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Moscow, 1935. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. Color Map Of Moscow In 1935. Single Sheet Approximately 26" X 30", Printed On One Side In Black (Text) Green [Parks], Tan [Public Areas/0 And Brown [City Blocks], Red Outlines For City Limits, Red Dotted Lines For Administrative Security Area. Scale 1:50,000. An Important Map Of Moscow, Showing All Streets, And Depicting The New General Plan For The City. 1935. Light Wear, Torn Along Many Folds, Browning To Exposed Lower Right Panel. One Of 50,000 Copies Printed But Now Scarce.

[Paris?], 1755. Original Antique Map . Single Sheet. Very Good +. 30" x 22. 30" X 22" At Margins, Printed Area 21" X 19 1/4". Laid Paper, Unmounted, Printed On One Side Only. Very Large Original Antique Map, Hand Colored, Showing Far Eastern Europe, Grand Tartarie, And The Baltic To The 110Th Meridian. A Very Nice, Clean Example, Single Center Fold, No Tears Or Chips. Kiev And What Is Now Ne Ukraine Are Shown As Part Of Russia, But West And South Ukraine Are Entirely "Petit Tartarie", Outside Of Russia, And Russian Territory Is Nowhere Near Crimea, These Areas, Like The Caucasus, Invaded And Captured As Russian Territory Only Under The German-Born Catherine The Great And Her Germanic Successors.

Kiev, 1945. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. 23 Photographs, 7 3/4" X 5 3/4", Reprints By The Photographer, And Purchased Directly From Him In Moscow Circa 2000 By Me. Each Photograph Annotated On Reverse In Russian, One With A 13 Line Explanation. The Russians Sustained Huge Losses Due To Or Direction By Stalin, No General, And Hence Feel A Strongly Tht They Won Back Ukraine For Themselves, Forgetting The Slow And Bloody History Of The Russian Conquering Of Ukraine Over Many Hundreds Years From People Who Didn't Want Them There. Mankind Has A Short Memory, Remembering Only The Last Battle.

Leningrad Ussr: Izogiz, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Izobrazitelnykh Iskusstv, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 123 Pp. Grey Cloth, Beveled Edges, Title In Red. First Edition, One Of 4000 Copies. Light Wear, No Marks, Hinges Tight, Bumping To Lower Corners. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka (Russian: ?????????? ?????????????? ????????; 1899 -1969) Was A Soviet And Russian Painter, Graphic Artist And Sculptor, Regarded As One Of The Most Important Russian Modernist Figurative Painters Of The First Half Of The 20Th Century. His Collective Farmer On A Bicycle (1935) Has Been Described As Exemplifying The Socialist Realist Style.Deyneka Was Born In Kursk And Studied At Kharkov Art College (Pupil Of Alexander Lubimov) And At Vkhutemas. He Was A Founding Member Of Groups Such As Ost And Oktyabr, And His Work Gained Wide Exposure In Major Exhibitions. His Paintings And Drawings (The Earliest Are Often Monochrome Due To The Shortage Of Art Supplies) Depict Genre Scenes As Well As Labour And Often… Read More

New York Ny: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates. Xxiii, 363 Pp. Very Light Green Cloth, Spine Stamped In Dark Green And Black. First Printing, 1931. Light Usage. Ownership Signature Of R W Rider. American Invasions Of The Soviet Union; No Corresponding Soviet Invasions Of America, Contrary To The Fear-Mongering Of Countless Ambitious But Otherwise Ignorant And Useless Politicians.

San Francisco Ca: Farallon Press, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Tipped In Color Plates Reproducing Spectacular Soviet Posters; Photograpgs. 171 Pp. Gray And Black Cloth. First Edition, #11 Of A Limited Signed Edition. Ex-Library With Library Label, Remains Of Charge Slip, Number On Spine. Cloth Fraying At Tips, Hinges Sound, Pages Clean And Partly Unopened 9Still Attached Along Foredges).

London Uk: Spring Books / Artia, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 168 Pp + Laid In List Of Plates. Black Cloth, Gilt. Irst Edition, Undated But Circa 1960 / 1965. Dust Jacket With Wear, Tiny Losses.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Good. Map and Woodcuts. 226 Pp. Original Cloth, Gilt And Blind Stamped. Contents Clean, Light Aging. Covers With Wear, Cloth Lightly Frayed Across Top Of Spine And Down 3/4" At Top Front Spine Edge, A Few Other Points Of Fraying. Spine Has Been Wet, Gilt Is Dulled, Cloth Of Spine And Adjacent Areas Of Covers And Endpapers Damp Stained, This Damage Not Reaching The Printed Pages. Anecdotes And Observations Made While Curzon Was Part Of A Commission To Resolve The "Turkish And Persian Problem In Kurdistan And Armenia", Seeking The Most Arbitrary And Least Democratic Solution For All Residents Of The Area And Achieving Enduring Success. Library Label {Franklin Institute] On Front Pastedown, Four Digit Number At Base Of First Page. This Copy Fairly Crisp And May Never Have Been Read.

