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Three exemplary poetry books of Silver Age of Russian literature from the founder of the Akmeist movement.

01 Gumilev, N.S. Mik: Afrikanskaya poema [i.e. Mik: African Poem]. St. Petersburg: Giperborei, 1918. 45, [3] pp.: ill. 21,5x16 cm. In original printed wrappers. Wrappers rubbed, small fragments of the spine lost, stains on the wrappers, author’s last name on the spine (marker), owner’s signature on first two pages, Soviet bookshop’s stamps on the back cover.

First edition. Scarce. Anonymous vignettes possibly designed by S. Chekhonin (1878-1936). Nikolai Gumilev (1886-1921) was an influential poet of the Silver Age, a versatile critic, translator, prose writer, and theorist of poetry. In 1918 when this book was printed Gumilev was relatively well established in the Russian literary community. He lectured at various educational institutions and served on the editorial board of Vsemirnaya Literatura, which was prominent in publishing. His students - Georgy Adamovich, Georgy Ivanov, Irina Odoyevtseva, Nikolai Otsup, Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky, Nikolai Tikhonov and others - became notable creative individuals. The acmeism created by him, which attracted such great talents of the era as and Osip Mandelstam, became quite a viable creative method. According to Dimitry Obolensky, Gumilev’s poetic oeuvre reaches its apex during the period after 1918. In 1921 Gumilev was arrested, charged as a co-conspirator in the anti-communist conspiracy known as the Tagantsev plot, and executed without trial. For several years, the Soviet establishment regarded him as a non-person. In the years after Gumilev’s death, his works and reputation fell into obscurity. Only in the mid-1980s did Soviet authorities allow the publication of Gumilev’s works. $ 350

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RUSSIAN LITERATURE 3 02 Gumilev, N.S. Kostyor: Stikhi [i.e. Bonfire: Poems]. St. Petersburg: Giperborei, 1918. 46, [4] pp.: ill. 21x16 cm. In original printed wrappers. Good, internally clean copy. Wrappers rubbed, with stains and small tears of outer yapped margins, spine is repaired on the top and bottom, Soviet bookshop’s stamps on the back cover.

First edition. Scarce. Headpieces by N. Kalmakov. $ 350

03 Gumilev, N.S. Kostyor: Stikhi [i.e. Bonfire: Poems]. ; Petersburg; : Z.I. Grzhebin, 1922. 59, [1] pp. 14,5x11,5 cm. Second edition. In original printed wrappers. Lacking rear wrapper, erased signature on the last page, front wrapper rubbed and with small tears.

Scarce. Despite his fate, Gumilev was not included in the list of persons whose works were all to be seized. In the catalog of the Library of Academy of Sciences in special depository there were only foreign editions of his poems, including this collection Kostyor. In 1919 Zinovii Grzhebin (1877-1929) founded the Publishing House of Z.I. Grzhebin, the actual head of which was . For a widely conceived publishing enterprise Grzhebin bought manuscripts of authors in large quantities. In 1920 he left for Berlin, where he founded a branch of his publishing house and published some of the manuscripts purchased earlier. However, in 1923 he was ruined and the publishing house ceased to exist. This is one of the last books of that publishing company. $ 350

04 [BANNED BOOK ON FUTURISM AND MAYAKOVSKY] Speransky, V.D. Istoriko-kriticheskie materialy po literature. Vypusk 3: Mayakovsky. Futurism [i.e. Historic and Critical Materials on Literature. Third Issue. Mayakovsky: Futurism]. Moscow: MIR, 1925. 93, [2] pp. 20x14 cm. In original wrappers. Spine is missing and repaired with paper, front cover is detached from the text block, Soviet bookshop’s label on the back cover and number in pen, unknown stamp on the title page, earlier

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RUSSIAN LITERATURE 5 Worldcat locates and contemporary newspaper clippings with Mayakovsky glued to p. 4 paper copies at Amherst College and [1], occasional pencil markings in text. Otherwise good. Library and University of North Carolina. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. This is a very interesting document of the avant-garde era and one of the first books on Mayakovsky. With valuable articles by L. Trotsky on futurism. In late 1920s and early 1930s after Trotsky’s expulsion books like this were withdrawn from circulation and destroyed. The remaining copies were stored in special secret depositories that were not accessible to the reader (Gorlit List of Banned Literature). Extracts from the works of many repressed literary critics are cited as well. Materials on origins of Russian futurism (mainly through marxist lense), sociological grounding of futurism, futurism and revolution, poetic techniques of Mayakovsky and his future by Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Kruchyonykh, Erenburg, Briusov, Lunacharsky, Lezhnev, Aksenov and others. Blium. Zapreshchyonnye knigi. #1112. $ 700

05 [ON MAYAKOVSKY] Polonsky, V.P. O Maiakovskom [i.e. About Mayakovsky]. Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz, 1931. 68 pp., 1 port. 17,5x12 cm. In original prited wrappers. Very good, tear of the top of the spine.

