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

Bulgakov Mikhail. Sobachye serdtze (Heart of dog). Moscow., (1925) , 114 sheets (A4 format). In a folder with a clip of the Soviet period.A copy of the samizdat of the famous work of Mikhail Bulgakov, printed on a typewriter.The story was created by Bulgakov in January-March 1925. During a search conducted at Bulgakov's by the OGPU on May 7, 1926, the manuscript of the story was also confiscated from the writer.This text of novel was in Samizdat in USSR from 1930s. The text of the Heart of a Dog (with errors) was transmitted to the West in 1967, against the will of the writer's widow E. S. Bulgakova. In 1968 the text was published in the journal "Grani" (Frankfurt) and in Alec Flegon's journal "Student" (London). The first official publication in Russia was in magazine Znamya in 1987.Condition: some pages are wrinkled, some have torn edges, some sheets have yellow spots, a fragment of the last sheet is sealed with adhesive tape.Rare copy of the underground Soviet book publishing by hand - Samizdat.

Second edition of the main work of famous scientist Ivan Pavlov, Russian Nobel.This book is remarkable in many ways. First, we note that the new preface to this edition is marked by I.P. Pavlov "Petrograd, February 1917". That is, the book was born at a turning point in Russian history.
"Thanks to the Publishing House "Nature", this book, which has long disappeared from the book market, appears again," Pavlov writes in the new preface. - According to the decision of the Publishing House, which coincided with my own desire, this new edition of the book is a stereotypical reproduction of the 1897 edition. At one time, "Lectures" were written amid great laboratory excitement by their subject - and this put its distinct stamp on the book, giving it a special freshness and fervor. Now I have long since moved away from this subject, and my lively interest has concentrated in a completely different department of physiology; now I would not be able to write about that subject in the old tone. Thus, if I… Read More

Merezhkovsky, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. Russian "Silver Age" in "triple silver edge".
Merezhkovsky D. S. L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. [In 2 vols.]. Vol. 1-2. St. Petersburg: Edition of M.V. Pirozhkov, 1903. Vol. 1: The Life and Work of L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. 3rd ed. [6], 374, [2] p.; T. 2: Religion of L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. 2nd ed. [6], XL, 530, [2] p.; 24.5 × 19 cm "Lev Tolstoy and Dostoevsky" is a monograph by the Russian writer Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865-1941), often called a literary and critical essay in which the author compared the work and worldview of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Lifetime edition. In two publishing calico bindings with silver embossing on the front covers and spines. Minor scuffs of the bindings. Triple silver trim. Lasse. Ornamented flyleafs. The safety is very good.

Dubrovsky V. Moscow-Ukrainian Glossary. Kyiv, Ridna mova, 1918 [2], 542, [2] p.Moscow-Ukrainian` dictionary, which was published in the hetman's Ukrainian state in situation of Civil war. The compiler of the dictionary, Viktor Grigoryevich Dubrovsky (1876 - after 1943) - Ukrainian philologist, public figure. In 1929, he was arrested in the case of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, was imprisoned, in exile in Central Asia, in 1937 he was arrested again and sent to northern camps. Rare book.WorldCat indicates no copies in libraries of the world.

Favorsky V. The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Engravings. 1962.
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign" is a monument of literature of Ancient Russia, telling about the unsuccessful campaign of Russian princes led by Igor Svyatoslavich Novgorod-Seversky against the Polovtsians in 1185. The text of the "Tale", included in a manuscript collection of the XVI century, was accidentally discovered at the end of the XVIII century by A. I. Musin-Pushkin, and the first publication took place in 1800. This work has become the most important element of Russian culture, studied in all schools. A whole field of research has emerged, a whole literature around the "Tale". Many artists, starting from the 19th century, based their works on the text of this monument. Since the 1930s, two different types of monument illustration have been developing in book illustration: historical and documentary (publication of auxiliary materials) and artistic, related to the reinterpretation of the "Tale". The second type is represented primarily… Read More

[The writer's first book published in the USSR] Hemingway, E. Death in the Afternoon / trans. First translation team; comp., ed. and entry Art. I. Kashkina. M.: Goslitizdat, 1934. 266, [6] p., 1 p. portrait 19.5×13.5 cm. Publisher's cardboard. Small tears along the edges of the spine, the block is clean.The collection includes excerpts from four books by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): "In Our Time," "Men Without Women," "Death in the Afternoon" and "The Winner Takes Nothing." The stories in the collection are a kind of creative autobiography of the writer, a story about his wanderings along the war fronts, in the cities and in the outbacks of America.Hemingway's first stories appeared translated into Russian in 1934 in the magazines "30 Days", "Abroad" and "International Literature". Then the writer's first collection, published in the USSR, "Death in the Afternoon," came out. The compiler, editor and author of the introductory speech is Ivan Kashkin, who became Hemingway's first propagandist in the… Read More

