JUNE 2020. 30 NEW ACQUISITIONS: Fight Against Fascism, Health Education, Literature, Art F O R E W O R D

Dear friends,

Our last catalogue was presented at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair in early March. The world seems to be a different place now. While all of our book shops remained closed during the lockdown, we continued to work hard and were focusing on the things that made the most sense during these difficult times - the books. When preparing this catalogue, we have found out that the books and their subjects sometimes begin to reflect what is happening in the world right now, in a way reminding us what is truly important. We were planning to open the catalogue with the collection of items printed during the WWII in Russia and dedicate it to the 75th anniversary of the victory over fascism, and sadly some of the books are still relevant now, including the item #1 in the catalogue - Clara Zetkin’s warning against fascism from 1921. The second section of the catalogue is dedicated to the health education of the masses in Soviet Union of the 1920s, the time when the foundations of the strong Soviet medical system were laid. Item #6 includes the info and photographs of how to treat patients at home, the edition also offers photographic explanation on how to disinfect which seems relevant today. In the same group of books several early Soviet scientific texts are presented, including the research of Ivan Pavlov on hysteria (#9). After cataloging all of the above it was nice to return to our usual interests such as art, cinema, theatre, literature, travel, etc. Some of the highlights from this section include the catalogue of the masonic treasures of the Historical Museum in Moscow printed in 1918 (item #24), the rare first edition of John Reed’s 10 Days That Shook the World (#12), the story of the first Soviet Antarctic fleet (#22), the fascinating constructivist designs by Stenberg brothers (#27), Alexei Ushin (#13) and Mikhail Grigoryev (#28). When working with rare Russian books we are privileged to

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witness how diversified these editions are while remaining the part of the same cultural body. What jazz was played in Sochi in 1943? Which Chinese children story was translated into Russian in Beijing in the 1950s? And how sympathetic towards the revolution were the locals in Yakutia in the 1900s? These are some of the questions to which our selection of books carry the answers. We hope you will enjoy this catalogue as much as we did!

Pavel Chepyzhov together with Mariam Shildelashvili, Valentina Gavrilova, Julie Kuliamzina and Liza Zabello June 2020

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BOOKVICA 4 I FASCISM & THE WWII

01 [FIRST ALARM OF FASCISM] Zetkin, K. Nastupleniye fashizma i zadachi proletariata / (Dokl. t. Klary Tsetkin na rasshir. plenume Ispolkoma Kominterna) [i.e. Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win / (A Report by Clara Zetkin on the Enlarged Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern)]. M.: Kras. nov’, 1923. 48 pp. 12,9x17,1 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Number on the title page. Otherwise near fine. No copies found in ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT WOMAN COMMUNIST Worldcat. LEADERS GIVES AN EARLY WARNING OF FASCISM. First edition. This interesting edition features a report presented by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Third Enlarged Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International on June 20, 1923, in Moscow. The meeting became the scene of the first-ever detailed discussion of the fascist danger in the history of the Marxist movement.

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BOOKVICA 5 Sixty-six years old Zetkin, the organizer of the First International Women’s Day, dedicated her speech to the rising problem of fascism in Italy and Germany. Because of illness Zetkin was carried into the hall, where she spoke while seated. In the address, Clara proposed to launch a political campaign against the fascist threat and to ensure the unity of the proletarian defense (the United Front). Although the Comintern initially adopted Zetkin’s resolution, a year later, Grigory Zinoviev, the Chairman of the Committee, abandoned her analysis of the nature of fascism and overturned Zetkin’s policy. Clara spent the last decade of her life as an honored but effectively silenced dissident. ON HOLD

02 [RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE DESTROYED BY THE NAZIS] Pamiatniki zodchestva, razrushennie nemetskimi zakhvatchikami [i.e. The Monuments of Architecture Destroyed by the German Invaders]. Volumes 1-2 [all published]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Arkhitekturnoe Izdatelstvo Akademii Arkhitektury SSSR, 1942-1944. Vol 1. 1942. 79 pp.: ill. 22,5x17 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. Vol 2. 1944. 72 pp.: ill. 21,7x17,4 cm. One of 3000 copies printed. The edition was prepared by the Academy of the Architecture of the USSR. The 1st volume was produced in October of 1942 and covered the damage of the architectural landmarks in Tver, Kaluga, Mozhaisk, Bogoroditsk, Yarpolets. The second part of the volume includes photographs from the sights damaged with the photos of how they looked before the destruction. The overview of the damages was given in the article ‘The Protection and Restoration of the Architecture’ by professor Dmitrii Sukhov (1867-1958) (vol. 1). It mentions that the special committee for the accounting of the damage was created in July of 1942 and the planning of the restoration has begun. The 2nd volume gives the overview of the damages of New Jerusalem monastery, Staritsa, Torzhok, Nikolskoe-Gagarino, Ershovo, Borovsk. All of the chapters are accompanied by photos, and in the case of New Jerusalem professor Sukhov painted two views of the monastery - before and after the destruction. Both volumes were edited by Benedict Kotlovker (1872-after

BOOKVICA 6 1944) who is best-known as a publisher in pre-revolutionary Russia who was printing some of the most popular newspapers of the 1910s: ‘Kopeika’ (with the print run of 250 000 copies in 1914), ‘Vampir’, ’Solntse Rossii’, ‘Vsemirnaya Panorama’. In the 1920s-40s he was working as an editor of the literature on architecture. Important historic evidence of the time. $550

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BOOKVICA 7 03 [JAZZ DURING THE WARTIME] Radost’. Iz repertuara okruzhnogo dzhaza DKA SKVO [i.e. Joy. From the Repertoire of the Regional Jazz of The House of Red Army of the Northern Caucasus Military District]. Sochi: Sochinskiy Gosudarstvenniy teatr, 1943. [2] pp. 14x7,5 cm. One stain otherwise very good with the poor quality of paper expected. The program of the jazz concert given in December of 1943, in Sochi (Krasnodar Krai) in the local State Theatre. The program includes the list of the performances and performers, the portrait of the maestro and composer Iosif Stelman and the notes for the song ‘Radost’ in which the singer is joyous about the letters written to him from the beloved one remembering their spring together (presumably of 1941). Quite extraordinary survival - the evidence of the musical life in the South of Russia during one of the hardest years of the war. Parts of Krasnodar Krai were occupied by German Nazis in 1942, but Sochi itself was never under occupation. It became the local centre all of sudden and an important location in 1942 and 1943: because of its position behind the mountains it was easier to defend (although the Germans made several attempts to go through the mountains). Also because of the quantity of sanatoriums and hospitals Sochi became one of the main hospital towns of the southern Russia. During the War 335,000 wounded Soviet soldiers went through town’s hospitals (recorded population of which was only 50,000 in 1941). While the Rostov region and Crimea were occupied by Germans, Sochi participated in the battle for Caucasus which was eventually won by the Soviets. In February of 1943 Germans have built the defensive line ‘Blue Line’ to defend the South of Russia they have kept under occupation since 1941. Main battles over the territories took place in the late spring and summer but it was not until the 9th of October when Krasnodar region was liberated in full. Three month later this jazz concert took place featuring the jazz maestro Iosif Stelman, the representative of Rostov-on-Don jazz tradition. Rostov with its embankments and cafe culture was considered one of the jazz capitals of the USSR, from the 1930s to the 80s. One of the best examples of this tradition would be pianist Kim Nazaretov (1936-1993) who formed the first jazz department in USSR, in his alma- mater Rostov conservatory. The beginning of jazz in Rostov associated with Stelman himself, who formed the first musical collective in 1938,

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BOOKVICA 9 and in few years a number of bands were active in the city. Rostov was occupied twice during the war with one of the biggest filtration camps on Russian territory being located in the city area of Kamenki. By the time of the concert it was still early for Rostov inhabitants to return to their city, but after the war jazz has returned to the city on Don, with the band leaders like Golovnin and Burdin established the jazz band in the local music hall. Stelman has returned and continued performing as well. Unfortunately in the early 1950s jazz had been put under political pressure again and most of Rostov’s bands were scattered with leaders being arrested with political accusations. The later life of Stelman can not be traced. ON HOLD

04 [JANUARY OF 1942] Prezrenie k smerti [i.e. The Despite Towards The Death]. Kazan’: Sovetskiy pisatel’, 1942. 41, [2] pp. 16x11 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good

The only copy condition. located in McGill First edition. Rare. An important collection of short stories by University Library (according to nine Soviet authors. Worldcat). ‘Sovetskiy pisatel’ was one of the main literary publishing houses with several regional branches. This book was prepared by the Moscow branch when the publishing house was evacuated to Kazan. At the same time the branch in Tashkent continued to print books, while in Leningrad the local office of ‘Sovetskiy pisatel’ was destroyed in September of 1941 after the bomb fell directly on its building. The edition was sent to the printers on the 2nd of January of 1941, a month after the Soviet counter strike secured the defense of Moscow. At the time Rzhev-Vyazemsky operation of 1942 was still ongoing, the counter-attack on the Moscow front, the one that resulted in the deaths of over million people on both sides of the frontline. Most of the stories in the book are based on the Soviet experience in Smolensk, Leningrad and Moscow regions. The total of 9 short stories were printed by war correspondents Evgeniy Kriger (1906- 1983), Nikolay Tikhonov (1896-1979), Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909-1984), Ezra Vilenskiy (1902-1944), a volunteer who later died in action, and others. ON HOLD

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05 [SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE] Shkola zhestokosti. Sbornik rasskazov [i.e. The School of Violence. The Collection of Stories]. Sverdlovsk: OGIZ; Goslitizdat, 1942. 85, [3] pp. 16x10,5 cm. One of 25000 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Small No copies found in tear of the spine and loss of the front cover. Otherwise very good. the Worldcat. First edition. Extremely rare edition from the series printed in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) during the German occupation of the European part of Russia. The edition was prepared by the evacuated OGIZ (the State Publishers) and the Moscow-based typography ‘1ya obraztsovaya tipografiya’. The printing of this issue was finished on the 28th of January, 1942. The edition included five stories, translated from German and from English about the violence of the Nazi regime. Three of them were written by Willi Bredel (1901-1964), the German communist author who famously fought on the Russian side at the time. In the preface to this