Rare. One of 3000 copies. Vyacheslav Polonsky (1886-1932), Russian critic and editor of Krasnaya Niva, Novyi Mir and other magazines, had a very interesing relationship with (1893-1930). In February of 1927, he published an article entitled Worldcat locates ‘‘Notes of a journalist. LEF or bluff?’’ in which he criticized the LEF, who copies at Cornell, Harvard and considered themselves the only true representatives of revolutionary University of art. The reaction to the article was the debate of writers (Polonsly Notre Dame. famously was late to what Mayakovsky said ‘‘From LEF we came, but there is no one from the bluff’’). The controversy between Mayakovsky and Polonsky continued. Their debates reminded their contemporaries cat and mouse game in which Polonsky was a cat and Mayakovsky was always angry at him. Interesting that Polonsky’s first artcile and later a book of 1931

RUSSIAN LITERATURE 6 which came out after poet’s death with subtitle ‘Bloody Flap of the Heart’ largely predetermined today’s ideas about Mayakovsky. In this book Mayakovsky’s poetry Polonsky evaluated as a powerful force of hyperbolism which shook the foundations of the poetic language. $ 400

06 [MASTER OF SATIRE] Mikhail Zoshchenko: Statii i materialy [i.e. Articles and Other Materials]. Leningrad: Academia, 1928. 94 pp. 18x13 cm. In original wrappers and dustwrappers with same portrait by N.E. Radlov. Tears and losses of fragments of the spine of both wrappers, text block is detached from the wrappers. Otherwise good and internally clean.

First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. First book in the series ‘‘Masters of Modern Literature’’ edited by B. Kazansky and Y. Tynianov. Includes bibliography, ‘‘Zoshchenko’s Language’’ by V. Vinogradov, ‘‘Ways of Zoshenko’’ by A. Barmin, ‘‘About Zoshcheko and Big Literature’’ by Shklovsky, and Zoshchenko’s short essay about himself, his critics and work. This book was banned (Babel’, Pil’nyak and Kol’tsov who were considered enemies of the state were mentioned in the book). It should also be taken into account that at that time the very name of Zoshchenko looked odious in the eyes of Glavlit officials. The writer was subjected to constant censorship attacks, beginning in 1923. For example two books he created in close cooperation with the satirical artist and art critic N. Radlov (1889-1942) were arrested for drawings and signatures under them. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (1894-1958) was a Soviet author and satirist. He always very sharply noticed not only the funny in the ordinary, but also the changes of time - he felt them. The stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko of the 1920s were adored by emigration - and this was alarmed by the party leadership. As often happens, good satire usually leads to bad: for many years Zoshchenko was in disgrace and earned an anonymous life of translations and shoe repair. He was awarded his pension only a few months before he died. Blium. Zapreshchyonnye russkie knigi. #1100. $ 600

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RUSSIAN LITERATURE 8 07 [BULGAKOV’S PLAY] [Theatre Program] . Dni Turbunykh [i.e. ]. [Moscow. The . Season 1939-1940]. [4] pp. 20x14 cm (folded). With creases, foxing, generally rubbed.

Very rare. One of 5000 copies. The Days of the Turbins’ premiered on 5 October 1926 in Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, co-directed by Ilya Sudakov (1890-1969). The cast included Nikolai Khmelyov as Alexey Turbin, Ivan Kudryavtsev as Nikolka, Vera Sokolova as Elena, Mark Prudkin as Shervinsky (his song has been performed for several years by the Bolshoi opera singer Pyotr Selivanov), Evgeny Kaluzhsky as Studzinsky, Boris Dobronravov as Myshlayevsky, Vsevolod Verbitsky as Talberg, Mikhail Yanshin as Lariosik, Viktor Stanitsyn as Von Shratt, Robert Schilling as Von Dust, Vladimir Ershov as Getman, Nikolai Titushin as the deserter, Alexander Anders as Bolbotun, Mikhail Kedrov as Maxim. The Days of the Turbins enjoyed enormous success. Bulgakov’s secretary I.S. Raaben (who typed the novel and who was invited to the theatre by Bulgakov personally), remembered: ‘‘That was astounding. All these things were still very much alive in the people’s memories. There were fits of hysteria, people fainted, seven people were driven away by ambulance, for there were lots of people in the audience who’d come through the Petlyura horrors, and all those Civil War hardships’’. The publicist Ivan Solonevich remembered an episode, with the White Army officers on stage after having drank some vodka, were supposed sing the anthem «God Save the Tsar!» in a ramshackle, disheartened manner. «Then something inexplicable happened. The whole audience started to rise to their feet. ... The directors received the orders to stage the episode in such a way so as to make it look derogatory, and the rendition insulting for the old Russia’s hymn. For some reason they failed to do so and that proved to be the reason why the production was finally cancelled’’. In April 1929 the production was cancelled. On 16 February 1932, due to the direct interference of , it was revived, and continued to run until June 1941. The Days of the Turbins had 987 runs in the course of these ten years. $ 300

