November 2023. New Acquisitions

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Item #1859 [ART] Osnovy iskusstva. Pererabotka myslei Vadima Lesovogo (Filosofskie etiudy v...

[ART] Osnovy iskusstva. Pererabotka myslei Vadima Lesovogo (Filosofskie etiudy v vypuskakh “Iskusstvo dlia vsekh”). Primenitel’no k trebovaniiam stseny [i.e. Basics of Art. An Adaptation of Ideas by Vadim Lesovoy (Philosophical Studies in Issues “Art for Everyone”). In Relation to the Requirements of the Stage] / Compiled by P.A. Lebedinskii

[Yaroslavl]: Izdanie P.A. Lebedinskago: Tipo-litografiia E. F. Vakhrameeva, 1918. [4], 32 pp.: ill. 27x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers slightly soiled, minor fragments of spine lost, some foxing on front cover, pale water stains on outer edge, some ink numbers, on p. [1], [3], 9 stamps of a cultural..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #1873 [CHURCH IN THE EARLY USSR] Sluzhebnik na russkom iazyke. Sobranie Bozhestvennykh...

[CHURCH IN THE EARLY USSR] Sluzhebnik na russkom iazyke. Sobranie Bozhestvennykh liturgii, sovershaemykh Pravoslavnoiu Rossiiskoiu Tserkov’iu [i.e. Liturgicon in Russian. Collection of the Divine Liturgies Performed by the Russian Orthodox Church].

Nizhny-Novgorod: 1924. [2], XII, 122, [1] pp. 17,5x12 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with front cover glued above. Covers soiled, small hole in cloth on spine, leaves of endpapers and some sections detached from each other, some ink corrections, otherwise good. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #1852 [COMMANDMENTS FOR SOVIET TRACTOR DRIVERS] Sputnik traktorista [i.e. Companion of...

[COMMANDMENTS FOR SOVIET TRACTOR DRIVERS] Sputnik traktorista [i.e. Companion of Tractor Driver] / Compiled by V. Denisov and V. Podobed

Moscow: Ogonek, 1931. 48 pp.: ill. 17,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrapper with letterpress design. Intensive foxing, pencil note on back cover, otherwise good. First and only edition. Printed as a book supplement No. 6 of the monthly “Za rulem” [Behind the Wheel]. This handbook for novices in tractor..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #1840 [ERITHREA] Eritreiskaia koloniia Italii [i.e. Italian Colony of Eritrea] / Compiled...

[ERITHREA] Eritreiskaia koloniia Italii [i.e. Italian Colony of Eritrea] / Compiled by A. Troiansky

Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia Kirshbsuma, 1893. [6], 68 pp. 25x16,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine chipped, some foxing occasionally, otherwise very good and mostly uncut copy. Rare and limited edition. This early Russian Africana was written by the Russian consul general in Palermo, Alexander Stepanovich Troyansky (1835–1905). He..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #1857 [FAR EASTERN FUTURISM] Tvorchestvo : Zhurnal kommunisticheskoi kul’tury [i.e....

[FAR EASTERN FUTURISM] Tvorchestvo : Zhurnal kommunisticheskoi kul’tury [i.e. Creativity : Magazine of Communist Culture] #7 for 1921

Chita: Izd. Dal’biuro Ts.K.R.K.P., 1921. 159 pp. 26,5x19,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Restored, some soiling, pale water stains occasionally, ink spots on t.p. and rear side of front cover, otherwise very good. Issue of the organ of Far East futurist art group considering this movement the only..... More

Item #1870 [MAIN SOVIET PERIODICAL ON RADIO ENGINEERING] Radiofront. Organ komiteta sodeistviia...