BOOKVICA 11 book he called for the ‘merciless’ fight against the fascists. Less is known about the other anti-fascist author, Dora Vencher, who published a few books in Russian during the war. His short story ‘The School of the Violence’ gave the title to the collection. The last short story of the book is the translation of Katherine Taylor’s (1903-1996) ‘The Address is Unknown’, a well-known piece by American novelist, written in 1938, warning the US public about the dangers of nazism. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 12 II HEALTH & SCIENCE OF THE 1920s

06 [HOME CARE FOR PATIENTS] Berlin, A.S. Lapin, K.V. Kak ukhazhivat’ za bol’nym doma [i.e. How to Look After the Patient at Home] / edited by professor Nikolay Burdenko. Moscow; Leningrad: Meditsinskoe izdatelstvo, 1929. 80 pp.: ill. 22x30 cm. One of 40000 copies printed. Original illustrated cardboard binding. Covers are slightly rubbed, some minor restoration of the front cover. Part of the spine is missing, the 1920s stamps of the hospital on the title page, pp.13 and 37. Overall a very good copy. A very curious relic of its time: the manual in the form of the The only copy of the album is at comic book on how to nurse the patients at home. National Library of The edition is part of the campaign initiated by Nikolay Medicine according to the Worldcat. Burdenko (1876-1946) and one of the organizers of the Soviet medical system Zinoviy Soloviev (1876-1928) who was the deputy to the health minister during the 1920s. He was the one who tried to implement the

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BOOKVICA 13 idea of the prophylactic measures into the masses by the means of the visual agitation. In the late 1920s poets like Mayakovsky and Demyan Bednyi were involved in the production of texts for sanitary posters and brochures. The book gives the overview of every aspect of patients’ needs: from hygiene recommendations for the caretaker to the regulations of feeding and medical procedures - how to put mustard plasters, enema, treat wounds, how to disinfect the linen and the cutlery. The album itself is an interesting example of the staged photography of the time. Containing 182 staged photo involving several actors, composed 4 to 6 per page for every chapter to show the process and the ways of treatments described, the photos make very useful visual supplement to the text. Occasional photomontage is used. Because of the large quantity the photos also allow to look inside the everyday life of the usual Soviet household - showing the kettles, cups, books, furniture as well as simplest medical instruments of the time. Overall an interesting outlook of Soviet life of the 1920s. Despite the big print run the album is extremely rare: constant use of the album and the type of audience explain the scarcity. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 15 07 [GRIT YOUR TEETH] Rozovskiy, Yu.M. Ukhod za zubami [i.e. The Dental Care]. Kharkiv: Nauchnaia mysl, 1929. 40 pp.: ill. 22,3x14,5 cm. One of 5000 copies printed. Original illustrated wrappers. With black and white illustrations in text. Small tear of the upper left corner, written numbers (pen) close to the tear. Otherwise very good.

No copies found in First and only edition. Extremely rare. the Worldcat. An excellent example of the contrast design of the 1920s used in the book for the masses without any artistic purpose or significance. It echoes the constructivist principles proclaimed by Alexei Gan who saw the book as the tool of influencing the reader with visual effects and by appealing to him directly. In this example we could see a naive but striking hygiene propaganda explaining to the reader the importance of the dental care.

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BOOKVICA 16 This could be regarded as a simple coincidence, and the wrappers is not signed by any artist, however in the 1920s Kharkiv was the place in Ukraine where the leftist ideas have accumulated. The main Ukrainian magazine dedicated to the left art was printed there from 1927 to 1931 by the art group Nova Generatsia [i.e. New Generation] by the same title. This organization was basically a third modification of the Ukrainian Left Front (UkrLEF) and one of the last regional affiliates of Moscow ‘LEF’. Constructivist and photo montage tools that they used are found in this anonymous designer’s wrappers. In 1931 Nova Generatsia was closed down as a result of the pressure from the officials. The content of the book is a list of simple rules on the hygiene with the statistics of the dental diseases in USSR and abroad, and the precautions to the reader. $450

08 [THE SOVIET APPROACH TO THE MENTAL SUGGESTION] Zalkind, A. Zhizn’ organizma i vnusheniye [i.e. The Life of the Organism and the Method of Suggestion]. Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 175 pp. 16,1x23,8 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine, minor wear to the extremities, first 16 pages detached, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the rear wrapper. Otherwise in a good condition. First edition. Scarce. A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE MENTAL SUGGESTION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE LIFE OF THE HUMAN ORGANISM WRITTEN BY THE FAMOUS SOVIET SEXOLOGIST AND FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF MARXIST NEUROPSYCHOLOGISTS, ARON ZALKIND (1888-1936). In the early years of the October Revolution, Zalkind was considered the main promoter of Freudian theories. However, from the mid-1920s, he was forced to publicly repent of his “connections” with Freudianism and seek alternative ideas in psychoanalysis. Zalkind invented an innovative approach to the mental suggestion based on the work of Paul Dubois, Joseph Dejerine, Martsinvosky, and Freud. The psychologist brought the theories of the aforementioned figures into line with psychotherapy and Pavlov’s conditioned reflexes and developed a synthesized theory of the treatment of mental suggestions. In accordance with Zalkind, the human organism contains a vast body of disorganized possibilities

BOOKVICA 17 that can be restored using measures of conditioned reflexes and psychotherapy, with both directed at creating a healthy sense of purpose. The Soviet State unanimously accepted Zalkind’s theory, which perfectly corresponded to the goal of creating a new, strong, and determined Soviet man. Published in 1927, this book is the first comprehensive edition shedding light on Zalkind’s newly developed approach. The publication can be divided into 3 sections. The first section documents different theories of mental suggestion and offers an insight into Aron’s synthesized concept. The second section features an interesting analysis of Lenin as a psychophysiological type. The third and the final section provides a list of literature used by the author. A Director of the Psychological Institute of Moscow, Zalkind went down in the history of the Soviet Union as one the main advocates of paedology (a study of children’s behavior and development). He is also widely known as the author of Twelve Sexual Commandments for the Revolutionary Proletariat that promoted sexual control and defined sexual behavior of the Proletariat. Zalkind penned numerous writings, among which most famous are Osnovnyye voprosy pedologii [i.e. The Main Issues of Paedology] in 1927, Polovoye vospitaniye [i.e. Sex Education] in 1928, Psikhonevrologicheskiye nauki i sotsialisticheskoye stroitel’stvo [i.e. Psychoneurological Sciences and Socialist Construction] in 1931. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 18 09 [IVAN PAVLOV – LIFETIME EDITION] Pavlov, I. Proba fiziologicheskogo ponimaniya simptomologii isterii [i.e. An Attempt to Understand the Symptoms of Hysteria from Physiological Point of View]. Leningrad: izd. i tip. Akad. nauk, 1932. 36 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Fine. First edition. Very rare. With the dedication leaf: “Dedicated to the deeply respected comrade Alexei Vasilyevich Martynov on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his outstanding scientific, teaching and practical work from the grateful author”. Martynov (1868- 1934) was a noted Russian surgeon and head of the Surgical Clinic of the Moscow University. A friend of Pavlov, he successfully operated on Ivan who was struggling from gallstone disease in 1927. AN INTERESTING WORK ABOUT HYSTERIA WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE GREATEST PHYSIOLOGISTS OF ALL TIME, IVAN PAVLOV (1849- 1936). The study presented in this book is based upon the concept of the conditioned reflexes developed by Ivan Pavlov and up to date considered his greatest achievement. In the early 20th century, the scientist examined the activity of the salivary glands in dogs. After a series of experiments, Pavlov discovered that the animals could get so accustomed to associating a bell with food that they salivated when the buzzer was sounded, even though no food was present. The scientist termed the phenomenon conditioned reflexes - an acquired response in which the subject learns to associate a previously unrelated neutral stimulus (bell) with a different stimulus (food) that elicits some kind of reaction (salivation). Following Leningrad’s devastating flood in 1924, Pavlov noticed that the animals that he used for experiments on conditioned reflexes began to show anxiety and fear. This sparked his interest regarding the treatment of neurosis in traumatized human behavior. Based on the concept of the conditioned reflexes, Pavlov argued that abnormal human activity was the product of the interplay between the individual’s first and secondary signaling system and the environment. According to Pavlov, hysteria resulted from a nervous system too weak to guide individuals through their environment and produce a proper response to the conditioned reflexes (due to the association of external stimuli with a harmful event). Published in 1932 this work went down in history as the first

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publication providing a detailed insight into Pavlov’s study of hysteria. The edition consists of two sections. While the first section showcases a physiological overview of the phenomenon of the conditioned reflexes, the second section extends upon hysteria and describes the relationship between the psychological category and the conditioned reflexes. Overall, the first-hand account serves as an important contribution towards understanding how one of the most important discoveries in the history of psychology was made. $750

10 [SCIENCE AND THE SOVIET UNION] Iskry nauki [i.e. Sparks of Science]. Moscow: Izdatelstvo “Gudok”, 1925- 1931. #1-12 of 1927. A full run of the year bound in a single volume. Ca. 29,6x23,2 cm. In contemporary binding. Creases at the hinges, slightly

No copies found in rubbed, #3 lacks the front wrapper, #4,5 lack the rear wrapper, #6 lacks Worldcat. the pp. 239-240, #7 lacks the pp. 279-280 and the rear wrapper, #10 lacks the pp. 399-400 and the rear wrapper, #11 lacks the pp. 447-448

BOOKVICA 20 and the rare wrapper. Otherwise in a very good condition. A RARE COLLECTION OF THE SOVIET SCIENCE MAGAZINE ISKRY NAUKI [I.E. SPARKS OF SCIENCE]. Full run of 1927 (#1-12) bound in a single volume. Scarce. Published from 1925 until 1931, this popular science magazine provided information on a variety of disciplines, from astronomy and geography to physics and medicine. Its goal, as set out in the first issue, was to help the worker, to impart to him the greatest amount of knowledge possible about all branches of pure and applied science...” The magazine covered the latest scientific achievements of the Soviet Union and the foreign countries and featured articles dedicated to the aviation, geography, geology, technologies, natural history, chemistry, radio-frequency engineering, the Soviet construction, etc. The publication frequency and the printrun of the magazine varied from year to year. Among the sections presented on the pages of Sparks of Science were Bibliography, Questions and Answers, Among Magazines, Our Memo, etc. Comprising an array of illustrations and photographs (occasionally photomontages), the magazine was distinguishable of all because of the remarkable cover designs that are vividly showcased in the present collection.