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08 [TALKS ABOUT CINEMA] Yutkevich, S.I. Chelovek na ekrane: Chetyre besedy o kinoiskusstve. Dnevnik rezhissyora [i.e. Man on the Screen: Four Talks about Cinema Art. Director’s Journal]. Moscow: Goskinoizdat, 1947. 280 pp.: ill., 28 pl. 22,5x16 cm. In original cloth. Design by Solomon Telingater (1903-1969). Endpapers design made by B. Kolesnikov, designed by S. Telingater. Binding slightly rubbed and soiled, small tear of the paper on the front pastedown. Otherwise near fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to director of photography Vitaly Abramov famous for ‘‘ Changes the Profession’’ and ‘‘Sportloto-82’’: ‘‘To Vitaly Abramov with faith in his future. Sergey Yutkevich’’.

Worldcat First edition of the first book about Sergey Iosifovich Yutkevich locates copies (1904-1985), a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Between 1921 and at Columbia, Berkeley, 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold in Higher Director’s Courses University of and VKHUTEMAS with his friend Sergey Eisenstein. His films often were Illinois. cheerier than most Russian films as he was influenced by American slapstick, among other things. However he also did serious historical films, docudramas, and biopics. He won Cannes’s Best Director Award twice: for Othello in 1956 and for Lenin in in 1966. In Cannes, Yutkevich was a frequent visitor, more than once entered the jury of the famous film festival. He was friends with Picasso and Matisse, and both artists painted his portraits. Elegant in life, he was emphatically elegant in his directorial work. Whether it is the Miners, Counter, Man with a Gun, or Lenin in Poland. Yutkevich was teaching students since 1939. This book is based on lectures he gave at Academy of Film Directing in 1938. Each ‘talk’ is dedicated to a subject - actor, director, editing, film artist. Second part is director’s diary with interesting materials on Soviet cinema and its history. Director’s filmography is given in the end. Text is accompanied by many black and white film shots. $ 500

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CINEMA & MUSIC 11 09 [HISTORY OF SOVIET CINEMA] Ocherki po istorii sovetskogo kino: Rabochaya programma [i.e. Essays on the History of Soviet Cinema: Work Programm]. Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1951. 180 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original wrappers. Very good, tears and loss of small fragments of the spine.

First and only edition. One of 850. Very rare. Classified as manuscript with mark on the cover and title page. This book was produced in a limited edition for distribution among a narrow circle of people with a view to preliminary acquaintance with its text. The book follows the history of Soviet films starting in 1896 up to 1950. It was compiled by researchers of Institute of Art History of Academy of Sciences: N.A. Lebedev, G.P. Chakhirian, I.L. Dolinsky, R.N. Yurenev, V.R. Shcherbina, E.M. Smirnov, S.S. Ginzburg. With inlaid telegram from director of the Institute I.E. Grabar’ and deputy of the minister of cinematography of USSR V. Pereslavtsev. addressed to someone by the name Rodionov inviting him to participate in conference dedicated to discussion of this work programm. The copy of this book was sent to him with the telegram. $ 700

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CINEMA & MUSIC 12 10 [JAZZ REVIVAL IN USSR] Melodii dzhaza. Antologia [i.e. Jazz Tunes. Anthology]. Kiev: Muzichna Ukraina, 1970. 272 pp.: notes. 16,5x13 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine, wrappers rubbed.

One of 6000 copies. Text in Ukrainian and Russian. Inscribed No copies in by jazz band, each signature with caption (drums, leading guitar, bass, Worldcat. saxophone) on the verso of the front cover. Compiled by V. Simonenko. The anthology includes popular melodies which form the basis of the repertoire of jazz musicians. All the topics included in the publication are arranged in chronological order and are assembled into four sections corresponding to the stages of the birth and development of jazz in USSR and abroad. Essays, prefixed to each of the sections of the book, contain historical references, theoretical notes on the styles of jazz and the characteristics of the performance interpretation. The sections are The Origins of Jazz, Traditional jazz and swing period, Modern jazz, Soviet jazz - the smallest part of all. $ 250

11 [SOVIET JAZZ] Batashov, A.N. Sovetskiy dzhaz: Istorichesky ocherk [i.e. Soviet Jazz: Historical Study]. Moscow: Muzyka, 1972. 175 pp., 24 pl. 21,5x17 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Word ‘jazz’ is written on the spine (pen), slightly rubbed.

Scarce. One of the first books on jazz in USSR and first book on Soviet jazz. It contains detailed history of jazz existing in USSR for 50 years. Jazz appeared and became popular in USSR in 1920s. It had different stages of development throughout 1930s but in 1940s-50s it Worldcat locates was basically banned, that time is called ‘‘unbending of saxophones’’. only one copy in This book appeared in the beginning of the 1970s exactly because jazz USA (Columbia University). was revived, and theoretical thought was seeking for ways to analyze the genre and its dynamic history, in general and in USSR. Interesting that later in the second half of 70s and beginning of 80s jazz was in stagnation again. With extensive list of biography and many black and white photographs. $250

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12 [FEMALE DOCTOR] Izmailova, L.I. Uchebnik gigieny, anatomii, fiziologii [i.e. The Textbook on Hygiene, Anatomy and Physiology]. Tiflis, 1892. [4], IV, 134 pp., 2 pl. including 29 ill. 22,5x15 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Binding is rubbed.

