- Owner's entry on first leaf. Spine restored/ strengthened (mainly visible along spine on backwr.).
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Sm. stamp on frontwr.; backwr. partly vaguely waterst.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Small stamp and some small brownish stains on frontwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Vol. 3 backstrip sl. creased.
= First edition of Solzhenitzyn's most famous work. With the short foreword before the title-p. of vol. 1, not included in any later edition.
- Wrappers foxed and w. horizontal crack.
Bulgakov, M. Sobachye serdtse (Heart of a dog). Ibid., idem, 1985, 4th ed., 157,(1)p., orig. wr. by Yu. ANNENKOV. - AND 3 others, i.a. M. BULGAKOV, Rokovye yaytsa (London, 1970, 1st ed. thus, orig. wr.) and V. NABOKOV, Zaschita Luzhina (Ann Arbor, 1979, reprint ed., orig. wr.).
- Spine and backstrip (partly) sl. yellowed.
Idem. Olen' i shalashovka (The deer and the trollop). London, Flegon Press, 1968, 1st ed., 95p., orig. wr.
- Bookblock and wr. trifle warped. = Political-cultural bimonthly magazine. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- One text leaf browned. Portfolio trifle worn.
= Album dealing with Japan's economy and its relations with China after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931). The remarkable plates showing mostly statistics and diagrams, often in a slightly humourous fashion and somewhat reminiscent of Gerd Arntz' Isotype pictograms. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- Spine sl. rubbed.
= The estate of Talashkino, near Smolensk, was a centre of Russian art and handicraft during the late 19th and early 20th century, at that time being the property of Princess Maria Tenisheva. Its products displayed a remarkable combination of Russian folklore and western Jugendstil.
AND 1 other: N. ROERICH, Zhenschinam (Riga, 1931, frontisp., orig. wr.).
- Corners sl. chipped.
- Upper hinge weak; title-p. and frontwr. dogeared.
= One of the author's main works on industrial design. With illustrations of designs by i.a. A. Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and V. Tatlin.
- Backstrip partly restored; wr. sl. frayed and worn.
= With an introduction by Hungarian communist leader Béla Kun who was arrested, tried and executed as a Trotskyist counter-revolutionary in 1938, upon which the book was withdrawn from circulation in the Soviet Union. On the backwrapper a nice photomontage depiction of the capitalist world order.
- Wrappers doubled, reattached and sl. dustsoiled/ stained.
Ehrenburg, I. Rasskazy (Stories). Leningrad, Priboi, 1928, 81,(2)p., orig. wr. (by ?).
- Bookplate on verso frontwr. Wrappers w. some flattened folds and creases; sm. stamps and tiny piece of sellotape on backwr.
- Backstrip worn.
- Wrappers sl. dustsoiled and worn along edges.
= Emigré Russian artistic periodical. A total of 14 issues was published between 1921 and 1926. Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005 p.127.
- Bookblock splitting. Nevertheless a fine copy.
- Some library stamps and tickets.
= System designed to simulate artillery fire on the battle field, in order to measure fire ranges etc. Its inventor, André Baranoff, was a French army lieutenant of Russian descent. Rare.
AND 13 other small publications, all French, i.a. GÉNÉRAL LUZEUX, Les mitrailleuses dans la guerre moderne (Paris, n.d. (±1900), orig. wr.) and H. MORLIÈRE, Notes sur le Canon de 75 et son règlement (ibid./ Nancy, 1909, ills., orig. wr.).
- Loose(ning); owner's entry on title-p. and frontwr., backstrip worn.
= Rare gun manual with nice Jugendstil decorative elements. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
AND 3 other gun manuals with similar decoration.