Search Results: Titles starting with J from Bookvica

Moscow: Bubnovyi valet; Tipo-lit. N.M. Mikhailova, [1913]. 78 pp.: ill. 22,5x18,5 cm. Modern binding, few first pages are restored (margins, not affecting the text). Otherwise very good. Contemporary notes in pencil in text, including one under Lentulov's composition suggesting a name for it (now known under a different name) - likely done by the contemporary person within the 'Jack of Diamonds' circle. First edition. One of 500 copies. Very rare. "Collection of Essays" (issue 1 and only) was published in Moscow in the first half of February 1913 and was timed to the 3rd and 4th exhibitions of the group in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The main material of the collection was the article by I.A. Aksyonov, "On the Question of the Current State of Russian Painting". In it, the author argues that contemporary young artists are "mostly painters''. These are I.I. Mashkov, A.V. Kuprin, A.V. Lentulov, P.P. Konchalovsky, R.R. Falke and A.A. Exter. Aksyonov, characterizing each of these artists, emphasizes, on… Read More

Tokyo; Osaka: Marusen-Kabushiki-Kaisha, 1910. [2], XII, 596, 6 pp. Original cloth binding, with tape over it. Two private stamps in Russian and Japanese on the title verso. Otherwise good. The third edition of the first Japanese-Russian dictionary written in Japan. The first edition came out in 1906, second in 1908. The earlier Japanese-Russian dictionary was complied in 1857 by Iosif Goshkevich. Rare. No paper copies found in Worldcat.

Paris: La Parade, cop. 1950. [16], 116 pp., 8 ills. 18x11,5 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with title in Russian mounted on the spine. Spine faded, otherwise near fine. A screenplay of the French experimental film Orpheus (1950). The edition is supplemented with photographs by Roger Corbeau (1908-1995) printed on both sides of eight inserts. The copy was signed by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) on the half-title (Cannes, 1954). Cocteau stayed in Cannes from March 18, 1954, to April 9, 1954, presiding over the jury of the Film Festival. The autograph contains a drawing of Orpheus' head turning to Jean's name and the inscription Au très cher ami Joudkevitch, de tout cœur [i.e. To my dear friend Yutkevich, with all my heart]. Sergei Yutkevich (1904-1985) was the only Soviet film director who was awarded the Cannes Film Festival prize for best director three times. In 1946, Yutkevich visited the first festival as a member of the Soviet delegation and came back as a winner in 1954. That year, he… Read More

Berlin: Petropolis, 1924. [2], 104, [12] pp.: ill. 33,5x26,5 cm. In modern cloth binding with original illustrated wrappers mounted. Foxing, edges of half-title chapped, leaf of contents repaired, some soiling, tissue leaves preserved, some with fragments lost. Valuable piece of Jewish avant-garde printed in emigration. Copy #253 of 300. The monograph was written by art critic, graphic artist and theater designer Boris Aronson (1898-1980), one of the pioneers of the international Jewish modernist movement. He was born into a rabbi family in Nizhyn (northern Ukraine). In 1912-1916, he studied at the Kyiv Art University. During these years, he became close to a circle of Jewish students united by an interest of new trends in contemporary European and Russian art and national self-consciousness. He also attended private studios of A. Murashko and A. Exter. His involvement to Jewish art became more large-scale in the Kultur Lige. In its art section he exhibited his works for the first time in the spring… Read More

Moscow: GIKHL, 1931. 140, [3] pp. 19x12,5 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Slightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise mint. First full edition of the well-known literary cycle. Jewish writer Isaak Babel (1894-1940) was born in Odesa. He graduated from the Odesa Commercial School and the Kyiv Commercial Institute. While studying, Babel made his literary debut with a story "Old Shloime" (1913). In the early Soviet period, Babel was under the patronage of M. Gorky and M. Koltsov. In 1921, he worked in the Odesa Provincial Committee, being the producing editor of the 7th Soviet printing house, a reporter in Tiflis and Odesa, at the State Publishing House of Ukraine. It was the period when he began to create the cycle " Odesa Stories". At the same time Babel published in the Odesa periodicals "Lava" [Drift] and "Moriak" [Sailor]. In 1923-1924, the magazines "Lef", "Krasnaya Nov" and other large publications published a row of his stories, which later formed the cycles "Cavalry" and " Odesa Stories".… Read More