Not in the Extremely rare textbook, one of the first examples of the Worldcat. medical book written by a female doctor Lyubov Izmailova from Kutaisi (Georgia). The textbook was created for the female schools. The book has the stamp of the teacher’s seminary in Hazi in Western Georgia. That seminary was the third school of such kind in the Caucasus region. $ 350

13 [MENDELEEV’S LEGACY] Morozov, N.A. D.I. Mendeleev i znachenie ego periodicheskoi sistemy dlia khimii budushchego [i.e. D.I. Mendeleev and Value of his Periodic Table for Chemistry of the Future]. Moscow: typ. tov-va I.D. Sytina, 1907. 103, XI pp., 3 port., 1 table. 23,5x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Lacking spine paper, bookshops’ stamps and label on the back cover, a couple of pencil markings on the margins. Otherwise good clean copy.

No paper copies in First and only edition. Rare. Worldcat. This is an interesting first account of Mendeleev’s life and work, a compilation of two public lectures by Nikolai Morozov (1854-1946) with three Dmitry Mendeleev’s portraits and seven tables. The book was published later in the year of Mendeleev’s death. In this book Morozov explicated scientific problems on which Mendeleev worked and the historic context. In the first lecture he gave scientist’s biography and history of his discovery. In his second lecture Morozov tried to analyze

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SCIENCE 16 results of the discovery and prospects for the future in this regard. In the application he brought tables with atoms’ structures of mineral elements. Morozov wrote many books and articles on various subjects mostly of popular science nature. In the works on chemistry that attracted Mendeleyev’s attention, his prophetic statements about the complex composition of atoms and the possibility of transforming elements and interesting observations on their classification, stimulated, probably, by Lochier’s works, are combined with ungrounded speculative constructions. $ 700

14 [AUTOPSY IN SIBERIA] Pokrovsky, M. Rukovodstvo k vskrytiyu trupov dlia nachinaushchikh [i.e. The Guide to Autopsy for the Beginners]. 2nd edition. With 60 ills. Tomsk, 1910. 294 pp. 23,5x16 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Good condition.

The first edition came out in 1910 and was called by its author Only copy in ‘the first attempt to create the guide to autopsy by a Russian’. That Staatsbibliothek statement is correct, prior to that the most popular book on the subject in Germany. was the guide by Johannes Ort, translated by Vladimir Krylov. Mikhail Milhailovich Pokrovsky (1863-1920) was the pathologist, the founder of the department in Tomsk University, one of the best-known Siberian medical professors of the time. Apart from this work, in 1916 his book ‘General Pathology’ was published. $ 500

15 [CALCULATION OF PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION] Drzewiecki, S.K. Vozdushnye vinty: Teoriya vintovykh dvigatelei i sposoby ikh vychislenii / S frantsuzkogo N. Gvozdev [i.e. Air Propellers: The Theory of Screw Engines and Methods of Its Calculation / From French by N. Gvozdev]. Sevastopol: tip. N.A. Kovaleva, 1910. [3], 60 pp.: diagr. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original wrappers. Lacking back wrapper and spine, loose, tears

No copies in and owner’s signature on the front wrapper, foxing and stains on the Worldcat. title page with small holes on the margin.

SCIENCE 17 First and only Russian translation (original was published in French in 1909). Very rare. Stefan Drzewiecki (1844-1938) was a Polish scientist, engineer, constructor and inventor, working in and the . Drzewiecki distinguished himself mainly in aviation and ship building. In 1887 published the book ‘Aeroplanes in Nature’, in which he presented a thesis that the principle of monoplane aeroplanes should be used on devices that are heavier than air. This sort of opinion was considered revolutionary at that time and people were very reserved in accepting it. The general opinion was that flying devices could only stay up in the air by using the principle of oscillating aeroplane or helicopter. His theoretical reflections on the of insects were used for calculating propeller constructions. It was the first practical method of planning and brought him worldwide fame. As a result of his many years of work on theories of propeller construction, he published the book “Les hélices aériennes” in 1909. In this book formulated a theory of similarity and propeller optimisation based on individual plane characteristics. His ideas were used by the French company Ratmanoff for producing Normale propellers, which, due to their great effectiveness and number of rotations (3000 turns per minute), became a big hit. In France in 1909 Drzewiecki patented the draft of a self-stabilising aeroplane. His prototype, Canard, was equipped with a pressure propeller and an automatic stabilisation device and was presented at an international airshow in . War prevented any further improvements of this aeroplane. $ 900

16 [MARIE CURIE’S FOLLOWER]

Mezernitskiy, P.G. Radiy i ego primenenie v terapevticheskoy klinike [i.e. Radium and Its Use in the Clinical Therapy]. With 49 ills. St. Petersburg: Prakticheskaya meditsina, 1912. 126 pp. 23,3x17 cm. In contemporary binding. Bound together with 6 other Russian medical papers of the time.

