Moscow: Detskii drug, 1905. Octavo. Staple-stitched pink printed wrappers; [3], 25 pp. Light wear and fading to front wrapper; oxidation around staples; small stain to rear wrapper. Originally distributed as a free supplement to the children's journal Detskii drug, this booklet is divided into two parts and contains advice on..... More
Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1929. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Later green cloth front wrapper preserved; 82 pp. Good or better; text toned due to stock; some traces of paper restoration; frequent light annotations in pencil. Scarce anthology on TRAM, an acronym for Teatr Rabochei Molodezhi, or Theatre of Working Youth, which..... More
Prague: Alois Lapacek, 1922. Large octavo (24.5 × 16.5). Original staple-stitched photographic wrappers; 1-22, [1] pp. With nineteen black-and-white photographs in the text. Wrappers lightly soiled; still a very good copy. Rare publication by the émigré instantiation of Zemgor, or United Committee of the Union of Zemstvos and the Union..... More
Vienna: Gedruckt und in Commission der Mechitaristen-Congregations-Buchhandlung, 1836. Quarto (25.8 × 19.7 cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; spine gilt-tooled, with black spine label; engraved frontis portrait, xxi, [1], 441, [3] pp. abd 72 [i.e. 71] leaves of plates (two double-folded and double-numbered). Boards and spine rubbed; corners somewhat scuffed;..... More
Nizhnii-Novgorod: Izd. Vserossiiskoi chrezvychainoi komissii po likvidatsii bezgramotnosti, 1921. Large octavo (single folded sheet); 32 pp. A fine copy. Early provincial edition, and a fine copy, of the first mass-produced Soviet primer for illiterate adults, published by the newly formed All-Russian Emergency Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia..... More
Moscow-Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. Octavo (17 × 12.3 cm). Original typographically formatted printed wrappers; 136, [8] pp. Very good. A guidebook for guides of the Russian Pioneer movement, in charge of the physical and athletic development of children and young adults. While acknowledging biological differences between the two sexes, the..... More
Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. Izd-vo, 1923-1925. Octavo (17 × 12 cm). Original printed card folder with tie strings containing 14 individual brochures; ca. 30 pp per brochure. Light soil and moisture stain to folder; occasional underlining in pencil and red pen; still about very good. Part of a widespread Soviet literacy..... More
Zlín: Žáci Masarykových škol, 1931–1944. Quartos (30.3 × 21.6 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative and pictorial self-wrappers; 12–16 pp. per issue. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, and cartoons; with numerous ads for Báťa shoes and other Zlín businesses. Light dust-soiling; rust to staples; still about very good. Run of eight issues of..... More
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Moscow: Iuridicheskaia literatura, 1971. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original brown buckram; title to spine and front board; 355 pp. Very good. Edited by Vladimir N. Kudriavtsev, the present volume sought to respond to a demand posed at the 24th Congress of the Communist Party, under the leadership of Brezhnev..... More