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St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher's wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water stains on the lower corners of several leaves at… Read more about this item

Leningrad; Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe meditsinskoe izdatel'stvo, 1930. 27 pp.: ill. + 5 pp. of ads. 14,5x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's extensive notes related to the text, otherwise very good. Very rare. 

This brochure promoted dental hygiene in the early Soviet Union. Illustrated throughout with drawings reprinted from a brochure of the Swedish Red Cross. "Each conscientious… Read more about this item

Saint Petersburg, [early 20th century]. 28х18,5 cm. Corners restored, otherwise mint.

 Rare. A lithographic advertisement for a well-known tobacco factory 'Ottoman', which was founded by Yakov Egiz in 1882 and was nationalized in 1918. In the Russian Empire, it was the first company to release "exclusively Turkish tobacco". The enterprise produced cigarettes "Royal", "Count", "Bijou". These cigarettes soon… Read more about this item

Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlia i fabrika, 1930. 126, [2] pp. 18х13,5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Covers and spine restored, slightly soiled, otherwise very good and clean internally.

 An anti-alcohol poem of 21 chapters "Let's Get Hammered!" [simultaneously "Let's Hammer It"] was written by well-known Soviet poet Demyan Bedny in 1930. Bedny proclaimed "honest sober
Ham" as a model of… Read more about this item

Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. izd. 1919. 

[2], IV, 66 pp. 11.8x17.9 cm. In owner's contemporary quarter cloth binding. Rubbed spine, otherwise in a very good condition.
 Scarce. First edition. 

A MYSTICAL PLAY WRITTEN BY ANATOLY LUNACHARSKY (1875-1933), THE FIRST BOLSHEVIK SOVIET PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. 

In the early-1900s, Anatoly Lunacharsky was one of the few… Read more about this item

Moscow: Fizkul'tura i sport, 1956. 

28 pp.: ill. In the original wrappers with photographs. Ink inscription (dated 1975) on front cover. Very good condition, spine slightly rubbed. 
First and only edition. No title page as issued, all contributors are credited on the back cover.
This photo book is devoted to boating activities common in the USSR, champions and the… Read more about this item

Odesa: Odes. obl. izd-vo, 1952. 

320 pp.: ill. 20.5x13.3cm. In original publisher's illustrated cardboards. Stamp of the library of the whaling ship Slava (the library was located at the vessel and was intended for Soviet whalers exclusively) and inventory number on the title-page, p.17, and p. 320. Spine and edges rubbed. Otherwise in a very good condition. 

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1) Programma vsesoiuznogo parada fizkul'turnikov [i.e. Program of the All-Union Athletes Parade]. Moscow, 1939. 44 pp.: ill. 18,5x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tail of spine chipped, number on front cover, pale water stain on lower margin throughout p. 33-36, otherwise very good. One of 7000 copies. Design by V. Maslov.
 2) Vsesoiuznyi parad fizkul'turnikov : Programma [i.e.… Read more about this item

Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]: Tip. UVD, 1970. 82 pp. 14,5x10 cm. In original printed wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, otherwise mint.
For internal use of Nizhny Novgorod policemen. Copy #2545 of 8000 produced. 
Interesting and very rare handbook on how to behave if you are a Soviet policeman. It contains sections "Behavior in Society", "Interaction with People", "Behavior in Public",… Read more about this item

Moscow: Staatsverlag für schöne literatur, 1932. 

No.1: 160 pp.: ill., 2 ills. No.2: 118, [2] pp.: ill. 25,5x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers with flaps of the back covers. #1: Tears of the spine, rubbed, some stains, otherwise very good. #2: Small fragments of the spine lost, faded, minor tears of the spine and covers, otherwise very good and… Read more about this item

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 of the All-Union Communist Party, 166 delegates crossed… Read more about this item

[1920s]. 13 photos. Folding series of photos: 10x96 cm. Binding: 11,16,5 cm. In original cloth binding with gilt lettering. Good, fabric connections between cards worn, with tears. Paper sticker on spine, ink numbers and stamp of the State Museum of Social Hygiene (prewar institution) on rear side of front cover.

 Very rare and essential source on an early… Read more about this item

Leningrad.: Giz, 1924. 116 с. 22.8×15,7 cm. In original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine, block slightly shattered, damp stain in the lower left corner throughout twelve pages at the rear, otherwise in a good condition. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. A remarkable lubok-style front cover design by the Soviet artist and… Read more about this item

Moscow: akts. izd. o-vo "Ogonek", 1927 ("Mospoligraf". Tipo-tsinkografiya "Mysl' pechatnika"). 64 pp. 14.4x11.4 cm. In original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Very light damp stain in the upper and lower left corners throughout the copy, pen marking on the front wrapper, otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First separate edition. First appeared in Russian print in the Krasnaya Nov'… Read more about this item

Moscow: akts. izd. o-vo "Ogonek", 1928 (7-ya tip. "Iskra revolyutsii" Mospoligrafa). 48 pp. 14.8x11.2 cm. In original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. Scarce. Abridged translation from English. First edition of one of the earliest Russian translations of Mark Twain's famous novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (original text published in 1876). The book was translated from English… Read more about this item

Kharkiv: Derzh. vid-vo Ukr., 1923. [4], V, [1], 250 pp., 23 ill., frontispiece: ill. 23x14.9 cm. In original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Neat restoration of the spine, a small hole on the p. 178 (no text affected), otherwise in a very good condition. First separate edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Translated from Russian. Text in Ukrainian. Front wrapper design… Read more about this item

St. Petersburg: tip. br. Panteleyevykh, 1901. LXIV, 512 pp., 1 portrait: ill. 24.5x15.3 cm. Contemporary quarter leather with gilt-lettering on the spine. Binding rubbed. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition of the fourth complete Russian translation. Censored. Like most of the Confessions printed in Russia between 1865 and 1917, it also omits the censored homosexual… Read more about this item

Moscow: K. Tsvetkov, [1901]. 86, [2] pp. 17.8x11.5 cm. In original publisher's printed wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine, a Soviet bookshop stamp on the front free endpaper, pen markings on the front wrapper and title page, otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. Published during the author's lifetime. An early Russian translation of Jerome K. Jerome's… Read more about this item

St. Petersburg: tip. M.M. Stasyulevicha, 1899. XIV, [2], 106 pp. Contemporary quarter-leather. Rubbed spine, worn edges, otherwise internally clean copy. Scarce. First edition of the second translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Translated from German by S. Nani. Bilingual edition in German and Russian. With the translator's foreword. Original printed in 1883. One of the first Russian translations of… Read more about this item

Moscow: 1927-1932. 21.7x16.5 cm. #1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 of 1929; #2,6 of 1930; #8 of 1931. 14 issues bound in 1 volume. Print run varied. Binding rubbed, #5, 8, 12 of 1929 with the loss of the front wrappers, light soiling of all issues, otherwise in a good condition. A compilation of fourteen issues (bound in 1 volume) of the popular… Read more about this item