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BOOKVICA 21 In 1927 the periodical was published monthly and all issues were edited by I. Pirogov. The first issues of the 1927 collection feature Oborona SSSR [i.e. Defense of the USSR] section, which provides information on the development of the Soviet transport system, artillery, and defense mechanisms to ensure the Soviet Union’s winning position in the anticipated global war. The editorial board of the magazine pays particular attention to the propaganda of the Soviet industrial, technological, and agricultural accomplishments and features a number of articles on the record-breaking activities of the Soviet workers (Record-Breaking Steel Production. #1., etc). The magazine also comprises secion Bogatstva SSSR [i.e. Wealth of the USSR], which focuses on the natural resources found in the Soviet Union. Especially Interesting is the Q&A section, which is presented in every issue, and is characterized by the abundance of the alcohol and sex-oriented questions: What are the disadvantages of any type of masturbation, and how does it affect the brain and heart? What are the causes of impotence and how to treat it?, etc. The magazine includes articles by M. Levitskiy, F. Bogdanov, A. Zharbov, V. Fektistov, S. Shambinov, as well as sketches by V. Vorontsov-Venyaminov, S. Nekrasov, N. Tolstoy, etc. The issue #12 contains an alphabetical list of the year-long content of the magazine. The wrappers feature colorful illustrations depicting such processes as steel casting at the factory Serp i molot, Moscow; testing of the transmission of a 1,000,000-volt current, etc. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 22 III LITERATURE

11 [ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH – LIFETIME EDITION] Kruchyonykh, A. Golodnyak: [Stikhi] [i.e. Hunger: [Verses]]. M.: Tip. TSIT, 1922. [24] pp. 12,8x17,7 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Fine. Rare especially in such pristine condition. First edition. One of Worldcat shows copies of the 1000 copies. edition in the AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF ZAUM VERSES BY THE University of California, Getty WELL-KNOWN RUSSIAN FUTURIST ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH (1886- Research Institute, 1968). The author went down in the history of Russian literature as University of Missouri, Harvard a radical avant-garde poet, who together with fellow writers and College Library, artists formed the core of the modernist movement. In the early 1910s Amherst College Library, British Kruchyonykh and Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) invented the Zaum Library, and language, which became one of the leading trends in Russian futurism. National Library of In the following years the author published a number of works France. incorporating elements of the newly developed language, including Pomada [i.e. Lipstick] (1913), Vzorval’ [i.e. Explosion] (1913), Golodnyak

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BOOKVICA 23 [i.e. Hunger] (1922), etc. The latter came out during the Great Russian Famine of 1921-1922 and focused on the harsh reality of the time. The majority of the verses presented in the collection were dedicated to the problem of hunger, with one particular verse Golod [i.e. Hunger] touching upon the topic of family cannibalism (a mother feeds her children with human flash). The edition became a sensation causing controversial reviews among readers and critics. In a couple of years, when the Socialist Realism was proclaimed the official style of art in the Soviet Union, Kruchyonykh was forced to move away from literature and maintain himself by selling rare books and manuscripts. Overall, an extremely scarce collection of verses by the prolific Russian futurist. ON HOLD

12 [FIRST SOVIET EDITION OF TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD]

Reed, John. 10 dnei, kotorye potriasli mir [i.e. Ten Days that Shook the World] / prefaces by V. Lenin and N. Krupskaya, translated by V. Yarotskiy. Moscow: Krasnaia Nov’, 1923. 315, [1], 4 pp. 23,5x15,5 cm. Original illustrated wrappers by Sergei Chekhonin. A few small bits of the spine missing, the front wrapper is restored (the right bottom corner is missing, not affecting the image). Overall a very good copy. First edition. Extremely rare, especially comparing to the editions of 1924 and 1925. The iconic book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed (1887-1920) about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders. This edition was prepared after the direct instruction from Lenin, who has praised the book in the preface, mentioning that ‘‘this book I would like to see in million copies printed and translated to all languages, as it gives the truthful account of the events that are important for understanding what is the dictations of dictatorship of the proletariat’’.

BOOKVICA 24 With that blessing the book was reprinted dozens of times in USSR and translated to 49 languages worldwide. Lenin has seen the Russian edition before passing away in early 1924. Nadezhda Krupskaya has written the special preface for the Russian edition and lbert Rhys Williams (1883-1962) has written the biography of John Reed. Williams at the time was living in Moscow. ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’ became an important marker of the early Russian 1920s in USSR and in USA. $850

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13 [EARLY SOVIET BOOK DESIGN: ALEXEI USHIN] Grin, A. Okno v lesu [i.e. Window in the Forest]. Leningrad: Mysl’, 1929. 252, [4] pp. 18x13,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of

Worldcat shows spine partly glued, chipped, stamp “Approved to Export from USSR”, ink copies located signature on verso of half-title. in Library of One of 4200 copies. Very rare. Congress and Yale University. Constructivist letterpress cover design was produced by Alexei

BOOKVICA 25 Ushin (1904-1942). During the 1920s-30s he managed to design overall 500 covers, contribute to the Soviet type design and create an illuminated font for the movie ‘Counterplan’ (1932). This is a good example of the book constructivism and an edition issued in successful NEP-period publishing house ‘Mysl’ under direction of Lev Wolfson who was regarded as ‘little GIZ’ for the scale of his activity. In particular, he planned to print 15-volume complete works of Russian novelist Alexander Grinevsky (pen-name Grin; 1880- 1932). Only a few of the volumes (#2,5,6,8,11-14) appeared in 1927- 1929 before the publisher was arrested. This is one of them, the 8th volume. $750

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BOOKVICA 26 14 [LITERATURE BY FOSTER STUDENTS] Zhizn’ nachinaetsia. Sbornik stikhov, rasskazov i ocherkov, napisannykh podrostkami-vospitannikammi trudovykh koloniy UNKVD LO [i.e. The Life Begins. The Collection of Verse, Short Stories and Essays Written by the Foster Students of the Labour Colonies of NKVD in Leningrad Region]. Leningrad: Otdel trudkoloniy UNKVD LO, 1936. 104 pp., 1 front. (Portrait Not in the of Dzerzhinsky) 17,5x13,5 cm. One of 3000 copies. Original cloth binding Worldcat. with the low-relief image on the front cover. Slightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy. Inscribed on the verso of the first endpaper by one of the authors Dmitry Sokolov to comrade Ivolgin dated 26th of January, 1937. Extremely rare. The collection of fiction created by 14 teenagers,who have stayed at three different labour camps of NKVD of Leningrad Region in the 1930s. As a result of the WWI and the Civil War that has followed, in the 1920s in USSR the number of homeless children was unprecedented. The problem was so significant that it was under the personal control of Lenin and Feliks Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926). In the early-mid 1920s somewhere between 4 and 6 million children were homeless. As a result a special operation has been conducted by NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, future KGB), police and the army. The task to get minors off the streets by any means was undertaken like a military operation, and that’s why the big percentage of them have ended up in labour camps by the 1930s, alongside with the juvenile criminals. The ideological leader of NKVD Dzerzhinsky (to whom several parts in this book are dedicated) famously viewed labour camps as the only institutions for the reclamation. In reality those camps led to the establishment of the GULAG system and the use of prison labour for the sake of fulfilling the unrealistic industrialisation goals. It’s unclear what conditions the authors of this collection had to experience but from one of the poems we learn that 17-year old Nikolay Morschikov participated in Belomorstroy (the construction of The White Sea–Baltic Canal). From another poem we learn about his homeless past and that he expected to become an engineer. Despite the obvious propaganda-lured topics, poems dedicated to Stalin and to Dzerzhinsky, some pieces are more lyrical and dedicated to the usual kids’ activities, pets or games. No doubt the

BOOKVICA 27 book was heavily censored and was not intended for the distribution outside of the camps. Some short stories were co-written. Photos of all the authors precede their writings. An important document of the era which gives the insight into what was happening behind the fences of labour camps. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 28 15 [SOVIET PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN IN UKRAINIAN] Bichko, V. Odno Slovo [i.e. One Word]. Kiev: Molod’, 1953. 8 pp.: ill. 20,2x26,1 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine, mild soiling of the wrappers, pencil markings on the rear wrapper. Otherwise very good internally clean copy. No copies found in Scarce. Most likely first edition. Text in Ukrainian. Worldcat. Wrapper design and color illustrations throughout by the Soviet graphic artist and illustrator Abram Reznichenko (1916-1973). Reznichenko collaborated with some of the most popular Ukrainian periodicals of the time: Khar’kovskiy parovoznik [i.e. Kharkiv Steam Engine], Kommunizm [i.e. Communism], Sovetskaya Ukraina [i.e. Soviet Ukraine], etc. His work in book design includes Nikolay Ostrovsky’s Kak zakalyalas’ stal’ [i.e. How the Steel Was Tempered] (1949) and Rozhdonnyye burey [i.e. Born of the Storm] (1949), Alexander Boichenko’s Molodost’ [i.e. Youth] (1949), etc. A UKRAINIAN CHILDREN’S BOOK UNITING SOVIET AND FOREIGN KIDS UNDER THE FLAG OF COMMUNISM. The verse tells the story of the Soviet children who travel by ship overseas and are greeted with open arms by the poor, “less lucky” children of a foreign land. The kids that are unable to communicate in Russian end up waving flags and chanting the only “magic” word they have in common with the guests – Stalin. The book features illustrations showing a contrast between the neatly dressed, happy Soviet children and ragged African and Asian children. Stalin’s cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet children’s literature in the late 1920s and persisted until the mid-1950s. The Communist leader was usually portrayed as the father of nations and the liberator, who cared equally about the Soviet citizens and people abroad. Three years after his death (1953), new leadership under Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) denounced Stalin’s politics, initiating a political reform known as ‘‘the exposure of the cult of personality’’ or de-Stalinization. Books like Odno slovo [i.e. One Word] were completely banned in the following years. The verse was written by the noted Ukrainian poet and playwright Valentin Bichko (1912-1994). He published a number of children’s books with the first one (Materi na zavodakh [i.e. Mothers in Factories]) coming out the same year Bichko graduated from Kharkiv University (1932). His most famous works include Veseli shkolyari [i.e.

