Search Results: Titles starting with G from Bookvica

L'vyv: Nakladom vydavnytstva "Chervona Kalyna, 1929. [24], 160 pp., ill., numerous ads. 23 x 15.5 cm. Both calendar and almanac parts within the book have a title page. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. In Ukrainian. Overall good condition, Wear to the spine and both covers. Front cover partially detached. Numbers "1930" with pen on the spine, stamp "Printed in Galicia" on the front cover. Insides clean. Minor tear to p. 39-40. Cover illustration by Edvard Kozak (1902-1992), an Ukrainian artist most known as a children's books illustrator and a caricaturist. The publisher Chervona Kalyna, active from 1921 to 1939, was created by a joint effort of two military groups: Lehion Ukrayins'kykh Sichovykh Stril'tsiv [Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen] and Ukrayins'ka Halyts'ka Armiya [Ukrainian Army of Galicia]. "Chervona Kalyna" itself stands for the berry red viburnum, a cossack symbol known to any Ukrainian. Chervona Kalyna was led by Galician military officials with Stepan Shukhevych serving as… Read More

Tbilisi: Samkhedro stamba, 1923. 139, [4] pp. 22.5x15.5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored and slightly soiled, blank lower corners of p. 41-44 lost, some pale water stains and small tears, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A very rare collaboration between two esteemed representatives of Georgian art, Iona Vakeli (1900-1988) and Irakli Gamrekeli. This book is probably one of the only examples by Gamrekeli of a series of abstract drawings for a book of poetry. The main motifs are the industrial city, pictured in chaotic lines and odd angles combined with dancing signboards. The work anticipates the design for H2SO4. Interestingly Gamrekeli used the poor quality of paper available at the time to the advantage of his sharp black & white images. Published in 1923, "Sharavandedi" marked a major breakthrough in the career of the Georgian proletarian poet and playwright, Iona Vakeli. Still only twenty-three years old, the Tbilisi State University student had been… Read More

Leningrad: Onkologich. in-t, 1932. 75 pp., 22 pp. of ill. 23.2x15.8 cm. In original publisher's brown cloth. Slightly rubbed at the edges. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. An interesting Soviet edition dedicated to the gastric cancer surgery. Written by the Privatdozent and the employee of the Cancer Institute Alexander Vereshchinsky (1894-) in 1932, this book represents an atlas and explanatory text to the technique of resection of the pyloric part of the stomach in gastric cancer. The edition is the extended version of the article 1119 sluchayev raka zheludka [i.e. 1119 Cases of Stomach Cancer] written by Vereshchinsky and published in the magazine Vestnik khirurgii [i.e. Surgery Herald] in 1929. The great interest shown by readers to the article prompted the author to publish an extended version of the text. The present work provides a systematic description, illustrated with a large number of black and white drawings (47), of individual stages of gastric resections in the form in… Read More

Riga: Literatura, 1927. 3-190, [2] pp.: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Restored spine and wrappers, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the verso of back cover, few pages restored (near the spine or the edges). Very rare. Moscow edition was published the same year, and it's hard to say which one is first Russian translation. Comic novel written by Anita Loos (1889-1981) was first published in 1925 and became a bestseller. Illustrated by Ralph Barton.

Moscow: Der Emes, 1941. 256 pp.: iIl., maps. 22.6x14.9 cm. In original publisher's cardboards. Spine and edges slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. Third edition. ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR GEOGRAPHY MANUALS IN YIDDISH PUBLISHED FEW YEARS BEFORE THE SUPPRESSION OF JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION. In the USSR geography was introduced as a separate subject in school education in 1927. Seven years later, with the adoption of the decree On Teaching Geography in Primary and Secondary Schools the position of geography in the curriculum fundamentally changed. From that time on, the Soviet education system started working on the improvement of the content of the academic subject, as a result of which new textbooks on geography began to appear. In 1935, a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Imperial University and professor of geography, Germogen Ivanov (1868-1941), compiled the famous geography textbook for secondary schools, Geography of Parts of the World and Major Countries (Except for the USSR). The… Read More

