JULY 2020. NEW ACQUISITIONS F O R E W O R D

Dear friends,

We are excited to present our new catalogue of 36 latest acqusitions! Through these items we continue to explore the world of the Soviet Union and most importantly - of a Soviet man. Hie everyday life is reflected in the first section titled ‘Byt’ with particularly interesting item #3 - Moscow’s ‘yellow pages’. The index includes many advertisments which help us learn more about products Soviet people used (or desired to use at least) and activities they engaged into. A book on experimantal art of Armenia (#6) is in the second section of the catalogue ‘Art of the 1920s-30s’ as well as beautiful edition about A. Deyneka, one of the most important Soviet artists (#7). Our usual section of Science include interesting books by Bekhterev (#8) and Zander (#9) researching a mind of a Soviet man as well as his attempts to fly in outer space. A collection of 5 anti-NATO pamphlets with striking photomontage wrappers can be found in the next section (#10). Experiments in both Soviet film and Ukrainian theatre are described in the next section (p.23). Five beatiful books are gathered in the section ‘Art of the Book’: type specimen (#14), handbook for typesetters, excellent book design by Solomon Telingater (#18), et al. One of our favorite sections is dedicated to Architecture (p.35): design and construction of buildings especially in the early Soviet years was fascinating and quickly changing. Some of the designs are left only on paper, others can be found on the same place today. Architectural periodicals are particularly interesting in this regard (#20-21). We also have sections on Feminism (p.62), World War II (p.54), Photo Books (p.47) with many illustrated and rare books and periodicals. The closing section of Misc. is very diverse - from a book on Erzya language (#33) to Ukrainians in the USA (#34) to the Soviet pavillion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939 (#36). We hope you enjoy this catalogue as much as we do!

Bookvica team July 2020

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01 [BYT MANIFESTO] Arkin, David. Iskusstvo bytovoi veshchi [i.e. The Art of The Everyday Object]. Moscow: Izogiz, 1932. 170, [3] pp. 21x15 cm. Original photomontage wrappers. Very good, spine is restored. Ex-library copy (the stamp ‘allowed for resale’ of Russian Public Historic Library). Original wrappers’ design by Solomon Telingater (1903-1969), in the composition included the pieces of furniture, drawings of children, abstract architectural elements, pieces of fabrics and tableware. Illustrated throughout. The illustrations include the designs of a room by El Lissitzky, a working club room designed by A. Rodchenko, as well as a stage costume designed by him, examples of textile and agitational porcelain.

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BOOKVICA 4 Worldcat shows First and only edition. Very rare. This work, produced by art copies at Stanford and Columbia historian, the head of the department of industrial design of Moscow Universities. University David Arkin (1899-1957), was his debut work but also one of the most interesting ones. Written by him under the influence of Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and productive arts of the USSR of the 1920s, it could be seen as a kind of manifesto of left art in the design of furniture, tableware and everyday objects. Arkin makes the argument that in a harmonious co-existence of the machine-produced items and the artist the crucial ‘sight point’ is the everyday object. He understands it as any item that surrounds a person in his daily life from furniture to tableware as well as clothing and anything inside man’s house. All of these objects are analyzed in the book from the perspectives of the ‘new style’ and with many references to the achievements of the European designers. In the chapter ‘From William Morris to Constructivism’ Arkin tries to prove that only Soviet design has the advantage of creating the most universal and advanced style. It’s achieved because of the belief that art is the function of everyday life and is serving the everyday life and its objects. Arkin’s work is enjoyable because in the following year the wind has changed and under the accusations of formalism a lot of ideas he was promoting was discharged and disallowed in USSR. David Arkin went on to focus on the books on architecture,

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BOOKVICA 5 with his classical ‘Contemporary Architecture of the West’ coming out the same year (El Lissitzky designed the book). ON HOLD

02 [CONSTRUCTIVIST FURNITURE] Za novuiu mebel’ [i.e. For the New Furniture]. Moscow: GOSTEKHIZD, 1933. 87 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Near fine. Worldcat doesn’t Extremely rare. The book includes two theoretical works track this edition. by Benenson and Murashov on the development and goals of the Soviet furniture industry and the chapter by N. Guchev. The chapter by N. Guchev describes the results of the contest, that was called collectively by 25 different organizations, including the all-Union committee for unification, central committee of wood and carpenter workers, Soyuzmebel and others. The content entered 149 projects, the examples of them are given in the chapter. The jury included engineers, urban planners, wood workers and one delegate from the Communist academy. One of the most interesting parts of the book is the actual projects with illustrations provided (total of 57 images). Despite the progressing attack on the formalist art in Soviet art the projects included the examples of constructivism and even Bauhaus-inspired designs. The same year Hans Meyer has created the famous Birobidzhan city plan, partly embodied in the Soviet Far East. However there is not much information about the influence of Bauhaus on Soviet furniture design of the 1930s. The projects however show that the anonymous designers have gained some inspiration from there. The shortlist of laureates included the projects like ‘Cheiorniy kvadrat’ [i.e.’Black square’], ‘Na perehodnom etape’ [i.e. During the transmission period], ‘Zeleniy shum’ [i.e. Green noise]. Apart from the projects ‘The Black Square’ there’s also ‘Black and Red Square’ which alludes to Malevich. He was probably unaware of this projects, but the analogy is interesting. The bed ‘Black Square’ has a large headboards with black squares located on it in the chaotic order. One of the most surrealist projects is ‘The Green Noise’, in which the table has skyscraper like catalogue shelves from both sides of the chair, allowing the minimal space in between. Overall, an interesting overview of the Soviet furniture that

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stayed in drafts and was never produced. ON HOLD

03 [THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MOSCOW EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 1930s THROUGH ADVERTISMENTS]

Spisok abonentov Moskovskoi gorodskoi telefonnoi seti [i.e. List of the Moscow City Telephone Line Subscribers]. Moscow: Izd. Upravleniia Moskovskoi gorodskoi telefonnoi seti, 1939. L, 496, 112, [16] pp. 26,5x20 cm. One of 30000 copies printed. In original wrappers. Small losses and tears of the spine and covers, rubbed, ink note on p. 110 (additional info about subscriber), otherwise very good. Worldcat doesn’t Extremely rare. As the purpose of the edition was to be placed track this edition. in the city telephone booths, the chances of survival to present days were little. This version of Moscow’s ‘Yellow Pages’ shows the life of the capital of the USSR in the brutal era of repressions and arrests from a completely different point of view than the books or periodicals of the time. It mirrors the everyday life of the city giving us the insight into the needs and opportunities of the Moscow dweller in the late 1930s.

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Targeted to a telephone user the book contains a lot of advertising showing the business side of the city where still (until 1956) small businesses existed, including the private enterprise. By the 1950s in the Soviet Union 2 million people were employed by such businesses. For example, some of the advertising Azerbaijani and Armenian wines, mineral water, scrap metal recycling, hotels, grocery

BOOKVICA 8 shops, cacao and ice-cream, cigars, et al. The back cover contains Glavtorgvodtrans advertisement of canteens and restaurants on board of ships that went on the Moscow- Volga Canal. As it announced the first-class suburban restaurant with jazz and dances was located in ‘Khimki’ port. Even the spine of the book had an ad for the Aeroflot company (as well as the full schedule of the flights of the company on p.3 of the ad section). Booksellers advertised literature in foreign languages as well as pre-revolutionary editions. On another page an ad for the language courses could be found. A very interesting ad section was given to museums in whish most of Moscow’s existed museums were given space to place information about their open hours and exhibitions. The museum of the art of the serves in tsarist Russia was advertised alongside with Anna Golubkina’s workshop (that was closed in 1952 but reopened in the 1970s). Already actively working both Mayakovsky’s museum and Anti- religious museum near Tverskaya St. Some temporary exhibitions included the exhibition on the protection of motherood and the exhibition of the calculating machines and accounting equipment. The ‘health and beauty’ advertising section gives us the overview of the medical market in Moscow at the time, including a cosmetic clinic and a radiology institute. All in all, more than 200 ads give us an overview of what business side of the capital of socialist country looked like at the time. This telephone directory contains incredible advertisements printed in blue ink on separate thick leaves. Some of them are inserted as half-titles before parts of the book. A folding double page was occupied by information on how to use a fixed telephone, what parts a rotary dial telephone consisted of and how you should use it. A constructivist- like design of the rules alternated small and capital letter phrases, supplementing them with photographs of the apparatuses and users. The directory comprised fixed telephone numbers of people and organizations, including all changes happened in 1938. Occasionally, subscribers’ lists were interrupted by instructions like “If you have no answer after 4-5 signals, put a handset on the cradle” or “Lift the telephone between the rings, not during them”. $3,500

BOOKVICA 9 II ART OF THE 1920s-1930s

04 [CUBO-FUTURISM IS EVERYWHERE] Punin, N. Noveishie techeniia v russkom iskusstve [i.e. The Newest Movements in Russian Art]:

