Moscow: Profizdat, 1931. Octavo (25 × 17.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers printed in black and purple; 24 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light wear and soil; front wrapper somewhat faded; good or better copy. Single issue of this journal of the Art Workers’ Trade Union (RABotniki ISkusstva), which united workers of..... More
Moscow: Profizdat, 1931. Octavo (25 × 17.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 20 pp. Illustrations throughout. Text toned and light overall wear; still about very good. Single issue of this journal of the Art Workers’ Trade Union (RABotniki ISkusstva), which united workers of the theater, cinema, the circus, music, photography..... More
Tbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1930. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; XIII, 79, [3] pp. With 14 illustrations. Front wrapper illustrated with a portrait of Kote Marjanishvili. Wrappers worn and beginning to detach from text; else internally very good. Rare monograph on the first foreign tour of a Georgian theater..... More
Makhach-Kala: NKIu DASSR, 1927. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 20 pp. Front wrapper detached; else good, on toned stock. Single issue, no. 5, of this series of laws and decrees by the government of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Dagestan (DASSR). While only a small..... More
[Soviet Union, mid-to-late 1980s]. Seventeen photographic prints measuring ca. 24 × 32 cm. Light wear to edges and corners; occasional spotting, soiling, and foxing, not affecting image; two cards with light fraying, not affecting images; versos clean; still good or better. A rare set of Soviet anti-NATO didactic photo-collage prints, used..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with constructivist cover design by Elena Semenova; 62, [1] pp. With photomontage illustrations throughout. Owner inscription to title; wrappers beginning to detach at head of spine; else very good. Single issue (no. 10) of..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with constructivist cover design by Elena Semenova; 63, [1] pp. With photomontage illustrations throughout. Front wrapper and small portion of the block detached; spine extremities frayed; internally still good or better. Single issue (no..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with constructivist cover design by Elena Semenova; 90, [2] pp. With photomontage illustrations throughout. Wrappers detached from the block; internally about very good. Double issue (no. 23-24) of this periodical by “Siniaia bluza” (Blue..... More
Moscow: Tsentrosoiuz, 1929. Octavo (24.5 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Light soil to wrappers; tears to spine extremities; else about very good. Single issue of this popular biweekly magazine of the Soviet urban cooperative movement, which flourished with strong support from Lenin during The New Economic..... More
Kharkiv: Vydavnytstvo Derzhsil’hospvydav, 1932. Octavo (30 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 26 pp. Unopened and uncut. Light soil to rear wrapper, else very good. A single issue of the bi-weekly journal of agricultural and technical unions with Mayday photomontage wrappers (unattributed). The issue is dedicated to the completion of..... More
Munich: Institut po izucheniiu istorii i kul’tury SSSR (Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR), 1954. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 304 pp. Light stain to top corner of front wrapper; lower corner creased; wrappers toned; still about very good. A comprehensive..... More
Leningrad: Gublit, ca. 1925-1928? Various formats. Three small posters, printed to rectos in blue and red. About very good; small nicks and tears to edges. In protective mylar sleeve. Contains the following slogans: "Kazhdoe novoe sel’sko-khoziaistvennoe tovarishchestvo – zalog uluchsheniia krest'ianskogo khoziaistva (Every new agricultural cooperative plays its part in..... More
Prague: Nakladatelství Pavel Prokop, [1935]. Small octavo (17 × 10.6 cm). Original printed wrappers on yellow stock; 74 pp. Wrappers and first leaf dust-soiled; else very good. An interesting memento of the pro-Soviet sympathies in the Czech interwar Republic, the present volume contains five short satirical plays, by Grigorii Gradov..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Trud i kniga", 1925. Octavo (26.7 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed) printed in red and black; 206 pp. Frontis portrait of Lenin. Illustrated throughout from photographs, musical notation, and with drawn section dividers. From the collection of Marcel Bekus, with his small oval stamp (“Ex-libris Marcel..... More
