Search Results: Titles starting with N from Bookvica

29, [2] pp., 9 pl. 22x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears and rubbings of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop's stamp and pen markings on the rear cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Extremely rare. One of 1150 copies. First and only edition. Published by History Society of Kaluga. With 9 photographs. Gamayunshchina was a territory on the right bank of Oka river near Kaluga. The name comes from 'gamayun' - the nickname of a person with any peculiarities in speech, other than local speech. It turns out that on the territory of the Kaluga right bank, thanks to historical conditions, developed a special way of life, its own talk, its own costume, differing from neighboring localities. Even though villages in this area existed since 16th century, this is the first attempt to study its ethnical differences. Worldcat locates copies at Columbia, Harvard, Ohio State University, Washington University, Library of Congress.

Moscow: Muzgiz, 1963. 275 pp.: music scores, 84 ills. 29,5x23 cm. In original cloth with letterpress design. Pale water stain on front cover, small hole in cloth of back cover, minor spots on lower margins of few pages, small tear of lower margin of ill., otherwise very good and clean internally. First edition. One of 2000 copies produced. An interesting and well-illustrated cyclopedia on musical instruments of ethnic groups of the USSR. Compilers divided materials into seven sections, uniting neighboring republics with similar instruments. Each researcher is responsible for particular chapters. The work was headed by musicologist Konstantin Vertkov (1905-1972). Born in the Altai region, he enrolled at the Leningrad State University. In 1930, Vertkov graduated with a major "Ethnography of the Turkish Peoples" and was sent to the Central Museum of the Uzbek SSR in Samarkand. Returning to Leningrad in 1932, he began working as a senior researcher in the Department of the History of Musical Culture and… Read More

Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Vsesoyuznogo instituta eksperiment. medetsiny, 1934. 139 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Some general wear of the wrappers, small cracks of the spine. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Very rare. One of the milestone textbooks and second published book on neurogenetics by Sergei Davidenkov (1880-1961), an outstanding clinician and founder of Russian clinical neurogenetics. In 1930s he worked with Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) in All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad. Davidenkov adopted Pavlov's physiological teaching to explain various neurological symptoms and was instrumental in popularizing it among Russian neurologists. Throughout his career Davidenkov's scientific work mainly focused on hereditary neurological diseases. He introduced the term 'neurogenetics' and was one of the first to formulate a concept of the anticipation phenomenon. By means of careful genealogical inquiry and meticulous clinical examination he recognized the… Read More

Tbilisi: Zarya Vostoka, 1937. 4 pp.: ill. 67,5x43 cm. Copy folded in four, small tears along folds and on edges, a small hole in p. 3-4 (text is affected), otherwise good. A special issue of the Transcaucasian ideological newspaper "Zarya Vostoka" dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD. "Zarya Vostoka" as the organ of the Central and Tbilisi Committees of the Communist Party had been published since 1922. In 1991, the periodical changed the title for "Svobodnaia Gruziia" [Free Georgia], printed in Russian as previously. The publication was ceased in 2011. The issue promoted the work of individuals who in history are strongly associated with Communist secret police and the concept of the Great Terror. It features portraits of N. Ezhov, L. Beria, S. Goglidze and F. Dzerzhinsky, also a group photo of party leaders, taken by F. Kislov. He was one of Stalin's favorite photographers. The edition lists NKVD members awarded the Order of Lenin. Among them are organizers and executors of… Read More

Full set for 11 years (1962-1972). Overall 132 issues in 22 cloth bindings (original blue wrappers preserved). Occasional foxing, damp stains (vol.2 1968), front cover damaged (#12 1968). Otherwise very good. Novy mir is one of the oldest monthly literary magazines in modern Russian. It has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It's base was Izvestiya publishing house, and in the first year it was edited and supervised by A.V. Lunacharsky and Yu. Steklov. At first, Novy Mir mainly published prose that approved of the general line of the Communist Party. In the early 1960s, it changed its political stance, leaning to a dissident position. The words ''Novy mir'', ''Tvardovski's magazine'' became symbolic, causing delight and respect among some readers, and gnashing of teeth among others (especially in official instances). A lot has been written about those years, about that edition, its fate, including on the pages of the magazine. Tvardovski's Novy Mir is one of the brightest pages in the… Read More

Warsaw: PWN, 2018. This amply illustrated reference book on Georgian book design in the 1920s and '30s is based on a broadly representative private collection of a hundred works. It traces the main trends and developments in Georgian book design at that time, and identifies the main artists involved. The book boasts two bilingual introductory essays. The first is by Pavel Chepyzhov, a collector, bookseller and the founder of Bookvica, who has dedicated a number of years to the study of this topic. Presented in Russian and English, it explores the links between Georgian designers and the Russian avant-garde movement, revealing the influence of artists such as Ilia Zdanevich and Alexei Kruchyonikh. The second essay, by the art historian, Qetevan Kintsurashvili, is presented in Georgian and English, and explores the subject in the wider context of the Georgian art off the period. Each item in the collection merits a full illustrated description. All the people involved in the production of the works… Read More