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SUMMER CATALOGUE 2019 BOOKVICA 1 F O R E W O R D Dear friends and colleagues, We are excited to announce that Bookvica is starting to work together with San Francisco based bookshop Globus Books. Globus Books has been in business since the 1970s providing the Russian community of the Bay Area with antiquarian and modern editions in Russian. We are eager to continue its vital work with the help of our book experience and expertise and a lovely local book community. You are welcome to come by! The stock from our joint catalogues will be stored at Globus Books, and we will participate in American book fairs together. Our summer catalogue includes rare editions, hand-made books, photo albums and periodicals which we have been collecting and carefully selecting from the beginning of 2019. The focus once again is on the period of the 1910s-30s, and we believe the books produced during this period absorbed the sensation of the changing country the best. The usual areas covered are book design, theatre, cinema, the life of the ordinary Soviet women and men, street demonstrations of the 1920s, avant-garde editions, print in Tiflis, architecture and science. We are also glad to introduce a new section in our catalogue ‘The Printing Arts’. Since the majority of members of Bookvica team are graduates of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, it’s only natural for us to search for unknown and unrecorded editions in this area. Most of the books are from the 1920s, the period when Soviet typographic design was at the top of its game. Also in the catalogue: - Account of life of the student giraffe in Tbilisi in 1937 (#46); - Rodchenko’s take on Chinese aesthetics (#25); - Kruchyonykh’s essay on Mayakovsky (#44); - Which bank is the best for peasant to use during NEP? (#55); - How to fill in the library cards, a guide from 1927 (#56); - Book Carnaval, the agitational show (#41); - One time Vassily Kamensky collaborated with Boris Grigoriev (#23); - How to treat mental diseases with the silent movies (#51). BOOKVICA 2 F O R E W O R D We hope you will enjoy our selection. You will also be able to see us and our books later this year exhibiting in Amsterdam (October 5-6), Boston (November 15-17) and participating with Globus Books in the ASEEES convention in San Francisco (November 23-26). Bookvica team, July 2019 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 3 I ARCHITECTURE 01 [ARCHITECTURE FOR ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS] Gevirts, Ya.G. Arkhitekturnye formy i kompozitsiya zdaniya [i.e. Architecture Forms and Composition of a Building]. Moscow; Leningrad: Mosk. aktsionernoe izdatel’skoe ob-vo, 1926. 139, [5] pp.: ill. 22x14 cm. In original card boards. Very good, small losses and soiling of the covers, Soviet bookshops’ stamps on the back endpapers. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Volume 6 from the series ‘Encyclopedia of a Builder’, with 154 illustrations in the text. Worldcat locates The 1920s was the era of building Soviet world from scratch only copy in University of Pisa as well as literal building and constructing. New cities and towns (Italy). were in need of builders and architects so such textbooks or even ‘encyclopedias’ were in a high demand: “Pre-revolutionary technical literature on construction was sold out or morally old, and a new one - very poor because only starting in 1924 the construction process was being regenerated”. This edition was directed to engineers and everyone involved in construction. In this particular volume attention is drawn towards architecture forms of buildings in general and separately - cornice, buttresses, pilasters, pylons, arches, roofs, etc. The book summarizes historical styles, and also describes the trends of modern architecture (with photographs of modern building abroad and in USSR). $1,200 02 [MODEL CIVIL BUILDING IN UKRAINE] Tipovi proekti robitnichikh budinkiv = Tipovye proekty rabochikh domov [i.e. Model Projects of Workers’ Houses]. Kharkiv: Derzhavne vidavnitstvo Ukraini, 1928. 12 pp., 23 projects on 39 separate leaves. 35,3x22 cm. In original full-cloth with constructivist design gilt lettering. Soiling, some small tears, otherwise very good. BOOKVICA 4 No 01 Not in the First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Text in Ukrainian Worldcat. and Russian. Extremely rare. This is an outstanding album of 1920s ideas on civil building in Ukraine. The edition contains 23 projects of houses of one, two and three-room apartments which include building facade and floor plan, present some basic measurements like a number of stories and the ratio of the living area square footage to the total square footage. The projects show the architectural solutions that were approved as model ones. Actually, the general Soviet worker family did not occupy 2 or 3-room dwelling in the 1920s, even if these designs intended to economical use the inner space. One of the drawings shows that 3-room apartment had a separate bathroom while 2-room apartment contained a bathtub installed directly in the kitchen to serve as a table when it was covered. $2,500 No 02 BOOKVICA 5 No 02 03 [CITY FOR THE SOVIET MAN] Meshсheriakov, N. O sotsialisticheskikh gorodakh [i.e. On the Socialist Cities]. Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 110, [2] pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. In very good condition, a couple of defects of edges, stamps of Kharkiv architect’s private library, p. 79-82 are loosely inserted. No copies located First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Very rare. in the Worldcat. This is the book featuring the early 1930s tendencies in the Soviet architecture. The important point was dividing the settlements for zones of the separate life activities. They contained the living buildings, kitchen factories, worker’s clubs as well as buildings for the health and educational services. The main reason for that was an idea of extinction of a traditional family, instead of which various institutes intend to care about the collective everyday life. Such cities in the Soviet architectural projects were named ‘the socialist cities’. One of the best places to create the socialist city was Stalingrad. Being called after the name of the party leader, Stalingrad was formed as a model settlement for life of the Soviet people. This edition features 6 city projects depicting separate zones. They were produced by Giprogor (The State Institute for Urban Design) that was founded in 1929 and had the blooming period after WWII, actively participating in the Soviet civil building. $1,500 BOOKVICA 6 No 03 04 [STANDARD OF THE SOVIET CONSTRUCTION] Oltarzhevsky, V. Gabaritnyi spravochnik arkhitektora [i.e. Dimensional Handbook of Architect]. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1947. [7] pp., 107 ills. 35x26,5 cm. In original cardboard folder. Folder restored and soiled, all leaves are very good. According to the First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Rare. Worldcat, the only This is an attractive handbook including the model measures copy located in of common buildings, rooms and their separate parts. All data were Canadian Centre for Architecture. compiled by the Soviet architect Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky (1880–1966) who was a pioneer in the Soviet skyscraper construction. The same year he together with A. Mordvinov started the construction of Hotel Ukraine, which actually began to rise in 1953 and became the second high-rise in the USSR. The book features the plans of nursery, kindergarten, school, stadium and other sport constructions, hospital (several types built in the different cities), agricultural buildings, hotel, restaurant, cafe and bar, hair salon, shop, bank, library, cinema, rooms for the billiard sports and the musical performances, etc. When the book was sent to printing, the revision of standards for almost all types of public buildings was approved. As a result, an errata page listing the new GOSTs was loosely inserted. $1,500 BOOKVICA 7 No 04 05 [THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE STALINIST ARCHITECTURE] Tsapenko, M. O realisticheskikh osnovakh sovetskoi arkhitektury [i.e. On the Realist Base of the Soviet Architecture]. Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo Worldcat locate the literatury po stroitel’stvu i arkhitekture, 1952. 393, [3] pp.: ill. 22,5x18 copies at libraries cm. In original full-cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and of University of Kansas, University spine, with blind design on the cover and laconic colored design on the of Iowa, University spine. Rubbed, pencil underlinings occasionally, otherwise in very good of Illinois, Carleton condition. College, Mervyn H. Sterne Library, First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Michigan State This is an interesting monograph by the Soviet art historian University, Ohio State University, Mikhailo Tsapenko (1907-1977) who headed the Kiev Institute of University of Theory and History of Architecture in the 1950s. Overviewing the Soviet Arizona, Cornell University, New architecture from the angle of the latest Stalinism, he sharply criticizes York University and the 1920-1930s styles. He stresses the foreignness of constructivism, City College, NYPL, Columbia, Getty, critisizes the structure of the 1930s socialist cities, announces that Yale, University all ideas by Mel’nikov, Ginzburg, Leonidov, Golosov, Kornfeld and other of California and architects of OSA and ASNOVA societies were impractical and utopian. University of Washington. Denouncing them for lack of the national attributes, he praises the BOOKVICA 8 No 05 1940s buildings that, in his opinion, truly fit the bill of the Communist Party. As evidence, he puts some of the constructivist projects among numerous 1940s buildings that connected with the Stalinist classicism or had similar elements.
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