Copies of both 1) Traditsii noveishego russkogo iskusstva [i.e. Traditions of The Modern editions can Russian Art]. Leningrad: Izd. Gos. Russkogo muzeia, 1927. 14 pp. 18x14 be located in Northwestern cm. 2) Predmet i kul’tura [i.e. Object and Culture]. Leningrad: Izd. Gos. University, Getty Russkogo muzeia, 1928. 16 pp. 18x14 cm. In original illustrated Institute and oversized wrappers. The first issue slightly soiled, with minor tear of National Gallery of Art. Copies of the the spine, overwise very good. The second issue is near fine. 1st issue locate Only two issues were printed. Rare. in LoC, Stanford, Illinois, Wayne The first cover design features V. Tatlin’s work ‘Fishermen’ and Universities. Copies the second one shows ‘Forest’ by L. Bruni. of the 2nd issue locate in Oregon Two fragile pamphlets praising Russian avant-garde: cubism, and Washington futurism, and cubo-futurism. “If an object is beyond attention of artist, Universities. don’t argue but try to put up with it”, - wrote Nikolai Punin (1888-1935),

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BOOKVICA 10 one of the most intelligent art critics of that time. His critical works were mostly devoted to avant-garde art. His lectures were extremely popular among open-minded members of the Academia of Art and his numerous students. He was close enough with Mayakovsky, Malevich, Tatlin, Lebedev and others. According to his texts, Punin saw the influence of cubo-futurism in almost every modern movement and that’s why he was able to regard it as a certain period of art in the early 20th century. Although Punin planned to publish a series of such sketches, only two of them were released. $1,750

05 [ART OF THE PEOPLE] Iskusstvo narodov SSSR: Sbornik statei i materialov / GAKhN [i.e. Art of People of the USSR: Collection of Articles and Materials / State Academy of Art Science]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 160 pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Minor losses and tear of the spine, signature on t.p. otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. Worldcat shows copies located This is a collection of articles dedicated to the renaissance in LoC, Yale, of national arts of the Soviet Republics in general and folk arts of Harvard, California, Minnesota, numerous ethnic groups in particular. Following an idea of art as a tool Stanford of worldview construction, the state needed to bring under control any Universities and NYPL. provincial art. Since an AKhRR exhibition ‘Life and Byt of Peoples of the USSR’ held in 1926, the Siberian, Far East, Central Asian, Caucasian, etc. art regularly came to the light and underwent socialist criticism. As the best evidence of national art revival, an article on how Kote Marjanishvili transformed Georgian theater was included. It was written by theater and film director Sergo Amaglobeli who admired the entire system originated by Marjanishvili and his approaches. A sketch on history of Tatar theater was written by sci-fi writer and futurist poet Gadel Qutuy (1903-1945), known as a founder of Tatar LEF - SULF. As he mentioned, Tatar theatrical school was established during the revolutions and was intensively developing. Staging national performances was tightly connected with research and use of folk music. The article by scholar Sergei Bugoslavskii overviews changes and impact of Yakut, Chechen, Jewish, Romani, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, etc. melodies.

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The folklore based on ornaments was more conservative. This craft for a long time belonged to women occupied with householding and hardly affected by external factors. The book features Chuvash, Mordovian, Khanty and Mansi fancyworks marking the special way of life of these ethnic groups. The socialist changes were brought to handicrafts, influencing objects produced, motifs and production process itself. The book contains a picture of Red Army soldiers made of a mammoth bone by representatives of indigenous people and a machine-made rug depicting hammer and sickle. All the workshops were required to serve the socialist way of everyday life. ON HOLD

06 [VKHUTEMAS AESTHETICS IN ARMENIA] Khorhrdayin Hayastani kerparvestě: 1922-1934 [i.e. The Art of the Soviet Armenia: 1922- 1934]. Yerevan: Petakan Hratarakchutyun, 1934. [123] leaves. 26x18 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering on the

BOOKVICA 12 spine and emblem on the front cover. Front cover cracked from the inner side (restored), some foxing on the first pages, otherwise very good and clean internally. Only 2 copies First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Rare. In Armenian. located at University of Design by Hovhannes Shavarsh (1908-1980), the Armenian book Michigan and illustrator and poster designer. Harvard College. This catalogue includes the artworks appeared from 1922 to 1934 and attracts a lot of attention being the primary source of rare materials for studying the early graphics of Soviet Armenia. Overall 121 items are divided into 3 categories: paintings, graphics and sculpture (but they actually include the book design and mural as well). The graphics underwent particular changes and flourished, putting their mark on society and inspiring Armenian artists to come back to their country. The new schools of book design and printing were formed following the socialist aims and developing the constructivist principles. The key figure in Armenian constructivism was Tachat Khachvankian (1896- 1940), a graduate of VKhUTEMAS who returned to Armenia and brought back the principles of book organism to Armenian state publishing. The catalogue contains the covers of Arax’s ‘Zimmi’ (1931) and Vshtuni’s ‘Radio Algeria Speaks’ (1931), the title page and illustration for Alazan’s ‘On the Sixtieth Horizon’ (1934). Khachvankian is responsible for the compilation of this book. He was sent to the exile in Magadan, where he died of sepsis in 1940.

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BOOKVICA 13 This catalogue is a great evidence of Armenian ephemera of the first five-year plan period. The edition features 5 posters by Manuk Harutyunyan, Edward Sargsyan, Ararat Garibyan - the last one presents the original work with silhouettes of party’s leaders as well as radio mast and factory drawn in lines and covered probably newspaper page. In addition to them, the sculpture section clearly highlights the low-reliefs by Ara Sargsian whose ‘Rebuilding’ and ‘Attack’ seem like impressively stone posters on the Red Army soldiers and the working men. It is also interesting to compare the old and the younger generation of artists in the 1920s. Here the rather traditional work ‘Street in Tabriz’ by Hakob Kojoyan, who became the creator of Soviet traditions in Armenian art, meets an innovative ‘Red Cavalry’ by Hovhannes Shavarsh, who started to create under the Soviet rule. Apart from the mentioned artists, the book includes paintings and sculptures

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BOOKVICA 14 by Martiros Saryan, Panos Terlemezian, Stepan Aghajanian, Vrtanes Akhikyan, Gabriel Gyurjyan, Stepan Taryan and others. All in all the thorough insight into a lesser-known period of Armenian art. $1,750

07 [MASTER OF THE SOCIALIST REALISM] Nikiforov, B. Deyneka. Moscow: Izogiz, 1937. 121, [3] pp.: ill., 5 ills. 29,5x23 cm. In original cardboards with colored lettering. Very good, minor tear of the spine. Two pencil sketches on the front flyleaf. Paper copies First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. Rare. located at A richly illustrated and the earliest monograph on a leading LoC, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, figure of socialist realism, Alexander Deyneka (1899-1969). Harvard, Indiana, He began his art work in Kursk where he was born. During the Miami, Fairleigh Dickinson Civil war, he created local ROSTA Windows and designed agitational Universities, Getty trains. Moved to Moscow, Deyneka enrolled at VKhUTEMAS and, with Institute, MET, NYPL, Cleveland other graduates, founded OST society, then was a member of the Library. October group and ‘Vsekokhudozhnik’ institution. In arts Deyneka was as influential as Mayakovsky in poetry. He designed books, posters, building and street decoration, created paintings and graphics, murals and mosaics. He focused on relevant topics and rhythm of the Soviet life. He is mostly known for images of athletes, praising physical strength, while Deyneka was also attracted

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BOOKVICA 15 to aviation in the 1930s. Among his works are a mural ‘Civil aviation’ (1932) created for kitchen-factory, painting ‘Parachute Jumper’ and watercolor ‘Seaplane over the bay’ ( both 1934). Two Moscow Metro stations, Mayakovskaya and Novokuznetskaya, have his mosaics. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 16 III SCIENCE

08 [HYPNOTISM] Bekhterev, V.M. Gipnoz, vnusheniye i psikhoterapiya i ikh lechebnoye znacheniye: Iz lektsiy, chitannykh vracham i studentam Imp. Voyenno- meditsinskoy akademii [i.e. Hypnosis, Implanting and Psychotherapy and Their Therapeutic Value. From Lectures Read to Doctors and Students at the Imperial Military Medical Academy]. St. Peterburg: Vestn. znaniya, 1911. 60 pp.: portr. 24x15,5 cm. In later wrappers. Some restoration of the title page, private library stamp on the t.p. (in English). The first edition of the important title by Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927), one of the most unorthodox and influential minds of the Russian thought of the late 19th-early 20th century. The founding father of the objective psycology, he has contributed to neurology, organization of the health and mental institutions, etc. It’s less known that Bekhterev was actively involved in destigmatisation of same-sex relationships in Russia in the 1920s when such relationships became entirely legal for the first time in the country’s history. Bekhterev kept the correspondence with homosexual people across the country, was commenting on their issues in his public lectures and was generally researching the subject. That research was not concluded because of Bekhterev’s death in 1927 which is regarded controversial and the cause is still unclear. One of the reasons why Bekhterev’s name has been surrounded by the certain mystical atmosphere during his life and up No 08 to the present day is his long-time