BOOKVICA 29 Happy School Kids] (1941), Veselka [i.e. A Rainbow] (1946), Vohnyshche [i.e. A Bonfire] (1969), etc. Valentin Bichko is also the author of the librettos for the operas Gibel’ eskadry [i.e. The Destruction of the Squadron] (1967) and Mamai (1970) by the Ukrainian composer Vitaliy Hubarenko (1934-2000). ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 30 IV ART THEORY

16 [HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE GROUPS] Lobanov, V. M. Khudozhestvennye gruppirovki za poslednie 25 let [i.e. Art Groups for the Last Twenty-Five Years]. Moscow: Khud. izd. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 148 pp. 19x13 cm. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. Worldcat locates Viktor Lobanov (1885-1970), art critic and writer. He often paper copies at the wrote articles in the periodicals about artists, exhibitions, articles Frick Art Library, Yale University, for catalogs of art exhibitions; wrote more than a dozen books about Brown University, Russian artists. But he entered the history of Russian avant-garde as the University of Chicago, Stanford, author of this important well-known book. This was the first work of UC Berkeley, such kind combining information on all art groups of the most intense University of Pittsburgh. period of life and art of the country. This edition came out right on time because in 1932 an infamous decree about elimination of all art formations and styles but one was established. $750

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BOOKVICA 31 17 [SOVIET CLASSIC OF COLOR SCIENCE] Alekseev, S. Еlementarnyi kurs tsvetovedeniia [i.e. Basics of Color Science]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1939. 132 pp.: ill., 10 ills. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original full cloth with lettering on front cover and spine. Very good, slightly rubbed and soiled, pencil marks occasionally. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Second, significantly revised Worldcat shows edition of work by a classic of Soviet color science, Sergei Alexeev who copies in Princeton and Columbia was engaged in this field for at least 20 years. Started with textbooks Universities. on basics of colors for artists and architects in the 1930s, he wrote textbooks for workers of the Soviet printing industry in the 1950s. Among them were ‘Color in Architecture’ (1934), ‘Basics of Color Science’ (1937), ‘Color Science’ (1949), ‘On Color and Paints’ (1962), etc. This is his early textbook for art schools on color studies with 77 illustrations (almost all black and white) and 6 colorful charts. As its previous edition (1937), the book gives detailed information on basic features of color, how color is transformed depending on the light, how to show light in painting or consider light when painting buildings, laws of color mixing and light effects, color contrast and how to consider it in the work, light and color illusions, light and heavy colors, questions of harmony of colors, color in art, etc.

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BOOKVICA 32 Unlike the first edition, this book included many changes, rearrange of materials and more sophisticated study on the color science phenomena. The text is divided into three chapters and each of them is supplemented with valuable practical exercises and a list of questions. A list of terms and the index are included as well. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 33 V ARCHITECTURE ON WATER

18 [MOSCOW-VOLGA CANAL] Kanal Moskva-Volga. Spravochnye dannye [i.e. Moscow-Volga Canal. Reference Data]. Dmitrov: n.p., 1934. [10], 75, [3] pp., 15 charts. 8x11,5 cm. In original full cloth with embossed blind lettering on silver strip. Very good. Slightly rubbed, few pencil signatures and pale spots, ink inscription on back endpaper. Ink corrections on p.74. Only copy is One of 1000 copies. Complete with 15 lithographed charts, located in State Library of Berlin. their list and index. The book related to Moscow-Volga Canal, one of the most ambitious and gigantic industrial transformations undertaken in the 1930s in the USSR. The book was published in Dmitlag (Dmitrov camp) included over a million prisoners who built the canal. The edition contains tables of data on hydroelectric plants, artificial lakes, dams, locks and other structures that gathered together into the whole system. One chapter gives information on Andreevsky water bypass canal that was supposed to be to the south of Gorky Park but this piece of the plan was never implemented. Among charts are three general views and twelve detailed pictures of canal parts with water engineering

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BOOKVICA 34 structures indicated on them. The book was edited by Alexander Komarovskii (1906-1973) who first contributed to separate parts of the process and then was appointed chief engineer of the final stage of the construction in 1937. Overall a rare and valuable source. $950

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19 [ARCHITECTURE OF MOSCOW ARTERIES] Naberezhnye Moskvy. Arkhitektura i konstruktsiya [i.e. Moscow River Fronts. Architecture and Constructions] / P. Gol’denberg, L. Aksel’rod. Moscow: Izd-vo Akad. arkhitektury SSSR, 1940. 256 pp.: ill, 4 ills. 25,5x18 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Rubbed, ink signature on t.p., otherwise very good and clean internally. Worldcat shows First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. copies in Minnesota and An interesting and comprehensive study on the architecture of Ohio Universities. a river system related to the Stalinist plan of Moscow reconstruction. Due to population growth, drinking and industrial water were getting scarce in the early 1930s. The problem was solved in 1933-1937 by constructing of Moscow Canal (named Moscow-Volga Canal until 1947) that connected the city with three seas and started the river redevelopment program. The reconstruction continued inside the city. The Moscow river flow was artificially straightened and reduced by 5 times; there were plans to shorten the river in the city from 40.15 km to 11.95 km. Moscow and Yauza rivers, as well as canals, required new riverbank designs for recreational and industrial needs.

BOOKVICA 35 An architect Pavel Gol’denberg and an engineer Lev Aksel’rod overview and criticize structures used in Moscow waterways, including locks, bridges, waterfront stairs and piers as well as the design of embankments and doabs. They also provided information about flood protection and sewer tunnel construction. The book features riverbank redevelopment projects, photographs and the folding schemes of implemented designs. The interesting picture shows the projection of the Palace of Soviets on surfaces of Moscow river and the Vodootvodny canal. All technical drawings were produced by graphic artist O. Startseva, except for some panoramas created by an architect E. Iur’ev. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 36 VI ARCTIC & ANTARCTIC

20 [YAKUTSK] Mainov, I. Russkie krestiane i osdelie inorodtsy Yakutskoy oblasti [i.e. The Russian Peasants and the Settlers from Different Ethical Groups in Yakutsk Area]. St. Petersburg: V.F. Kirshbaum, 1912. XVI, [4], 357, 29 pp. 23,5x17 cm. Very good. Loss of the small piece of the spine, edges and spine rubbed, paper label on the upper left corner of the front wrapper,

Wordlcat inventory numbers on the front wrapper and title page. shows copies First edition. With 16 full-page photographs. Scarce. of the edition The first edition of the work by profound ethnologist Ivan in University of Washington Mainov (1861-1936), who originally was from the central Russia Libraries, Columbia (Tula), but was forced to spend a lot of time in Siberia because of University, University of his revolutionary activity. In the 1870s he was agitating the populist Chicago Library, social democratic ideas to the peasants in Saratov while studying University of Wisconsin – jurisprudence. Since 1881 he became the member of terrorist ‘The Will Milwaukee, of the People’ movement, responsible for the assassination attempts of University of Wisconsin - both Alexander II and Alexander III. As a result, Mainov was sentenced Madison, Indiana to imprisonment than exile for 15 years. University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Cambridge, State Library of Berlin, Library of the Free University Berlin, Bavarian State Library, German National Library of Economics, University of Erfurt, and International Institute of Social History.

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Originally sent to Irkutsk outskirts, he attempted the escape and as a result was sent to the harsher place in Yakutsk. Being in and out of jail there he finally became the caretaker of the local museum and managed to help the expedition of the Russian Geographical Society with samples and statistics. All in all, he spent 8 years in Yakutsk, that at the time was one of the hard-to-reach regions of Russian East with 6000 inhabitants. He has become a well-known amateur anthropologist and the member of Siberian branch of the Geographical Society. Interestingly he has not dropped his revolutionary urges at that time - in 1902 he founded the ’Siberian Union of Social Revolutionaries’, the union held 3 illegal typographies and was publishing the newspaper ‘The Echoes of the Fight’. Eventually he has returned to St. Petersburg in 1911 when after the revolution of 1905 the situation has changed and although he could not participate in Parliamentary elections because of his convictions he has been named the influencer of the group of parliamentarians from Siberia. After revolution of 1917 has quit the politics mostly because of his wing of socialistic parties have been defeated, after which lived in Leningrad and concentrated on anthropology and the studies of the Arctic. Amazingly he died in 1938 undisturbed by the Bolshevik government, and was even recognized for his participation in ‘The Will of the People’.

