Search Results: Titles starting with H from Bookvica

Kyiv: Vyshcha shkola, 1974. 88x58,3 cm. Near fine. Design by I. Eshenko. This Ukrainian poster from a print series "Sportivnye igry" [Sports Games] features illustrative instructions to field handball. It contains images of basic options for catching and throwing a ball, actions of a goalkeeper and a scheme of a handball court. This team game had emerged in the Russian Empire in approximately 1909. Both variations of 11x11 and 7x7 players were popular. Since the 1960s, the latter has prevailed - so this 1970s poster is even more interesting. In 1955, the All-Union Handball Federation was created. In 1956, Vilnius hosted the first Soviet Handball Championships, separately for women and men. Soviet national teams joined world competitions in the 1960s. A Soviet men's team first joined the 1960 world games while the women's team first took part in the 1962 world championship. The Soviet women's team won gold in 1982 world competitions. In the 20th century, handball was widespread in Ukraine. In… Read More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1928. 92, [4] pp. 15х12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed with minor fragments of the spine lost, water stains on verso of the covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. Third edition printed the same year as the second. Very rare. Lithographic cover design doesn't indicate any artist, but it is really impressive in showing workers' crowds against a background of factories. The little handbook is written on productive organization of mass performing in workers' clubs. It contains sheet music and lyrics for 34 "vigorous, revolutionary songs", as well as brief instruction on how to get together members of a meeting and make them sing after the event was held, along with participation of an art group and music ensembles. The book was composed by Soviet conductor and pedagogue Iosif Nemtsev (1885-1939). He had been arranging various choirs since the 1900s, including in schools and orphanages. He greatly influenced the Soviet choral music and promotion of the… Read More

Harbin: Iakor', 1927. 217 pp.+7 pp. of ads. 13x9,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Good. Rubbed and soiled, corners of front cover lost, pencil marks occasionally. Extremely rare emigre edition. This handbook contains an orthographic dictionary based on 1917 changes. Prepared in the early 20th century, the reform of orthography was accepted by the Provisional Government in May 1917 and formalized by a Bolshevik decree in late December 1917. In October 1918, all Bolshevik printed matters were forced to switch into new orthography, excluding some "excess" letters and simplifying standards of writing. Despite the fact that professional linguists developed the reform long before the revolution without any political goal, its final introduction by Bolsheviks at the same time as they seized power seriously worsened the attitude towards it. New simplified conventions weren't used in most publications printed in White-controlled territories and at emigre publishing houses. Partly, Russian emigre culture… Read More

Leningrad: Triton, [1930s]. 15 pp. 21,5x15 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Covers detached, small fragments of covers and blank corners of two first leaves lost, otherwise very good. One of 1000 copies. Very rare with no copies located in Worldcat. Sheet music for 'Harvest March' (1929) by V. Mayakovsky. The poem was written on socialist changes in the countryside and the Soviet agricultural organization in general. After NEP, kulaks were denounced as enemies of the nation and collectivization was promoted. This campaign was supposed to reach harvest twice as much and the poem's lines were the slogans. The sheet music was printed as a propaganda piece and spread among amateur art sections in provincial clubs. The music was composed by musician Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky (1903-1971). Contributed to Leningrad and Moscow magazines, he soon became one of the main music critics in the USSR. Also, he wrote over 250 books and articles on the Soviet music and theater.

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosstroizdat, 1933. 211 pp.: schemes. 22.9x15.5 cm. In original publisher's quarter cloth. Loss of the piece of the spine, soiling of the boards, wear to the edges, previous owner's ink inscriptions on the title-page, contents, and p. 5, and boards. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Edited by N. Zapletin. This early Soviet book on heat engineering in the construction of the protective parts of buildings was written by Konstantin Fokin, a Russian engineer and one of the creators of Soviet building heat engineering. Shortly after graduating from the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Moscow Higher Technical School, Konstantin started his scientific activity at the State Institute of Structures in 1927. Together with O. Vlasov, Fokin developed the first Soviet standards for building heating technology, which became the basis of this work. Printed in 1933, the edition contains a detailed description of a number of thermal engineering related issues including… Read More