BOOKVICA 17 studies of hypnosis, mental implanting and telepathy. In the 1920s he was conducting the mass hypnotic sessions to cure alcoholism. Bekhterev was also named the main prototype for Bulgakov’s character professor Preobrazhensky in his novel ‘The Heart of a Dog’. In this edition which sums up Bekhterev’s research to that date, he stresses the difference between implanting (suggestion) and hypnosis. Bekhterev was interested in phenomena of a direct mental implanting and made experiments to influence behavior of dogs at a distance. Bekhterev’s research on associated responses would become highly connected with the important area of psychology called Behaviorism. It also led to a long-standing rivalry with Ivan Pavlov. ON HOLD

09 [SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING] Zander, F. Problema poleta pri pomoshchi raketnykh apparatov: Sbornik statei pod red. M.K. Tikhonravova [i.e. Problem of Flights by Rocket Apparatuses: Collection of Articles Edited by M. Tikhonravov]. Moscow: Izd. i tip. Oborongiza, 1947. 240 pp.: photos, drawings, charts. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original full-cloth with white lettering and light-blue illustration. Near fine. Worldcat doesn’t First edition. Scarce. track this edition. This is a collection of articles by a pioneer of rocketry Friedrich Zander (Tsander; 1887-1933) who was the first Soviet engineer who devoted his life to space travel. Following the ideas of Tsiolkovsky, Zander dreamed of spacecrafts and interplanetary flights. Studying engineering in Riga Polytechnic Institute, he carried out trajectory calculations for a flight to Mars. One of the first scholars, he suggested growing plants in greenhouses aboard a spacecraft for life support. He also proposed to burn metal parts of ship like its wings for fuel as it reached the upper atmosphere. Zander developed the idea of ​​ using gravitational and electromagnetic fields of the Moon and other planets to increase the speed of flight. He also considered the issues of spacecraft motion in the gravitational field of the Sun, planets and their satellites, determination of trajectories and flight duration. Together with Tsiolkovsky and others, Zander organized the “Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel” developing an idea of using the atmosphere for braking a re-entering spacecraft, etc.

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In 1929-1930 Zander worked on his first engine OR-1, combining compressed air and gasoline - and experienced it. In a year, as a founding member of Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD), Zander worked on the first liquid-fueled engine (OR-2). Although he designed a rocket, he died before it was launched. Zander encouraged GIRD over the whole period of activity, saying “Still, we will fly to Mars!”. His input into rocketry was enormous, but some of his ideas were brought to life only in the 1980s. This edition containing Zander’s ideas and drawings was edited by his collaborator, Mikhail Tikhonravov. As GIRD had four brigades of engineers, the first of them was headed by Zander, others by S. Korolev, M. Tikhonravov and Yu. Pobedonostsev. Apart from Zander, all of them continued working on Soviet aviation and rocketry. $1,250

BOOKVICA 19 IV FROM THE 1960s TO THE 1980s

10 [SOVIET ANTI-NATO PROPAGANDA] Five political photomontage pamphlets designed by A. Zhitomirsky: 1) Shragin, V. Shtraus-voina [i.e. Strauss “War”]. 30, [2] pp. 2) Chernov, V. Liubimets kantslera [i.e. Сhancellor’s Favorite]. 32 pp. 3) Danov, Iu. Chto snitsia generalu Khoizingeru [i.e. What General Heusinger Dreams of]. 32 pp. 4) Travinskii, V. “Nastoiashchee delo” generala Fercha [i.e. A Real Business of General Foertsch]. 24 pp. 5) Serov, V. Kogda sorvana maska [i.e. When the Mask is Thrown off]. 30 pp. Moscow: Gos. izdat. politicheskoi literatury, 1962. 20x13 cm. In original Copies of all illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good. issues are in UCLA, Ohio University, An artist Alexander Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) found the ideal Art Institute in niche for his creativity in political propaganda. Starting to combine Chicago; issues #2-5 are at LoC, photographs in the late 1920s, he underwent the influence of issues #1-3, 5 in Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Klutsis, Stenberg brothers and experimented with Harvard College. the visual language. His absolute oeuvre was the design of magazine Also the 1st issue is located in ‘Front Illustrierte für Deutschen Soldaten’ during the World War II. It Stanford, Miami, gained success because of grotesque photomontages and after the war Illinois, Duke Universities; the was over, Zhitomirsky continued to create in the style of that magazine. 2nd issue is in Throughout the Cold War period, Zhitomirsky worked creating powerful Iowa, Michigan, Kentucky propaganda photomontages about capitalist values, government Universities; leaders, peace, disarmament, etc. the 3rd issue in Stanford, These photomontages sharply criticized former leaders of Michigan; the Hitler Germany that still held high positions in politics thanks to NATO. 4th issue in The series contains works by different Soviet journalists, was designed Duke, Michigan; the 5th issue in with black & white composition and yellow accent. Apart from others, Stanford, Kentucky, Zhitomirsky created a picture of a man with a head of snarling tiger Michigan, Wisconsin, Duke and a bomb between fingers. Whoever was depicted, the image blamed Universities. them for lacking humanity. SOLD

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11 [SOVIET COSMONAUT’S AMMUNITION] Umanskii, S.P. Snariazhenie kosmonavta [i.e. Cosmonaut’s Equipment]. Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1982. 128 pp.: ill. 21,5x14 cm. One of 2700 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. A rare professional publication, giving in detail the system of ammunition of a Soviet cosmonaut. It was written by Semyon Umanskii (1909-2005), one of the leading Soviet equipment engineers from the

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Copies located only 1960s to the 80s, who developed several space suits and fighter pilot at LoC, University of Toronto and outfits. University of Umanskii has designed the experimental suit S-9 in 1959, in Oregon according to Worldcat. which a person could survive in the water at temperatures around 0 degrees for 12 hours and catapult with the speed of 1200 km/hour if needed. This suit became the prototype for SK-1 suit, that was developed in 1960 and was used by Gagarin, making it the first spacesuit. Umanskii also lead the team on the spacesuit ‘Oryol’ [i.e. The Eagle] that would have been used in the Soviet moon program. The book itself is written for cosmonauts and covers the wider range of equipment - from the food to the oxygen tanks. But the main focus is on the spacesuits, there are several suits described in the publication, including the suit of the moon explorer, vacuum suit, the suit to wear in the event of weightlessness, hydro- overalls, etc. The book is thoroughly illustrated. $350

BOOKVICA 22 V THEATRE & FILM

12 [EXPERIMENT IN FILMMAKING] Krasnye partizany. Geroicheskaia poema v 10 pesniakh po stsenariiu B. Leonidova [i.e. Red Partisans. A Heroic Poem in 10 Songs Based on Screenplay by B. Leonidov]. Leningrad: Sovkino, 1924. 16 pp.: ill. 25x17 cm. In original avant-garde wrappers. Tears of the spine, a few spots on the front cover, otherwise very good. Stamp of movie theater on the front cover. No copies located First edition. Very rare. This is an interesting edition containing in Worldcat. a film libretto and an interview with director where the film production is explained. For ‘Red Partisans’, students of film studios, soldiers, policemen, steam brigades, workers of three large factories and a little number of actors were attracted. It was overall 20 000 performers in total. For the first time in Russia, seven camera operators simultaneously shot the film. The credits indicate four of them, including Friedrich Verigo- Dorovsky (1874-1941). Together, the camera operators shot the action in one-take performance (after detailed instructions). The production

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BOOKVICA 23 was placed on the Leningrad outskirts and inside the factories that reduced expenses. The picture was directed by Vyacheslav Viskovskii (1881-1933). Starting as an actor and director of provincial theaters, he turned to cinematography in 1915. In a few years, he directed overall 60 films and a part of them was based on original screenplays. Viskovsky was highly competent in cinematography, and the audience enjoyed his works. After the October Revolution, he was engaged in theater art, then tried to achieve success in Hollywood. In 1924, he returned to the USSR and worked as a director at the Sevzapkino film studio. Viskovsky was trying to get back into the mainstream, produced films on the Revolution, but didn’t succeed. Soviet critics blamed him for the lack of ideological accents. The screenplay was written by a member of the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography, Boris Leonidov (1892-1958). The brief chronicle of the film production, as well as impressions of soldiers involved are included in the book. $950

13 [EXPERIMENTAL YEARS OF THE UKRAINIAN DRAMA THEATRE] Desiat’ rokiv odes’kogo teatru revoliutsіi [i.e. Ten Years of Odessa Theatre of Revolution]. Odesa: Odeskii teatr revoliutsii, 1936. [2], 280 pp., 47 ill. 21,5х15,5 cm. In original cloth with silver embossed design on the front cover. Very good, spine rubbed, previous owner’s underlines and notes complimented the text clarifying the names. In Ukrainian, Not in the First and only edition. One of 1500 copies produced. Scarce. Worldcat. A collection of articles depicting the experimental years of the Ukrainian drama theatre. It was opened by one of the most bright Meyerhold’s followers, Boris Glagolin (1879-1948). The theatre was launched with Anatoly Lunacharsky’s Ukrainian play ‘Polum’eri’ [i.e. Arsonists] which Glagolin staged on 7th of November, 1925. During this performance, he attempted to realize the cinematic techniques in the original stage montage. In these years the theater was directed by Vasily Vasilko (1893-1972), who formed with Kurbas and Glagolin the Ukrainian theatre of the 1920s-30s. The edition gathered 15 articles and reflected the generations of actors, directors, composers and artists who changed each other during 10 years at one of the major Ukrainian theatre. The edition presents a chronicle of performances, the main