BOOKVICA 38 The book itself is one of the first complex ethnographical, statistical and economical studies of Yakutsk region. A lot of attention is drawn to the differences between the native population and the Russian settlers, author goes into detail describing the traditions of the locals, including their system of law, the transformation from the nomadic lifestyle to the settled one, the statistics of the population. He also goes into detail describing the sects located in the region. The main one being ’skoptsy’, the self-harm sect, that was popular in the late 18th century in Russia with the members required to sprinkle themselves to reach the salvation. The sect was suspended by the 1820s but the remains have existed in Yakutsk regions because of its hard-to-reach nature. Mainov described the everyday living and the conditions of the hard labour settlers in the region as well. The book came out as official publication of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. $950

21 [FIRST NORTHERN AIR EXPEDITIONS] Krasinsky, G. Puti Severa. (Severnyye vozdushnyye ekspeditsii 1927 i 1928 gg. Ostrov Vrangelya i pervyy Leninskiy reys) [i.e. Ways of the North. (Northern Air Expeditions of 1927 and 1928. Wrangel Island and the First Lena Flight)]. Moscow: izd-vo Osoaviakhim, 1929. 160 pp.: ill. 21,8x15,4 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Open tears to the spine, slight wear, several pages loose. Otherwise in a very good condition. First edition. Scarce. Black-and-white illustrations in text. THIS RARE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OFFERS A VIVID INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST AIR EXPEDITION TO WRANGEL ISLAND AND THE FIRST LENA FLIGHT. The publication was written by George Krasinsky, a renowned Arctic explorer and leader of both travels. The expeditions were organized by the order of the Society for the Promotion of the Defense of the Aeronautical and Chemical Industries of the USSR in 1927 and 1928. In the first section of the book, the author describes the 1927 voyage that consisted of a steamship Kolima (under the command of P. Milovzorov) and two seaplanes Savoya (under the command of E. Luht) and Iunkere (under the command of E. Kosnelev). The expedition

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followed the route from Vladivostok via Hakodate, Cape Dezhnev, Cape Schmidt (from where the seaplanes flew to Wrangel island on July 15), Medvezhie and Lyakhovsky Islands to Irkutsk. The journey, which began on June 21 and ended on August 28, was supposed to determine the possibility of creating regular air communications between the mouth of the Lena River and Irkutsk, as well as to provide the Chukchi and Russian settlers (60 people displaced in 1924) on Wrangel Island with food, medications, etc. The larger goal was to secure control of the Soviet Union over the island, which in 1921 was declared the property of Great Britain. From the historical and geographical overview of the region to the description of the encounter with the settlers and complications along the travel, the edition provides a unique panorama of this first Northern air expedition. The second section of the book features information on the air expedition undertaken a year after the successful travel from Vladivostok to Irkutsk. The voyage had to follow the route from Vladivostok via Sakhalin, Sea of Okhotsk, Petropavlovsk, Wrangel Island, Taymyr Peninsula to Arkhangelsk. The intent of the journey was to conduct geographical research in the area of the Medvezhie Islands and provide the settlers of Wrangel Island with medications and other supplies. The expedition consisted of the steamship Lazovskiy (under

BOOKVICA 40 the command of Kondratiev) and the plane Dorne-Val (under the command of A. Volynsky) which took off from Vladivostok on July 16, 1928. Although the travel went down in history as the first Soviet flight over the Sea of Okhotsk, the plane crashed in the Kolyuchinskaya Bay due to the bad weather and the crew had to make its way through the tundra and mountain ranges before departing for Vladivostok on the steamer Stavropol. Providing an interesting first-hand account of the incident, the book offers Krasinsky’s analyses of the unsuccessful flight and features a detailed description of the travel. The publication comprises numerous black-and-white photographs depicting the steamship Stavropol near the Wrangel Island in 1924, the steamship Kolima, the planes Kolima and Iunkere, the fishermen near Stolbovoy Island, a house built on Wrangel Island in 1926, a family of settlers, plane crash, etc. Overall, a rare illustrative evidence to the first Northern air expeditions. $550

22 [SOVIET WHALING IN ANTARCTIC] Solianik, A.N. Chetyre pokhoda v Antarktiku [i.e. The Four Trips to Antarctic]. Moscow: Pravda publishers, 1950. 30, [2] pp.: ill. 22x14 cm. Printed wrappers. Water stain on the lower part of the title page, otherwise good. Illustrated with 5 photographic images from the trips. Worldcat shows First and only edition. Rare. The book is dedicated to the Soviet copies at UC Berkeley, Amherst whaling activities in Antarctic, in particular of the whaling fleet ‘Slava’ College, LOC [i.e. The Fame] and is written by ‘the captain director’ of the fleet Alexey and Kent State University. Solianik (1912-1984). Born in Vladivostok region in the naval family, Solianik was sailing in the Pacific since adolescence. In the 1930s he was the captain of the trade ship ‘Nalim’. In the 1940s he was certified as the sea captain and was in charge of the steamboat ‘Ilmen’ that was going from Vladvostok to the West Coast of America and back. In 1946 in Liverpool (UK) he took the command of the German whaling vessel ‘Vikinger’. Originally built in UK by Swan Hunter for the Norwegian whaling tycoon Johan Karsten Rasmussen in 1929, it was accompanied by the fleet of 7 smaller whaling ships. After the financial crisis of 1931 the fleet was relocated to the Panama and was no longer active in the Antarctic whaling, mostly used for the transport of oil,

BOOKVICA 41 before it was sold to the Germans in 1938 and was used for whaling again during the war. In 1945 it was captured by the British and for a year raised the British flag again, before it was given to USSR as a part of contribution plan and was renamed ‘Slava’. The captain of the flagship was appointed Vladimir Voronin (1890-1952), the master veteran of Arctic navigation, the former captain of ‘Chelyuskin’ and ‘Ermak’ - arguably the two of the most famous ships of the heroic age of Soviet Arctic exploration of the 1930s. In 1928 he was the captain of the icebreaker ‘Georgia Sedov’ who participated in the rescue operation of the Italian crew of the zeppelin N-4 Italia. In 1932 Voronin has managed to sail through the Northwestern Passage for the first time in one navigation. Voronin was the captain of ‘Slava’ for two years, until Solianik took command. ‘Slava’ became Soviet’s first and leading whaling fleet, every fishing season since 1946 it was active in the Antarctic waters. At first 50% of the crew was Norwegian but they were soon replaced by the Russians. The book describes years from 1946 to 1949, the first four seasons. In 1947 season 824 whales were captured, compared to 1000 plus in 1948 and 1500 in 1949. The profits were calculated by 40 to 90 million roubles each year which in ompination with the growing Soviet interest into Antarctic region, was noted by the authorities and Solianik has received the order of The Hero of Socialistic Labour in 1950 - the highest non-military tribute at the time. He has remained the captain until 1958 and has participated in 14 fishing seasons with ‘Slava’ being modified and the new faster ships being added to it by the 1950s. In the 1960s the new gigantic whaling vessels were built, the likes of ‘Sovetskaya Ukraina’ and ‘Yuri Dologrukiy’ and ‘Slava’ was sold to Japan in 1970, and it has ended its days in Taiwan in 1971, recycled to scrap-iron. Solianik has remained sea captain until 1978 when he has had a heart attack and retired at 65. No 22 $650

BOOKVICA 42 VII HISTORY

23 [STUDENTS IN TSARIST RUSSIA] Ivanov, P. Studenty v Moskve. Byt. Nravy. Tipy: Ocherki [i.e. Students in Moscow. Daily Life, Social Mores, Types: Sketches]. Moscow: tip. Shtaba Mosk. voyen. okr., 1903. 296 pp. 16x22.7 cm, Owner’s binding. Tiny holes

Worldcat shows on the p. 3 (no text affected), p. 29 is detached, private library stamp copies of the (Arkadiy Ioasafovich’ Izmaylov) on the title-page and p.3. Otherwise in edition in New York Public Library, a very good condition. University of Scarce. Second edition. First edition published earlier the same Chicago Library, year. ONE OF THE MOST DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF STUDENT CULTURE Temple University Libraries, Library IN THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA. Published by the Russian writer of Geneva, Petr Ivanov (1876-1956), this interesting book provides a rare window Cantonal and University Library into the lesser-known details of student life in Moscow at the turn of Lausanne. of the century. The edition was printed two years after the author graduated from Moscow University (Faculty of History and Philology) and is based on Ivanov’s own impressions and experience from daily life as a student. The publication opens with a brief overview of the four types of students’ budgets (average, minimal, high, ideal) and describes money distribution patterns with the accompanying challenges: the lack of finances for food and clothes, the hardships of sharing a room, the temptation of moral depravity, etc. The author offers a lively account of the apartment options for students (chambres garnies, apartments, hostels) and recounts all the “dangers” anticipating a poor newcomer, including bedbugs and exploiter landlords. Ivanov also sets off ten types of students (freshman, unstable, activist, decadent, bon vivant, exotic type, enlightener of young ladies, etc.) and unleashes their social mores through interesting sketches. From the detailed description of student menus and the celebration of Tatiana Day to an overview of the different sources of income, the edition answers such curious questions as: How did students in Tsarist Russia survive on 18 rubles a month? What was their relationship with alcohol? How did students fight with loneliness and why did their encounters with promiscuous women often result in romantic feelings?

