Search Results: Titles starting with M from M.B.Rare Books

"MAO Yearbook" was published in 1909-1916 and 1928-1930. This issue is the anniversary (60 years of the Society) and the first after more than a 10-year break. The yearbook contains information about the activities of the society, the architectural competitions organized by it and the results of the passed creative stage, the projects of brothers L. and A. Vesniny, A. Shchusev, A. Ivanitsky, I. Zholtovsky, V. Kokorin, G. Barkhin, D. Razov, P. Golosov, S. Chernyshev, V. Voinov, D. Friedman and other architects are highlighted. There is a slight contamination of the cover, the block is mostly clean. As of September 2021, KVK and WorldCat show three copies only ( in Princeton University Library, Art Institute of Chicago and Switzerland library).

Vera Stepanovna Malinovskaya (1900—1988) — a famous Russian actress, silent movie. She studied ballet in her youth; she made her film debut at the age of 24 in the film "To All the Joy". She starred with silent movie star Mary Pickford and prominent Russian actor Igor Ilyinsky in the film "A Kiss from Mary Pickford" in 1927. The following year, German film company "Emelka" offered her a role in the movie "Waterloo" by Karl Grune. Malinovskaya left the USSR and spent most of her life in Germany and Italy.

Popov A.A. Materials for a bibliography of Russian literature on the study of shamanism of North Asian peoples. Leningrad Published by the Institute of Northern Peoples, 1932. 118 p., XV p.The publisher's cover comes away from the block. No losses or stamps. Rare bibliographic publication.

Interesting and curious case from the history of Russian-American relations. Pickford and Fairbanks were truly adored in the USSR. There were even candy bars "Douglas Fairbanks" with the actor's image on the wrappers. Each appearance of the artists on the screen was relished for a long time in periodicals. Rumors about the arrival of Pickford and Fairbanks in the USSR made a lot of noise even before their arrival. Fans wrote to the newspapers: "Is it true that they will visit our country?", " Are they here for a short time or to live?", " Will Mary and Douglas be filmed here?" On July 19, 1926, they were greeted at the Belorussky Railway Station as celestial beings. There were so many fans that they could not even fit on Tverskaya Street.After their visit in 1926, a film based on the newsreel was released in Moscow. The silent comedy with a star name in the title became a hit and subsequently entered the golden fund of domestic cinema. Director Sergei Komarov watched with surprise the visit of a… Read More

"We Are from Igarka" - propaganda of Soviet childhood beyond the Arctic Circle. Gorky, Rolland, pioneers, Igarka, exhibition in New York.
We Are from Igarka. A book written by the pioneers of the Arctic according to the plan of A.M. Gorky. Prepared for publication with the participation of S.Ya. Marshak. Compilation and supervision of the authors' work by A.M. Klimov. Illustrations. Moscow, Detizdat, 1938. 223 p.
In 1938, in Leningrad, the publishing house of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union "Children's Literature" printed a unique book called "We Are from Igarka". The idea to tell about "the life on the edge of the earth", about the history of their unique northern city, arose among the students of school No. 3 of the port city of Igarka back in December 1935. Maxim Gorky, to whom they sent a collective letter, liked their idea. Gorky's answer, in which he outlined his plan for writing a book, was reproduced in the local printing house of the city newspaper… Read More

Humeniuk, Ivan. My memories (My memories). Towards the development of the organized life of Ukrainians in Eastern Canada. Toronto, 1957 64 pp., illustrations.The book of memoirs, written by the Ukrainian nationalist-independent I. Humenyuk, who settled in Canada in 1907, gives an overview of the history of the Ukrainian diaspora in the eastern part of Canada for 50 years. The book contains 14 rare photographs (portraits, group photos, buildings, etc.). There are two inscriptions of the author of the book on the frontispiece and title page. Rarity

"Russians are the most talented space researchers and computer scientists in the world. The secret of Russia's future prosperity is in its minds. It is the specialists who will lead your country to the leading powers," — these words of Arthur Clark are not accidental.
Clark's work often traces motives that are somehow connected with the USSR and Russia. For example, in the novel "Dolphin Island", published six years after the launch of Sputnik-1, one of the dolphins is called Sputnik, and one of the main characters is a Russian scientist Nikolai Kazan, who works on Dolphin Island off the coast of Australia, and during his illness his wife comes to him from Moscow. Arthur Clark very kindly welcomed the launch of the first satellite and cosmonaut into space in the USSR. In the USSR, Arthur Clarke was one of the most published Western science fiction writers in Russian and was considered "progressive". Most of his new novels were published almost immediately in the magazine "Technique to the Youth",… Read More

In Yiddish. The collection contains poems by 41 poets, which seemed to the compilers to reflect the spirit of the revolutionary era. Among them are both Jewish and Russian authors, including Sh. An-skiy, A. Blok, M. Broderzon, M. Gorky, A. Jaffe, D. Merezhkovsky, J.L. Perets, D. Frishman, S. Frug, etc.
The most interesting fact is the final publication of the collection: the translation into Yiddish of the Block's poem "Twelve", made by Moshe Broderzon (1890-1956) - the first translator of the poem into Yiddish. One of the compilers of the collection, Semyon Grigoryevich Tomsinsky (1894-1936/38), was later convicted and shot as "the head of the counterrevolutionary terrorist trotskyist-zinoviev organization in Leningrad." In a blind owner's binding with the preservation of the illustrated original cover.
Rare. Worldcat shows seven copies, in libraries USA and Canada only.