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December 2019: New Acquisitions F O R E W O R D DECEMBER 2019: NEW ACQUISITIONS F O R E W O R D Bookvica 15 Uznadze St. Nizh. Syromyatnicheskaya St. 11/1 0102 Tbilisi Suite 208 GEORGIA Moscow, RUSSIA +7 (985) 218-6937 +7 (916) 850-6497 [email protected] www.bookvica.com Globus Books 332 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94118 USA +1 (415) 668-4723 [email protected] www.globusbooks.com BOOKVICA 2 I ARCHITECTURE & CITY PLANNING 01 [FROM ONE ARCHITECT TO OTHERS] Bernhard, W. Grazhdanskaia arkhitektura. Tekst: Chasti zdanii [i.e. Civil Architecture. Text: Parts of Buildings] / compiled by V. Starostin, I. Tolchin. St. Petersburg: Izd. Studencheskoi biblioteki, 1903. [2], 204, 4, 3 pp.: ill. 27,5x18,5 cm. In period half-leather with gilt lettering on the spine. No copies were Good. Rubbed, stains and pencil marks occasionally, first leaves slightly found in Worldcat. deformed of water. First edition. Extremely rare lithographed edition of lectures on building materials. A course of lectures given by Wilhelm Bernhard (1856-1909), a professor of the Institute of Civil Engineers. Bernhard was an eclecticist architect, specialist in construction law and construction technology. The lectures were gathered by two graduates of this Institute together with student library that meant the small print run. One of the graduates, No 01 BOOKVICA 3 Vasily Starostin (1875-1960) was also attracted by civil engineering for the whole life. $350 02 [BOLSHEVIZING SIBERIA] Pereimenovanie ulits, ploshchadei i predmestii g. Irkutska [i.e. Renaming Streets, Squares and Suburbs of Irkutsk city]. [Irkutsk: Ispolnitel’nyi Komitet Irkutskogo Gorsoveta, 1920]. One typeset leaf. 35x20,5 cm. Tears of edges with tiny losses, some creases, otherwise very good. Not in the Extremely rare survival of time and a glimpse into the very Worldcat. beginning of the Communist changes. During the Civil War Irkutsk was an epicenter of political unrest in Siberia, being under the rule of Whites and Reds. In 1920, the Bolsheviks had come to absolute power and began to reconstruct the local life. Half of the streets, squares, parks and suburbs of Irkutsk lost their historical names for agitational purposes. No 02 BOOKVICA 4 Overall 70 names were changed. Some results were general: called after Lenin, Trotsky, October Revolution, the 3rd International. Each Trotsky street was no doubts short living. Irkutsk renamed this street twice throughout the Soviet period: Trotsky (1920) and Dzerzhinsky (1929) - and overall 15 Soviet streets in different dwellings underwent the same process. Besides, Voznesensky suburb was called after Zinov’ev until this politician was executed in 1936. At the same time, there were symbolic changes, for example, Dvorianskaia (Noble) street was renamed into Rabochaia (Workers’) street. And the curious one: Institutskaia (Institute) street became Detskaia (Children’s one). All in all, the great document of the provincial government in the early Soviet state. $450 03 [BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION DURING A WAR] Gastev, V. Vosstanovleniye mostov [i.e. Bridge Reconstruction]. Moscow, Leningrad: Gostransizdat, 1932. 272pp., 3 schemes: ill. 25.2x17.8cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cardboards. Loose, horizontal crease on the front cardboard, edges are slightly worn. In good condition. Scarce. First edition. Written by the Soviet scientist in the field of building structures, Vladimir Gastev (1891-1974), this is one of the first Soviet books dedicated to the reconstruction of bridges as a crucial element of successful communication during the warfare. The manual describes architectural peculiarities of the bridge reconstruction process and elaborates upon the different components of the renovation procedure. While the author primarily focuses on the short-term reconstruction of the war-damaged bridges, he also provides instructions on the substantial rehabilitation of tunnels and bridges. From cleaning up destroyed parts of the sites to the proper arrangement of the props, the book expands on such topics as: various means, types and elements of short-term reconstruction (crib piers, gabions, etc.), estimate time frames of work completion, sea crossing (ferry/ice crossing), span lifting, temporary pipes, demolition and reconstruction of tunnels, necessary equipment, methods of substantial rehabilitation of props and spans, etc. The last section of the book is dedicated to the preliminary and on-site organization BOOKVICA 5 No 03 of bridge reconstruction. Importantly, every chapter of the edition is accompanied by explanatory plans and multiple rare photographs depicting demolition of viaducts and bridges during the World War I and various stages of bridge/overpass rehabilitation process, as well as calculations and tables that define a number of materials and working force needed for the construction of crib piers, data on the various types of rails, pile hammers, and pile drivers, sizes of logs for triangular and trapezoid pipes, work graphics, etc. The edition also includes 3 folded schemes of the old and new ferries to cross the Desna river. $750 BOOKVICA 6 04 [ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GUIDES TO THE SOVIET SPORTS ARCHITECTURE] Zverintsev, S., Nesterov, S. Fizkul’turnyye sooruzheniya [i.e. Physical Culture Facilities]. [Moscow]: Onti. Glav. red. stroit. lit-ry, 1935. 