Moscow-Leningrad: Moskovskii rabochii, [1928]. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 186, [1] pp. Illustrations throughout, including two maps. Private ownership stamp and inscription in Russian to title; else good or better. Second edition of a historical and cultural overview of Iran, which provides the Soviet take on the..... More
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatels'tvo, 1928. Octavo (19.5 × 13 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Light toning and creases to wrapper; stamp of a regional trade office of the state publisher; still about very good. Intended for party officials and organizations, librarians, as well as reading groups, this catalog provides..... More
![Puti khudozhestvennogo fil'ma, 1919-1934 [The paths of the feature film, 1919-1934]. Nikolai...](/pictures/thumb/51077_1.jpg?v=1607967735)
Moscow: Kinofotoizdat, 1934. Octavo (17 × 12.5 cm). Original decorative dust-wrappers over blind wrappers; 150, [4] pp. Photo-illustrations. Chipping to edges of dust-jacket; else about very good. First edition of this popular film history celebrating the first fifteen years of Soviet cinema, illustrated with portraits of major Soviet directors, cinematographers..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoe Izdatel'stvo, 1931. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 48 pp. About very good; light wear to wrappers. Single issue of the scarce art education periodical allied with the "Iskusstvo v massy" group, which saw its task as acquainting readers with "political questions in the..... More
![Tsvety Vozstaniia [The flowers of the uprising]. Aleksandr Pomorskii, born Linovskii](/pictures/thumb/P5765_001.jpg?v=1608208564)
St. Petersburg: Biblioteka proletkul’ta, 1919. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers on orange stock; 30, [2] pp. Unopened and uncut. Light rust to staples; wrapper edges slightly frayed, else very good. First edition. A collection of “worker poetry” by one of the “key organizers of the first..... More
914 pp. volume comprising a posthumous publication of sermons by Reverend Samuel Willard, an early American-born Boston minister who served as the pastor of the Old South Church and Vice President of Harvard College, some pages misnumbered, complete as issued. Small folio. Contemporary leather with raised spine, abrasions, soiling, edgewear..... More
Two volumes: 191 pp. text volume with 20 reproductions from photographs, together with plate volume with secondary title page "Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XIV", comprising list of plates and 32 32 full-page plates displaying outlines of Greek moulding designs. Text volume: 8vo., cloth boards..... More
2 volumes, 76 and xxiii pp., collecting 317 etchings from the famous French artist, diplomat, and the first Director of the Louvre Museum as appointed by Napoleon, the works comprising copies by Denon after works of the masters including Giotto, Masaccio, Murillo, Velazquez, Breughel, Le Brun, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Vasari..... More
78 pp. descriptive monograph on the Pinturicchio fresco cycle in the lavish 15th century Borgia Apartments, heavily annotated, lists, numerous text illus. (1 with color) after portraits, drawings, medals, signatures, etc., 133 fine plates (4 color, many in tones), bound out of order, showing maps, interior views, details of the..... More
xv, 206 pp. catalogue and description of the paintings in the new Vatican art gallery, heavily annotated, with index, 63 text illustrations, 126 fine plates including 10 in full color. Folio. Leather-backed boards, front cover separated from volume, leather spine missing, some edgewear and chipping, losses to rear board, contents..... More
180 pp. volume on the Dutch painter, with photogravures scattered throughout the text, accompanied by full of list of plates with page numbers and owners of the works noted, half-title, photogravure portrait by M. Van der Maarel. Folio. Vellum with gilt and blindstamp decoration. Edgewear, soiling, abrasions, some warping. London..... More
Brief introductory text on the Bridgewater House Collection of Pictures followed by 120 full-page plates reproducing artwork in the Bridgewater House collection, each plate accompanied by a brief contextual caption and each artist represented by a thorough biography. Oversized folio. Full leather with raised spine, edgewear, abrasions, some small splitting..... More
![Tiuremnye “volynki” [Prison “bagpipes” (strikes)]. Along the head of the title: Deshevaia...](/pictures/thumb/51074_001.jpg?v=1608140500)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo vsesoiuznogo obshchestva Politkatorzhan i SS.-Poselentsev, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 24 pp. Light soil to wrappers; slight wear to wrapper edges else very good. A brief history of political prisoner protests staged in Czarist Russia in the lead up to the 1905 Revolution..... More
![Dom, osiedle, mieszkanie: kwartalnik [Home, housing estate, cooperative apartment: a quarterly]....](/pictures/thumb/50834_001.jpg?v=1607528943)