[MAIN SOVIET PERIODICAL ON RADIO ENGINEERING] Radiofront. Organ komiteta sodeistviia radiofikatsii i razvitiia radioliubitel’stva pri TSK VLKSM [i.e. Radio Front. Organ of the Committee for Radiofication and Development of Amateur Radio Engineering under the Central Committee of Komsomol] #17 for 1934

48 pp. 25x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. An issue of a mass non-fiction magazine on radio engineering and amateur technics published with this title in 1930-1941. It continued a periodical ‘Radio for Everybody’ (1925-1930) and its successor ‘Radio’ had been coming out up to the 21st century..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1844 [THE MILESTONE OF GEORGIAN AVANT-GARDE] H2SO4

[THE MILESTONE OF GEORGIAN AVANT-GARDE] H2SO4

Tbilisi, 1924. 48 leaves with printed typographic designs and photographic illustrations. 28,6x20,5 cm. The wrappers are restored at extremities, as well as the spine. The minor tears at the edges of the title page, also restored. The block has small holes close to the inner margin, possibly the..... More

Price: $27,500.00

Item #1858 [MOSCOW POST-WAR ARCHITECTURE] Trest Mosstroi–4 [i.e. Mosstroi–4 Trust

[MOSCOW POST-WAR ARCHITECTURE] Trest Mosstroi–4 [i.e. Mosstroi–4 Trust]

Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1968. 143 pp. 13x17 cm. In original full cloth with gilt and silver lettering and logo; illustrated endpapers. Small tear of half-title, few traces of traces of glue on verso of front flyleaf, inscription on half-title – the book was presented to a secretary of the party..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #1866 [NKVD AND GULAG SYSTEM] Zaria Vostoka [i.e. Dawn of the East] No. 291 for 1937

[NKVD AND GULAG SYSTEM] Zaria Vostoka [i.e. Dawn of the East] No. 291 for 1937

Tbilisi: Zarya Vostoka, 1937. 4 pp.: ill. 67,5x43 cm. Copy folded in four, small tears along folds and on edges, a small hole in p. 3-4 (text is affected), otherwise good. A special issue of the Transcaucasian ideological newspaper “Zarya Vostoka” dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Cheka–OGPU–NKVD..... More

Price: $550.00

Item #1868 [PETROLEUM PRODUCTION IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE] Société anonyme pour l'exploitation du...

[PETROLEUM PRODUCTION IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE] Société anonyme pour l'exploitation du naphte, Nobel Frères, à St-Pétersbourg : Fondée en 1879 [i.e. Public Limited Company for Oil Exploitation of Nobel Brothers : in St. Petersburg : Founded in 1879]

Saint Petersburg: Imprimerie Trenké et Fusnot, 1900. 32 pp.: tables, 39 plates: 1 portrait, 2 folding maps, 10 leaves of charts, 26 ills. 24x17 cm. In original printed covers with coats of arms of the Russian Empire. Very good, small and blank fragment of lower edge of pages lost, spine..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #1869 [PHOTO PROPAGANDA] R.I. Rabochaia illiustratsiia vsego mira [i.e. Working...

[PHOTO PROPAGANDA] R.I. Rabochaia illiustratsiia vsego mira [i.e. Working Illustration of the Entire World] #1 for 1929

Moscow: Rabochaia Moskva, 1929. 8 pp.: ill. 47x32,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Slightly rubbed, small hole on spine, small tears of outer edge of pages. The periodical emerged in 1927 as “Foto-gazeta” [Photographic Newspaper]. In 1929-1930, it was published as “Rabochaia illiustratsiia”. Being printed irregularly, it..... More

Item #1845 [PHOTOBOOK ON PROLETARIAN MARTYRS] Rasstrel Ivanovskikh tkachei 23-go avgusta 1915 g....

[PHOTOBOOK ON PROLETARIAN MARTYRS] Rasstrel Ivanovskikh tkachei 23-go avgusta 1915 g. Literaturno-khodozhestvennyi albom [i.e. Shooting Ivanovo Weavers on August 23, 1915. Literary and Artistic Album]

Ivanovo-Voznesensk: Reklamprovintsiia, [1924]. 14 ll.: ill. 15x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with unknown monogram. Pale water stain on back cover, ink student organizer on last two leaves, otherwise very good. Rare early Soviet provincial photobook published on the memory of pre-revolutionary workers. Ivanovo-Voznesensk located most textile enterprises..... More

Price: $550.00

Item #1850 [PROPAGANDA OF THE THIRD FIVE-YEAR PLAN] Delegatu 2-go s’ezda Soiuza rabochikh...