BOOKVICA 24 articles and reviews, the large number of photographs including the portraits of theatre personnel, stage performances, recreation rooms as well as set and costume designs and the map of theatre tours. $950

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BOOKVICA 25 VI THE ART OF THE BOOK

14 [FONTS FOR THE 1920S CENTRAL ASIAN BOOKS] Obraztsy shriftov tipografii #4 Turkestanskogo Gosudarstvennogo Izdatel’stva [i.e. Type Specimen of Printing House #4 of the Turkic State Publishing House]. Tashkent, 1924. 48, [24] pp., 24 folding ills. 22x12 cm. In original printed wrappers decorated with framework. Tears of the spine, small fragments of the spine and lower corner of the back cover lost, foxing occasionally, ink marks, blank upper corner of one folding leaf lost, tears of the last leaf nearby staples, otherwise very good. Worldcat doesn’t Extremely rare catalogue of type specimen used in Turkestan track this edition. in the early 1920s. Book publishing was promoted in a historical region Turkestan since the Russian Empire annexed the territory. The first printing house was set up in the middle of the 19th century. Books in Russian, Uzbek and Kazakh languages came out based on Cyrillic and Arabic scripts. Turkic State Publishing House was established in 1920 and became a large Central Asian publisher of books in different genres. The edition contains Cyrillic and Latin fonts, but most pages

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showcase an extensive range of book decoration. Frames, title-page designs, headpieces, initials and numerous pre-revolutionary polytyping images are printed on regular and folding leaves. There are hand point signs of different sizes, exhausted or drunk men, football players, cyclists (two of them with hand point sign instead of head), women in dresses, household devices, musical instruments, lightbulb, livestock, etc. In all, a great representative of book design in the early Soviet Turkestan. SOLD

15 [LETTERPRESS ABC] Vie, I. Uchenik-naborshchik [i.e. Typesetter Apprentice]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1927. IV, 80 pp.: ill. 23x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Bumped edges of oversized covers, small tear of the spine and a few spots on front cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy.

Only copy First and only Russian edition. One of 3000 copies. Cover design in Princeton in black and brown paint was produced by a constructivist artist Nikolai University. Sedel’nikov (1905-1994). VKhUTEMAS graduate, he is mostly known as a master of type design and photomontage compositions. His design was reproduced by V. Kalabushkin. Since he typeset all elements of both covers, they look like components from different dimensions. This is one of a few handbooks on printing that was published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. At that time, typesetting practice

BOOKVICA 27 lacked relevant handbooks and manuals, the craft was mostly promoted by skilled workers. The book was translated and revised by L.A. Tumerman. As he mentioned in the foreword, “Classic typesetting guides by Bauer and Kolomnin are out of print and very rare now”. He undertook the publication of this manual for novices, who had already started to work with movable type and printing press, to allow them to systematize all parts of the experience. Tumerman enlarged the German version adding stuff from the routine of the 1920s Russian printing houses. Some of illustrations to page layout, title typesetting, etc. were first included. A curious section is devoted to labor law in the printing business. Some departments forbade labor of women and youth, others limited a workday. There are also required rooms listed and work instructions printed. $750

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16 [TYPESETTING] Bauer, F. Rukovodstvo dlia naborshchikov [i.e. Typesetter’s Handbook]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 400 pp.: ill., 1 folding table, 3 ills. 24,5x17 cm. In original yellow full cloth with lettering on the spine, emblems on the front cover and spine; in original illustrated, constructivist style dust wrapper. Dust wrapper soiled, tears with small losses on edges. Book is in a very good condition, slightly soiled externally, ink signature on t.p. One of 5000 copies. No copies located Only Soviet translation of classic typesetting guide that was in Worldcat. written by Friedrich Bauer. The translation was made by A. Derman, with additions by A. Itskov, L. Kaplan, N. Spirov. As Derman wrote, “It was difficult to undertake because of the different levels of printing and machinery in Germany and the USSR”. That’s why the translator had to rewrite or change some chapters, while a row of unused terms was excluded from dictionary. In opposite, the Soviet edition contained relevant examples in illustrations. Separate leaves feature colorful advertising posters, among them Mayakovsky

BOOKVICA 29 performance and MKhAT staging. A folding comparison table contains Continental, Fournier and American systems of typefaces. The copy also contains a brochure of Gosizdat typefaces (1931) and separate leaves showing an analysis of three-color printing. $950

17 [PERIODICAL ON BOOKS] Knigonosha [i.e. Wandering Bookseller] #1-11, 12/13, 14, 15/16, 17-21, 22/23, 24-30, 31/32, 33/34, 35, 36/37, 38, 39/40 for 1925. Overall 35 issues. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1925. 34x26 cm. In contemporary binding; original wrappers preserved. In general, most issues are in a very good condition. Binding with first 18 pages and last issue detached from the rest block, p. 19-21 (#1) detached, tears, two small holes (#20). Otherwise very good internally. Binding rubbed, with tear of the spine. No paper copies Printrun varries 6 000-10 000 copies. Very rare. of 1925 issues located in Cover design of #1-24 was produced by artist Harry Clinch - Worldcat. 1923- pseudonym of Boris Petrushansky (1892-1946) - a Soviet graphic artist 1924 issues in and caricaturist who contributed to ‘Bezbozhnik’ and ‘Krokodil’, designed LoC, some 1926 issues in Princeton books and posters. Petrushansky skillfully combined photomontage University. with caricature. Later this technique was used by many designers of satirical magazines and posters, including the 1970s-1980s. Starting from issue #25, the cover design turned to constructivism and the initials of unknown artist G.B. appeared on the lower edge. This is a year set of early Soviet bookish magazine published in 1923-24 as a newspaper and in 1924-1926 as a magazine. In Russia, knigonosha meant ‘‘one who carries books and sells them in the province’’. This edition was a monthly periodical provided critics on books published and held in libraries, as well as discussions of the book industry. As an organ of communist state publishers, the journal listed as many books as possible, including different subjects. One of the main focuses was on national publishing business, libraries in Soviet Republics and books in national languages. The section Bibliography might list books in Uzbek, Georgian, Armenian, Tatar, Mari, Kalmyk, etc. They were gathered in national groups or joined lists like ‘Manuals for Anti-Religious Campaign’, ‘International Women’s Day and Literature for Female Workers and Peasants’, ‘Literature on Aviation and Aeronautics’.

BOOKVICA 30 Another relevant topic of articles was promoting books in general. The magazine included constructivist library posters about Lenin as a reader (#5 p. 5) and advised how to design posters for reading rooms and libraries. Curious advertisements of NEP publishers and their magazines were printed in every issue. A list of articles for 1924 was printed as a supplement to #12/13. A list of articles for 1925 is attached at the end. $950

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BOOKVICA 31 18 [CONSTRUCTORS OF THE NEW WORLD] Zhukov, Iu. Liudi 30-kh godov [i.e. People of the 30s]. Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1966. 575 pp.: ill., 32 ill. 20,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated full-cloth with lettering on the spine; in original illustrated dust- wrapper; illustrated endpapers. Very good, small fragment of the spine Worldcat shows lost, covers slightly rubbed. copies located in Princeton, First edition. Illinois, Nebraska, Solomon Telingater’s later yet brilliant book design. Resembling Iowa, Indiana, the 1930s solutions, this book gained a double title-page with a Texas, Chicago, Northwestern, photomontage of constructors balancing on scaffolding. This motif of Notre Dame, Ohio, crossed metal beams repeated on half-titles, as well as constructivist Vanderbilt, Case Western Reserve, ‘beams’ spread throughout the edition. More than that, a pattern of Pittsburgh, scaffolding is printed on the covers. The front dust-wrapper also features Western, Duke, Pennsylvania, the picture of some men climbed up a structure. The endpapers show John Hopkins, portraits of significant people of this epoch like pilot Chkalov and poet Cornell, Columbia, California, Bezymenskii. Fordham, Stanford, The book sought to enlighten readers on what was in the mind Washington, of the 1930s Soviet people and what aims they had. It gathered excerpts Brown, Nevada, Victoria from reports and diaries supported with photos and illustrations of ‘the Universities, firsts’ appeared in that time: scholars, pilots and explorers, factories and Harvard and Amherst Colleges. hydroelectric stations, tractors, settlements and temporary structures,