Tbilisi: Sovetskaya Gruziya, 1961. 477, [4] pp.: ill. 8vo. Original illustrated cardboards. The design of the boards and the illustrations in text are by a collective of three illustrators: O. Kochakidze, A. Slovinski and I. Chikvaidze. The boards are slightly rubbed at the edges. pp. 199-200 are torn with minimum of text missing. The first edition of the first translations of these two Hemingway novels into Georgian. This translation by the classic Georgian translator, Vakhtang Chelidze, remains the only one to the language. This book was re-published in 1976 and 2011. Vakhtang Chelidze (1917-2005) was one of the main translators from English to Georgian in the post-WWII era. His first work was translating Romeo and Juliet to Georgian in 1945; in 1967 he became the head of the important Georgian publishing house which printed this book - "Sovetskaya Gruzia" ("Soviet Georgia").

Moscow: Izdanie museia teatra im. Evg. Vakhtangova, 1937. [18] pp., 7 ills. 16,5x12 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed and soiled, some stains on the margins and ink signature on half-title. First and only edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Very rare. This catalogue is dedicated to museum of the brilliant Russian theatre director, Eugenii Vakhtangov (1883-1922), student of Stanislavsky and founder of 'fantastic realism' method. A lot of theatre experiments were staged inside his rooms. He died before his prominent performance 'Turandot' was premiered and his closest students and friends visited him (already very ill) in the period of rehearsals in this apartment. After his death, the sanctum became the museum. The catalogue lists 116 exhibits including photographs, sketches of costume and stage designs, letters and posters. The book is illustrated with photographs of the director himself, exhibits and room in general. Worldcat shows the copies in Getty Institute and Harvard College.

Moscow: Khud. izd. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 148 pp. 19x13 cm. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. Viktor Lobanov (1885-1970), art critic and writer. He often wrote articles in the periodicals about artists, exhibitions, articles for catalogs of art exhibitions; wrote more than a dozen books about Russian artists. But he entered the history of Russian avant-garde as the author of this important well-known book. This was the first work of such kind combining information on all art groups of the most intense period of life and art of the country. This edition came out right on time because in 1932 an infamous decree about elimination of all art formations and styles but one was established. Worldcat locates paper copies at the Frick Art Library, Yale University, Brown University, University of Chicago, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Pittsburgh.

[Moscow]: Goskinoizdat, 1940. 124 pp.: ill., schemes. 22.9x15.3 cm. In original publisher's cloth binding with faded lettering on the front board. Worn binding, previous owner's markings throughout the copy. Otherwise in a good condition. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 3,000 copies. Edited by V. Tolmachev. Peculiarities of film shooting in motion. This interesting book on the film shooting in motion was written by Yevgeny Golovnya in 1940 and was approved as a textbook for the All-Union State Cinema Institute. The edition, which examines the influence of filming techniques on the artistic, visual, and technical quality of the movie, consists of three sections and elaborates upon such topics as shooting from motion as a pictorial method, development of motion filming, visual interpretation of music, etc. In the book, the author distinguishes four primary types of film shooting - simple panoramas, dynamic plane panoramas, dynamic spatial panoramas, and pseudo-dynamic panoramas - and provides a detailed… Read More

St. Petersburg: Tip. t-va ''Obshchestvennaya pol'za'', 1907. X, [2], 275 pp. 23x16 cm. Original wrappers. Uncut copy. Very good. Few tears of the spine, lacking small piece from the top of the spine. First Russian edition. Morris Hillquit (1869-1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America and prominent labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side. Hillquit was a pioneer historian of the American radical movement, publishing a first serious academic history of socialism in 1903 entitled History of Socialism in the United States. The book would be issued in five English-language editions during Hillquit's lifetime and would be translated into a number of the primary languages of the American socialist movement, including German, Russian, Yiddish, Finnish, and Polish. Two main documents are published in this book - program of the Socialist Party and Socialist Worker's Party. There was an increasing interest in Socialist movement in USA when this book was first published. This… Read More

