propaganda leaflets directed at the Red Army and disseminated by the Committee for the Liberation..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Item #1642 [THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD] The Siege of Stalingrad Told in 52 Pages of Pictures and Text

[THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD] The Siege of Stalingrad Told in 52 Pages of Pictures and Text

London: Communist Party of Great Britain, [1943]. 52 pp.: ill. 18,5x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from block and slightly soiled, rusty staples. Otherwise very good. A wartime edition compiled by the Communist Party of Great Britain before the opening of the Second Front. The verso of..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #1646 [A BELARUSIAN SATIRICAL NEWSPAPER RIDICULING THE NAZIS] Razdavim fašysckuju hadzinu:...

[A BELARUSIAN SATIRICAL NEWSPAPER RIDICULING THE NAZIS] Razdavim fašysckuju hadzinu: hazieta-plakat [i.e. Let’s Crush the Fascist Viper: A Newspaper-Poster]

[Minsk]: vydanije CK KP(b) Bielarusi, 1941-1945. #13, 18 of 1941; #32, 38, 39, 58 of 1942; #84 of 1943. Overall, 7 issues. Two issues of 1941 in Russian, others in Belarusian. The number of pages varies from 2 to 4. 34,9x24,5 cm. Minor tears and minimal paper loss from the..... More

Price: $2,500.00
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Item #1638 [CELEBRATING THE END OF THE DEADLIEST BATTLE IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE] A panorama of...

[CELEBRATING THE END OF THE DEADLIEST BATTLE IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE] A panorama of the public rally held to celebrate the Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943.

The panorama consists of 3 numbered photographs; apparently, the fourth one (numbered #1) is missing. The size of each photograph: 18x24 cm. Each photo with the Russian caption on the back side: ‘4/II 1943. A Rally in Stalingrad. Photo by Gr. Ostrovsky. Photo № (corresponding number)’. Near fine. The rally..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1420 [CONCENTRATION CAMP PASS FOR THE MUSIC TEACHER] Lager-Pass [i.e. Camp Passport] #1923

[CONCENTRATION CAMP PASS FOR THE MUSIC TEACHER] Lager-Pass [i.e. Camp Passport] #1923

[Aflenz concentration camp, 1945]. 15x10,5 cm. In original printed covers. Some soiling, otherwise very good. Extremely rare document of the wartime. The Aflenz concentration camp (also known as the Graz-Leibniz subcamp) existed from February 1944 to April 1945 in the Austrian town of Aflenz an der Sulm as..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1617 [A CONGRESS OF VICTIMS] Bound Set of 14 Issues of the Pravda Newspaper Collected for...

[A CONGRESS OF VICTIMS] Bound Set of 14 Issues of the Pravda Newspaper Collected for a Delegate of the XVIIth Congress of the Communist Party. Pravda [i.e. Truth] #25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 of 1934

Moscow: 1934. 34,5x27 cm. In contemporary red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. In good condition. Issues folded in fourth. Front leaf of first issue (#25) torn out but preserved, tear of the rest leaves of this issue; small tears and creases of other issues. At the 17th Congress..... More

Price: $1,950.00

Item #1643 [EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD] The Defence of Leningrad:...

[EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD] The Defence of Leningrad: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Siege / by Nikolay Tikhonov and others

London; New York; Melbourn: Hutchinson, [1943?]. 136 pp., 15 ill. 18,5x12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. General wear, a couple of small tears and creases of the covers, some light soiling, foxing of the edges. First edition. Scarce. Text in English. This collection of eyewitness accounts of the..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1640 [HEROES TURNED ENEMIES] Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom

[HEROES TURNED ENEMIES] Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom

New York: Joseph Brainin; Jewish assistance Committee, [1943]. 24 pp.: ill. 30,2x22,8 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tear of the spine. Otherwise very good. Extremely scarce. Compiled by Cyrus Porter. Edited by Joseph Brainin. Illustrated wrappers by Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), a Polish-Jewish artist who worked primarily as a...... More

Price: $1,500.00
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Item #1644 [LETTERS FROM SOVIET OSTERBAITERS] Sovetskiye lyudi na nemetskoy katorge: [Sbornik]...