BOOKVICA 43 The book was first published in 1903. The same year, after the first edition ran out of print, the writing came out in second edition. The author published the third edition of the book in 1918, five years before he emigrated to Germany. Abroad, Ivanov collaborated with different magazines and published a number of works, among which the most famous are Smireniye vo Khriste [i.e. Humility in Christ] (1925), Tayna svyatykh — vvedeniye v Apokalipsis [i.e. The Secret of the Saints – An Introduction to Apocalypse] (1949). Overall, the book provides a unique panorama of life in the early 20th century Russia and serves as the first comprehensive account of student culture at the time. $650

24 [A RARE EVIDENCE OF MASONIC ACTIVITY IN PRE- REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA]

Vikentyev, V. Sobraniye masonskikh predmetov Rossiyskogo istoricheskogo muzeya : I : S 14 ris [i.e. A Collection of Masonic Objects of the Russian Historical Museum: I : 14 ill.]. M. : Sinod. tip., 1918. 34, [1] pp.: ill. Worldcat shows 22,2x28,9 cm. In owner’s contemporary binding with original front 2 copies of this edition in wrapper preserved. Fine. University of Extremely scarce. First and only edition. With 14 black-and- Kansas and University of Basel white photographs in text. Library An interesting insight into the collection of masonic objects

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BOOKVICA 44 stored in the Russian Historical Museum. The history of Russian Freemasonry goes back to the 18th century, when the first Masonic lodges began to appear on the territory of the Empire. In the 1790s, Masonic activity was banned by Catherine II, who saw the threat in the increasing popularity of the brotherhoods. After a brief revival during the reign of Paul I, Freemasonry was again outlawed by Alexander II in 1822. The interdict lasted more than 80 years until after the First Russian Revolution, when the number of secret societies drastically increased. At the beginning of 1918, the Bolsheviks launched a massive anti-Masonic campaign, banning the movement and persecuting those engaged with it. An excerpt from the Report of the Russian Historical Museum for the year 1915, this edition was printed a couple of months before Freemasonry was once again forced to go underground. The publication opens with a brief historical overview of the collection, from its inception in 1892 until the latest contributions in 1916, and serves as a rare evidence of the Russian Masonic activity during the periods of both suppression and relative freedom. In the introductory essay, the author, Vladimir Vikentyev (1882-1960), identifies all major figures who either sold or donated items to the museum. The main text features a detailed description of over 80 ritual and other Masonic objects from the 222-item collection of the depository. The objects are organized in accordance with 20 thematic sections, such as coffins, rods, aprons, signs of both Russian and foreign masonic lodges, daggers, carpets, slings, memento mori, swords, hammers, knives, rings, stamps, chairs, snuff boxes, etc. Each section offers information on the use of the objects and their detailed descriptions, identifying physical features of the item, number of copies stored in the museum, size, contributor, and inventory number. The edition is supplemented with 14 photographs of the objects. The publication was compiled by the Russian Egyptologist Vladimyr Vikentyev. He graduated from the Moscow University and worked in the Russian Historical Museum. In 1922, he left for Egypt, where he taught Egyptian philology and ancient history. Although the Masonic collection of the museum managed to survive the Communists, a part of its items was transferred to the State Museum of the History of Religion in the 1950s. The collections were never exhibited until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. ON HOLD

BOOKVICA 45 VIII SOVIET-CHINESE RELATIONS

25 [CAPTURING THE 1954 ALL-UNION AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION]

[Kliks, R.] Vsesoyuznaya sel’skokhozyaystvennaya vystavka. Pavil’ony i sooruzheniya [i.e. All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. Pavilions and Facilities]. M.: Gosudarstvennoye izdatel’stvo izobrazitel’nogo iskusstva, 1954. 152 pp., 2 ill.: ill. 29x22,5 cm. With extremely rare dust-wrapper in Chinese. In original publisher’s cloth binding with gilt lettering and ornaments on the front board and the spine. Dust-wrapper with a couple of tears and small holes. Otherwise fine. No copies in Scarce. Especially with the dust-wrapper. Title-page in Chinese Chinese found in and Russian. Text in Chinese. Captions in Russian. With 166 photographs Worldcat. (3 in color, 163 black-and-white) by Vadim Kovrigin, Mikhail Trakhman, F. Akimov, D. Kozlov, I. Lebedev, A. Teleshov, O. Frenkel’, and Vorob’yev. Design by the Soviet artist Y. Egorov. PUBLISHED IN 1954, THIS EDITION IS DEDICATED TO THE “SECOND BIRTH” OF THE ALL-UNION AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION (VSKHV) IN MOSCOW. The site opened on August 1, 1939, and intended to showcase the agricultural accomplishments of the Soviet Union

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BOOKVICA 46 No 25 and its constituent peoples and republics. VSKhV was shut down for the remainder of World War II in 1941 and was not re-opened until 1954, when the renovation process was finally over. The exhibition contained pavilions dedicated to 15 Soviet republics (each boasting a traditional architectural design) and different branches of agriculture, including animal husbandry, horticulture, sericulture, mechanization and electrification of agriculture, etc. The restoration work was led by the Soviet architects Anatoliy Zhukov and Rudolph Kliks. The latter commemorated the opening of the exhibition in the present album. The edition features an abundance of photographs, depicting all pavilions (15 Soviet republics, Bashkir ASSR, Tatar ASSR, Karelia, different oblasts and types of agriculture) and their architectural details (sculptures, facades, domes, fountains, etc.) as well as the facilities presented at the site. All photographs have captions in Russian. The publication contains an introduction and table of contents in Chinese. Intended to showcase the second birth of VSKhV and propagate both agricultural and architectural accomplishments of the Soviet Union, the album came out in different languages, including Russian, English, Chinese, French, and Spanish. In the following years, the site underwent numerous modifications and had lost much of its original appearance. Against this backdrop, the edition serves as a unique document of the 1954 All- Union Agricultural Exhibition. ON HOLD

BOOKVICA 47 26 [CHINESE COMIC BOOK] Gospodin Dun-Go [i.e. Mister Dun-Go] / text by Dun Tsiui-sian’ and Iui Tszin’; illustrations by Tsi-iu Liu. Beijing: Izdatel’stvo literaturyr na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1959. [2], 82 pp.: ill. 15x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and edges with few minor fragments lost, otherwise very good and clean internally.

Worldcat shows Second edition. One of 8050 copies. no copies of this Very rare comic book with Chinese philosophical story adapted edition. by Jiyou Liu (1918-1983), an outstanding Chinese painter and comic strip artist. One of the books in Russian published for Chinese-Russian post-war cultural interaction. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 48 IX THEATRE & CINEMA

27 [STENBERG BROTHERS DESIGN] Programmy gos. akademicheskikh teatrov [i.e. Programs of State Academic Theaters] #7 for 1927. Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 34 pp.: ill. 26,5x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Small tears of spine and covers with minor fragment of front cover lost, a couple of blurred bookstore stamps. No copies of this issue located in This is a theater program that included week stagings and Worldcat. illustrated with photographs of composer Sergey Prokofiev as well as theater actors. Its cover design featuring sketch for Kamerny Theater production of a play ‘Day and Night’ produced by Stenberg brothers. Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg were the leading artists of this theater in 1924-1931 and designed overall twelve performances in the constructivist style. The play ‘Day and Night’ was premiered in 1926. It resembled a circus performance in acting and costumes: actors had loose, striped clothes and wigs. Stenberg brothers created a simple construction - a sloping platform with two ‘wings’ that stayed the same during the whole performance but suited each scene. ON HOLD

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BOOKVICA 49 28 [THEATRE IN SUPPORT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE] Brushtein, A., Sohn, B. Tak bylo: P’yesa v trekh deystviyakh [i.e. So It Was: A Play in Three Acts]. Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1930. 72 pp.: ill. 13,6x19,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of the spine, light soiling. Otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. One of 3000 copies. First edition with 2 black-and-white Worldcat shows 1 photographs of the scenes from the play. Wrapper design by Mikhail copy of this edition in University Grigor’yev (1899-1960), a noted Soviet graphic and theatre artist, stage of Wisconsin – designer of this very play. Madison. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE SOVIET JEWISH PLAY ABOUT ANTISEMITISM. The book features the text of the play Tak Bylo [i.e. So It Was] written by the Soviet playwright and one of the leading figures in the Leningrad Theatre of Young Spectators (TYUZ) Alexandra Brushtein (1884-1968). The play premiered on the stage of the TYUZ under the directorship of the noted Soviet theatre actor, director, and educator Boris Sohn (1898-1966) in 1929. Dedicated to the topic of the fight against antisemitism, Tak bylo became one of the most popular productions of the Leningrad theatre. The play is set in Imperial Russia and follows the story of the working-class Jews, who become the victim of the Tsarist conspiracy. To avoid massive riots on Labor Day (May 1st), the General Governor and police chief decide to distract workers from their poor working conditions by turning them against the Jews. The violent demonstration and the pogrom end when the little brothers of the working Jews feign fire, and the frightened rioters disperse to save their homes. The text of the play is preceded by the introductory article Chto No 28 takoye antisemitizm [i.e.

BOOKVICA 50 What Is Antisemitism] and followed by the director’s notes on the production. Despite the often harsh and overtly hateful language, Sohn recommends “exact reproduction of the text of the play”. The play was designed for the youth aged 14-18 years. Considered a hub of the future Communists, the Leningrad Theatre of Young Spectators was famous for the productions dedicated to the topics of Civil War, the fight against religious superstitions, etc. The struggle against antisemitism was a common theme in the 1920s and early 1930s Soviet Union. As a result of the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks overthrew a centuries-long policy of official antisemitism in the Russian Empire. Although in the first years the Soviet authorities publicly opposed this extreme form of racial chauvinism, the anti-Jewish conspiracy theories reached new heights after 1948, when numerous Yiddish-writing poets, writers, painters, and sculptors were killed or arrested. Tak bylo, the first play by Alexandra Brushtein, became a precursor to the long and successful collaboration between the playwright and Boris Sohn. In the following years, the two produced a number of famous works, including Don Kikhot [i.e. Don Quijote] in 1926, Khizhina dyadi Toma [i.e. Uncle Tom’s Cabin] in 1927, Na polyus! [i.e. To the Pole] in 1930, 4,000,000 avtorov [4,000,000 Authors] in 1930, etc. Mikhail Grigor’yev distinguished himself as a book illustrator, stage designer, graphic artist, and actor. From 1918 until 1920, he studied at the Petrograd State Free Art Training Workshops under Dmitry Kardovsky, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and Vasiliy Shukhaev. At the

