Photomontage from Biblionne

The stamps "From the books of Ya. Khelemsky" to title and several pages. One of 5.000 copies printed. The unique edition of Aleksandr Mitrofanov book. G.Adamovitch in his critic review wrote a lot of good words about this novel. Photomontage to covers without sign. S. Telingater and G. Klutsis work that year for the covers of the serie. Rare edition. OCLC locates two copy in… Read more about this item

[Labour union edition]. From the collection of Marcel Bekus (1888-1939) - historian of revolution and Socialism, born in Warsaw, participant in the Russian 1905 revolution, lived in France. Bekus had the large collection of Russian revolution books. Writed by Elektrozavod worker Breiter, with his photoportrait. We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC.

One of 5 000 copies printed. Rare in good condition. The collection of feuilletons about labor in pre-revolutionary Russia and the new Soviet country was written by Mikhail Kol'tsov (born Moisey Fridlyand; 1898-1940/2), a journalist and a prominent figure in the Soviet intellectual elite, who also served as an NKVD agent. He played a pivotal role as the founder and… Read more about this item

This photo album devoted to the construction of the Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station. According to the original project, three dams with hydroelectric power plants should have been built on the Svir River (the north-east from Leningrad). However only two of them were built. The construction started in 1927 and was headed by the engineer and one of the founders of… Read more about this item

With Varvara Stepanova stamp on the back cover's turnover. Artist's copy. One of 10 000 copies published. Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was a long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko. The stamp contains their home and workshop address. The issue also contains posters and photomontage from Vladimir Mayakovsky's books by Alexander Rodchenko.

Text by E. Bauman, V. Shalunovskii. Photos by V. Uvarov. Illustrations by A. Sokolov [Moskva-Kiev], Informatsionno-reklamnoe biuro Upravleniia kinofikatsii i kinoprokata; Kievskaya fabrika tsvetnoi pechati, 1966 Advertising leaflet of War and Peace film (directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, 4 series, 1965-1967) - one of the most important film in the history of Soviet cinema. The Russian version of the film based on the… Read more about this item

R.I. Kalmens - translation from German. B.A. Kal'pus - foreword. N. Borov – covers with photomontage One of 20.000 copies printed. A series of books about a healthy lifestyle of the Danish gymnast Joergen Peter Mueller (1866-1938) was very popular in pre-revolutionary Russia. In 1911 Müller came to Russia and acted in Moscow and St. Petersburg where showed as it is necessary… Read more about this item

One of 15.000 copies printed. First edition. An unusual book of poems published during the beginning of Cold War, but designed as the best Soviet editions of 1930s. Photoillustration is on the front side of the dust jacket, depicting Mayakovsky posing on the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1925 V. Mayakovsky planned to make a trip around the world, but it didn't work out… Read more about this item