[LETTERS FROM SOVIET OSTERBAITERS] Sovetskiye lyudi na nemetskoy katorge: [Sbornik] [i.e. Soviet People in Forced Labor in Germany [A Compilation]]

[Moscow] OGIZ Gospolitizdat, 1943. 50, [1] pp.: ill. 16,5x11 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Some general wear and tears of the covers. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Edited by V. Binder. During the Great Patriotic War, the theme of forced labor was widely employed in Soviet anti-Nazi propaganda..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1317 [PHOTOMONTAGES OF MILITARY ACTIONS] Frontovaia illiustratsiia [i.e. Frontline...

[PHOTOMONTAGES OF MILITARY ACTIONS] Frontovaia illiustratsiia [i.e. Frontline Illustration] #12, 21 for 1944; #1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9/10, 11 1945. Overall 10 issues.

Moscow: Voenizdat NKO SSSR, 1944-1945. Generally, very good. No back cover of #1, 4 for 1945, tears, creases and stains, small fragments of spines occasionally lost. The organ of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army published in 1942-1960. Titled initially as ‘Frontline illustration’, it was issued after..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #1621 [POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE USSR DURING THE GREAT PURGE: ART OF PROPAGANDA] SSSR na...

[POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE USSR DURING THE GREAT PURGE: ART OF PROPAGANDA] SSSR na stroyke [i.e. USSR in Construction] #1-4, 5/6, 7-10, 11/12 of 1938. Overall 10 issues

Moscow: Izogiz: Iskusstvo, 1938. 41x30,5 cm. In contemporary binding with original front wrapper of #1 glued above it. Binding rubbed, some fragments of cover paper along spine lost. Otherwise very good. A year set of the legendary magazine of Soviet photographic propaganda SSSR na stroyke [i.e. USSR in Construction] The..... More

Price: $3,500.00
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Item #1636 [PRO-SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN GREAT BRITAIN] The War Comes First

[PRO-SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN GREAT BRITAIN] The War Comes First

London: Labour Monthly, [1942]. [64] pp. 23,5x15,2 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Minimal tears to the spine. Otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. A book of extracts from the Soviet Press selected from the Radio Bulletins of the Soviet Monitor and depicting the mobilization of the civilian front in..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #1620 [PROGRESS OF THE STATE OF SOCIALISM] SSSR strana sotsializma: Statisticheskiy sbornik...

[PROGRESS OF THE STATE OF SOCIALISM] SSSR strana sotsializma: Statisticheskiy sbornik [i.e. The USSR - A State of Socialism: Statistical Compendium]

Moscow: Redaktsionno-izdat. upravlenie TsUNKhU Gosplana SSSR i V/O Soyuzorguchet, 1936. [6], 212 pp., 28 ills. 23,5x18 cm. In original red cloth with colored lettering and a blind bas-relief of Stalin on the front cover; endpapers illustrated with the Palace of Soviets. Slightly rubbed. Otherwise mint. This collection came out..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1647 [THE REICHSKOMMISSARIAT OSTLAND] Bal’shavizm raz’bivae Tvae shchast’e [i.e....

[THE REICHSKOMMISSARIAT OSTLAND] Bal’shavizm raz’bivae Tvae shchast’e [i.e. Bolshevism Destroys Your Happiness].

Berlin: Glavnym Uradam SS, [1941-1944]. 20 pp.: ill. 31x22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine, inner margins, and few outer corners restored. Otherwise near fine. An extremely rare survival of the time as a large-scale and thin wartime brochure. Text in Belarusian. This photomontage propaganda edition was distributed by the..... More

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Item #1626 [RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Sovkhozy na vsesoyuznoy sel’skokhozyaystvennoy vystavke...

[RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Sovkhozy na vsesoyuznoy sel’skokhozyaystvennoy vystavke [i.e. State Farms at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition]

Moscow: Sel’khozgiz, 1941. [184] pp.: ill., 11 ills. (including folding leaves). 29,5x22,5 cm. In original cloth with blind embossed lettering and design. Rubbed, colored stains on covers and lower and upper margin of some leaves, ink inscription on front flyleaf, some soiling. Otherwise a good and complete copy. First and..... More

Price: $2,900.00
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Item #1624 [SOVIET AGRICULTURAL TREASURES] L’novodstvo, khlopkovodstvo i sakharnaya svekla:...

[SOVIET AGRICULTURAL TREASURES] L’novodstvo, khlopkovodstvo i sakharnaya svekla: Tsvetnye tablitsy [i.e. Cultivation of Flax, Cotton, and Sugar Beet: Colorful Tables]

N.p. Izd. Narkomzema, 1940. 24, 25, 34 ills. 33,5×24 cm. In original folder with lettering and illustration mounted; each part in original paper wrapper. In very good condition. Folder slightly rubbed, minor tears of paper wrappers. A book about three plants (flax, cotton, and sugar beet) widely cultivated in the..... More

Item #1618 [SOVIET AVIATION: AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS] Tyazhelaya poterya [i.e. Bereavement

[SOVIET AVIATION: AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS] Tyazhelaya poterya [i.e. Bereavement]

Moscow: Partizdat VKP(b), 1935. 57, [7] pp.: ill., 1 folding ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Spine and covers slightly rubbed, small stain on outer edge of pages. This book is dedicated to the rise and fall of the ANT-20, a groundbreaking project of Soviet aviation and..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1619 [UKRAINIAN RAILWAYS: A TRAIN RACE] Stakhanovsko-krivonosovskoye dvizheniye na Yuzhnoy...

[UKRAINIAN RAILWAYS: A TRAIN RACE] Stakhanovsko-krivonosovskoye dvizheniye na Yuzhnoy [i.e. The Stakhanov-Krivonos Movement on the Southern Railways]

Kharkiv: 4-ia Gostipografiya Transzheldorizdat, 1935. [51] leaves printed on rectos + 15 leaves with mounted illustrations. 18,5x27 cm. In original red cloth with gilt lettering and image of the badge ‘To Shock Worker of Stalin’s Call’ (mass prize for Soviet railway employees). Mint. Extremely rare. This propaganda edition served both..... More

Price: $3,500.00
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Item #1649 [A WARTIME BIOGRAPHY OF LENIN] Lenin Vladimir Il’ich. Kratkiy ocherk zhizni i...

[A WARTIME BIOGRAPHY OF LENIN] Lenin Vladimir Il’ich. Kratkiy ocherk zhizni i deyatel’nosti [i.e. Lenin Vladimir Ilyich. A Brief Outline of Life and Work]

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye izdatel’stvo politicheskoy literatury, 1944. 247 pp.: ill., 27 ills. 26,5x17 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering and gilt portrait in profile and facsimile of Lenin on front cover; silhouette of Lenin, lettering, and embossed red flags on spine. All edges chased. Very good condition. Minor damage to..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1295 [WARTIME EPHEMERA] Tabel’-kalendar’ na 1942 [i.e. 1942 Wall Calendar

[WARTIME EPHEMERA] Tabel’-kalendar’ na 1942 [i.e. 1942 Wall Calendar]

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1941. Brochure in original illustrated wrappers mounted on illustrated cardboard of 28,5x15,5 cm. Creases and soiling of cardboard, with two pin holes in it, some stains and marks in calendar brochure. Ink inscription on rear side of front cover: “To mother and child from a dad’s New Year’s..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Item #1623 [A WELL-ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLAX IN THE USSR] L’novodsto v SSSR [i.e. Flax...

[A WELL-ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLAX IN THE USSR] L’novodsto v SSSR [i.e. Flax Growing in the USSR]

Moscow: Izd. Narkomsema SSSR, 1940. 88 pp., 39 ills., diagrams. 25,5x35,5 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering and blind debossed image of flax sheaves of flax; illustrated endpapers. Rubbed, some foxing and soiling occasionally. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10,500 copies. Published..... More

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