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BOOKVICA 51 different stages of his career, Grigor’yev worked at the Leningrad Young People’s Theatre, the New Leningrad Theatre, Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, the Kirov Theatre, etc. Designing more than 50 productions, his most famous works include Mol’ba o zhizni [i.e Plea for Life] directed by Vadim Kozhich in 1935 (Leningrad Alexandrinsky Theatre); Zhenit’ba [i.e. Marriage] directed by Aleksandr Muzil’ (Leningrad Alexandrinsky Theatre), etc. ON HOLD

29 [LEGENDARY LENINGRAD THEATRE] Putevoditel’ po Gosudarstvennomu Bol’shomu Dramteatru : God deiatel’nosti 13-i : 1931-1932 [i.e. Guide on State Bolshoi Drama Theater : The 13th Year of Activity : 1931-1932]. Leningrad: Tip. im. Volodarskogo, 1931. 32 pp.: ill., 1 double-page plan. 14,5x10,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Minor tears of the spine, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. Extremely rare and interesting prospectus dedicated to the repertoire of Bolshoi Drama Theater (BDT) and its mass cultural activity Only copy located in Berlin State in 1931. The brochure contains a curious scheme of relations between Library. theater staff, director, Rabis organization, museums, party, Komsomol members, etc. Among spectacles listed were works by Soviet dramaturges, including B. Lavrenev’s Razlom (1927), V. Kirshon’s ‘Gorod Vetrov’ (1928); Y. Olesha (Zagovor chuvstv (1929) and others - they are illustrated with photographs of production and three caricatures of actors by graphic artist Nikolai Radlov (1889-1942). ON HOLD

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30 [STARS OF THE 1920S: A COLLECTION OF 20 BROCHURES] A COLLECTION OF 20 BROCHURES (INCLUDING 1 DUPLICATE) DEDICATED TO SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS SOVIET AND FOREIGN MOVIE STARS AND DIRECTORS OF THE 1920S. The 1920s was a pivotal point in the history of Soviet film industry: the decision to import foreign movies into the Soviet Union resulted in the Hollywood completely taking over the Soviet market. American films dominate, inundate, glut, overwhelm the Russian motion picture houses today. Clara Kimball Young has a theatre devoted solely to her in Moscow. In the Arbat, centre of the workers’ quarters of the Russian capital, a new building celebrates the glory of Douglas

BOOKVICA 53 Fairbanks in electric letters three feet high... It is a bit depressing, - wrote an American journalist visiting the Soviet Union in the summer of 1925. Obsession with the Hollywood movie industry was bolstered by the Soviet state publishing house, Kinopechat [i.e. Cinema Press], which issued a series of booklets focusing on the popular foreign film idols and, very reluctantly, on the domestic ones. In 1926-1927, the number of the booklets dedicated to European stars reached one and a half million, compared to only 260,000 copies sold of the biographies of Soviet personalities. While American films retained their appeal right through to 1931 when imports ceased, it was not long before the profits made

BOOKVICA 54 on the distribution of foreign movies were used to recover domestic film production. Enthusiastic work of the new avant-garde Soviet film- makers (Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925), Ten Days That Shook The World (1927); Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929); Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Mother (1926), etc.) marked the beginning of the new Soviet cinema. The focus had finally shifted to the Soviet movie industry, and Kinopechat kept abreast of the Soviet audience’s new preferences. From 1926, the number of booklets dedicated to the domestic actors gradually began to increase. Prominent art theorists and film directors narrated the stories of extremely popular movie industry stars (Soviet, American, European) in the small brochures distinguished with the constructivist design and photomontages. With the print run of approximately 20,000 copies, Kinopechat’s pamphlets became a manifestation of El- Lissitzky’s words: The (painted) picture fell apart together with the old world which it had created for itself. The new world will not need little pictures. If it needs a mirror, it has the photograph and the cinema. $1,200

1) Tolkachev, Ye. Standartnyy geroy Charl’z Khetchinson [i.e. A Standard Hero - Charles Hutchinson]. Moscow: Tea-Kino-Pechat’, 1928. 16 pp.: ill. 17,5x12,9 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Few damp stains. Otherwise near fine. Second edition. First edition published in 1927. An interesting brochure dedicated to the American film actor, director, and screenwriter Charles Hutchinson (1879-1949). Although Hutch directed numerous independent silent features (Hurricane Hutch in Many Adventures (1924), The Winning Wallop (1926), etc.), he is best remembered as Pathé’s leading male serial star from 1918 to 1922. Hutchinson’s most famous movies include: The Golden God (1917), Hutch Stirs ‘em Up (1923), Hurricane Hutch in Many Adventures (1924). The brochure was written by Evgeniy Tolkachev (1896-1960), a Soviet journalist, publisher, and translator.

2) Oganesov, K., Yutkevich, S. Milton Sils [i.e. Milton Sills]. Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 16 pp.: ill. 15x11.5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Mild stains on the wrappers, tear of the spine. Otherwise in very good condition. Second edition. First edition published earlier that year.

BOOKVICA 55 A booklet dedicated to the American leading man of silent pictures Milton Sills (1882-1930). Starting out as a philosophy professor, Sills debuted as an actor in the movie The Pit in 1914. By the early 1920s, Sills had achieved matinee idol status and was working for numerous film studios. His most famous works are: The Making of O’Malley (1925), The Knockout (1925), Puppets (1926), etc. Sills died suddenly of a heart attack while playing tennis at the age of 48.

3) Tatarova, A. Adol’f Menzhu [i.e. Adolphe Menjou]. Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 16 pp.: ill. 15x11.5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Former bookshop stamp on the verso of the front wrapper. Otherwise near fine. First edition. A brochure about American actor, Academy awards nominee, and the best dressed man in America Adolphe Menjou (1890- 1963). Adolphe made his movie debut in 1916 in The Blue Envelope Mystery. After toiling in small roles for a few years, Menjou gained notoriety in Charlie Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923). In 1931, Adolphe starred in the Front Page for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Menjou’s exceedingly conservative political views and his drastic comments (Hollywood is one of the main centers of Communist activity in America) eventually tarnished his reputation to a degree.

4) Korolevich, V. V. Malinovskaya. Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 16 pp.: ill. 15x11.5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Fine. First edition. A short brochure about Soviet actress Vera Malinovskaya (1900-1988). She debuted in 1924 in a film To Everyone’s Joy where she had a small part. But already next year she was casted in the successful The Stationmaster based on Pushkin’s novel. It made her famous. In 1927, after her return from Soviet Russia, Mary Pickford gave a lengthy interview in which she had such a passage: In Russia, I met a charming young Russian star - a tall girl with long blond hair - she was the heroine of the best picture I’ve seen there, The Stationmaster. The brochure was compiled by Vladimir Korolevich (1894-1969), a Soviet poet, actor, and movie director.

5) Trauberg, I. Vil’yam Khart [i.e. William Hart]. Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 16 pp.: ill. 15x11.5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers by M. Getmanskiy. Fine. First edition. A small brochure about American actor, director,

BOOKVICA 56 and the biggest money making star in the United States (1915/1916) William S. Hart (1864-1946). William entered movie industry at the age of 49. After playing supporting roles in two short films, His Hour of Manhood and Jim Cameron’s Wife, Hart achieved stardom as the lead in the feature The Bargain. Making over 70 silent films by the time he was 60, Hart quickly became America’s most important cowboy. He made his last movie, Tumbleweeds, in 1925, amid dwindling popularity, partly due to his disintegrating marriage to the Hollywood actress Winifred Westover, who accused Hart of extreme cruelty. If Cohen (Westover’s attorney) claims I was physically cruel to my wife… I’ll drill a hole in his stomach so big you can drive a twenty-mule-team borax wagon through it, - said Hart in his retort. Once the biggest money making star, Hart was no longer Hollywood’s favourite - the actor retired to his Newhall ranch home in 1928. The brochure was compiled by Ilya Trauberg (1905-1948), a Soviet movie director and screenwriter.

6) Abramov, A. Garri Pil’ [i.e. Harry Piel]. Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 16 pp.: ill. 15.2x11.5 cm. In original photomontage wrappers by Naum Sokolik. Fine. Fourth edition. First edition was published in 1926. A short brochure about Harry Piel (1892-1963), a prolific German actor, film director, and the Nazi activist, whose extreme popularity in the Soviet Union became a major concern for the Bolshevik authorities. Establishing the «Art Film Publishing House Company» in 1912, Harry Piel was only 19 years old when he directed his first feature Black Blood. In 1916, Piel got a leading role in a science fiction adventure, Die Grosse Wette. After directing eight “Joe Deebs” detective films, he created Harry Piel adventure series, performing his own stunts and becoming an internationally recognized star. German Douglas Fairbanks, as Harry was often referred to, was especially popular in the Soviet Union. A survey conducted in Krasnoiarsk suggested that Piel’s screen persona appealed to children in particular. The anonymous reporter indignantly noted that quite a few of the girls answered the question What has cinema taught you? by saying: [That] I would like to marry Harry Piel, while the boys expressed their hope of being Harry Piel. The popularity of this actor was so great that the factories and Komsomol cells often organized discussions on how Communists should fight Harry Pielism (garripilevshchina).

BOOKVICA 57 Design by the Soviet painter, poster artist, and member of the Society of Moscow Artists Naum Sokolik (1897-1944).

7) Ven, S. Amo Bek-Nazarov. Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 16 pp.: ill. 14.8x11 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Fine. First edition. A booklet about Amo Bek-Nazarov (1892-1965), father of Armenian cinematography and one of the greatest film directors of all time. Amo entered the movie industry as an actor in 1914 and soon became one of the major stars of the pre-Soviet Russian cinema. He directed his first films The Patricide (1923), In the Pillory (1923), and The Lost Treasure (1924) in Tbilisi. In 1924, Amo returned to his native city of Yerevan, where he directed the first full-length Armenian feature film, Namus (1925), and the first Armenian sound film, Pepo (1935). In 1950, Bek-Nazarov directed Erkrord karavan. However, the film was canceled half-way through its production on direct orders from Joseph Stalin, a move that personally hurt Amo, who refused to direct any more films until the death of Stalin. After Bek-Nazarov’s death in 1965, Armenfilm adopted his name to their full, official title in his honor.