Tbilisi: sakhelmts'ipo universit'et'is t'ipo-lit'ograpia, 1936. 88, [2] pp.: ill. 36.5x27.4cm. In original publisher's full cloth. A couple of stains on the boards. Otherwise in a very good condition. Without the dust-jacket. Extremely rare. One of 2100 copies. Edited by the university rector, Karlo Oragvelidze (1902-1937). Photographs by I. Panfilov. This photobook features more than 180 prints documenting academic, student and communal life in the oldest university of Georgia and the Caucasus region, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (established in 1918). The edition consists of 4 chapters: General Section; Educational Work; Scientific Work and Preparation of the Scientific Cadres; Socio-Political Work and Community Services. The first section of the album features 16 photographs depicting the rector Karlo Oragvelidze (he was executed a year later), professors Alexander Janelidze and Alexander Tvalchrelidze, pro-rector G. Janelidze, party committee secretary S. Gegenava, head of the… Read More

Moscow: O-vo rasprostraneniya polez. knig, 1892. XII, 77 pp., 10 ill., map. 22.3x16cm. Period half-leather binding. Worn, lower part of the spine lacks a fragment, pre-revolutionary private library stamp (The Library of Prokhorov) on the title-page and p.12. Otherwise in a very good condition. Extremely scarce first edition of the first account of Kate Marsden's travel to Yakutia. Her own book came out in English in 1892. The book tells a story of Kate Marsden (1859-1931), a British missionary, explorer and nursing heroine who trekked thousands of miles across Siberia to find a cure for leprosy. This, at the time, unprecedented journey for a European woman was made 13 years after Kate's first encounter with the disease in Bulgaria (Marsden was sent there to take care of the Russian wounded during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/1878): "The emotions aroused by the sight of two poor, mutilated, and helpless Bulgarians cannot be fully described... my mission in life is to minister to those who received… Read More

Moscow: Izd. M.K.Kh, 1925. 95, [3] pp.: ill., 2 ills. 17x13. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some spots, pale water stains on the first leaves. One of 10 000 copies. Rare. Cover design was produced by Ol'ga Amosova (1888-1965), known as production designer in Khandzhonkov film studio in 1918-1919 and constructivist stage designer of performances by K. Marjanishvili, N. Evreinov and I. Lapitskii in the 1920s. One of the early Soviet books about cremation that was written by the main Russian ideologist of 'fire burial', Gvido Bartel (1885-1943). He enlightened readers in technique and sanitary conditions of the process, gave a short history of cremation in Russia by 1925 and supplemented explanations with illustrations in the text, as well as two pictures on separate leaves. In the pre-revolutionary period, cremation for Russian people was strictly forbidden by the Orthodox Church - the only crematorium was placed in the Far East for Japanese people. In 1918, Bolsheviks stated a… Read More

Moscow: KOIZ, 1932. 2nd ed. 80 pp.: ill. 24x16 cm. In modern quarter leather, front constructivist cover is preserved in the binding. Small losses of the cover restored with paper, small tears of t.p. One of 15060 copies, yet scarce. With 75 photographs and 18 drawings. This is the second edition of the first Russian book on the art of modeling - making three-dimensional models (according to authors first not only in Russian). It is a guide for amateurs on modeling. Authors explain the current state of modeling in the country before and after the Revolution, what models are and difference between model and dummy, types and difficulty levels of building models, how to start building models and what one needs for that, how to build them, how to design scale, necessary equipment, molding and decoration of models, ways to depict nature on model, etc. Interesting that the first part is concluded with warning in capitals: 'Constructor! Build exact models for every project - this is to make it… Read More

Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1947. 87 pp.: ill. In original publisher's printed wrappers. Covers and spine partly detached from block, some rusty stains on back cover, minor tear of spine, otherwise very good. Scarce. First edition. One of the first Soviet works on the typographic production of newspaper headlines written by the leading Soviet theoretician of book production. Written by Boris Vyazemskiy in 1947, this book represents one of the first Soviet attempts at shedding light on the typographic production of newspaper headlines. The edition consists of five sections: newspaper headlines, lettering, its measurement and elements, font, font difference in style, and headline design. In the first chapter of the book, the author concentrates on the newspaper headlines and 'hats' and underlines the importance of the correlation of the two with the content of the material. The following sections focus on typographic means of headline design and methods of their marking. From the typographic systems of… Read More

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1956. 502 pp., 3 tables: ill. 26.6x18.1cm. In original publisher's cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. Dust-wrapper. Fine. First edition. Scarce. One of the most comprehensive Soviet editions to meticulously analyze and interpret peculiarities of book design and technical editing. Written by a collective of 15 authors, the book consists of 3 sections: Elements and means of book design; Design features of various types of publications; Methodology of artistic and technical editing. The first chapter offers a detailed examination of the most important elements in book structure: ornaments, illustrations, fonts, headpieces, tables, etc. The authors pay particular attention to the proper ways of the image arrangement and offer multiple examples of the successful disposition of illustrations from the Soviet practice. The narrative is grounded on the concept of the indissoluble link between book design, technical editing and content of the edition. Consequently, analysis… Read More

Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1929. 127, [1] pp. 22x15 cm. In original publisher's wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities, otherwise in good condition. Scarce. 1 of 5,000 copies. AN INTERESTING SOVIET MANUAL ON THE WAYS OF INCREASING MENTAL ACTIVITY WRITTEN BY THE VICTIM OF SOVIET REPRESSIONS JOSEPH REBELSKY IN 1929. The establishment of the Communist regime posed new challenges to the Soviet Society. Political authorities expected a "New Soviet Man and Woman" to develop qualities that would reflect surrounding circumstances of post-scarcity and unprecedented scientific development. As a result, one of the central places in the 'construction' of the new Soviet society was given to the problem of mental activity and its improvement mechanisms. Against this background, along with the birth of such efficiency-worshipping organizations as the League of Time, the Soviet reality witnessed the emergence of numerous editions dedicated to the subject matter. Written in 1929, this book represents an… Read More

Moscow: Kinopechat', 1926. 75 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Some wear of the wrappers, loss of the small piece of the rear cover, Soviet bookshop's ink stamp on the rear cover, very rare foxing in text, otherwise very good. Rare. First edition of the second book. One of 10000 copies. Despite a general propaganda agenda of the book (newsreel as a weapon of agitation and an ideology form) it presents interesting materials on this specific type of cinema - newsreel. It accompanied by photographs: shooting of Battleship Potyomkin, shooting of Red Square during military parade, 'subbotnik' in 1920, Red Army in 1918, American and English shots - all taken from newsreel. Grigory Moiseevich Boltiansky (1885-1953), Soviet film historian, director, professor, founder of the revolutionary newsreel and one of the founders of Soviet cinematography. He was teaching at VGIK since 1931 where he organized newsreel department. He also founded the first museum of cinema in 1926 under State… Read More

Leningrad; Moskva: Gos. med. izd-vo, 1930. 12.5x17.5 cm. Printed wrappers. Fine. Scarce. First edition. This is the first comprehensive Soviet study of the use of hypnotic suggestion in midwifery and gynecological practice. Printed in 1930, the publication is based on Professor Zdravomislov's 5-year experience of conducting over 1,000 hypnotic sessions at Wideman maternity home and Sestroretsk resort under the supervision of Doctor V. Finne. In the edition, the author proposes an exception or limitation in the use of chloroforms, ethers and other drugs, and instead encourages the use of hypnotic suggestion, especially in gynecology: For every doctor, knowledge of psychotherapy is desirable, but for a gynecologist it is a must. After all, a significant number of women's subjective suffering has a psychogenic basis. The publication consists of 4 sections: Operations (Abortions) under Hypnosis; Childbirth under Hypnosis; Hypnosis Treatment of Indomitable Vomiting of Pregnant Women; and the Use of… Read More