359 pp.: ill. 26.2x18.4cm. With dust-jacket. In original cloth binding with the The only copy is at letterpress design on the front board and the spine. Neat restoration of NYPL, according to Worldcat. the dust-jacket, previous owner’s inscription on the front board (in pen) and its verso (in pencil), a couple of last pages lack small fragments of the upper margin (no text affected). Otherwise in a very good condition. Extremely rare with the dust-jacket. Third revised edition. First edition published in 1932. Dust-jacket and book design by the artist, V. O. Velem. Introduction by the Soviet constructivist architect and city planner, Nikolai Kolli (1894-1966). A richly illustrated handbook compiled by one of the most famous Soviet experts in the sports architecture, Sergey Zverintsev and specialist of physical culture, S. Nesterov. From the late 1920s, involvement in physical culture and sports came to be viewed as the perfect snapshot of the New Soviet Person and the ideal testimony of the “happy” and “healthy” Soviet lifestyle. In 1931, the Soviet state decided to allocate an estimated of 21 million rubles to physical culture and issued a decree announcing mass construction of the sport and leisure sites across all of the Soviet No 04 BOOKVICA 7 republics. Published only a year later, “Physical Culture Facilities” (1932) came in specifically handy since there were no Soviet guidebooks on the proper design of the sport constructions and the work turned out to be the primary practical manual on the issue. In this third revised edition of the book, Zverintsev and Nesterov compare the Soviet and foreign experience in construction, offering multiple calculations and tables that define a required quantity of physical culture facilities in different regions across the USSR, average norms of the space that should be occupied by the constructions (according to the specifics of the settlement), general sizes and allocation of different facilities (including swimming pools) within a sport base, etc. The authors expand upon the features of swimming pools, velodromes, water sport complexes, football and baseball fields, tennis, basketball, volleyball, handball courts, facilities for cycle, motorcycle, auto and winter sports. The book pays particular attention to the construction of stadiums abroad and provides both an architectural overview and authors’ personal assessments of various sport parks and stadiums: Deutsches stadium in Berlin, Elberfeld stadium in Germany, Frankfurt am Main stadium, stadiums in Stuttgart and Potsdam, sport parks in Cologne and Amsterdam. Photographs and schemes presented in this chapter of the book are specifically interesting since most of the sport sites had been reconstructed or even demolished (Deutsches stadium in Berlin) over the course of time. Aside from the aforementioned, the authors give advice on the organization of the military education areas (shooting range, parachute tower, etc) and offer a detailed overview of different types of tribunes and peculiarities of their construction. No 04 BOOKVICA 8 No 04 Showcasing both the Soviet and foreign sport facilities of the 1930s, the book provides a valuable insight into the ABC of the Soviet sports architecture. $1,200 05 [TEN YEARS OF COAL AND METAL CITY] Desiat’ let goroda uglia i metalla: Sbornik [i.e. Ten Years of Coal and Metal City]. Stalinsk: Iubil. komissiia po organizatsii prazdnovaniia 10-letiia Kuznets. metallurg. zavoda im. Stalina i goroda Stalinska, 1939. 288 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 25x18,5 cm. In original red cloth with mounted photograph and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly bumped, small ink stain on t.p., otherwise mint. Worldcat doesn’t First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Extremely locate this edition. rare. Design by Buzovertov and Popov, photographs by Burakov and Rukavishnikov. A triumphal edition published in the 10th anniversary of a major coal mining and industrial center in the 1930s - Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant - and settlement around it. Since 1929 workers were bringing to life a project of a huge metal plant under Kuznetsk town. Being classics of that time, a garden- city for workers was founded nearby construction the same year. The newly formed socialist settlement increased and merged with the
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