Not in the The first edition of this book by the founder of Russian radiation Worldcat. therapy Polien Grigorievich Mezernitskiy (1878-1943). In 1909 he was working alongside Marie Curie. Radium was synthesised in 1910 and

SCIENCE 18 this book is the first one in Russian dedicated to the element, describing it from the medical point of view. In Russian radium was synthesised only in 1921. The second half of the book dedicated to the examples of the use of radium in different therapy with authors remarks on where else it could be used. $ 500

17 [NEUROGENETICS] Davidenkov, S.N. Problema polimorfizma nasledstvennykh boleznei nervnoi sistemy: Kliniko-geneticheskoe issledovanie [i.e. The Problems of Polymorphism in Hereditary Disorders of the Nervous System: Clinical Genetic Research]. Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoyuznogo instituta eksperiment. medetsiny, 1934. 139 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Some general wear of the wrappers, small cracks of the spine.

Worldcat locates First edition. One of 4000 copies. Very rare. copies in National Library of One of the milestone textbooks and second published book Medicine and on neurogenetics by Sergei Davidenkov (1880-1961), an outstanding The New York Academy of clinician and founder of Russian clinical neurogenetics. In 1930s Medicine. he worked with Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) in All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad. Davidenkov adopted Pavlov’s physiological teaching to explain various neurological symptoms and was instrumental in popularizing it among Russian neurologists. Throughout his career Davidenkov’s scientific work mainly focused on hereditary neurological diseases. He introduced the term ‘neurogenetics’ and was one of the first to formulate a concept of the anticipation phenomenon. By means of careful genealogical inquiry and meticulous clinical examination he recognized the genetically heterogeneous nature of many phenotypically similar disorders. In 1925 he wrote ‘Hereditary Disorders of the Nervous System’, in which he advocated classification of disorders according to a systematic genetic catalogue rather than by phenotype. In this Davidenkov was well ahead of his time. In Russia, he was also the first to systematically study disorders with polygenic inheritance (e.g. various forms of epilepsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and narcolepsy).

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SCIENCE 20 In the late 1920s in Moscow he founded the first institutes for genetic counseling. Further textbooks were ‘The Problems of Polymorphism in Hereditary Disorders of the Nervous System’ (1934) and ‘The Problems of Evolution and Genetics in Neurology’ (1947). After 1948, however, genetic studies were officially declared ‘bourgeois pseudoscience’; Davidenkov’s scientific possibilities were almost entirely restricted to clinical research and some of his books were publicly defamed as ‘lying science’. $ 900

18 [THE BEGINNINGS OF THE SOVIET ATOMIC BOMB CREATOR] Kurchatov, I.V. Rasshcheplenie atomnogo yadra [i.e. Splitting of the Atomic Nucleus]. Leningrad; Moscow: ONTI: Glav. red. obshchetekhn. distsiplin, 1935. 212 pp.: diagrams. 20x14 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine, Soviet bookshops’ stamps and pen marking on the back cover.

First edition. One of 3000 copies. No copies in Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov (1903-1960) was a Soviet nuclear Worldcat. physicist known as the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Kurchatov took part in many scientific experiments through 1933- 1940. In 1932, he received funding for his own nuclear science research team, which built Europe’s first cyclotron particle accelerator in 1939. The first success as nuclear physicist he got in 1935 when he together with his brother Boris Kurchatov, L. Mysovsky and L. Rusinov discovered nuclear isomerism. In this monograph Kurchatov analyzed the results of foreign experiments in alpha-splitting of the copper uranium nuclei based on Gamov’s theory of the nucleus field structure after scattering of alpha-particles. Much attention was given to analysis of theoretical and experimental papers dealing with the interaction of neutron with nuclei of various elements. Basically he sums up and systematizes the preliminary results of the ‘‘immersion’’ into the nuclear core, prepares a springboard for further research. $ 800

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19 [FEMALE RUSSIAN WRITERS] Ponomarev, S.I. Nashi pisatel’nitsy: (‘‘Bibliographichesky slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits knyazya N.N. Golitsyna. SPb. 1889. VI i 308’’: Statiya S.I. Ponomareva) [i.e. Our Female Writers: (‘‘Biographical Index of Russian Female Writers by Count N.N. Golitsyn. SPb. 1889. VI and 308’’: Article by S.I. Ponomarev]. St. Petersburg: typ. Akademii Nauk, 1891. [2], 78 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. Without wrappers. Very good, ocassional foxing, with later spine and back cover.

