Search Results: Authors starting with A from M.B.Rare Books

Popov A.A. Materials for a bibliography of Russian literature on the study of shamanism of North Asian peoples. Leningrad Published by the Institute of Northern Peoples, 1932. 118 p., XV p.The publisher's cover comes away from the block. No losses or stamps. Rare bibliographic publication.

"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).

An American actor, one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Founder and first president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts, was very popular in USSR in 1920-s. Avant-garde cover by the Russian artist Getmansky.

The first edition, compiled by the Danish– Russian translator Peter Emanuel Hansen (1846– 1930). The impetus for its publication was an earlier fourteen-language edition published in Copenhagen on the occasion of Andersen's 70th birthday in 1875. Hansen presents the text of "Historien om en moder" together with 21 translations: Russian (translated by Hansen and his wife, Anna), Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Icelandic, Swedish, German, Low German (Plattdeutsch), Dutch, English (from Oscar Sommer's recent translation, London, 1893), French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Armenian, Finnish, Hungarian, Tatar, and Hebrew. French and Russian title-pages; original decorated cloth pasted on covers,preserving the original chromolithographed wrappers designed by Dalkevich, incorporating a portrait of Andersen by the engraver Vasily Matè (1856–1917). Rare book, COPAC locates the British Library copy only.

Album of political cartoons with anti-capitalist and anti-Zionists images.
Author Aron Naumovich Gefter (1894–1963), a graphic artist, graduated of Vilno Art College, Higher Art and Technical College in Moscow, was a student of V. Favorsky and D. Kardovsky. Expressive caricatures of foreign politicians, Russian emigres, fascists; a significant part of the cartoons depicts Zionists, Jewish nationalists and other Jews. Text in Yiddish. Foreword by Moshe Litvakov (shot soon after).
With the inscription of the artist made in 1933.
Condition: Original embossed cloth binding. Stains on the covers. A small loss in the spine. Cracks in end papers.
Very rare book with attractive illustrations.

"Russians are the most talented space researchers and computer scientists in the world. The secret of Russia's future prosperity is in its minds. It is the specialists who will lead your country to the leading powers," — these words of Arthur Clark are not accidental.
Clark's work often traces motives that are somehow connected with the USSR and Russia. For example, in the novel "Dolphin Island", published six years after the launch of Sputnik-1, one of the dolphins is called Sputnik, and one of the main characters is a Russian scientist Nikolai Kazan, who works on Dolphin Island off the coast of Australia, and during his illness his wife comes to him from Moscow. Arthur Clark very kindly welcomed the launch of the first satellite and cosmonaut into space in the USSR. In the USSR, Arthur Clarke was one of the most published Western science fiction writers in Russian and was considered "progressive". Most of his new novels were published almost immediately in the magazine "Technique to the Youth",… Read More

An impressive series of portraits made by an artist who was a witness of historical events changed world history. The portraits depict political figures of the Bolshevik Party — V. I. Lenin, A. M. Kollontai, Ya. M. Sverdlov, A. G. Zheleznyakov, A.V. Lunacharsky and many others.
Yuri Konstantinovich Artsybushev (1877-1952), an artist. In 1898, he entered the architectural department of the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, but did not finish the course. Since 1905, he published a satirical magazine of the democratic direction "Spectator", for which he was sentenced to imprisonment for 2.5 years in a fortress, but was acquitted on a cassation appeal to the Senate. In 1908, he moved to Moscow, being a member of the Moscow Literary and Artistic circle, he collaborated in the magazine "Krivoe Zerkalo", the newspaper "Rus'". He created a series of portraits of outstanding figures of Russian culture. After the February revolution and during the Civil War, he created a series of… Read More