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

Album of Caucasian apiaries. From the photographs of Zanis K.M. Phototype of the Caucasian Military Topographic Society. Publication of the Caucasian Society of Beekeepers. 190?. 46 photos. Soft cardboard. Folder insert, binding, 25X32cm.
Explanatory leaflet by Gorbachev K.A. Native apiaries: Shushinsky district of Elisavetpol province, Black Sea province in Gelendzhik, Terek region, Dagestan region, Tiflis province, Nukha county, Lenkoran county, Baku province, Zakatali district, Kutaisi province, Akhaltsikhe county, New Athos Monastery near Sukhum, Kakheti.
A very rare edition, no one copy in the libraries of the world.

The author of the book is Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940). The world-famous theater reformer, Russian Soviet theater director, actor and teacher. Theorist and practitioner of theatrical grotesque and creator of the actor's system, called "biomechanics". The book includes his speeches on the reform of theater and cinema with the aim of their fuller and deeper impact on the viewer, taking into account his psychology and perception characteristics. Mass art must meet the needs of the day and fulfill ideological goals. A copy with numerous edits made in blue pencil. Some words, phrases, paragraphs are crossed out, corrected. The corrections were probably made by the author himself for the unrealized second edition.

Richard Dix — an American film actor, nominated for the Oscar. Perhaps this book is the first Russian book about this actor. Rare book in good condition.

"A Ring Around the Sun" is a fantasy novel by American writer Clifford Simak. First published in 1953. It was first published in Russian in 1982. The only Russian publication for the blind. Very rare.
Copy in good condition, from not exist Soviet library.
As of July 2021, KVK and WorldCat show no one copy outside Russia.

Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797 – 1879), also known as Saint Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow (Russian: Святитель Иннокентий Митрополит Московский) was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. Remembered for his missionary work, scholarship, and leadership in Alaska and the Russian Far East during the 19th century, he is known for his abilities as a scholar, linguist, and administrator, as well as his great zeal for his work.
In these territories he learned several languages and dialects of the indigenous peoples. He wrote many of the earliest scholarly works about the native peoples of Alaska, including dictionaries and grammars for their languages for which he devised writing systems; also, he wrote religious works in, and translated parts of the Bible into, several of these languages.
At the beginning of 1823, Bishop Michael of Irkutsk received… Read More

Manifesto of the avant-garde artist Alexander Vasilyevich Shevchenko (1883-1948).Rare and important Russian Art essay. A. Shevchenko was a highly influential painter and art theorist whose book coined the term "Neo-Primitism." He defined it as a new form of art that blended Cézanne, Cubism and Futurism with traditional Russian folk art such as the icon and the lubok or popular picture sheet. He was a Russian and Soviet painter and graphic artist, art theorist, avant-garde artist. Shevchenko was educated (1899-1909) at the Stroganov School (especially highlighting this school for professionalism), at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (on the course of K. A. Korovin) and in Paris — at the Academy of R. Julian and in the workshop of E. Carrier. In the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture he became close to M. F. Larionov and, inspired by his theories (luchism — partly, neo-primitivism — seriously), he participated in the exhibitions "Donkey's Tail",… Read More

"The rules" were drawn up by the head of the Main Prison Administration, Privy Councilor A.M. Stremoukhov and approved by the Minister of Justice N.V. Muravyov. They determined the order of detention of political prisoners, the rules of supervision, as well as their benefits and privileges. The only edition. A copy with the seals of the People's Commissariat of Justice (1917 - early 1920). On the front cover, the owner's inscription (autograph) has been erased in ink, probably the name of the Minister of Justice A.F. Kerensky (1917). In the text in the margins - pencil marks (old spelling): "I agree", etc. Publishing cardboard binding, torn pages. The rarest prison edition (not found in the catalogs of the main libraries).

Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) is one of the most famous and widely read German writers of the twentieth century. "All Quiet on the Western Front" is his first and most famous novel. The novel began to be published on November 8, 1928 in a Berlin newspaper, and the first separate edition was published on January 29, 1929. However, there is a little-known Russian edition of Remarque, which was published before the original edition was printed! The publisher of the proposed book is the infamous Zakhar Leontievich Kagansky, the former publisher of the magazine "Russia", who left the USSR and took with him a contract with Bulgakov for the publication of "The White Guard" and some of the writer's manuscripts. Taking advantage of the absence of legal norms on international copyright in the USSR, he published books without the permission of the authors, mainly M. Bulgakov (in a Theatrical novel, he was brought out under the name of Rvatsky).
In the case of Remarque's novel, Z. Kagansky managed to translate… Read More

Preobrazhenie (Transfiguration). Russian feminist (feminist) magazine. Number 1 (first). Moscow., LINOR OOO `Amrita`. 1993 156 p., illustration.The very first issue of the women's club magazine Transfiguration.The history of one of the first feminist organizations in the USSR began in 1988, when we, like women all over the world, sat in the kitchen, exchanging opinions about our daily affairs and worries. We realized that our problems do not concern only us, but affect almost all women.What worried us? First of all, a vague sense of injustice. Each faced it in its own way, but we all felt it, it was a constantly repeating fate of all. We told our friends about it, they told their friends, and right there, along the chain, women began to appear, ready to cooperate with us. Some began to write the Charter of the organization, others tried to find an office, others began to prepare the Manifesto.We were able to register the Women's Club "Transfiguration" as a public organization under one of the… Read More

The Circle of Lovers of Russian Fine Publications (Kruzhok lubiteley Russkikh izyashchnikh izdaniy ) was a bibliophile organization that existed in St. Petersburg in 1903-1917. KLRII published a magazine, held 5 exhibitions. The exhibition "Russian Woman in Engravings and Lithographs", organized in 1911, featured engravings and lithographs from several private collections. Almost 200 sheets resurrected "the charm and grace of the past two centuries in poetic images". The publication is an illustrated catalog with an introductory article. The catalog contains 180 detailed descriptions; 15 portraits on separate sheets with tracing papers, 4 silhouettes in the text. The probable circulation of the publication is 300 copies . The copy is in the publisher's cover, the tracing paper is preserved. Rare.