Worldcat Very rare. Offprint from Sbornik otdeleniya russkogo yazyka i locates copies in slovesnosti Akademii nauk (V. 52, #7) [i.e. Digest of the Department of Columbia, Yale. of Academy of Sciences]. This is a book of very valuable additions to ‘‘Biographical Index of Russian Female Writers’’ by N. Golitsyn (St. Petersburg: typ. V.S. Balasheva, 1889). Nikolai Golytsyn (1836-1893) was a Russian bibliographer. During his life he’d been gathering information on Russian female writers. Even though the index was critisized by his contemporaries this was a very important first work of such kind. Ponomarev’s additions consisted of two parts: review of the index and supplement to it. In the first part he tried to answer the question ‘in which genres female writers were mostly working’ and gathered their names into thematical groups - fiction, bibliohgraphy, drama, history, natural sciences, critics, medicine, etc. Ponomarev’s supplement to the index is quite significant. He provided 419 names which were not mentioned in the index at all as well as a number of important corrections. $ 700

20 [SOVIET WOMEN STORIES] Zhenshchiny strany sotsializma [i.e. Women of the Country of Socialism]. Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 164 pp.: port. 21x14 cm. In original blue

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WOMEN STUDIES 23 cloth with gilt title, blind stamping of the imprint and embossed image on the front board. Near fine, slightly bumped on the corners and spine, couple of erased pencil markings on endpapers, bookshop’s stamp on p.51.

Twenty five biographies of real Soviet women with photograph portraits. Each story titled with a profession of woman or her famous act, among them are sea captain, pilot, war engineer, master of weaving, kolkhoz worker of Georgia, tractor driver, deputy of Kirghiz people, head of the road, et al. The stories are written by writers like V. Kataev, V. Shklovsky, E. Petrov, Olga Ziv, V. Ardov, M. Shkapskaya, and others. $ 250

21 [WOMAN WALKS] Lorbeer, G., Kleber, K. Zhenshchina idet / Per. s nemetskogo M.S. Zhivova [i.e. A Woman Walks / Translated from German by M.S. Zhivov]. Moscow: Izd-vo MOPR SSSR, 1929. 30, [2] pp. 17x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers designed by V. Dobrovol’sky. Fine, uncut. Soviet bookshop’s stamp and small pen mark on the rear wrapper.

Titled ‘‘A Woman Walks’’ this book with a fierce woman on the No copies found in Worldcat. cover includes two short stories about women in proletarian movement by German communist writers, Kurt Klaber and Hans Lorbeer. The book was published by International Red Aid (MOPR) - an international social service organization established by the Communist International. The organization was founded in 1922 to function as an ‘‘international political Red Cross’’, providing material and moral aid to radical ‘‘class war’’ political prisoners around the world. Needless to say that the printed here stories have pronounced revolutionary tone. $ 700

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22 [INTIMATE CHILD’S LIFE] Shneerson, F.Z. Psikhologiya intimnoi zhizni rebenka: Novye metody issledovania fantazii i emotsii normal’nogo i nenormal’nogo rebyonka [i.e. Psychology of Intimate Child’s Life: New Methods of Research of Fantasy and Emotion of Normal and Abnormal Child]. Gomel’: Gosizdat, 1920. XIII, [3], 94 pp. 17x15 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine, some general wear, bookshop’s stamp on the back cover.

No copies in Extremely rare provincial edition. One of 5000 copies. Worldcat. This book was initiated by Gomel’ (Belarus) Health Department for ‘children’s week’. In this book the author set out the theoretical grounds for new methods and principles of research in child psychology which he determined at Kiev University during his work. In the introduction he stated that he wanted to continue show results of his work in next publications but nothing more was published. In the book he describes research methods of fantasy (e.g., method of spontaneous narration, method of non-limiting sentence, method of retelling, method of recollection, method of reproductive story, method of voluntary illusion, etc.). He provided examples of collected in 1918 children’s stories (through method of non-limiting sentence and others) and briefly analyzed them. Shneerson sets principles which should be used to analyze fantazies as well as marks condition which should be complied to use research methods (like mental state of the child, naturalness, accuracy of the research, etc.). Professor Fishel’ Shneerson (1885-1957) was a psychiatrist. writer, dean of Department of Child Psychopathology. He dedicated this work to V.M. Bekhterev, one of the founders of Russian child psychology who laid the scientific basis for it and created a whole network of pedological institutions, clinical and laboratory. The intensive work of children’s psychologists in the end of 19th-beginning of 20th cent. is evidenced by the fact that from 1906 to 1916 scientists conducted five All-Russian congresses on psychology. As a result of this activity, child

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CHILDREN 27 psychology has become one of the leading areas of Russian psychological science, and the idea of the​​ need for psychological diagnosis and participation of a psychologist in the educational process has firmly entered school life. $ 500

23 [CHILDREN AND THEATRE IN 1920S] Deti i teatr: Sbornik statei [i.e. Children and Theatre: Collection of Articles]. Leningrad: Mysl’, 1925. 133, [1], pp., [2] ads. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. General light wear, restoration of the spine and margins of the wrappers.

