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ISKUSHENIE. Dramaticheskaia skazka v volnykh stikhakh v 4-kh stsenakh.
by A.V Lunacharsky
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First
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- 1922
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$800.00
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Octavo 18x11.5 cm., wrappers, 88pp. 2000 copies.. A dramatic story in free verse, in 4 scenes. Constructivist cover design, unattributed. OCLC finds only one physical copy held institutionally worldwide (Univ MI). A rare publication from VKhUTEMAS. A near fine copy, unopened, with slight darkening on cover edges. Item Price
$800.00
Znak Zorro, Duglas Ferbenks
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- Used - Very Good
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- First and only
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- 1925
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,100.00
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Large folio 35x26.5 cm., wrappers, (6) pp. Cover drawing by Nyk. Kravchenko. An oversize promotional edition by Sovkino, with an essay on Fairbanks and raves from the press for his role in this silent favorite, with a full-page promotion for the inaugural showing of Robin Hood. Glavlit 42303. No institutional holdings found in worldcat Item Price
$1,100.00
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MASTERSTVO TEATRA. Vremennik Karmernogo Teatra.Nos. 1-2
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First and only
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- 1922-23
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$2,200.00
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Octavo 22x17.5 cm., original wrappers, 111, 112 pp. Nos. 1-2 (all published). Illustrated with drawings by Kuznetsov, Lopukhin, and with photographs. Contributors include A. Tairov, K. Bal'mont, Shpet, Toporkov, inter alia. OCLC locates six North American institutional holdings. No.1 has light stains on first two pages, No. 2 fine. Item Price
$2,200.00
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Staatstheater W. Meyerhold
by Meyerhold, Vsesolod (Klutsis cover)
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First and only
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- 1930
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,500.00
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Quarto 24.5x19 cm., stiff wrappers in silver jacket, 46pp. Dust wrapper design by Gustav Klutsis. The accompanying book to Meyerhold's tour abroad in 1930 when he took the State Theater (Gos TIM) to Germany and France where he received acclaim. The book is replete with photos and summaries of Biomechanics, and various plays with cast featured, including Liubov Popova's work… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
Komezhevskii Registrator
by Iurii Zheliabushkii, Ivan Moskvin
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First and only
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- (1925)
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$750.00
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Quarto 30x22/5 cm., wrappers, (16) pp. A brochure for a film with I. Moskvin, V.Malinovskaia and B. Tamarin directed by Iurii Zheliabuzhkii and Ivan Moskvin, in a screenplay by F. Otsen and V. Turkin. Includes a two-page written summary with credits. Ivan Moskvin (1874-1946) was a Russian and Soviet actor, theater director, People's Artist of the USSR and recipient of… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Krest i Mauzer. Kinodrama v 8 chastakh
by Vladimur Gardin, Director
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- Used - Very Good
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- First and only
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- 1925
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- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,000.00
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Quarto 30.3x22.5 cm., original wrappers, (12) pp. Oversize prospectus for the Goskino production directed by Vladimir Gardin (1877-1965). The strong photomontage designs
throughout, utilizing repeated geometric elements is the work of Anton Mikhailovich Levinsky (1893-1968), who employed them dramatically in a number of film brochures at this time. Levinsky started in Baku and eventually became part of LEF. OCLC locates one… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,000.00
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Predatel'
by Abram Room
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- Used - Fine
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- First and only
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- 1926
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- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$750.00
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Oblong octavo 15x23 cm., wrappers, (9) pp. A prospectus for a film directed by Abram Matveevich Room (1894-1976). An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolshevik but is captured and punished after the revolution. With Mariia Parshina, Evgeniia Khovanskaia, Nikolai Radin, inter alia. With photomontage cover and illustrations throughout. OCLC locates copies at Yale, Academy of Motion… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Konets Sankt-Peterburga
by Sergei Pudovkin
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First and only
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- (1927)
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$750.00
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Octavo 22x15 cm., wrappers, 8pp.Sergei Pudovkin (1893-1953) is recognized as a pioneering great director of Soviet film. Here he writes a summary of the contents of this 1927 production with several stills from the film. Photocollage cover is unattributed. Uncommon, with only Yale and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts holding copies of this worldwide Item Price
$750.00
Antigona
by Walter Hasenclaver; Alexander Tairov adaptation
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- Used - Fine
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- First and only
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- 1928
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,250.00
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Octavo 17x13 cm., wrappers, 16pp. Superb cover design by Pavel Semenovich Naumov (1884-1942), renowned graphic artist. Hasenclever's play was written in 1916 during the war and staged by Tairov in 1928. A description of the play by Hasenclever, with additional notes by Shenshin for the music, and a six-page essay by Aleksandr Tairov. Photos of the cast are included, with… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
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Pola Negri.