Petrograd: “Biuro rossiiskoi pressy”, [1917]. Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 77 pp. Light soil and toning to wrappers; wrapper edges frayed; spine cracked. Title page bears an inscription in red ink “From the books of G. Veitsman. March 1917. ….” Light foxing to leaves, still good or..... More
![Book ID: 51823 Duglas Ferbenks [Douglas Fairbanks]. Populiarnaia kino-bibliotechka, vypusk...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51823_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643295487)
Moscow; Leningrad: Kino-izdatel’stvo R.S.F.S.R., 1925. 12mo (14.5 × 11 cm). Original staple stitched pictorial wrappers (not attributed, but signed "MK"); 16 pp. Illustrations in the text. Store stamp and small ink markings to rear wrapper. Still about very good. First edition. A NEP-era fan booklet dedicated to the king of..... More
Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennaia Akademiia Khudozhestvennykh Nauk (GAKhN), 1930. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 149, [6] pp. With 27 leaves of plates. Spine professionally rebacked preserving spine strip (small loss to lower extremity); light wear to wrapper edges; old bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; else good or better..... More
![Book ID: 50861 Nata Vachnadze: k’rebuli [Nata Vachnadze: an album]. Nikoloz Amiraghov](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50861_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1636387803)
Tbilisi: Sakartvelos k’ino (Georgian cinema), 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi; 32 pp. With six illustrations, of which five full-page. Text toned due to stock; rust to staple; else about very good. Early Georgian-language monograph about the popular film actress Nato (Natalia) Vachnadze (1904-1953)..... More
Moscow: Tea-kino-pechat', 1930. Small octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 121, [2] pp. Wrappers with corners creased; upper spine splitting; else about very good. A popular science text on contemporary film technology based on a visit to the Kiev film studios, written by the “pioneer of Soviet..... More
![Book ID: 52468 ZAGES [e.g. the Zemo-Avchaly Hydroelectric Station]. V. I. Avakov](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52468.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692018541)
Tbilisi: Izdatel'stvo zhurnala "Ekonomist Gruzii", 1927. Octavo (22 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed O. Sh.); VI, 164, [1] pp., [52] leaves of illustrations and drawings bound in. Overall wear; wrappers worn and somewhat crudely restored; still good or better. Scarce photo-illustrated work about the construction of the V...... More
![Book ID: 50607 Shatakhosut’yun: vipak [Communion: a novel]. L. Avalov, Stepan Elias...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50607_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1636387401)
Erevan: Pethrat, 1932. Octavo (18.5 × 13.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (not attributed; illegible initials to lower left corner); 135 pp. Very good or better. Translation of Lev Ovalov's novel "Boltovnia" (Talk, 1928) by Stepan Elias Zorian (1889-1967), who served as the editor-in-chief of the Armenian State Publishing House in..... More
Leningrad: Leningrad: Narkomzdrav SSSR, Medgiz, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1941. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. With 102 anatomical drawings. Some wear to spine extremities and spine stop; diagonal creases and light soil to front wrapper. Erased inscription in blue ink to top of title page. Internally very..... More
Erevan: Hratarakowt'yown H. S. X. H. Kentgorts'komi yev zhoghkomkhorkhi (Haypetpoligrafi A. & B. tparan), 1926. Quarto (29 × 24 cm). Contemporary cloth-backed boards; part of front wrapper affixed to front board; IX, 472 pp. Numerous illustrations, portraits, data vizualisation. Wear and light soil to boards; a few scribbles throughout; but..... More
![Book ID: 50376 Iskusstvo kommuny [Art of the commune], nos. 7, 8, 9, 11, 14 (January...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50376_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633715166)
Petrograd: Izdanie Otdela Izobrazitel’nykh Iskusstv Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia, 1919. Folios (64 × 45 cm). Original folded newsprint, printed to rectos and versos; 4–6 pp. Striking suprematist lettering in header. Leaves toned and somewhat brittle, as usual; old creases and nicks to folds, corners, and margins. Still good or better. Five..... More