![Item #50571 [ACMEISM IN THE CAUCASUS] Ars: ezhemesiachnik iskusstva i literatury [Ars: a monthly...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Tbilisi: T-vo Sogomonian i Siutch’ian, 1918–1919. Octavos (22.5 × 18 to 26.5 × 18 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 76 and 92 pp. Very good. Two issues (of three published) of the short-lived Georgian literary and arts journal, loosely affiliated with Tbilisi acmeists as well as visual artists. Edited by Anna..... More
![Item #55464 [ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM IN YUGOSLAVIA] Collection of fifty-five Yugoslav...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55464_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770385933)
A complete list is available on request. Spanning half a century of modernist architecture, this collection captures the architectural and urban development of Yugoslavia from the period of immediate post-WWII rebuilding, to the rapid construction in the 1960s, and the peak of modular construction and prefabricated housing in the 1970s..... More
![Item #54828 [MAIN ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL OF LENINGRAD] Arkhitektura Leningrada: organ...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54828_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739456208)
Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1936–1941. Quartos (29 × 22.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; ca. 80 pp per issue. Illustrations, including photographs, plans, elevations. Two issues missing front wrappers (no.1, 1936 and no. 6, 1938), one issue missing front wrapper fragments (6, 1936). Overall light soil to wrappers; about very good or better..... More
Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1932. Octavo (27 × 19 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 185, [2] pp. Lacking the pictorial dust jacket. Boards and corners lightly rubbed and scuffed; crease to front board; front hinge shaken; owner signature to title; occasional underlining in the text; else good. A celebratory overview of..... More
![Item #54917 [EL LISSITZKY – MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitektura sovremennogo zapada [The...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54917_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739454766)
Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1932. Octavo (27 × 19 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 185, [2] pp. The original pictorial dust jacket rather worn and chipped; title toned and with pencil owner note; else very good. A celebratory overview of Western modernist architecture, with detailed analysis of the works of architects..... More
![Item #P5848 [BULGARIAN MODERNISM] Bentuit treshti: provintsialna khronika [The dike thunders: a...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P5848_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706720548)
Sofia: Narodna kniga, 1936. Octavo (18 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Veselin Staikov; 105, [3] pp. Light wear to spine and fraying to lower spine extremity; else about very good. First edition of this book of village-inspired short stories by G'oncho Bielev (1889–1964), the Bulgarian writer and translator..... More
![Item #54813 [STANDARDIZATION IN ARCHITECTURE] Industrializatsiia stroitel’stva i arkhitekturnoe...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54813_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739468728)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo po stroitel’stvu i arkhitekture, 1956. Octavo (22 × 17.5 cm). Original quarter cloth over boards; 217, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs, artistic drawings, and technical drawings. Boards lightly soiled and scuffed to edges. Still about very good. The first monograph by prominent Soviet theoretician of architecture..... More
![Item #54892 [SOVIET RECEPTION OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitektura za rubezhom: organ...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54892.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739464470)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1934–1937. Quartos (29.5 × 25.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 40–48 pp. Illustrations throughout including plans, photographs, technical drawings, elevations. Title page in Russian, French, and English. Light soil and discoloration to wrappers; chipping to pine; about good or better. Three issues of this bi-monthly journal..... More
![Item #P6005 [BULGARIAN AVANT-GARDE] Mulchalivi geroi [Silent heroes]. Two parts in one (all...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6005_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706634684)
Sofia: Khemus, [1931]. Octavo (22.3 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak-Skitnik (?); 109, [3], 110, [3] pp. Wrappers rebacked; restorations; a few nicks to wrappers; still good or better; in protective mylar. First edition of this account of the life of Soviet military leader and veteran of the..... More
![Item #55127 [CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE] Stil’ i epokha: problemy sovremennoi arkhitektury...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55127_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1748182297)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. Octavo (23 × 18.5 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 238 pp. With [41] plates of illustrations as well as additional photographs, drawings, diagrams in the text. Professional restoration to wrapper edges and spine (original spine strip lacking); light soil to wrappers; text toned due to stock; overall..... More
Prague: Kamilla Neumannová, [1916]. Octavo (21.8 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a woodcut design by Horký; 157, [2] pp. Small nick to lower spine; light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; still about very good. First and only edition thus of this Czech translation of Remizov's "Krestovye sestry," the..... More
![Item #54641 [RARE AVANTGARDE JOURNAL OF THE SEGUNDO MODERNISMO] Sinal: publicação literária...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54641_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733401295)
Coimbra: Imprensa Académica, July 1930. Small quarto (25.5 × 19 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers with two-color printed linocut; 22 pp. (including insides of wrappers) with an original graphic illustration and numerous linocut title headings. Binding with barely noticeable, export restoration; sporadically somewhat fox-stained; else very good. Rare sole issue of..... More
![Item #54762 [NEW STALINIST ARCHITECTURE – DNEPROSTROI] Planirovka i sotsialisticheskaia...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54762_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739457906)
Along head of title: Sektor planirovki i sotsialisticheskoi rekonstruktsii gorodov vsesoiuznogo soveta po delam kommunal’nogo khoziaistva pri TsK SSSR. Moscow; Leningrad: ONTI Gosstroizdat, 1934. Large octavo (26.5 × 20 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 70, [2] pp. With 50 illustrations in text and additional 20 illustrations in appendix. In protective mylar..... More
![Item #54715 [ALBERT KAHN IN THE USSR — CONSTRUCTIVIST INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE] Sovremennaia...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54715_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739471565)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gosstroiizdat, 1933. Quarto (31 × 23.5 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 530 pp. With 635 drawings in the text. Spine lightly rubbed, corners and wrapper extremities lightly bumped and scuffed; lacking the dust jacket; else about very good. Second expanded and re-worked edition of this compendium on..... More
Munich, 1957. Octavo (20.8 × 14.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 62, [2] pp. A fine copy. First appearance in print of Marina Tsvetaeva's epic poetic cycle about the October Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, which the poet experienced first-hand in Moscow before emigrating in 1922. The poems were..... More
![Item #54256 [UKRAINIAN SYMBOLIST POETRY – EXECUTED RENAISSANCE] Z zelenykh hir: poezii [From...](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54256.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1748155468)
Kyiv: Tovarystva "Chas", 1918. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 103, [1] pp. Private exlbris stamp to title, p. 21 and final page (ca. 1970-80s). Professional restoration to spine and wrapper edges. Toned due to stock; else a good or better copy. First book of poetry by the..... More
![Item #54918 [ITALIAN FUTURISM AND MONUMENTALISM IN THE USSR] Massimo Kampil'i. Massimo Kampigli....](https://penkararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54918_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749126388)
Moscow-Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1931. Octavo (17.7 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 46, [2] pp. Summary to last pages in French. Twenty full-page black and white reproductions. Book store stamps and inventory numbers to rear wrapper. Light wear and soil to wrappers; lower spine extremity frayed; still good or better. First..... More