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19 [PHOTO CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TRAM STATION] Zhelezo-betonnyi pavil’on-stantsiia v Mar’inoi roshche postroiki 1924-25 g. [i.e. Reinforced Concrete Pavilion-Station in Mar’ina Roshcha, Built in 1924-1925] / Photographs by N. Lebedev. [Moscow: M.G.Zh.D., 1925]. Ca. 26,5x22 cm. Sixteen mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 11x15 cm. No captions. In original cloth folder with gilt lettering. Soiling of folder and foxing on the inner side, but the leaves are near fine. Not found in An attractive album of rare photos proving triumph of Worldcat. constructivism style everywhere, even in Moscow tram stations. This pavilion, and the most Moscow tram stations of that time, was designed by constructivist architect Eugenii Shervinskii (1878-1942). In the mid- 1920s, due to the beginning of mass construction in Moscow, Shervinskii worked in the Sanstroi (Moscow Communal Services) and Moscow City Railways (as Department of Trams was named). For the latter, he designed both standard and original projects of urban constructions: houses, schools, public bathrooms, restrooms and tram pavilions. He operated classical constructivist methods, attracting attention by a skillion and lean-to roof and high pipes. The backside of the tram station had a room where a department of Mosgorbank (Moscow State Bank) was located. The photographs became a chronicle of construction including pictures of the structure on different stages, workers carrying out their duties, surrounding buildings with signboards, bank, tram line, waiting passengers as well as streets and market in the background. They were captured by Nikolai Lebedev, a little-known photographer of Moscow monuments and civil constructions who contributed to state museum funds. The pavilion was located in a crowded place on Aleksandrovskaia street (Mar’ina Roshcha district) and served to three tram routes (#2, 11 and 14). One of them, lasting to Sukharev Tower, was built in 1904 and was one of the oldest routes of electric public transport in Moscow. Until this pavilion was opened, there was only a tram control station

BOOKVICA 35 (depicted with some passengers on one of the photos as well). Soon the city reconstruction and changes in public transport abolished these tram lines; the pavilion wasn’t preserved. $2,750

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BOOKVICA 36 20 [YEAR RUN OF THE IMPORTANT ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICAL] Stroitel’naia promyshlennost’ [i.e. Construction Industry]. #1, 2/3, 4-10, 11/12. Overall 10 issues. Moscow: Gosnauchtechizdat, 1931. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine with fragments lost, occasionally spots on covers and pale water stains throughout margins, ink signatures on t.p. and pencil direction on subscriber on the back cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. Print run varied 21-25 000 copies. This is an early year set of monthly magazine ‘Construction According to the Worldcat, separate Industry’ that was founded in 1923. It came out during the Soviet period 1931 issues and even after. The title ‘Construction Industry’ was changed in 1958 to are in Stanford and Columbia ‘Industrial Engineering’, then ‘Industrial and Civil Engineering’. Universities. The interesting late constructivist design of the periodical was expressed in laconic covers. Each of them features different photograph or competition project (except for #4 and #5 printed with the same photograph). The design was produced by an unknown artist with monograph ‘VP’. Some of the issues contain captions for the cover images. For example, the cover of an issue #2/3 displays a project of a model Palace of Culture by ARU group, supposed to get together separate workers’ clubs of the Proletarsky district in Moscow. Although the magazine focused on engineering, it also reflected the relevant architects’ rivalry. The cover of #8 showcases a competition project of the Palace of Soviets that Boris Iofan designed for 1931 All-Union Open Competition and that was awarded among the trio of winners. The drawing depicts a combination of a circular large hall, semicircular small hall and a high tower that the early version of his design consists of. The cover of #10 features a striking photograph from Magnitostroi blast furnace construction. Internal design of the edition includes numerous photographs from construction sites, constructivist designs and models of buildings. The magazine regularly published projects from open and closed architectural competitions. In issue #2-3, a discussion between architectural groups OSA, ASNOVA, VOPRA, LIKS is published, suggesting projects of the model Palace of Culture for the Proletarsky district in general, as well as its parts (club, theater). An excellent insight into contemporary tendencies was also reported by the first exhibition of projects by Architectural Institute students (#2/3).

BOOKVICA 37 One of the main components of this periodical was calculations and drawings of structures built, characteristics of used materials. The issues #1 and #7 contain figures gained in testing the Shukhov’s hyperboloid towers and roof systems. Among other topics are aerodrome as the new factor of urban planning; mooring masts; using cranes, reinforced concrete structures; prefabricated buildings; bridges; water towers; comparison of Russian and American wastewater management; new devices for construction and others. $1,500

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BOOKVICA 39 21 [PERIODICAL OF UNREALIZED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS] Arkhitekturnaia gazeta. Prilozhenie [i.e. Architectural Newspaper. Supplement]. Moscow: [1934]-1939. Some issues have no year of publication but, most likely, they are dated 1934-1935. 165 issues altogether. 1935: #6, 7, 9, 10, 11/12 (x2), 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 56, 58, 59, 68, 69, 70,

Most issues of 71, 72. 1935 and 1937 1936: #4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, are located in Yale University, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 38, 43, 48, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 64, 68, 72. most issues of 1937: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 1935-1939 are in Getty Institute, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 37, 48, 52, 53, 57, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, some issues of 75, 76, 77/78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85. 1936-1939 are 1938: #4, 9, 12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 26, 40, 41, 72. in Columbia University. 1939: #2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12. n.d.: #4, 5, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44(x2*), 45(x2*), 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 (x2*), 52, 53, 55, 63, 64, 65, 66. Approx. 47x33 cm. General condition of issues is very good. Occasionally, tears of edges and along creases, small fragments of margins lost, a couple of ink notes, water stains and spots. Bindings weakened, one of them almost detached. A detailed description and condition of every issue is available upon request. This is a collection of 2 bound volumes and 58 separate issues of supplements to ‘Architectural Newspaper’, the main periodical of Union of Soviet Architects before the WWII. Four-page illustrated supplement was published in 1934-1939, occasionally with subtitle ‘Projects and Constructions’. Print run varies 13 500-20 000 copies. Design of early issues (until 1936) was produced by V. Ninemiagi, later ones were created by D. Aranovich. The edition contains large photographs, schemes, designs and models of constructivist and post-constructivist structures in different Soviet cities, built or never brought to life. Projects by architects I. and P. Golosov, N. Kolli, I. Zholtovsky, K. Melnikov, A. Kapustina, S. Andrievsky, A. Vlasov, V. Kokorin, etc. were included in the magazine. Among them are plans of Moscow metro stations, civil constructions, living buildings, Gorky and Sokolniki parks, city squares, highways and the whole districts. Small captions or even texts are placed as well. Graduate projects of

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BOOKVICA 41 architects were regularly published. Often, the entire issue was devoted to a separate topic. For example, no. 71 for 1935 features designs of TASS Agency building created by I. Golosov, N. Kolli, S. Andrievsky and G. Glushchenko. Another issue (#9 for 1936) shows projects of Moscow embankments, including B. Iofan’s model of Lenin Hills area up to the Palace of Soviets. The issue no. 21 for 1937 contains competition projects of a lighthouse-monument to Lenin created by N. Trotsky, J. Langbard, L. Rudnev and others. The memorial was supposed to build in Leningrad Port but wasn’t realized. The periodical covered early years of the grandiose Stalinist reconstruction of Moscow. As it published designs of Architectural Workshops of Moscow City Council, it therefore held the information on which group of architects was entrusted with planning of certain Moscow district. $7,500

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22 [BALCONIES] Arhitektura i konstruktsiia balkonov [i.e. Architecture and Construction of Balconies] / Z. Chernysheva, M. Tupolev, Iu. Rubinstein. Moscow: Izd. Vsesoiuznoi akademii arhitektury, 1938. 204 pp.: ill. 25,5x18,5 cm. In original full-cloth with colored lettering. Rubbed and slightly soiled, spots on some margins. Worldcat doesn’t First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. track this edition. This is the earliest Soviet book on balconies as a regular and important element of contemporary housing construction. The authors analyzed Soviet houses, among European ones, and supplemented text with 240 photographs, drawings and schemes. The first part is devoted to a balcony as an element of architecture. The second part is written about materials used, features of construction and calculations. Going away from constructivist solutions, the 1930s architects focused on not geometrical concrete structure but baluster or metal

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fence. Relatively, two types of balcony railing dominated those years. For example, metal lattices were designed by architect Burov for a house on Gorky (Tverskaya) street and Zholtovsky chose more monumental balusters for post-constructivist living building on Mokhovaya street. The authors placed the classification of balconies stressing their impact on composition. As they mentioned, this component was often used to bring a certain image or make an accent. An architect Rosenfeld gathered balconies in the center of Moscow building on Kropotkinskaya street to make the contrast with laconic surface of the facade around. An architect Shchuko designed vertical stacks of balconies on the wall of Leningrad building on Kirov street. The book also features works by Belogrud, Zhiliardi, Fomin, Iokheles, etc. VKhUTEIN graduate Mikhail Tupolev (1903-1975) wrote a number of architectural textbooks, among them is another co-work with Iury Rubinstein, ‘Architecture and Structure of Bay Windows’. ON HOLD

23 [HOUSING PLANNING IN THE USA] Khiger, R. Planirovka poselkov v SShA [i.e. Settlement Planning in USA]. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Akademii Arkhitektury SSSR, 1944. 116 pp.: ill. 22x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fragments of spine and