Scale 1:1 500 000. Moscow: Izogiz, 1932. 71x52 cm. Very good, small tears of edges, few minor holes along creases, ink notes on upper margin and rear side, pale stamp of inventory cabinet on rear side. Very rare. The general map indicates iron ore mining sites and explored peat bogs in 1930, as well as railways, roads, power stations, large state farms, etc. A colored soil map of the Moscow region is added with scale 1:3 500 000. It is divided into 9 types of soils. Margins display some additional materials and instruments to be cut out. Among them are a list of cities and towns (with population by 1926), a list of rivers and lakes, points of the compass, a chart of degrees, a geological section of the Moscow region, a vertical section of a Moscow borehole, rulers of geographical latitude and distance, and symbols of various settlements to cut out and glue them to the map.

Tbilisi: T'eknik'a da shroma, 1932. 25-48 pp. 28,5x20,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Fine, uncut copy. One of 4000 copies. Rare. The second title of the magazine 'Technology and Life', a monthly technical magazine published by the Central Body of Engineer-Technicians from 1925 to 1929. From 1929 to 1938 it was called 'Teknika da Shroma' [Technology and Labor], from 1939 to 1941 the magazine was issued under the title 'Teknika' [Technology]. Published until 1941, it covered the most important technological achievements of the USSR and other countries, describing industrialization and the building of Socialist Georgia. Apart from that, it published notes on various topics: internal combustion engine, preparation of vinegar, asbestos and its history, etc. Different artists were involved in the design of this magazine, including Kirill Zdanevich who contributed to six issues of 1925, also Armenian-born artist from Tbilisi, Emma Lalaeva (1904-1991), who was hired for design of several issues in… Read More

Tbilisi: Stamba samkhedro komisariatisa, 1924. 32 pp. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of spine lost, some soiling, ink note and marks, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A Cubist portrait of the author by Irakli Gamrekeli on the front cover. This is one of the first collections of Georgian Dadaistic poems which established Grigol Tsetskhlade's role as the main representative of Dadaist ideas in Georgian literature. In 1924 the magazine "Theater and Life" (#2) dedicated an article to the avant-garde poet: "Tsetskhladze is a poetic innovator who is trying to discover new ways..." The interest of the book lies not only in its prioritization of Dadaism, but in serving as a literary granary to many succeeding writers on the Dadaist movement. New Georgian Book Design, 23. Not in the Worldcat.

Tbilisi, 1932. 18 pp.: ill. 30,5x21,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, spine slightly chipped, ink underlinings. One of 6000 copies. Rare. In Georgian. 'Drosha' [Flag] was the main artistic and literary magazine published in Tbilisi from 1923 to 1935. Although initially 'Drosha' was a bimonthly periodical, its frequency fluctuated due to insufficient funds. The first editor-in-chief, the secretary for the Party Committee in Georgia, Mikheil Kakhiani (1896-1937), was executed in 1937 under the terrorism legislation. The design of 'Drosha' changed over the years reflecting the different styles dominant in Georgian art. In the first period in 1923-24, the magazine was dominated by David Kutateladze, who designed the wrappers and the lettering - he was clearly influenced by Ilia Zdanevich's letterpress designs. Also artists Krylov (1902-1990) and Mikheil Gotsiridze (1901-1975) published their experimental works in a couple of issues. In 1925-26, a less inspired period of design, the… Read More

Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Apud Jo. Fridericum Gleditschium [By Johann Friedrich Gleditsch], 1743. [18], 6-32, [16], 2138 columns (i.e. 1069 pp.), [107] pp. Quatro, 23 x 18 cm. Edition novissima [New edition]. Copper engraving of the author's portrait on the frontispiece. Period vellum with embossed gilt spine. Engraved decorative headpieces, tailpieces, initials. In Latin, some Hebrew and Greek. Good condition. Slight damage to the top of the spine. Bookplate pasted down to the front endpaper. Library number in ink on the title, pre-revolutionary library stamp on the title and cols. 43-45, 305-306, 589-590, 793-794, 1037-1038, 1293-1294. Ink and pencil numbers on the front and back endpapers. Minor foxing. Owner's marks on the first pages. Marginalia in ink on col. 1915. The inscription on the bottom margin title, p. 1, 3, 5, 7. reads Ex libris Nicolai Chanenko Signiferi Generalis [i.e. From the books of Mykola Khanenko, the Grand Standard-Bearer]. Mykola Khanenko (1693 - 1760) was a prominent Ukrainian… Read More