Children's own stories and drawings / collected by A. Kruchenykh. EUY, 1914. 48 p.: 15 illustrations. 33,5 × 18,3 cm. In publisher's wrappers. Uncut block, leaves of different sizes. Small tears in covers, pages are clean. Good condition of the copy.
The collection consists of two parts: the lithographed drawings and the text.The latter is printed on heavy green paper and is entitled "Poems, Stories, Fairy Tales". The two largest texts, by Zina V. (age 11) and Tanya (age 7), are subtitled "Recorded from Dictation" and "Recorded from Memory".Lithographs in pencil on thin, light pink paper are printed on one side of the sheets: 15 drawings and 1 sheet of lithographed text (16 lithographs in total). All drawings (except one) are perpendicular to the binding. Drawn by: N. Kulbina, M. Ehrlich and P. Bakharev.Alexei Kruchenykh is one of the key figures of Russian literature, the "enfant terrible" of Russian Futurism, the "Futurist Jesuit of the word", and perhaps the most consistent figure of the Russian… Read More

Mayakovsky V.V. The Soviet Alphabet. Moscow, 1919 (facsimile edition).
In Russian literature, it is difficult to name a writer who took such an active part in the publication of his works as Mayakovsky. In many cases, he not only created the idea of the future book, but also directly embodied it, acting as a publisher, designer and printer. Therefore, the history of the publication of the poet's works is, in the true sense of the word, part of his human and creative biography. Among the books of the poet of the first years of the revolution, as well as among the pre-revolutionary ones, there is an edition published not by the publishing house, but by himself. The experience of working on the poster and the desire to make the poetic word more accessible to a new reader - Red Army soldier - prompted the poet to act as an illustrator of his own works. Moreover, in this case, the style of Mayakovsky's drawings was distinguished by the desire for novelty, the use of original pictorial solutions, and a… Read More

Stalin's pets: Stories, poems and drawings of the children's literary and artistic circle of the Order-bearing Military Academy of the Red Army named after M.V. Frunze. - Moscow, Detizdat, 1938. - 88 p., illustration.The content and design corresponds to the title. Many illustrations and texts from the time of the developed personality cult:"Stalin is my favorite,Stalin is my dear,I send you a giftOur dear leader!"Good condition, slight scuffs and soiling of the publisher's art binding. Funny illustrations. The Library of Congress stamp on the flyleaf adds a special charm to this copy.

Hemingway Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Translated from English by E. Golysheva and B. Izakov. Artist M. Klyachko. Color pasting-frontispiece. The design by S. Telingater. Moscow, Detgiz, 1956. 96 p.
The first edition in Russian of the famous story. In May 1953 Ernest Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize for his work, in 1954 - the Nobel Prize in literature. The success of "The Old Man and the Sea" made Hemingway world famous. The story is studied in schools, it has become a classic.
The copy is in very good condition, in dust jacket. The design of the book is by the famous artist of the book Telingater.

Edition and design of the cover by Stenbergs. Classic of book constructivism.
Stenbergs, brothers Vladimir Augustovich (1899-1982) and Georgy Augustovich (1900-1933) – Soviet artists of theater and cinema, posters and books, representatives of the Russian avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century, classics of film posters.
They were born in Moscow in the family of the Swedish artist A. Stenberg, who came to Russia in 1898 for decorative work at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair. They studied at the Stroganov Art and Industrial School (1912-1917) and the State Free Art Workshops (1917-1920). Already in their student years, they joined constructivism, creating industrial models and non-objective "color structures" made of glass, metal and fishing line. They actively participated in the revolutionary agitprop, decorated mass celebrations. They made an outstanding contribution to the avant-garde scenography, working for the A. Ya. Tairov's Chamber Theater.
However, they went down in history primarily as… Read More

In the 1920s, after the end of the civil war, there was an upsurge in economic and cultural life. Cultural ties with Europe and America led to the penetration of modern films, songs, pop music into Soviet Russia. One example is music in style blues, published in a attractive cover by an unknown artist. A small circulation, active use, has led to the fact that such music editions rarely get on sale.