BOOKVICA 44 covers lost, some pencil marks and pencil signature on t.p., otherwise very good and clean internally. Worldcat shows First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. only 2 copies This is a richly illustrated work on urban planning written by located in LoC and Harvard College. Roman Khiger (1901-1985). He was a Soviet architecture critic, architect and engineer, one of the ideologists of constructivism. In the 1930s, he was one of the leading architecture critics in the USSR. In the post-WWII period, maximum efforts were made to reconstruct destroyed cities and build new ones to make cities more beautiful and comfortable for life. Khiger gave a detailed analysis of the American construction of huge suburban subdivisions for agricultural and military workers. In particular, he wrote about temporary solutions like trailer camps that weren’t in usage in the USSR. One of the approaches to arrange settlement elements included applying superblocks. Compared them with traditional city blocks, he stressed the certain advantage of less number of roads and cars. All the schemes resembled the garden city movement being popular between constructivist architects. The post-war concept of urban transformation also tended to many green spaces whichever plan the architect chose. This book was published before Khiger submitted the dissertation “Experience of Settlement Planning and Housing

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Construction of USA” (1947). Both encouraged contemporaries to follow American experience in planning houses and places for leisure activities. After that, during the increasing Cold War, Khiger was blamed in admiration of foreign constructivism. In 1949 he was deprived of everything and ended his science activity. $750

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24 [THE 1930S FANTASY PHOTOMONTAGES] Larri, Ia. Neobyknovennye prikliucheniia Karika i Vali [i.e. Exstraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya]. Moscow: Detizdat, 1937. 252 pp.: ill. 22x18 cm. In original illustrated full cloth. Very good, slightly soiled, spine faded, some stains, signatures on the front endpaper. Only copy is First edition. Astonishing photomontage book regarded as an located in Minnesota Univ., example of a few surrealist editions in the early Soviet Union. A story according to is about two children who shrunk themselves to the size less than Worldcat. insects and met them during adventures. Escaped from the propaganda dominating the photomontage of the late 1930s, this edition could be seen as the experiment. In 1937 another photomontage edition got round the propaganda: ‘Travel Inside of Electrical Lamp’ depicted children who fit inside a lightbulb trying to fix it. This particular book contains 15 full-page photomontages and 2 photomontage vignettes. All of them were constructed of close-ups of insects and small figures of people. Two children and one grown-up were actors hired for this photo-story. The most interesting picture shows how the children are flying

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on a dragonfly. The background is a wide city street with several trams and a lot of people down below the dragonfly and its passengers. Other pictures display as the characters fought with beetles, climbed up flowers, swam on the nut, etc. The original edition was criticized, but the story later was reprinted with drawn illustrations numerous times and was adapted into a feature film. Fantasy stories prevailed among works of Ian Larri (1900- 1977), biologist and author of children’s books since the 1920s. Some of them confronted the tyranny in the USSR, and Larri was arrested for one satirical story in 1941. Karasik, ‘The Impact Book of the Soviet Youngsters’ (p. 240-243) $1,250

25 [EXEMPLARY PIONEER CAMP] Taits, Ia. Artek. Moscow: Detizdat, 1938. 104 pp.: ill. 27x20 cm. In original illustrated cardboards; illustrated endpapers. Covers rubbed and bumped, small tear of the spine, but very good internally. On verso of front flyleaf an official inscription to schoolboy, dated 1938 and stamped. No copies located Very rare. Cover design was produced by book illustrator Nikolai in Worldcat. Shishlovsky (1907-1984). Photographs were taken by Georgy Grachev.

BOOKVICA 48 Little is known about him. Another book, entirely illustrated with his photographs, was ‘Parade on the Red Square’ (1937), banned and removed from libraries. Some pictures from this ‘Artek’ were included into the 1940 publication celebrating the camp’s 15th anniversary. This photo book is dedicated to the most elite children’s camp in the USSR. Founded in Crimea in 1925 as a small health resort for pioneers, Artek was gradually turned into the best of its kind. It became a cult destination for many generations - only excellent school children received vouchers to “an imaginary country of happiness”. Being a medium of socialist propaganda, it constantly hosted pioneer delegations from other countries and was a film set for movies about a life of joy and plenty.

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BOOKVICA 49 Sepia photographs were taken in the style of photo reports varying angle of photography and number of children, involving a reader into each action. The endpapers show a group of pioneers hiking along the picturesque seacoast. The pictures inside feature the everyday life of children in the camp: they hiked, went swimming, were involved in sports competitions and different activities like modeling of airplanes and karting. $1,400

26 [POULTRY PHOTOMONTAGES] Ptitsevodstvo. Krolikovodstvo [i.e. Poultry Breeding. Rabbit Breeding] / compiled by A. Kuz’michev, edited by V. Karelin, designed by A. Belov. Moscow: Sel’khozgiz, 1940. [126] pp.: ill. 29x23 cm. In original cloth with gilt embossed design and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly rubbed, few defects of the back cover, some soiling of lower outer corner, otherwise very good.

Only one copy First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Design by A. located in Ohio Belov. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and University. photomontages as well as three leaves with colored illustrations. Extremely rare. One of the Soviet photobooks of animal husbandry connected with VDNKh pavilions. Richly illustrated, the edition opens with a woodcut title page; both chapters have half-titles with photographs of the appropriate pavilion. The books of VDNKh often start with its main entrance and this one shows a sculpture “Tractor Driver and Female Farmer” installed on a high pedestal (overall 13,5 meters) near the original (pre-war) entrance. In the 1950s the sculpture was changed and moved atop the entrance itself. The dynamic design of the Soviet photobooks comprised curious photomontages. This album was no exception proving success of the state in the animal husbandry. The pictures of the first chapter feature various breeds of geese, ducks, chickens and turkeys. There are fowl crowds, “portraits” of record-breakers as well as photographs of human specialists working with them. In contrast to numerous birds, the second chapter of this book features much more “portraits”. They are complemented with farm and laboratory views, as well as photographs of human specialists working with rabbits. Both chapters show that the Soviet state studied and selectively developed the domesticated

BOOKVICA 50 No 26 animals - and text pieces explained how the farmers succeeded in that. Also, the album carries some information about products of rabbits and geese’ fur. It resembles El Lissitzky’s book design, in particular, his last and least-known photobook ‘The Cattle’ (1940), devoted to VDNKh pavilion as well. The gilt cover decor is similar to the metope or bas-relief, the edition contains a few colored plates and photomontages, materials are arranged from ‘leaders’ of poultry/rabbits through farming to customers. Iksusstvo ubezhdat’ [i.e. Art of Convincing], p. 253. $2,750

BOOKVICA 51 27 [SOCIALIST CHINA] Novyi Kitai [i.e. New China]. Beijing: Izd-vo literatury na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1953. 84 leaves. 27x22,5 cm. In original full-cloth with colored lettering. Rubbed on corners, ink note on front flyleaf, slightly soiled, small tear of one leaf. Otherwise very good. No copies of this Second, enlarged and revised edition. edition were found Rare parade photo book dedicated to socialist China. This book in Worldcat. was compiled by the editorial board of magazine ‘Kitai’. Founded in Beijing in 1951, this edition joined Chinese-Russian post-war cultural interaction. The album contains colorful and monochrome photographs depicting triumph of socialism. They feature street celebrating and march on Tiananmen Square, Chinese young pioneers, workers, national minorities, religions representatives, students, scientists, heavy and light industry, agriculture, construction, trains and railways, hydroelectric dams, resort architecture, technics as well as pictures of theater performances, artworks, film stills, sports activity and kindergartens. Among photographs are some watercolors and woodcuts by Chinese artists as well. $450

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28 [THE MAIN GEORGIAN SATIRICAL MAGAZINE] Niangi: sat’irisa da iumoris zhurnali [i.e. Crocodile: Humour and Satire Magazine]. Tbilisi, 1923-1946. The collection of 564 issues. Complete sets of the year runs: 1931, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946. Incomplete sets (usually lacking few to several issues): 1923- 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934-1937. Full descriptions of all present issues are available upon request. This is a collection of 16 bound volumes and 60 separate issues of the most popular Georgian satirical magazine, Niangi (i.e. Crocodile). From 1924 till 1930 the magazine was named Tartarozi (i.e. The Imp). The history of satirical periodicals in Georgia can be traced back to 1907, when Akaki Tsereteli (1840-1915) published the first Georgian- language satirical magazine Khumara (i.e. The Clown). Although only one of the issues survived censors, The Clown gave impetus to the emergence of numerous satirical publications in the Georgian press (all of them short-lived due to the censorship). Taking its first steps in the first decade of the 20th century, the Georgian tradition of satirical magazines reached its peak on June 3, 1923 when the Niangi magazine was first printed. Published only a year after the appearance of Russian ’Crocodile’ (1922), Niangi’s first issue came out during a comparatively lenient period of Soviet censorship: “Niangi reserves the right to make anyone it wants to cry or laugh. Herewith it is entitled to bite or eat whoever it wants” (Niangi. 1923. #1). While early issues of the magazine subtly criticized various aspects of Soviet reality (bureaucracy, militsiya, etc.), this type of jests were gradually removed in the years that followed. The anti-communist stories, satirical plays and accusatory poems that flooded pages of Niangi overtly supported Soviet politics and repeated the Russian Krokodil’s messages. Jokes were chiefly directed against the Mensheviks, White Russians, Europe/America, and Christianity. Although the literary content of the magazine was written by some of the most

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prominent proletarian writers of the time, majority of them opted to sign their works with pseudonyms: Jellyfish (Simon Gachechiladze), Someone (Grigol Abashidze), Etsreli (Karlo Kaladze), Turquoise (Ioseb Grishashvili), Mosquito (Nestor Kalandadze), Grenade/Crazy (Sandro Euli), Onisime (Noe Zomleteli), Waka (Sezman Ertatsmindeli), etc. At different times the magazine was edited by Silibistro Todria, Sandro Euli, Grigol Abashidze, etc.

