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

Parfanovych, Sofia. In the forester. Buenos Aires, ed. Mykola Denisyuk, 1954. 184 p., illustrations. The first edition of the novel by the famous Ukrainian writer, public figure, doctor Sofia Parfanovych (1898-1968), lived in Lviv, Prague, Vienna, then in the USA. Cover and numerous illustrations in the text of B. Kryukov's work. Interesting stamps: the library of the Tolstoy Farm ROOVA in St. New Jersey and the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago (with a trident). In Ukrainian language. Rarity.WorldCat shows no copies in libraries.

As of April 2021, KVK and WorldCat show three copies in libraries outside Russia. Rare.

An album of original photographs of the stands of the exhibition was held in the Archive of the Red Army in Moscow in 1932. A total of 34 photographs 16.5x23.5 cm.
Original binding. No more than 10 copies of the album were released. Most likely, the only surviving copy. Extremely rare.

A catalog with a brief description of 25 556 negatives, including stereoscopes, and 127 albums. A rare catalog useful for anyone interested in the Caucasus and surrounding regions.

In the publisher's illustrated cover. Slight contamination of the cover, tears. Color lithographs based on posters by A. Radakov, A. Strakhov, etc. Rare book, an example of Russian/ Soviet art and book designe 1920-s.

Mao Zedong. Poetry. Translation into Ukranian M. Bazhan. Kyiv, 1959, 72 p.Translation of the verses of "The Great Shepherd" into Ukrainian. An elegant edition with numerous color Chinese screensavers, vignettes, a portrait and facsimile, a foreword by Mao himself. A rare edition: in the same 1959, relations between the USSR and China were interrupted for a long time, Mao was declared an enemy and a renegade. A curious and rare edition.

Gershwin`s Porgy and Bess in USSR!Unique program of the first production in Russia famous American opera. December 1955 - January 1956 !Porgy and Bess is an opera by George Gershwin. First staged in 1935, the opera was not very successful at first, but from the 1950s it began to gain wide popularity in the United States, and then throughout the world. The production of the opera was largely carried out by natives or children of emigrants from Russia (Gershwins, Mamulyan, Smollens, Sudeikin).The first ever trip of an American theater troupe to Russia - the crowning achievement of the world tour "Porgy and Bess" - was the fruit of long, confusing and so to the end and not clarified negotiations between the USSR and the Euryman Opera company, represented by the producers of the Gershwin Opera Brin and Davis .The tour of the American opera in 1955-1956 is an amazing example of a turn in politics, the first sign of the onset of a new period in the political and cultural life of the USSR - the Soviet "thaw"… Read More