[PROPAGANDA OF THE THIRD FIVE-YEAR PLAN] Delegatu 2-go s’ezda Soiuza rabochikh rezino-kauchukovoi promyshlennosti, noiabr’ 1939 g. [i.e. To a Delegate of the 2nd Congress of the Union of Rubber Industry Workers, November 1939]

[Moscow, 1939. 24 leaves of photo paper. 9,7x13,3 cm. In original post-bound cloth. Some stains, covering detail of one screw lost, otherwise very good. An excellent propaganda photobook. Created for a limited number of delegates, it had never been on sale. The edition opens with a portrait and 1931..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #1874 [ROCK IN LENINGRAD : SAMIZDAT] Roksi. Biulleten’ Leningradskogo rok-kluba [i.e....

[ROCK IN LENINGRAD : SAMIZDAT] Roksi. Biulleten’ Leningradskogo rok-kluba [i.e. Roxy. Bulletin of the Leningrad Rock Club] #12 for 1987

[Leningrad, 1987]. 83 ll.: ill., on rectos only. 30x21 cm. Leaves not fastened and not bound. Some creases of the title leaf, cigarette smell. Typewritten text and full-page illustrations were created on rectos only and then reproduced by photocopy. Design was created by Iulia Tyshkevich. “Roxy” is considered..... More

Price: $550.00

Item #1834 [SACCO AND VANZETTI] Pis’ma Sakko i Vantsetti [i.e. The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti

[SACCO AND VANZETTI] Pis’ma Sakko i Vantsetti [i.e. The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti]

Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlia i fabrika, 1930. 253, [2] pp. 21,5x15 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Small fragment of spine lost, tears of cover edges, some soiling of covers, otherwise uncut pages of very good condition. First Russian edition. One of 5000 copies. The translation of an American edition (1928)..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #1875 [SAMIZDAT COLLECTION] Three paper collections with typewritten prose and poetry works

[SAMIZDAT COLLECTION] Three paper collections with typewritten prose and poetry works

[1970s - early 1980s]. 31x21,5 cm. In contemporary blind cloth bindings. Light soiling of bindings, otherwise near fine. One reel of 13-mm wide magnetic tape. 21 cm in diameter. Mint. The reel is supplemented with 3-page memoirs by the previous owner, Kyiv resident Alexander Andrukhovich. Signed and dated 2018..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #1861 [TYPE DESIGNS OF SOVIET SECRET POLICE] Obraztsy shriftov russkikh, frantsizskikh,...

[TYPE DESIGNS OF SOVIET SECRET POLICE] Obraztsy shriftov russkikh, frantsizskikh, ornamentov [i.e. Specimens of Russian and French Typefaces, Ornaments]. Issue #2

Moscow: 1927. [140] pp. 23x15,5 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with original front wrapper glued above. Tears of spine, narrow and pale water stain on outer edge of first leaves, stains occasionally, few pencil marks, one page partly cut off, ink stain on Trotsky’s name, otherwise very good. This..... More

Item #1872 [THE USSR IN STATISTICS] 20 let sovetskoi vlasti. Statisticheskii sbornik (Tsifrovoi...

[THE USSR IN STATISTICS] 20 let sovetskoi vlasti. Statisticheskii sbornik (Tsifrovoi material dlia propagandistov) [i.e. 20 Years of Soviet Rule. Statistical Book (Numbers for Propagandists)]

Moscow: Partizdat TsK VKP(b), 1937. 110 pp. 17,5x13,5 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering. Very good, some sections slightly detached from others. First edition. Scarce. This handbook contains 87 tables summarizing development of the USSR in the 1930s. Of nine sections, one is dedicated to socialist women..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #1871 [WOMEN] Zhenskii zhurnal [i.e. Women’s Magazine] #1, 2, 4, 5 for 1926, #9 for 1927,...