BOOKVICA 55 From the very beginning Niangi served as a meeting point of such famous artists as Apolon Kutateladze, Sandro Nadareishvili, Davit Natsvlishvili (Doni), Davit Kutateladze, Oskar Schmerling, Ioseb Kokiashvili, Mose Toidze, Irakli Toidze, Lado Gudiashvili. While the design of the magazine had always been quite advanced, it reached its excellence in the 1930s when Niangi started to feature satirical covers by Vasiliy Krotkov (1932. #21; #26; #27; 1934. #6; 7; 1935. #5), Petr Briusev (rear cover of #24, 1934), M. Lebeshev (#10, 23/24 of 1934), G. Isaev (#17,1935; #1, 4,1936), etc. The focus of cartoons changed according to the political and social challenges of the time. In the early years, caricatures poked harsh fun at the Soviet ‘enemies’ (priests, Mensheviks, Europe, etc). After the introduction of the first five-year plan in 1928, the magazine began to feature agitation covers propagating the advantages of the new policy and presenting the workers in a heroic light. During World War II, Niangi put a lot of effort into ridiculing Germany, mocking Hitler for making the greatest mistake of his life – attacking the Soviet Union. Although in smaller quantity, the magazine still showcased photomontages by Sandro Nadareishvili (#14, 1929; #13, 1931), Mariash (#9, 1930), Otarov (#17-18, 1938) and a number of unknown artists (#17, 1931; #17-18, 1938). In all, a major milestone of the Soviet satirical print. $22,500

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BOOKVICA 57 29 [RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER PRINTED BY THE BRITISH EMBASSY] Britanskiy syuznik [i.e. The British Ally]. 157 issues for years 1942-1945. № 1-20 за 1942; № 1-6, 8-24, 27, 30-33, 36-38, 40, 45-50 за 1943; № 1, 3-22, 24-53 за 1944; № 1-22, 24-36, 38-52 за 1945. Kyubishev: The ministry of information of Great Britain; printed at Myagi typography, 1942. Moscow: The ministry of information of Great Britain; Poligrafkniga, 1943-1945. 42x30 cm. All of the issues were folded in the middle, two holes in each issues closer to the spine - otherwise good. 157 issues of possible 176 printed in 1942-1945 (89%). The important document of its time, the large set of the issues of the Russian-language newspaper that was prepared by the British Embassy in Russia and printed in Kuybishev and than Moscow during the WWII. The first issue, printed on the 16th of August, 1942, includes the address by Winston Churchill to the people of Russia, starting with the quote ‘‘The cause of every Russian fighting for its land is the cause of all the free people in any corner of the Globe’’. At first the publications included mostly chronicle of the war on the different front, while in 1944-1945 the articles on Great Britain and its culture have appeared more and more often, including the art and the sports (the last issue of 1945 includes the review of the tour of Moscow’s Dinamo to England the same year).

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BOOKVICA 58 All of the major events of these years of the war are covered, including the Yalta conference (#6,7,8 - 1945). Periodical is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and caricatures. The weekly periodical documents a friendly relationships that existed between the countries during the war. The periodical continued after the victory - until 1950 when the relationships between the countries worsened. $5,500

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BOOKVICA 60 30 [WARTIME CHILDREN’S BOOK] Gaidar, A. Timur i ego komanda [i.e. Timur and His Squad]. Sverdlovsk: Sverdlgiz, 1942. 28, 31-80 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Complete edition with printer’s error of page numbering, oversized cut of p. 33-40, some black typographic stains. In a very good condition, a couple of tears around staple. Worldcat doesn’t Extremely rare edition printed in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) track this edition. during the German occupation of the European part of Russia. The edition was prepared by the evacuated OGIZ (the State Publishers) and the local branch of Moscow-based typography ‘1ya obraztsovaya tipografiya’. The children’s novel ‘Timur and His Squad’ was released a year before the USSR joined the war actions. The story was written by Arkady Gaidar (1904-1941) in 1940, and it quickly gained popularity. The war and the following years of reconstruction influenced a lot the unprecedented spreading of the Timurite movement. The printing of this book was finished on the 21st of May, 1942. It lacks illustrations - the front cover features the only monochrome picture of characters, the book has narrow margins and some of them were cut untidy. In general, Soviet wartime books for children were small, thin, poorly colored brochures. The number of titles issued was reduced by more than half in 1941-1943, but the average printrun increased.

This story was published more than 200 times throughout the Soviet period and was translated into different languages. Gaidar was the only Soviet writer who originated a powerful social movement gaining young people. $350

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BOOKVICA 61 X FEMINISM

31 [COLLECTION OF THE RUSSIAN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST LITERATURE]

1) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Iz istorii zhenskogo dvizheniia v Rossii [i.e. From the History of Women’s Movement in Russia]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D. Sytina, 1908. 60 pp. 2) Ivanova, Z. [Mirovich, N.] Zhenskoe dvizhenie v Evrope i Amerike [i.e. Women’s Movement in Europe and America]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D. Sytina, [1907]. 48 pp. 3) Novik, I. Bor’ba za politicheskie prava zhenshchin [i.e. Women’s Fight for the Political Rights].Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D. Sytina, 1906. 64 pp. 4) Mill’, D. Izbiratel’nye prava zhenshchin [i.e. Women’s Suffrage]. Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I.D. Sytina, 1905. 23 pp. 19,5x14 cm. In contemporary full-cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Rubbed, some fragments of cloth on the back cover lost, list of works hand-written on verso of the front flyleaf. Otherwise very good. None of these Very rare. This is an important summelband related to were tracked in Worldcat. women’s liberalization in Russia. It includes two works written and two ones translated by the well-known feminist, historian and critic Zinaida Ivanova (1865-1913; pen-name N. Mirovich). She graduated from Guerrier Higher Courses for Women, contributed to magazines ‘Education’, ‘Women’s Business’, ‘Russian Thought’, ‘Herald of Education’, etc. composing own articles and translating foreign works. Ivanova participated in Copenhagen Conference (1906) where reported the history of Russian women’s movement (edition #1). In Russia she gave lectures connecting with speeches of other delegates. Among texts she promoted were ‘Message of Australian Women’ and ‘Victory of Women’s Movement in Finland’. In the campaign to provide women with political rights, the oldest women’s association - the All-Russian Women’s Mutual Charity Society, established in 1895 - was actively involved. New women’s organizations were created that put before political demands on the first place: the Union for the Equality of Women (1905), Women’s

BOOKVICA 62 Progressive Party (1905), All-Russian League of Equal Rights for Women (1907). The following departments were established under the League: a reading room for street children with a view to fight child prostitution and its prevention, a department against the involvement of women in debauchery, a publishing committee that published cheap pamphlets and books on the women’s issue, an editorial commission that published the proceedings of the congress, lecture department. Every day reports were given on the issues of women’s equality in the League’s premises. The League became the largest and the most widespread organization. These particular books were printed by mass publisher Sytin that was able to promote ideas of women’s liberalization in Russia. These editions, as well as Ivanova’s activity in general, could be seen as a milestone in the pre-revolutionary stage. In 1917 women’s suffrage was legalized by the Provisional government. After the October Revolution, the suffrage was granted. New institutions made women’s everyday life easier: kitchen-factories, nurseries, workers’ clubs, etc. Rights of women were the major interest of the Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai, who held a high position in the Communist Party. This way the state itself took care of women’s emancipation. $1,750

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BOOKVICA 63 32 [FIRST RUSSIAN LESBIAN NOVEL] Zinov’eva-Annibal, L. Tridtsat’ tri uroda: povest’ [i.e. Thirty-Three Abominations: Novel]. Saint Petersburg: Ory, 1907. 96, [8] pp. 13,5x10 cm. In original two-color printed wrappers with publisher’s vignette (doubled on t.p.) designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. Near fine. Second edition printed the same year. Rare. No paper copies of First Russian novel that openly discussed lesbianism. It was editions located in Worldcat. created by female poet and writer Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907) who was close enough to Narodniks, she was full of revolutionary ideas. Together with her second spouse, poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, she hosted symbolist meetings (‘On the Tower’, called because the meetings were held on the tower) and sponsored their small-run publishing house ‘Ory’ printing symbolist works. The novel was written in late 1906, but the censorship saw “the signs of a crime” (promotion of depriving behavior) and decided to forbid the book. The print run was arrested for a few months. By this time, the first Russian gay novel had already printed. Kuzmin’s ‘Wings’ (1906) filled up the whole issue of ‘Vesy’. The main periodicals of symbolists were ‘Vesy’ and ‘La Toison d’or’. Zinovieva-Annibal noticed: “Yesterday I wrote a story ‘Thirty-three Abominations’. This is my torment expressed in a very strange way. It was conceived a long time ago. As I argued with ‘Vesy’ and I am in a bad relationship with ‘La Toison d’or’, there is no place to put such a story. It is awful”. The first reading of Zinovieva-Annibal’s novel was held at ‘On the Tower’ meeting and caused a scandal. Both works were discussed as examples of erotic fiction of the early 20th century and were closely connected with the aesthetics of the Silver age. The publishing permit was received in 1907 and the work was printed as a separate edition. Due to the widespread interest of contemporaries, it was reprinted twice the same year. Its title became the cultural symbol for a long time: it was used separately, for example, as an expression of female prisoners. $2,500 No 32

