Banned Books from Biblionne

One of 5 000 copies printed. Rare in good condition. The collection of feuilletons about labor in pre-revolutionary Russia and the new Soviet country was written by Mikhail Kol'tsov (born Moisey Fridlyand; 1898-1940/2), a journalist and a prominent figure in the Soviet intellectual elite, who also served as an NKVD agent. He played a pivotal role as the founder and… Read more about this item

50000 copies were printed. This children's photobook tells the history of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant and gives an overview of the manufacturing process at the plant. It also includes a small article about the hard everyday life of American laborers and the unemployment rate in America. Magnitogorsk, an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, was established in 1929 and modeled after two of… Read more about this item

First and only edition. Second Kollontai's book. This book by 'Communist Valkyrie', a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat, and Marxist theoretician Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was published in the year of the First Russian Revolution. It was banned and confiscated by the czarist police Kollontai herself was exiled from Russia in 1908. Kollontai did not identify as a feminist. She understood "feminism" as… Read more about this item

Leningrad, Priboi, [1927]. Limited to 8 000 copies. First edition. The main text of the book written by Boris Pilnyak (1894-1938), who traveled to Japan twice, in 1926 and in 1932. Pilnyak was one of the most bestselling Russian modern authors of that times despite a lot of his text critized by authorities. This novel condemned in Pravda newspaper for sympathy to… Read more about this item

One of 20 000 copies published. First and only edition of these illustrations. Working as a journalist, Galina Serebryakova (1905-1980), revolutionary, journalist and writer, was sent on assignments in China, Geneva and Paris in 1927-1928. She was married to a politician Leonid Serebryakov, then to a minister of finance and ambassador of USSR to the the United Kingdom Grigori Sokolnikov. He was… Read more about this item

In original illustrated wrappers. In good condition, rebacked, worn to the edges, small tear on the front cover. First edition. Limited to 30 325 copies. [Edited by S. Marshak]. Teki Odulok (born Nikolay Spiridonov; 1906-1938) was the founder of Yukaghir literature. He was born in a poor Yukaghir family (people in the Russian Far East) and was sent by the Communist Party… Read more about this item

One of 10 200 copies printed. First Russian edition of the novel. Banned book. The second part of Dos Passos's major work the U.S.A. trilogy. Before this edition there were published only extracts in periodicals.Translation was prepared by a poet, the Russian Joyce's Ulysses translator Valentin Stenich (1897-1938). He was arrested in November 1937 and executed.All editions of Dos Passos's books were… Read more about this item

Signed and inscribed by the author in the first volume: 'Dorogomu Pavlu Isaevichu / Lyublinskomu / v znak glubokogo uvazheniya i / priznatel'nosti / ot avtora' [To dear Pavel Isaevich Lyublinskiy with a sign of deep respect and gratitude from author]. First edition of the first Sorokin's book on sociology. Russian-born distinguished American sociologist, who created the… Read more about this item

One of 5 000 copies printed. The book's author was Hungarian communist journalist Pál Hajdu (1896-1937/8). After the fall of the Republic he was arrested and sentenced to prison. In 1922 he went to Russia as one of participant of the Soviet-Hungarian prisoner exchange deal. Later he worked for The Publishing Association of Foreign Workers. Hajdu was arrested and executed in… Read more about this item

One of 15 000 copies printed. The book was published by International Red Aid (MOPR) for the protection of Hungarian communist and a well-known fig - ure in the international communist movement Mátyás Rákosi. He was arrested in Hungary and faced the death penalty in that time. As a result of the campaign he was sentenced to prison. The Hungarian… Read more about this item

With the supplement of the draft of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Program. First edition of this 'important direct appeal to poor peasants'. The other significant part of the book is the draft of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) Program. RSDLP haven't own program and party rules till 1903, though it formed in 1898. The draft program was published originally… Read more about this item

Translation by Elsa Triolet. Preface by Ivan Anisimov. Moskva, Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1934 Limited to 15 000 copies. Second edition of the translation of the novel Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) in Russian. This edition was published eleven months later after first edition. New preface was added, the text of the translation was slightly edited. As original publication of the novel… Read more about this item

Translation by N. Vol'pin, G. Prokunina. Preface by A. Starcev. Illustrations by I. Brullin. Moskva, Inostrannaia literatura, 1947. The first and only edition in Russian of Jim Phelan's novel And Blackthorns (1944). The second and last Phelan's book in Russian in Soviet era times. Translator Nadezhda Volpin has published poems in Imaginism style. She gave birth to Sergei Yesenin's son, Alexander Esenin-Volpin. She… Read more about this item

The book looks like other important Stalinist editions: stamped hardback, folded plates etc. This kind of editions is intended for the construction and support of Stalin's cult of personality. These books were censored after de-Stalinization, portraits of Stalin and other attributes of cult were cut off. OCLC locates four copies of this edition in USA, in Cornell University, in Columbia University,… Read more about this item

The fifteenth anniversary edition for GOELRO plan (*State Commission for Electrification of Russia*). The Plan included construction of a network of 30 regional power plants, including ten large hydroelectric power plants, and numerous electric-powered large industrial enterprises. Two folded plates are facsimile of Lenin's letters. The book looks like other important Stalinist editions: stamped hardback, folded plates etc. Construction of Lenin's… Read more about this item

Sedel'nikov N. - book design. One of several editions of this Stalin's report but really unusual illustrated. XVII Party Congress nicknamed The Congress of the Victors due to the economic successes of The First FiveYear Plan, and also it was named The Congress of the Condemned. 1,996 party members which attended Congress, 1,108 members were arrested later, about two thirds of… Read more about this item

First and only one edition. Livre d'artiste. Lithographed book. Aleksandr Vvedensky was one the founders the OBERIU group (Union of Real Art). This association considered be one of the most radical poetry groups. The members of the group were attacked in press, then arrested and expelled from Leningrad. Since that Vvedensky started work for children. Nevertheless Vvedensky was arrested and… Read more about this item

One of 5.000 copies printed. First edition. Earlier description of the archipelago Severnaya Zemlya illustrated throughout with maps, tables and photos. Alexander Fedorovich Laktionov (1899-1965) - the oceanologist and polar explorer. In the book he describes in details history of opening and studying of Severnaya Zemlya, activity of expedition of G. Ushakov and N. Urvantsev and expeditions of O. Yu. Schmidt from… Read more about this item

The propaganda book about first Russian expedition to Wrangel island realized on ice-breaker Red October under Boris Davydov's command from July to October 1924. Reason for the expedition was a colony of US and Canada citizens on the island which established in 1921 and expanded in 1923. Soviet authorities had an ambition of the to restore the state sovereignty. During… Read more about this item

First Russian separate book with Ballads of Robin Hood edited by famous Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev, who translated two ballads also. The best Russian poets participated in this edition: Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky, Georgii Ivanov, Georgii Adamovich and Adrian Piotrovsky.The edition printed in small circulation because of lack of paper in the period of War communism and after execution of N. Gumilev was… Read more about this item