Moscow: Detgiz, 1937. [12] pp.: ill. 24,5x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the extremities. Otherwise very good. Lithographed edition. Covers and illustrations by Nina Simonovich-Efimova (1877-1948), Russian Soviet artists, who worked in etching and autolithography techniques; one of the creators of the professional puppet theater in Russia. The Gigantic Turnip is a children's folktale of Slavic origin. It is a cumulative tale where everyone is trying to get out the turnip which grew up too big. It is included in the Aarne-Thompson classification system (#2044). Worldcat locates one copy in University of Oxford.

Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniya, 1930. 120 pp. In original printed wrappers. Partly uncut. Very good. First edition. Scarce. A research on religious dissemination in Soviet schools. The charter of the Unified Labor School in the Soviet Union completely excluded the possibility of teaching the doctrine of Christianity and familiarizing with the rites of a religious cult. One of the criteria for the competition for the best teacher in 1923 was an active desire to eradicate religious prejudice from the classroom. By the end of the 1920s, the wave of the struggle against religiosity among children began to grow rapidly: in 1928, a compulsory anti-religious hour was introduced in schools and the corresponding theme began to fill the ABCs and books in elementary grades. Yet, the teaching corps turned out not to be prepared for the propaganda of militant atheism. Religious beliefs were still strong and many educators attended church, sold crosses to students and convinced them of the divine origin of… Read More

Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1932. 40 pp.: ill. 17x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tear near the staple, previous owner's marks, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. This is an interesting work on the effectivity of the atheist publications in the local Red Army periodicals. The atheism was set as one of the key components of the Soviet man's worldview. The period of the 1920s is characterized by relative freedom for atheist organizations. In 1929, a circular "On Measures Strengthening Anti-religious Work" marked the moment when the propaganda had come under direction of the Communist Party. The existed godless editions were declared weak and insufficient for the mass campaign. The situation had reached the crisis point - the printed media had to change the content and style of texts. An atheist journalist G. Struchkov gave the set of guidelines on how the anti-religious publications should be written. He obliged the journalists to observe the activity of… Read More

Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1931. 44, [4] pp.: ill. 17,5x12,5 cm. In publisher's photomontage wrappers. Very good. First and only edition. One of 10100 copies. Rare. With 15 black and white photographs and recommendations for young artists by Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle. Wrapper design probably by Nesterov. Innokenty Nikolaevich Zhukov (1875-1948) was a famous self-taught sculptor, innovative teacher, writer, a prominent figure in the scout movement in Russia and one of the founders of the pioneer movement in the USSR. As a teacher and favorite of students, Zhukov became famous for his many innovations and active participation in the children's movement - first scouts, and then pioneers. The very word "pioneer" for the participants in the children's movement of the Soviet period was proposed by him. Zhukov took modeling and sketching lessons in fits and starts at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and then in Paris (at the Academy of Antoine Bourdelle), where he went in 1912 on a… Read More

Moscow: TsK sakharnikov, 1926. 30x23 cm. In contemporary binding with most of the original covers preserved; marbled edges. Good. Tears to spine, covers rubbed and bumped. Pp. 17-18 (#9) lost. No covers of #12. Pale water stains on edges, few spots, minor blank fragments of outer edge of pp. 21-30 (#1) lost, tear across pp. 31-32 (#2), tears in the middle of the last leaf of #3 (text not lost), tears to outer edge of pp. 29-30 (#10) and pp.13-14 (#11). Print-run varies between 4000 and 6000 copies. Edited by A. Lugovoi. Drawn decorations were created by the artist, Khitko. A year's set of the specialized monthly "Golos sakharnika" (published between 1920 and 1930). It is one of the few magazines of the Soviet sugar industry, particularly interesting for its design. Early journals on sugar beet production in Russia were published in the pre-revolutionary period and were targeted at sugar refiners, farmers and traders. These included "Zapiski komiteta sakharovarov" (1834-1839), "Zapiski po… Read More