No paper copies Rare. One of 5000 copies. Edited and introduction by writer in Worldcat. Nadezhda Sergeevna Sher (1890-1976). She gathered such articles: Dramatization in Pre-School Age by M. Markovich, Theatre in School by S. Rozanov, Theatre for Children by herself, About Plays in Children’s Theatre by A. Chumachenko, Puppet Theatre by N. Bartram, Mass Celebration by Gr. Roshal’. The main idea stated in introduction was to fight theatricality because the theatre for the child is primarily a game, a state in which the child is constantly being on the way to growing up and it should stay that way. Some articles suggest scenarios for theatre plays or celebrations or how to arrange them which is very 1920s as it was the time of constant search of new ways of expressing themselves. Among the authors is famous Nikolai Bartram (1873-1931), who started to collect children’s toys and later opened a very popular Museum of toys in Moscow. Interesting that Sher in 1920s herself didn’t consider profession of an actor appealing or serious enough for her own daughter (so she sent her away from Moscow bohemia). $ 600

24 [SENSE AND NONSENSE IN CHILDREN’S SPEECH]

Chukovsky, K.I. Malen’kie deti: Detsky yazyk, Ekikiki, Lepye nelepitsy [i.e. Little Children: Children’s Language, Ekikiki, Sense Nonsense]. Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1928. 96 pp.: ill. 20x15 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Lacking spine and rear wrapper. Tears and small losses of the

CHILDREN 28 front cover, text block is loose, some pages with pale stains, 16 pages in the beginning with big tear and unprofessional restoration (paper and scotch; no loss of the text). Otherwise good.

Worldcat First edition of the famous study. Wrappers and title page locates copies in designed by V.P. Belkin. Getty, Library of Congress, Kornei Chukovsky (1882-1969) was writing for children and Amherst College searching for inspiration among them, and so he started documenting Library. their language really early. His notes became a book for the first time in 1928 where he describes particular qualities of preschooler’s speaking. He gathered hundreds of funny and unusual examples of children’s word-making. After the publication the writer asked readers to share his observations on the children’s language. Since then, for forty years, the post did not know rest: letters from parents, teachers, educators went by bags. What interesting is how the letters showed how the time changed from decade to decade. Later he added these materials to new editions of what became well known as «From Two to Five». The book opens with a chapter on the children’s language, in which the author not only cites examples of «stupid nonsense», but also talks about the unconscious skill of each child who learns a huge number of new words and their elements. According to the writer, the idea of the book arose with him during the rest at the dacha near Sestroretsk. Listening to the conversations of children playing on the beach, Chukovsky came to the conclusion that their speech is not just entertaining, but also informative: it can be of interest to educators, psychologists, and linguists. Beginning in the 1920s, the writer «went to the kids»: he, like a naturalist studying natural phenomena, collected and systematized the material associated with the «stupid nonsense» of toddlers. Evaluating the work of Chukovsky, the researchers came to the conclusion that his research in the field of children’s word-formation is a serious contribution to Russian linguistics. The author shows what role the prefix plays in the speech of babies (releasing, unpacking), how free the child separates it from the root, what is the peculiarity of using irregular verbs. All this proves that «children’s linguistic thinking coincides with the people’s thinking». The text is accompanied by funny children’s cut out photographs. $ 350

CHILDREN 29 25 [BABY FOOD] Kiseleva, V.B. Detskaya kukhnya: Prigotovlenie pishchi malym detyam. 119 retseptov [i.e. Children’s Food: Cooking for Little Children. 119 recipes]. Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1935. 64 pp. 19x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrappers rubbed with small tears on the extremities, a front cover and few pages in the beginning with small closed tear near the spine (not affecting text). Otherwise a very good, internally clean copy.

First and only edition. Rare. This book was intended for mothers of young children and workers of ‘maternity protection institutions’ (daycare, et al.). All recipes are divided into 2 sections: cooking food for infants up to 1 year and for children from 1 to 3 years old. Among recipes are vitamin juices, fall juices, vegetarian borshch with toasts, creme soup from pearl barley, Epstein’s pudding, milk with lemon juice, gogol-mogol (eggnog), rutabaga, stewed rhubarb, creme soup from oatmeal, and other. The Soviet famine of 1932–33 went into decline in 1934 but one can still spot some unusual products in the recipes. The book is interesting not only because of them but also for the guidelines for parents in the introduction. These guidelines include information on nutrition, energy balance, vitamins, what food is appropriate for what age, special remarks about particular products, etc. Children became one of the most discussed subjects as the first Soviet-born generation (‘children of the October’). $ 700

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26 [NEW ERA OF LENINGRAD ART] Osenniaia vystavka leningradskikh khudozhnikov 1936 goda [i.e. Fall Exhibition of Leningrad Artists of 1936]. Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1936. 3-25, [5] pp. 13,6x11,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine, slightly rubbed.

