= Very rare Polish language wall calendar. With the dates of the official holidays in Soviet Russia listed below.
- Blank margins sl. creased and w. some sm. marginal tears.
= One of Dmitry Moor's most famous poster designs, alluding to the Podvolzhye famine (1921-1922) during the civil war. Reprint of the orig. 1921 edition.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Rebacked w. cloth.
= Monod 9255; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.143: "Like Ivan Bilibin he [Boris Zworykine] remained faithful to his neo-Russian style. Nowhere is this more visible than in his illustrations for Le coq d'or et d'autres contes de A.S. Pouchkine (...). The tale published in 1903 was designed as a real children's book but the 1925 publication was a very expensively and costly made book, not suited as a children's book. The illustrations are executed in a pochoir technique (...). The effect is a dazzling display of bright colours. The illustrations are greatly elaborated and have a dream-like quality that enhances the subject of the fairy tale." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
= Rare. Published on occasion of the author's 80th birthday, in a small number of copies for the "Knights of the Order of the Monkey", a parody secret society created by the author. Contains a bibliography at the end.
Idem. Elektron. St. Petersburg, Alkonost, 1919, 32,(4)p., publisher's emblem by YU. ANNENKOV on htitle, orig. wr. by A. REMIZOV, 12mo.
- Good/ fine copy. = Rowell/ Wye 239; Kilgour 934.
- Wr. loosening; spine-ends dam.; frontwr. sl. dustsoiled. = The author's debut.
- Upper hinge weak.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to "Monsieur Kalan[?] Stanislav Leopoldovitch [signature]. [In Russian:] All these years I have always remembered, with love and gratitude [monogram] 31 iii 1946" on first blank, in the author's distinct calligraphic style. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
AND 2 French translations of works by I. BOUNINE and A. KOUPRINE.
- Backstrip sl. worn and partly restored/ strengthened; wr. sl. fingersoiled.
= Khan-Magomedov p.130f; Rowell/ Wye 498 and ill. p.189. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Owner's entry on title-p. Wr. sl. yellowed/ dustsoiled and creased; spine splitting at top.
= Khan-Magomedov p.138; Rowell/ Wye 658; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 p.90: "Rodchenko's photographic inspiration continued to the end of the 1920s, often in fruitful partnership with Mayakovsy. On the backcover of A Conversation (...) Rodchenko did not bother with the hackneyed imagery which he could have extracted from the lines "Was your journey necessary?... what if during these last fifteen years I've ridden to death a dozen Pegasuses?!" but used the words "All poetry is a journey into the unknown", to imagine Mayakovsky's head (represented by a photograph) as a world in itself, circled by aeroplanes". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Backwr. w. sm. rubbed/ dam. spot on verso, trifle waterst. along upper edge and w. sm. stamp; spine worn/ splitting.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Owner's entry on first leaf. Spine restored/ strengthened (mainly visible along spine on backwr.).
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Sm. stamp on frontwr.; backwr. partly vaguely waterst.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Small stamp and some small brownish stains on frontwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Vol. 3 backstrip sl. creased.
= First edition of Solzhenitzyn's most famous work. With the short foreword before the title-p. of vol. 1, not included in any later edition.
- Wrappers foxed and w. horizontal crack.
Bulgakov, M. Sobachye serdtse (Heart of a dog). Ibid., idem, 1985, 4th ed., 157,(1)p., orig. wr. by Yu. ANNENKOV. - AND 3 others, i.a. M. BULGAKOV, Rokovye yaytsa (London, 1970, 1st ed. thus, orig. wr.) and V. NABOKOV, Zaschita Luzhina (Ann Arbor, 1979, reprint ed., orig. wr.).
- Spine and backstrip (partly) sl. yellowed.
Idem. Olen' i shalashovka (The deer and the trollop). London, Flegon Press, 1968, 1st ed., 95p., orig. wr.
- Bookblock and wr. trifle warped. = Political-cultural bimonthly magazine. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- One text leaf browned. Portfolio trifle worn.
= Album dealing with Japan's economy and its relations with China after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931). The remarkable plates showing mostly statistics and diagrams, often in a slightly humourous fashion and somewhat reminiscent of Gerd Arntz' Isotype pictograms. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- Spine sl. rubbed.
= The estate of Talashkino, near Smolensk, was a centre of Russian art and handicraft during the late 19th and early 20th century, at that time being the property of Princess Maria Tenisheva. Its products displayed a remarkable combination of Russian folklore and western Jugendstil.
AND 1 other: N. ROERICH, Zhenschinam (Riga, 1931, frontisp., orig. wr.).
- Corners sl. chipped.
- Upper hinge weak; title-p. and frontwr. dogeared.
= One of the author's main works on industrial design. With illustrations of designs by i.a. A. Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and V. Tatlin.