Russia from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Ekonomicheskoe Izdatel'stvo, 1932 Octavo 24.5x17.5 cm., wrappers, 32pp. Published on the completion of the Dnepro Dam after five years of construction, on May Day of that year, with a photocollage cover encompassing front and rear covers. This is a richly illustrated series of essays discussing the construction and completion of the hydroelectric dam near Zaparizhzhia, Ukraine. Cover and book… Read more about this item

Octavo 20.5x14 cm., wrappers, 200 pp. Richly illustrated with drawings and photos, this is a study of the Neolithic era. Cover design by Gustav Klutsis. Evgenii Germanovich Lundberg (1883-1965) was a writer, translator and literary critic who found the Skifa publishing house in Berlin. His versatility gave him capacity to write on wide-ranging topics. OCLC finds three holdings, all at… Read more about this item

Quarto 30.5x22.5 cm., ½-cloth decorated boards, (96) pp. Edited by A. Babushkin, Foreword by Shapovalov. Illustrated with photomontages and photogravures by G. Sheifer and V. Fomin. A posthumous collection of Lenin's statements on the Red Army. During the Great Purges of the 1930s, Stalin attacked the Red Army. He executed her officers, fearful that they were plotting a coup. Leon… Read more about this item

Octavo 18x12,5 cm, original wrappers, 32pp. Unattributed cover artist. With a foreword by A. Men'shev. No institutional holdings found in North America.

Octavo 18x12.5 cm., original wrappers, 219 (5) pp. Constructivist cover design by E. Khiter. Sholem-Aleikhem was the pen name for Solomon Naumovich Rainbovich (1959-1916), Prolific Yiddish author and playwright. This work was translated into Russian by Ia. Slonim and M. Shabadal. No North Ameriican holdings found in worldcat.Near fine.

Octavo 20x14 cm., original wrappers, 96pp. A critical assessment of Il'ia Erenburg (1891-1967), who enjoyed singular independence from party dictates as he roamed throughout Europe reporting on art, literature, and capitalist society. Unattributed cover design. This copy mostly uncut. OCLC locates two holdings in North America (NYPL, Stanford). Fine

Octavo 17.6x13 cm.,, wrappers, 30pp. 5000 copies. A survey of the art movement Mir Iskusstva which flourished from 1898 by art students in St. Petersburg with the intent to upgrade the level of Russian art from the low standards prevailing in the narrow nationalist Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) and introduce a Neo-Romanticism mixed with greater imaginative fairy tales, mystery and fantasy and… Read more about this item

Octavo 18.5x12.5 cm., wrappers, 136pp. 5000 copies. Unattributed constructivist cover design (The University of My Generation) Author David Markovich Khanin (1903-1937) was Soviet writer and critic and served on the board of Molodaia Gvardiia. At one point he headed the Department of Children and Youth Literature fo the RSFSR Publishing House. Research indicates he was known for his work on… Read more about this item

First book appearance of Bunin novel Octavo 15.3x11.5 cm., wrappers, 96pp. The first complete appearance of Bunin's renowned work, which first appeared in two installments in the émigré journal Sovremenny zapiski, Paris, in 1924. 7000 copies of the present work were released in the first appearance in book form from Leningrad. Although the author had self-exiled permanently from 1916… Read more about this item