No copies in Very rare. One of 1000 copies. Worldcat. The catalogue edited by one of the participants, Nikolai Radlov (1889-1942). It also features P. Ab, A. Zaitsev, N. Kostrov, A. Samokhvalov, S. Dymshitz-Tolstaya, N. Shvede-Radlova, Y. Chakhrov, N. Ionin, S. Nevelstein, and others. The exhibition was opened on 17 of November 1936 in the State Russian Museum. $900

27 [EXHIBITION IN KAZAKHSTAN] Vystavka proizvedenii leningradskikh khudozhnikov: Katalog [i.e. The Exhibition of Leningrad Artists: Catalogue]. Alma-Ata: LENIZO, 1938. 12 pp. 15x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine, spine slightly rubbed.

One of 1000 copies. An extremely rare provincial edition. No copies in The catalogue of 117 objects in total is divided into sections: Worldcat. paintings, graphics and sculpture (photographs). For every artist stated a full name, date of birth, and for almost all of them the fact of graduation from the Academy of Arts (even though the Academy was abolished in 1918 and underwent transformations through 1920s-30s). The exhibition was organized by Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists which was organized in 1932. $900

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EXHIBITION CATALOGUES 32 28 [LENINGRAD SIEGE EXHIBITION] Vystavka Geroicheskaya oborona Leningrada. Ocherk-putevoditel’ [i.e. Exhibition ‘Heroic Siege of Leningrad’. Guidebook]. Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1945. 131, [1] pp.: ill. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tiny tears of outer edges of extended yapped wrappers.

Worldcat locates One of 5000 copies. Very rare. a copy in Library The guide book includes thorough description of all 26 halls of Congress. with historic details on the side. Even more valuable are black and white photographs of halls and exhibits with detailed captions. $ 750

29 [PETROGRAD ROSTA WINDOWS]

Petrogradskie okna ROSTA. Katalog vystavki [i.e. Petrograd ROSTA Windows. Exhibition Catalogue]. Leningrad: N.p., 1968. 29, [3] pp.: ill. 29x21,5 cm. In original stapled wrappers with Vladimir Lebedev’s illustration « Man and Sailor» on the front cover. Very good, spine is slightly rubbed, Soviet bookshop’s stamps and two small pen marks on the back cover.

With four coloured reproductions of Lebedev and Kozlinsky’s Worldcat locates posters on special paper (resembling the original). One of 3000 a paper copy at copies. Rare. Compiled by A.V. Chistyakova. Introduction and catalog Frick Art Library. by Chistyakova and E. Kovtun. With a photograph showing a hall with Lebedev’s works. Aleksandra Chistyakova (1918-1991) was a Soviet art historian working for National Library of Russia. In the 1950s she started the process of sorting, attributing and cataloging of ROSTA Windows funds. Among works of Civil War period were works by Mayakovsky, Lebedev, Kozlinsky. The result of the many years work, including meeting artists of ROSTA Windows, were scientific articles, annotated catalogs, and the exhibition together with The State Russian Museum. There were more than 100 posters made in 1920 and 1921 at the display. Moscow ROSTA works were much more studied and well preserved than of Petrograd. There was only one work following the movement by N.N. Punin on Lebedev’s posters (1922) which became instant rarity. The exhibition of 1968 and preceding work was the first

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES 33 attempt to gather, study and show posters to the public. Includes bibliographical references. $ 300

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30 [REVOLUTIONARY ART] Oktyabr’ v iskusstve i literature. 1917-1927 [i.e. October in Art and Literature. 1917-1927]. Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, [1927]. 85, [2] pp.: ill. 25x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A very good and clean copy. A fragment of the outer edge of yapped front wrapper is missing, closed tear of the front wrapper, small spots and tears of the margins, text block is detached from the wrappers.

Wrappers, frontispiece, ornamentation, headpieces and initials designed by S.V. Chekhonin. Headpiece on the title page designed by A. Fedorovsky. Lenin’s portrait by I. Brodsky. The book contains a number of rare illustrations and published materials on the development of Soviet art in 10 years by A. Lunacharsky, A. Voronsky, E. Braudo, V. Voinov, D. Aranovich. The articles are dedicated to the theatre, cinema, literature, music, painting, as well as the art industry of the USSR. $ 600

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MISCELLANEOUS 35 31 [NATIONAL COSTUMES OF KALUGA] Sheremeteva, M.E. Krestianskaya odezhda Kaluzhskoi Gamayunshchiny: Etnografichesky ocherk [i.e. Peasants Clothing of Gamayunshchina of Kaluga: Ethnographical Study]. Kaluga: 1-ya Gos. tip. GSNKH, 1925. 29, [2] pp., 9 pl. 22x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears and rubbings of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy.

Worldcat Extremely rare. One of 1150 copies. First and only edition. locates copies Published by History Society of Kaluga. With 9 photographs. at Columbia, Harvard, Ohio Gamayunshchina was a territory on the right bank of Oka State University, river near Kaluga. The name comes from ‘gamayun’ - the nickname of a Washington University, person with any peculiarities in speech, other than local speech. It turns Library of out that on the territory of the Kaluga right bank, thanks to historical Congress. conditions, developed a special way of life, its own talk, its own costume, differing from neighboring localities. Even though villages in this area existed since 16th century, this is the first attempt to study its ethnical differencies. $ 600

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