Warsaw: "Rój" (Drukarna Artystyczna and Drukarnia Techniczna Sp. Akc), 1929–1933. Octavos (ca. 22.5 × 16.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; ca. 32–64 pp. per issue. Numerous photographs and several pages of advertisements. Occasional light soil and wear to wrappers; a few issues with somewhat more significant wear, but overall about very..... More
![Mizhplianetni liudy: feiletony [Interplanetary people: feuilletons]. Seriia satiry i humoru, ch....](/pictures/thumb/50774_1.jpg?v=1607438382)
[Neu-Ulm: Ukrainske slovo], 1947. Octavo (22 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 31, [1] pp. Very good. First edition of this book of humorous prose by Antonenko, a Ukrainian playwright and prose writer originally from the Zaporizhzhia region, who used the pseudonyms Martyn Zadeka, Antosha Ko, and Anatol' Gak. A...... More
Kharkov: Vydannia "Vukopkhudohnyka", 1932. Small octavo (16.8 × 12.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 34 pp. of text and 21 pages of illustrations. Three leaves detached from binding; else about very good. Scarce Ukrainian version of the catalog for the third traveling exhibit organized by the art section (Glaviskusstvo) of the..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Izdanie Leopol'd Kassella i Ko., 1913. Small octavo (16.5 × 11 cm). Original brown cloth; XVIII, 428, [8] pp. Five photographs; illustrated from technical drawings and schemes throughout. Edges red. Very good; boards age-toned; private stamp of the Russian Commission of German Dye Producers in Berlin. First..... More
![20 let Oktriabria: pesennik [20 years of October: a songbook]. A. Vartanov](/pictures/thumb/51092_1.jpg?v=1606316902)
Baku: Izdanie gazety "Vtuzovets", 1937. Small octavo (14.5 × 10.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [16] pp. Text printed in blue ink. Wrappers worn and chipped, with partial restoration to rear wrapper; beginning to detach; contents good. Scarce celebratory songbook published in Baku, the capital of Soviet Azerbaijan, on the twenty-year..... More
![Sdelai sam bumazhnyi zmei [Make a paper kite yourself]. From the series "Sdelai sam" [Make it...](/pictures/thumb/51091_002.jpg?v=1606316601)
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgii Echeistov; 7, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout. About very good. First and only edition of this delightful Soviet children's book, part of a series instructing young readers to create basic toys and everyday use items with simple materials..... More
Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1932. Octavo (21 × 16.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (not attributed); 32 pp. About very good. Rare translation by Z. Bodiazhina into the Erzya language of the book “Krasin vo l'dakh” by Emilii Mindlin (1900-1981), originally published in Russian. Erzya is the Finno-Ugric language of one of..... More
!["Pushinka" i dr. rasskazy [and other short stories]. Russkaia malen'kaia narodnaia biblioteka,...](/pictures/thumb/51089_1.jpg?v=1606390922)
[Plauen]: Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury (Fremdsprachen-Verlag G.m.b.H.), [1944]. 12mo (14 × 10 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 64 pp. Rather worn; front and rear wrapper detached and separated; overall wear and creasing to text. First and only edition of this book of short stories by Vasilii Osokin, a lieutenant of the..... More
![Bavarskaia Sovetskaia Respublika [The Bavarian Soviet Republic]. Zastenker, aum](/pictures/thumb/51080_001.jpg?v=1606316043)
Moscow: Partiinoe izdatel'stvo, 1934. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original brown cloth; 158, [2] pp. Illustrated from photographs. About very good. First edition of this history of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, the attempt to establish a socialist state during the upheavals of the 1918–1919 German Revolution. The author claims..... More
Riga: Kniga dlia vsekh, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers (unattributed); [4], 237 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Good or better; light wear to bottom of spine and light soil to front wrapper; internally very good. A rare autobiographical account by a Russian prisoner of war in Germany after..... More
![Pyl' N'iu-Iorka [Dust of New York]. Konrad Berkovichi, Bercovici](/pictures/thumb/50938_001.jpg?v=1606316596)
Moscow: K-vo "Sovremennye problemy", 1926. Octavo. Original printed wrappers with an unattributed cover illustration; 147, [1] + [10] pp. of publisher's ads with extensive reviews of works by Sherwood Anderson and David Garnett. About very good. First Russian printing of the second book by Bercovici (1882-1961), the Romanian-born American writer..... More
Gräfenhainichen: Izdatel'stvo R. Gerroze (Herrosé's Verl.), 1943. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 255, [1] pp. Overall wear; still good or better. Rare edition of this work by Gogol, issued by a publisher of German technical manuals and presumably aimed at forced laborers from Russia and Ukraine (so-called..... More