8) Shebuyev N. Sofia Zhozeffi. Moscow; Leningrad: Kino-izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1927 ([Moskva]: tip. Gosizdata «Krasnyy proletariy»). 16 pp.: ill. 11.4x15 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Tear of the spine. Otherwise fine. Second edition. First edition published earlier that year. A booklet dedicated to the famous Soviet silent film actress Sofia Zhozeffi (1906-1997). Sofia started her career as a child as a circus performer and gained widespread acclaim after starring in Ivan Perestiani’s adventure film Krasnye dyavolyata [i.e. Red Devils] in 1923. In the following years, the actress played in numerous movies, among which the most famous is Legenda o Devich’yey bashne [i.e. The Legend of the Maiden Tower] (1923). In 1992, Sofia emigrated to the United States of America, where she lived until the end of her life. The booklet was written by Nikolay Shchebuev (1874-1937), a Soviet writer, journalist, and poet.

9) Abramov A. Olga Tretyakova. Moscow: Kino-Izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1927. 15, [1] pp.: ill. 11.3x14.7 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers by N.S. Fine.

BOOKVICA 58 Second edition. First edition published in 1926. Wrapper design most likely by Naum Sokolik. A brochure about the Soviet silent movie actress Olga Tretyakova (1902-). Olga debuted in Dmitri Bassalygo’s adventure movie Borba za Ultimatum [i.e. The Fight for the Ultimatum Factory] in 1923. In the period from 1923 until 1928, she played in more than 10 movies, with the most popular being Aleksei Popov’s Dva druga, model’ i podruga [i.e. Three Friends and an Inventation] (1927). During the Soviet repressions, Olga was arrested and exiled to a camp where she spent the rest of her life (date of death unknown).

10) Shklovsky, V., Eisenstein, S. A. Khokhlova. M.: Kinopechat’, 1926. 16 pp.: ill., portr. 11.5x15.1 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tear of the spine, tiny hole in the rear wrapper. Otherwise in very good condition. First edition. This is a booklet dedicated to the Russian actress, theatre director, and writer Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897-1985). She debuted as a supporting actress in the film Uragan [i.e. Hurricane] directed by Boris Sushkevich in 1916. After 7 years, Aleksandra married the famous Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov and appeared in a number of his movies: Luch smerti [i.e. The Death Ray] (1925), Vasha znakomaia [i.e. Your Acquaintance) (1927), Velikii uteshitel’ [i.e. The Great Consoler], etc. Khokhlova’s career in film was cut short when she fell out of favour because of her family’s wealth and connections with Tsar Nicholas II. The brochure was compiled by the noted Soviet literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) and Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), who went down in history as one of the greatest Soviet film directors and the pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

11) Levidov M. Lev Kuleshov. Moscow: Kino-izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1927 (tip. Gosizdata «Krasnyy proletariy»). 15 pp. 11.3x14.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Fine. First edition. An interesting booklet dedicated to Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970), a Soviet filmmaker and one of the founders of the world’s first film school, the Moscow Film School. Kuleshov played an instrumental role in the development of Soviet montage and a principle known as the Kuleshov effect (the use of editing and the cut to emotionally influence the audience) . He was active as a movie director in the period from 1917 until 1943, during which he directed 19 films. For the next 25 years, Kuleshov served as artistic director and

BOOKVICA 59 academic rector at The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The brochure was written by Mikhail Levidov (1891-1942), a Soviet writer, playwright, and journalist.

12) Garri, A. Ivan Mozzhukhin. Moscow; Leningrad: Kino-izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1927 (Moskva: tip. Gosud. izd-va «Krasnyy proletariy»). 15, [1] pp.: ill. 11x14.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Stamp of the former bookshop on the verso of the front wrapper. Otherwise near fine. First edition. A booklet dedicated to the legendary actor of Russian silent films Ivan Mozzhukhin (1889-1939). He launched his screen career with the adaptation of Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata in 1911. After playing in more than 40 Russian movies, Mozzhukhin escaped the October revolution and moved to Paris, where he had a stellar career. By 1939, Mozzhukhin had made over 100 films in the Soviet Union, France, Italy, the US, Germany, and Austria. The actor continued starring in the talkies of the 1930s, although not as successfully as he had during the silent era. Mozzhukin was banned in the Soviet Union after his emigration. The brochure was written by Alexey Garri (1902-1960), a Soviet journalist and writer.

13) Zhatkin, P. Zhizneva. Moscow; Leningrad: Kino-izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1927 (Moskva: tip. Gosud. izd-va «Krasnyy proletariy»). 16 pp.: ill. 11.4x14.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Stamp of the former bookshop on the verso of the front wrapper. Otherwise fine. First edition. Our collection includes a duplicate of the edition. Fine condition. This brochure is about the famous Soviet actress Olga Zhiznyeva (1899-1972). She started her acting career in the movie industry in the mid-1920s. Zhizneyva’s most famous works are: Podkidysh [i.e. The Foundling] (1940), Neobyknovennoye leto [i.e. An Unusual Summer] (1957), etc. The brochure was written by the Soviet writer Petr Zhatkin (1894-1968).

14) Shershenevich, V. Igor Ilyinsky. M.: Kinopechat’, 1926. 16 pp.: ill. 11x15.1 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Fine. First edition. Shershenevich, V. Igor Ilyinsky. M.: Kino-izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1927. 16 pp.: ill. 11x15.1 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Fine. Third

BOOKVICA 60 edition. A booklet dedicated to Igor Ilyinsky (1901-1987), a famous Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, director, and comedian. In 1920, Ilyinsky joined the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theatre, where he soon became the central figure. From the mid-1920s, the actor started to appear in movies, overall playing in more than 20 films during his career. Among his most famous works are: Kukla s millionami [i.e. The Doll with Millions] (1928), Volga-Volga (1938), Gusarskaya ballada [i.e. Hussar- Ballad] (1962), etc. The brochure was written by Vadim Shershenevich (1893-1942), a Russian poet and one of the founders of the theory of Imaginism. Together with Vladimir Mayakovsky he wrote texts for the ROSTA posters. Vadim also participated in the creation of the All-Russian union of poets and was the group’s chairman for more than a year.

15) Shershenevich, V. A. Ktorov. Moscow; Leningrad: Kino-izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1927 (Moskva: tip. Gosizdata «Krasnyy proletariy»). 16 pp.: ill. 11.2x14.7 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Fine. First edition. This is a brochure about the famous Soviet film and theatre actor Anatoli Ktorov (1898-1980). He rose to prominence with the leading role in the silent movie Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka [i.e. The Tailor from Torzhok] (1925) by the director Yakov Protazanov. His filmography includes such noted Soviet movies as Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena [i.e. St. Jorgen’s Day] (1930), Bespridannitsa [i.e. Without a Dowry] (1937), etc. From 1933 until the end of his life, Ktorov was a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT).

16) Krasnov, P. Ivan Mikhaylovich Moskvin. M.: Kino-pechat’, 1926. 14, [1] pp.: ill. 11.7x14.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Fine. First edition. A booklet dedicated to the Soviet film and theatre actor Ivan Moskvin (1874-1946). In 1898, he was invited by Nemirovich- Danchenko to join the newly formed Moscow Art Theatre, where Moskvin appeared in a number of famous productions, including Czar Fyodor Ioannovich (1898). He started his movie career in the late 1910s with the leading role in the film Polikushka (1919). Overall, Moskvin starred in more than 7 movies and 35 theatre productions. The brochure was written by the Soviet poet and journalist Petr Krasnov (1895-1962).

BOOKVICA 61 17) Dombrovskiy, L. N. Rogozhin. Moscow; Leningrad: Kino-izd-vo RSFSR Kinopechat’, 1928 (Leningrad: tip. «Krasnoy gazety»). 16 pp.: ill. 16.8x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Fine. First editoon. This is a brochure dedicated to the noted Soviet theatre and movie actor Naum Rogozhin (1879-1955). He debuted as an actor in the movie Aelita in 1924. He is best remembered for his roles in the films: Kashtanka (1926), Posledniy attraktsion [i.e. The Last Attraction] (1929), Alexander Nevsky (1938), etc. At different times, Rogozhin performed on the stages of theatres in Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev.

18) Eisenstein. Bronenosets Potemkin: [Sb.] / Viktor Shklovskiy, Lev Kuleshov, Eduard Tisse [i.e. Eisenstein. Battleship Potemkin: [A Collection] / Viktor Shklovsky, Lev Kuleshov, Eduard Tisse]. M.: Kinopechat’, 1926. 16 pp.: ill. 11.4x14.6 cm. In original photomontage wrappers by the Soviet actor and artist Pyotr Galadzhev (1901-1971). Fine. First edition. An interesting booklet dedicated to one of the greatest Soviet filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) and his epic silent movie Bronenosets Potemkin [i.e. Battleship Potemkin] (1925). The film was shot to commemorate the revolutionary events of 1905 and was distinguished for its use of violence. The movie starred some of the most famous actors of the time: Aleksandr Antonov (1898-1962) and Grigori Aleksandrov (1903-1983). Bronenosets Potemkin went down in history as one of the first Soviet movies to use the practice of montage developed by Eisenstein earlier. The production was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. The booklet was written by Viktor Shklovsky (a Soviet literary theorist and Eisenstein’s close friend), Eduard Tisse (a Soviet cinematographer who worked together with Eisenstein on numerous films, including Battleship Potemkin), and Lev Kuleshov (a noted Soviet film director, who along with Eisenstein developed the theory of montage). The booklet features Eduard Tusse’s interesting article on the movie techniques that were used during the production of the film.

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