BOOKVICA 64 XI MISCELLANEOUS

33 [ERZYA LANGUAGE] Markelov, M.T. Moksherziatnen eriamo pingest [i.e. The History of Mordva]. Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1929. 184 pp., 1 map. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers with the strict constructivist design. Illustrated throughout including the map of Finno-ugric speaking nations in USSR. Very good, few tears of the spine. The book is printed in Erzya language, spoken in Republic of No copies in Worldcat. Mordovia, by nearly 100 000 people nowadays. Extremely rare. Tsentrizdat was the publishing house which full name translates as ‘The central publishing house of the peoples of USSR’, it existed from 1924 to 1931. Based in Moscow it was formed following Lenin’s idea, articulated at the Xth party meeting, ‘to help the working masses of the non-Russian nations [i.e. nevelikorusskim narodam] to catch up with the Central Russia, that is ahead’. By 1931 it was printing the periodical and non-periodical editions in 63 different languages, using latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and Chinese scripts. Mordvinic language has been first recorded in the late 17th century, and is now regarded as two separate languages, Erzya language and Mokshan language. As they are Finno-ugric languages they have never switched to Latin script, and the Cyrillic script was used starting from the first abc for Erzya in 1884. The first books and newspapers started to appear in 1920. This book is the first full account of the region in the language of the region. The author

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the representative of Erzya people. In the 1920s he led many folklore filed expeditions in the different areas of Mordovia to collect different kind of spoken traditions. This was the first book by the author, he was preparing the second one called ‘The Songs of Mordva’ for publication in 1932, but after the smear he was arrested as a contra-revolutionary, who was calling for the separation of Finno-ugric people from USSR. After spending 5 years in exile and camps Markelov was executed in 1937. This book remained the only publication by the author. $2,250

34 [FROM ARKHANGELSK TO VLADIVOSTOK] D’iakonov, M. Chetyre tysiachi mil’ na Sibiriakove [i.e. Four Thousand Miles on Sibiriakov]. Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo pisatelei, 1934. 64 pp., 36 ills. 32x28 cm. In original cloth with silver lettering on the spine and stamped image of the ship on the front cover; in original cloth case with mounted illustrations on both sides; illustrated endpapers. Foxing Worldcat shows on the covers, tears of the front endpapers, ink inscription on front copies in Hawaii and New York pastedown, otherwise mint. Universities, First and only edition. #477 of 2850 copies produced. Dartmouth Library, NYPL. Rare and richly illustrated account of the voyage on an icebreaker

BOOKVICA 66 ‘Alexander Sibiriakov’, well-known for the first successful route from Arkhangelsk to Vladivostok in single navigation without wintering. Among editions dedicated to this voyage, this book is highlighted by 36 black and white illustrations by Lev Kantorovich (1911-1941) who was the Soviet writer, screenwriter and amateur artist. He was close enough with the artist V. Lebedev who influenced Kantorovich’s works. In 1932, he joined this polar expedition as a sailor and created these eyewitness sketches. Its author, Mikhail Diakonov (1885-1938) wrote a range of popular books on foreign Artistic expeditions basing on translations of his sons. He was blamed for anti-Soviet propaganda and executed in 1938. $1,500

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BOOKVICA 67 35 [AMERICAN UKRAINIANS - JUBILEE BOOK] Propamiatna knyha: Vydana z nahody soroklitn’oho iuvyleiu Ukraïns’koho narodnoho soiuzu = Jubilee book of the Ukrainian National Association, in Commemoration of the Fortieth Anniversary of its Existence. Jersey City, N.J.: Svoboda press, 1936. XVI, 752 pp.: ill. 26,5x19 cm. In original full Worldcat shows copies in LoC, cloth with gilt lettering and design. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise Princeton, very good. Columbia, Yale, Stanford, Text mostly in Ukrainian, with some English. California, Illinois, This edition first collected comprehensive data on Ukrainian Iowa, Texas A&M, immigration to the USA. It was based on all kinds of printed materials Chicago, Ohio, Minnesota, Cornell, published by the Ukrainian National Union departments and was edited Wisconsin, Miami, by historian and journalist Luka Myshuga (1887-1955). He moved to Pennsylvania, Michigan, the USA in 1921 to carry out assignments of the Western Ukrainian Wyoming, National Republic and was actively engaged in the diaspora life. Since Northwestern, Central 1933, he was the chief editor of the largest periodical of UNU, Svoboda, Connecticut, Kent, as well as Ukrainian Weekly, Jubilee Almanac, etc. Brown, Seton Hall, Universities, The book contains all Ukrainian communities that existed in Harvard and SUNY 1936 (listed by city). The compilers indicated the number of members, Colleges, NYPL, history of establishment, trade, business and religious activity. The text Field Museum, Minnesota was supplemented with numerous group photographs of Ukrainian Historical Society. communities. Names of the people depicted on photographs are printed

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BOOKVICA 68 among information of certain communities. Apart from America, the edition included Svoboda articles on Ukrainian emigrants living in Brazil, Canada, on Hawaii islands and the Philippines. $450

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36 [USSR AT THE 1939 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR] Collection of eight brochures from the Soviet Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair [numeration is alternative]: 1) Prokofiev, A. The Palace of Soviets. 2) Papanin, I. The Soviet Wintering Station on the Drifting Ice. 3) Fyodorov, E. Scientific Work of Our Polar Expedition. 4) Komarovsky, A. The Moscow-Volga Canal. 5) Zhook, S. The Greater Volga. 6) Stakhanov, A. The Stakhanov Movement Explained. 7) Khazan, D. Light Industries of the U.S.S.R. 8) Bergelson, D. The Jewish Autonomous Region. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. 14,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with various design. Very good. Each pamphlet got a unique letterpress design, black & white or colored illustration, placed on both covers or the front cover only. As an exception, issue #1 features an embossed composition of the

BOOKVICA 69 Palace of Soviets on the front cover. Among artists attracted were N. Lobanov (#1), B. Schwartz (#4), A. Kravchenko (#5), H. Klering (#8). All brochures contain black and white full-page photographs and small drawn vignettes. The issue #5, devoted to Volga reconstruction, includes two-color folding plans depicting hydroelectric dams. These brochures were a part of a triumphal image created for the Soviet Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Headed by the Iofan’s statue of worker, the grandiose building itself and dioramas, paintings and models inside showed off achievements of the USSR in industries, agriculture, medicine, education, science, civil construction, sport, etc. Together with pavilion, the books promoted great expectations of socialist culture. The issues were written by representatives of each field or phenomenon like chief engineers, scientists, writers, officials and explorers. Among the latter ones, for example, were members of the first manned drifting station North Pole-1, Papanin and Fyodorov who explained how they implemented observations in 1937-1938.

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BOOKVICA 70 Some of these books preserved evidence of their post-fair usage - they were then used as auxiliary English textbooks in Soviet institutes. In 1940-1941 separate brochures with special vocabulary were published and sold together with the books themselves (a stamp with new price appeared on the back cover of each one). Such dictionaries are in issues #5, 6, 7, 8.

Copies of all issues are located in New York, Cornell and Delaware Universities. Also: #1 in: LoC, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Texas, Alabama, Chicago, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Ohio, Kent, Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse, Case Western Reserve and Air Universities, Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard College. #2 in: Yale, Michigan, Texas Tech, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Syracuse Universities, St. Louis Library. #3 in LoC, Yale, Texas Tech, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, California, Wisconsin, Kent, North Carolina, Duke, Frostburg, Syracuse, Florida Atlantic Universities, Bowdoin College, Cleveland Public Library and Houston Museum of Fine Arts. #4 in Yale, Michigan, Texas Christian, Texas Tech, Chicago, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Ohio, Case Western Reserve, North Carolina, Duke, Pennsylvania, Washington, Florida Atlantic Universities, Harvard College. #5 in LoC, North Carolina, Michigan, Syracuse Universities. #6 in LoC, Yale, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, North Carolina, Wisconsin, California, Duke, Kansas, Pittsburg, Duquesne, Case Western Reserve, Wake Forest, Frostburg, West Virginia, Syracuse, UC Berkeley, Southern Oregon Universities, Harvard College, Buffalo & Erie and New York Public Libraries #7 in Yale, Michigan, Texas Tech, Chicago, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina, Duke, Syracuse, Case Western Reserve, Southern Oregon Universities, Harvard College. #8 in LoC, in Yale, Michigan, Chicago, Ohio, Stanford, Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Duke, Syracuse, Indiana, Wisconsin, Brigham Young, Florida, California, Case Western Reserve, Air, Yeshiva Universities, Yivo Institute, Jewish Theological Seminary, Harvard, Haverford and Hebrew Union Colleges. $2,500

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