Leningrad: Priboi, 1928. 142 pp.: ill.+[2] pp. of ads. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by unknown artist. Rubbed, pale water stains and some foxing, tears of spine with some fragments lost, some pencil notes, bookplate of private Jewish library on rear side of front cover, otherwise good. One of 3000 copies. Russian edition of the first part of Bernard Lecache's trilogy on the suffering of the Jews of Russia and Ukraine during the Civil War - 'Au pays des pogroms' [In the Land of Pogroms]. The first volume, 'Quand Israel meurt' (1927) was translated into Russian by N.I. Iavne. The foreword is written by Iu. Larin. In 1926, the Jewish anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard killed Ukrainian military leader Symon Petliura, accused of starting pogroms earlier. Lecache went to Ukraine as a journalist investigating pogroms. It influenced him to start the trilogy published in 1927-1933. At one time Bernard Lecache (1895-1968) was expelled from the French Communist Party but he was still close to them and… Read More

Leningrad: printed by the author, typography of the Academy of Arts, 1928. 47, [1] pp. 24,5x18 cm. One of 1200 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. First and only edition. The book summarizes the works of Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954), Jewish, Belorussian and Soviet artist, the distinct representative of 'the Jewish renaissance'. Solomon Yudovin was no doubt one of the figures who helped to define and picture the face of Jewish art of the first quarter of the 20th century. As a young man, he participated in the ethnographic expeditions organized by his uncle Semyon An-Skiy (1863-1920) and the Jewish Historical Ethnographical Society across the Pale of Settlement in Ukraine and Belarus. The goal of these expeditions, held in 1912-1914, was to capture the everyday life and culture of the people across the Pale. Yudovin worked as a photographer, artist and secretary, and as a result had collected a lot of data on the Jewish household items,… Read More

Lviv: Ukraine'ka presa, 1934-1937. 23x16 cm. In contemporary covers with handwritten title; most original illustrated wrappers preserved. Spots and water stains occasionally, some images hand-colored, no covers of 1932 issue. Bound set of original interwar children's monthly 'Dzvinochok' published in Lviv in 1931-1939. The periodical was regenerated in small town Rogatyn in 1993. Some cover designs are attributed to well-known graphic artist and caricaturist Edvard Kozak (1902-1992). In 1927-1944, the artist designed hundreds of books and periodicals. He worked under pseudonyms: Eko, Mamai, Hryts Zozulia, Maik Chichka, Avenir Lushniak, Kosy. In particular, at that time he collaborated with the concern "Ukrainska presa" [Ukrainian Press], also known as Ivan Tyktor Concern, by the name of its owner. The enterprise founded several periodicals and book series targeting different audiences - 'Dzvinochok' was among them. This edition was announced as an all-Ukrainian educational, historical, cultural and… Read More

Moscow: Izd. Narodnogo Komissariata Vnutrennikh Del RSFSR, 1927. 120 pp.: ill. 23,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small stains and some tears of covers, some underlines in bibliographical list, otherwise very good. Signed by the author to the Secretary of the Main Administration of Places of Confinement of the USSR, Maria Ivanovna Tikhomirova. One of 2000 copies. Essays on daily life of the Moscow House of Correction for underage criminals (Mostruddom). Published by the NKVD. The book is written by Jewish lawyer Boris Utevskii (1887-1970). In the pre-revolutionary period, he conducted scientific work on the theory of state and law, criminal law. In 1920, Utevsky was invited to work in the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR, and he moved to Kyiv. In Kyiv, he got a job as a secretary of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR. He participated in the creation of the first Ukrainian Criminal Code. In 1923, he moved to Moscow and began to work as deputy director for… Read More