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

Filyansky, N. On Dneprostroy. Kharkiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, 1930. - 58 p., 32 p. of ill.; 25x17.5 cm.
In a constructivist publishing cover. Photo illustrations (mezzotint) on 16 separate sheets. With maps in the text. The publication describes the construction of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station. The text part reveals the significance of the future power plant, the conditions of its construction and its project. With 32 illustrations. The author of the book, Nikolay Grigoryevich Filyansky (1873-1938) - a Ukrainian novelist, poet, translator, museologist. Shot, his books were seized from libraries. A very rare edition, Worldcat does not show a single copy of the book in the libraries of the world.

Matutis A. Negritenok Dzhon [ Little nigger John] / Fig. N. Sergeeva. Kaunas: State. publishing house of fiction of the Lithuanian SSR, 1951, 27 p., ill.; 26 × 20.2 cmA poetic story about how bad life was for a black boy in the USA, how the capitalist Mr. Smith oppressed his parents and even killed them. After many difficult adventures, almost dying because he was thrown from the ship as a black man, black John is picked up at sea by a Soviet ship. John ends up in the USSR, where he immediately finds wonderful and loyal friends. "Vasya says to John / In the mausoleum - Lenin is sleeping / You and I are his grandchildren / The Banner of Lenin is above us / And Comrade Stalin is with us / He lives here - in the Kremlin / He knows about our marks / Leads the country with him / With Every day the country becomes more and more beautiful / It is wide, it is rich / It is governed by the people / You will not meet gentlemen in it!"An excellent example of Soviet children's propaganda, developing the myth of… Read More

Lyubov Borisovna Khavkina (1871-1949) was a Russian theorist and organizer of library science, a major librarian and bibliographer.
In 1891, she was one of the organizers of the first Kharkiv free library. In the same year, she entered the Kharkiv Public Library, where she worked, with breaks, until 1918. In 1898-1901 Khavkina studied library science at the University of Berlin, attended the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, where she got acquainted with the methods of the American Library Association and the ideas of its founder Melville Dewey, who had a great influence on her. Khavkina's library research works originate from the book "Libraries, Their Organization and Technology" (St. Petersburg: Edition of A. S. Suvorin, 1904), which received wide recognition in Russia and was awarded the gold medal of the 1905 World Exhibition in Liege. In 1913, on the basis of a project compiled by her, the first courses of librarians in Russia were opened at the university. Khavkina combines teaching courses in a… Read More