[WOMEN] Zhenskii zhurnal [i.e. Women’s Magazine] #1, 2, 4, 5 for 1926, #9 for 1927, #11 for 1928, #2, 3 for 1929

Moscow: Ogonek, 1926-1929. In original illustrated wrappers. 1926 #1 – tears of spine and front cover, small stains occasionally, otherwise very good internally. 1926 #2 – tears of spine, some small stains, otherwise very good. 1926 #4 – tears of spine and pages, stains, otherwise good. 1926 #5 –..... More

Item #1836 [ZHITOMIRSKY’S PHOTOMONTAGES

[ZHITOMIRSKY’S PHOTOMONTAGES]

1) Iaroshevskii, B. Zelenoe chudovishche [i.e. The Green Beast]. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1967. 72 pp. 16,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Back cover rubbed and soiled, minor tears of spine, otherwise very good. 2) Konstantinov, O. Sprut s beregov Temzy [i.e. Octopus from the Banks of the Thames]..... More

Item #1846 [NEP EPOCH] Chernaia pena. Komediia v 4-kh deistviiakh [i.e. Black Foam. Comedy in 4...

[NEP EPOCH] Chernaia pena. Komediia v 4-kh deistviiakh [i.e. Black Foam. Comedy in 4 Acts]

Arskii, P.

Moscow; Leningrad: Izd. MODPiK, 1929. 48 pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Front cover restored, title page with traces of ink number and pale water stains, otherwise very good copy. Second edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. A four-act propaganda play exposes non-socialist elements elongating their NEP..... More

Item #1860 [TYPE DESIGN] Shrifty, ramki, ukrasheniia [i.e. Typefaces, Frames, Decorations]. V....

[TYPE DESIGN] Shrifty, ramki, ukrasheniia [i.e. Typefaces, Frames, Decorations]

Butenin, V.

[Tashkent: Tashkentkul’tprom, 1957]. [12] ll.: ill. 19,5x28,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine, small rusty spots along staples, back cover slightly worn, with pencil note, otherwise very good and clean internally. A Central Asian post-war typeface manual for designers of Russian-language editions. Scarce. It features typefaces adapted..... More

Item #1855 [INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN RUSSIA] Materialy po bytu loparei. Opyt opredeleniia kochevogo...

[INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN RUSSIA] Materialy po bytu loparei. Opyt opredeleniia kochevogo sostoianiia loparei vostochnoi chasti Kol’skogo poluostrova [i.e. Materials on Lopars’ Life. Experience of Determining Nomadic State of Lopars in the Eastern Part of the Kola Peninsula]

Charnoluskii, V.

Leningrad: Izdanie Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, 1930. 176 p.: ill., 1 folding map, 1 folding table. 26,5x18 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine worn, with small tears and minor fragments lost, few water stains on front cover, wrappers slightly soiled, some underlines, otherwise very good and clean internally. Printer’s defect..... More

Price: $850.00

Item #1864 [WARTIME] Poslednii urok [i.e. The Last Class]. A. Daudet

[WARTIME] Poslednii urok [i.e. The Last Class]

Daudet, A.

Moscow: Detgiz, 1942. 16 pp.: ill. 16,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some foxing, wormhole in lower outer corner throughout the copy, otherwise very good. Russian wartime edition of “La Dernière Classe” by Alphonse Daudet. Being the best known story from the collection ‘Contes du lundi’, the work premiered..... More

Price: $650.00

Item #1841 [AFRICANA] Vozvrashchenie moriaka. Roman [i.e. The Sailor’s Return. Novel]. D. Garnett

[AFRICANA] Vozvrashchenie moriaka. Roman [i.e. The Sailor’s Return. Novel]

Garnett, D.

Leningrad: Petrograd, [1926]. 120 pp. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine, covers slightly soiled, small tear of outer edge of back cover and pages, otherwise very good. One of 5000 copies produced. Very rare. First Russian edition of “The Sailor’s Return” (1925) by David Garnet. The..... More

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