Fresno Ca: Armenian Relief Society, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. White Cloth, Gilt. Fine In Fine Price Clipped Dust Jacket. Text In Armenian, English And French.

Tibilisi Georgia: Izdatelstvo Akademii Nayk Gruzinskoi Ccp, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Xix, 183 (Text), 56 Pp (B/W/Text). Black Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, Light Usage, Git On Front Cover Brilliant, Gilt On Spine Weak But Very Clear, Hinges Tight, No Marks, Text Paper Browned.

Moskva / Moscow: ???. ??????????? ???-??, Moskva : Gos. Muzykal'noe Izd-Vo, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates And Photographs Throughout. 566 Pp. 13 1/2" X 10 1/2" X 2" Decorative Cloth With Ussr Symbols In Shades Of Orange-Red, Beveled Edges. Red Marbled Endpapers, Faux-Morocco Spine Label. One Of 10,000 Copies. Silk Bookmark Bound In. Fine Photographs And Color And B/W Plates On Heavier Paper. Slight Wear, No Fraying, No Marks. International Postage $65 By Usps Priority Mail Box.

Moscow / Moskva: Samolet / ???????, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Color Illustrations Throughout. . 217 Pp. Large Format Softcover With Illustrations In Color Of Book Covers On Every Page, Over 500 Designs By Over 200 Known And 100 Unknown Designers. Very Scarce. Purchased In Moscow; Apparently Never Distributed In The West.

Grafikarchive, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. One Of 500 Soft Cover Copies Of A Total Edition Of 700. Wirebound. Card Covers. Fine.

Moskva / Moscow Ussr: Sovetskij Chudoznik, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 89 Pp. Beige Clth. Large Format Art Biography. Very Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket Worn, With Tears And Small Losses. Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (?????? ??????????? ??????????; 1878 -1927) Was A Russian Empire And Soviet Painter And Stage Designer. From 1896 To 1903, He Attended Ilya Repin's Studio At The Imperial Academy Of Arts In St. Petersburg. Concurrently, He Took Classes In Sculpture Under Dmitry Stelletsky And In Etching Under Vasiliy Mate. He First Exhibited In 1896. When Repin Was Commissioned To Paint A Large-Scale Canvas To Commemorate The 100Th Anniversary Of The State Council, He Invited Kustodiev To Be His Assistant. He Visited France And Spain On A Grant From The Imperial Academy Of Arts In 1904. Also In 1904, He Attended The Private Studio Of René Ménard In Paris. After That He Traveled To Spain, Then, In 1907, To Italy, And In 1909 He Visited Austria And… Read More

New York / Leningrad: Harry N. Abrams / Aurora Art Publishers, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Photographs By Lydia Tarasova. 338 Pp. 13 1/8" X 10 7/8" X 1 3/8". Near Fine, Trace Of Rubbing At Tips, No Marks. Dj With Light Wear At Corners, And A Rough 2" Tear At Top Of Front Spine Edge. International Postage At Usps Priority Mail Box Rate.

Kiiv / Kiev Ukraine: Vidanni?a? Narkomosu U.S.R.R. / ??????? ????????? ?.?.?.?., 1929. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair. Many Plates. 46 Pp. But Mostly Plates, Unpaginated, At End. Small Format 6 3/4" X 5 1/4" Very Scarce, Worldcat Locates Two Institutional Copies. Wear, Spine Mostly Perished, Faint Illegible Soviet Institutional Stamp On Cover, Probably Authorization For Export, No Other Marks.

New York City, Ny: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1989. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 376 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Blind. First Printing, 1989. Fine (Tiny Strip Of Fading Across Bottom Edge Of Spine) In Fine Dust Jacket

Jewish Museum / Yale, 2008. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 226 Pp. Large Format Softcover. Fine. Beautifuly Illustrated.

Paris Fr: Christie's Paris, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Color Plates, Some Folding. 227 Pp. Large Format Auction Catalog Illustrated In Color, 248 Lots, Mostly Antique And Early Twentieth Century Paintings, With Some Exceptional Miscellaneous Lots (107-End).

St. Petersburg: Izdanie Tovarìsestva M. O. Vol'f Circa 1898, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 13 1/2" X 9 5/8". Red Cloth, Paper Colored Boards With Illustration On Front Cover, Ads On Rear Inside Cover, 14 Pp. Mounted On Both Sides Of Seven Boards, 15Th Page Mounted On Inside Front Cover. Rare. Almost All Copies Would Have Been Destroyed In 1917-1919 Because Of The Royal Insignia On The Child's Naval Uniform On The Front Cover, And The Exclusively Upper-Middle Class And Upper Class Life Style Which The Illustrations Depict. We Could Find No Institutional Copy Identified In Worldcat.