Jazz in Minsk after Duke Ellington's tour

DORUZKA, Lubomir

Litso sovremennogo dzhaza [The Face of the Modern Jazz]
Minsk, 1973. £2,350

Fine samizdat, very rare in Russian, of this important study of jazz in the 60s/70s banned in the USSR. No other copies traced.

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Colourful fairy tales - just before the Revolutions

MOOR, Dmitrii (artist) and Aleksei REMIZOV

Storony nebyvalaia [Fantastic Land]
Golike i Vilborg, Petrograd, 1917. £1,450

Complete set of these lovely postcards, illustrating Remizov's fairytale and drawn in late 1916 by a future propaganda artist. In fine condition and rather rare, with no other copies traced in Western libraries.

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Hitler's wrong choice

EFIMOV, Boris, Vladimir GALBA, KUKRYNIKSY and others

Original Drawings for WW2 Soviet Caricature [WITH] Two Soviet Posters in Kyrgyz [WITH] American Poster on Nuremberg Trials
I. [Soviet Union]; II. Tipolit. #1, Kyrgyzmambas (Kirgizgosizdt), Frunze [ie. Bishkek]; III. I & E Service, HQ USFET APO 757 ARM, [Frankfurt?],</p><p>, 1941-1944; 1941; 1946. £5,500

Fine group of original WW2 propaganda Soviet drawings, together with three rare posters on the same theme, including an official US poster listing the results of the Nuremberg Trials. Very rare.

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The great rival: original Soviet caricatures of US policies, especially foreign

DOLGORUKOV, [Nikolai], Mark VAISBORD, V[lad] G[OLBI], Boris EFIMOV and others

Original Drawings for Anti-American Soviet Caricatures
[Soviet Union, 1948-1970s]. £6,500

Fine, important group of original drawings taking aim at American foreign and domestic policies during the Cold War, made for publication in Soviet periodicals. Rarely found in such an extent, and in fresh condition.

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Anti-Israeli political caricatures during the Cold War

SMIRNOV, I[gor], M[ikhail] KUZNETSOV and others

Original Drawings for Soviet Caricatures
[Soviet Union, 1971-80s]. £2,950

Soviet caricaturists taking aim at Israel and the USA, with seven original drawings made for publication in USSR. A fine group of larger format, rarely found.

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American racial discrimination brought to the young USSR

STRIBLING, T. S. and V[era] BARBASHEVA (translator)

Drama krovi [Birthright]
Gos. izd., Moskva-Leningrad, 1927. £1,325

First Russian edition of this novel, very rare, with only one copy traced in the US (Princeton).

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Famous banned satire of the Soviet ideal - in rare samizdat

PLATONOV, Andrei

Kotlovan [The Foundation Pit]
[Soviet Union, after 1969]. £1,650

Platonov's celebrated novel here in an interesting samizdat version, bound like a technical documentation. Banned in USSR and very rarely found in samizdat version. With fine provenance.

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As indicated on the title: "necessary to everybody" in 1917

Politicheskii slovar [Political Dictionary]
Svobodnoe slovo, Petrograd, [ca. Oct-Nov. 1917]. £1,950

Fascinating small-format political publication at a key moment of Russian (and world) history, right after the October Revolution of 1917. Surprisingly unbiased and dealing with many subject matters. Only one other copy traced, in St. Petersburg. First and probably only edition.

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Avant-garde and propaganda

[TATLIN] – PUNIN, Nikolai

Tatlin. (Protiv kubizma) [Tatlin. (Against Cubism)]
Peterburg, Gos. Izdat., 1921. £1,850

Fine example, uncommon such, of the first monograph on the celebrated avant-garde artist and architect. A large-format publication, with 16 plates.

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Black foxtrot in Soviet Union, by a Ukrainian Jewish composer

POLONSKII, Artur Moiseevich and E. GOLSHTEIN (artist)

Dzhaz-Band: Foks-trot [Jazz Band: Fox Trot]
Moskva, Izdanie Avtora [published by the author], 1926. £1,500

Great, large-format cover design for this rare foxtrot music composed by a Soviet composer in the early years of the USSR.

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For the US troops in Northern Russia at the end of WW1

[USA MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. GENERAL STAFF]

Russia. Route Zone B. Southern Routes from Archangel, Information and Route Notes. Archangel-Vologda, Archangel-Kotlas-Vyatka
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1918. £1,750

Invading Russia from the north at the end of World War 1, right after the Revolution: an ambitious and failed project, in which US troops took part. This is the rare official guide for American soldiers on the front - in fine condition.

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With a publication history still unclear

ORVELL, Dzhordzh [George ORWELL]

Pamiati Katalonii [with] Vspominaia Ispanskuiu voinu [Homage to Catalonia [with] Looking Back on the Spanish War]
Rosseels printing, Louvain for "Editions de la Seine, Paris", [c. 1971]. £850

Clandestine, CIA-funded first edition in Russian of Orwell's memoirs about the Spanish Civil War. An important edition with a secret publication history.

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