by A. Rozenbaum (Ayn Rand)
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- Used - Very Good
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- First and only
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- 1925
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$2,600.00
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Octavo 15x11.5 cm., wrappers,16pp. This is the first published work by Ayn Rand (nee Alisa Rosenbaum, 1905-1982) and is extremely scarce. Ayn Rand wrote two works on the cinema under her given name before emigrating and embarking on her now well-known career as a novelist and philosopher in the United States. The present work is a short monograph on the… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,600.00
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Komediia o Tsare Maksimiliane i nepokorem syne ego Adolfe.
by V.V. Bakrylov
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First
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- 1921
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,950.00
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Quarto (27x18.5 cm.), original wrappers, 96pp. Vladimir Vasil'evich Bakrylov (1892-1922) was a writer and journalist appointed by Lunacharsky to the Ministry of Public Education and later to the Commissar of state theaters in Petrograd to "liquidate sabatoge" among the actors. He became fascinated by Russian theater history, and in particular an old comedy about the pagan monarch who tries to… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,950.00
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Moskva -- Zamoskrovetskii raion
by (Alexander Rodchenko)
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- Used - Very Good-
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- First and only
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- 1931
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- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,500.00
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Octavo 15xx10,5 cm., 14 pp. leporello. A photographic guidebook of old and new structures in Moscow's historic district, with some remarkable photomontage work to dramatize visual effect.
Interior photos highlight factory work and production. This guidebook was designed and assembled by Aleksandr Rodchenko. A rarity, very scarce. Item Price
$1,500.00
Poslednii Reshitel'nyi (The Last Decisive)
by Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vsevolod Vishnevskii
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First and only
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- 1931
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$800.00
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Large octavo 21.5x15 cm., wrappers, 14 pp. Meyerhold began using elements of the cinema in his performances, in the "cinefication" of the theater which he had been considering for some time. Portions of films were projected on stage during the performance to enhance the multidimensionality that became possible with cinematographic techniques, including photomontage. The present work consists of the program… Read more about this item Item Price
$800.00
Dama s Kameliiami
by (Vsevolod Meyerhold) Gosteatr Im. V.S. Meierkhol'da
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- Used
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- First and only
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- 1934
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$750.00
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Oblong octavo 10.5x15 cm., wrappers, six leaves. 100 copies. A theater program for Meyerhold's production of Dama s kamiliami (The Lady of the Camelias). Meyerhold refashioned the play from its original setting in the 1830s to the 1870s. The program is a work of Constructivist design by an unknown artist Item Price
$750.00
TEKHNIKA RABOTY NAD MALYMI FORMAMI
by Aleksandr Borodin, D. Dolev
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- First and only
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- 1930
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,000.00
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Octavo 21x15 cm., original wrappers, 95(1) pp. Getty 99; they hold the only copy in North America or elsewhere. Item Price
$1,000.00
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Gollivud. Amerikanskii kino-gorod
by A. Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand)
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First
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- 1926
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- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$2,750.00
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Octavo 16.5x13 cm., within original wrappers with unattributed, striking photomontage; 48 pages. Illustrated with movie stills. The second book written by Ayn Rand (1905-1982), the later adopted name of Alisa Rozenbaum, and published after she left St. Petersburg for America, Hollywood is also the second of the only two works in her native language (Russian). This volume examines the origins… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,750.00
Ernest Torrens
by B. Kolomarov
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1928
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- Soft cover
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- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$350.00
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Moscow-Leningrad: Kinopechat', 1928 Octavo 15x11 cm., wrappers, 16pp. Gublit 48237. Ernest Torrence (1878-1933) was a Scottish silent film actor who is famed for his villainous portrayals. Unattributed strong cover photomontage. Two North American library holdings cited by OCLC (Yale, USC). Very crisp copy. Item Price
$350.00
Iad (Poison)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1928
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$500.00
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Moscow-Leningrad: Kinopechat', 1928 Duodecimo 14.3x9.5 cm, wrappers, (6)pp. Remarkable strong cover for the screenplay written by Antalolii Lunacharskii from his theater drama. Rare, with no institutional holdings found in worldcat. Very good with stamped rear cover. Item Price
$500.00
Bester Kiton (Buster Keaton)
by S. Gekht
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1926
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$350.00
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Moscow-Leningrad: Kinopechat', 1926 Octavo 15x11 cm., wrappers, 16pp. Glavlit 57077. Photomontage by Konstantin Vialov. Essay on Buster Keaton, famous silent film actor. Text by Sergei Gekht. Vialov is often attributed as author. OCLC finds this in three North American libraries. Very good+ condition. 300 Item Price
$350.00
Konstantin Eggert
by Semen Polotskii
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1927
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- Soft cover
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- 1
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$350.00
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Moscow-Leningrad: Kinopechat', 1927 Octavo 15x11.5 cm., wrappers, 15(1)pp. Eggert (1883-1955) was a Russian actor film director, renowned for his work in The Lame Gentlemen, Gobseck, and The Marriage of the Bear. Glavlit 85416. Two institutional holdings (Yale, USC) found in North America. Near fine copy with rear cover marking. Item Price
$350.00
