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Limited to 600 copies.The Solovetsky Islands (firstly SLON) magazine was the official edition of the management of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camps. It was published in 1924-1926 and 1929-1930. The first issue was released in 17 copies only and was full of political articles (later poems, essays, and tales appeared). Prisoners were most of the authors. The magazine was managed by the OGPU leaders and demonstrated re-educational work under the enemies of the nation. It was declared that the magazine was distributed not throughout the Soviet Union only but even abroad. The typography of the issue is made in an avant-garde style that was unusual for such publications.The issue includes translation from Ovid's The Metamorphoses and the extract from Shelley's Ode to the West Wind (in English). Some authors of this edition were executed in 1938. We couldn't trace any copy of this issue in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.

[Moskva], Otdel tekhnicheskoy propagandy, 1940-1941.Limited to 250 (No. 9) and 500 (No. 11-12 and 4) copies.Rare 'not for sale' specialists book.
On the order of Joseph Stalin, the one of the most famous temples of Moscow, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, was destroyed in December 1931. The demolition was supposed to make way for a colossal Palace of the Soviets. This building, the biggest and tallest in the world, would have become the symbol of the victory of socialism, the symbol of a new country. On the one hand, it was a new temple to the revolution and Vladimir Lenin, new Soviet holy man, and on the other – the symbol of Soviet might and determination to overtake America. The project for the Palace of Soviets was largely changed during the four stages of the competition (1931-33) and after. The architectural contest was won by Boris Iofan and later revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreykh into a skyscraper. Construction started in 1937 and was supposed to be finished in… Read More

London, Williams, Lea & Co., 1945.Signed and inscribed by the author: 'To Madame Buchueva / with greetings from / Clementine S. Churchill / November 1945'.
Baroness Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (1885-1977), a chairwoman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund (1941-1946), arrived in Moscow on April, 2 1945. Her visit, the whole month and a half, took place during the Red Army's offensive operations. Until now, historians are puzzled why Clementine spent so long in the Soviet Union.
Her trip was full of visits to hospitals, factories, children's homes. She met with Joseph Stalin. Meeting the Victory Day in Moscow, Mrs. Churchill spoke on the Moscow radio with an open message from Winston Churchill.
Issued immediately upon her return to Britain, the English version of the booklet My Visit to Russia was distributed throughout Britain, North America and Australia at a price of one shilling. It was printed using cheap materials. In contrast, the Russian edition was printed 'on high quality photographic… Read More

One of 1.500 copies published.
Covers by Mikhail Sokolov (1885-1947) - member of World of Arts movement. He lived in Tver' in the beginning of 20s. In 1923 he destroyed almost all of his works fearing of arrest. He was arrested in 1938.Among the contributors are composer and critic Leonid Sabaneev (1881-1968) who left Russia in 1926, futurist poet Ivan Aksenov (1884-1935) - founder of Tsentrifuga group and author of the first book about Pablo Picasso's art in any language, Boris Arvatov (1896-1940) - one of the founders of LEF movement and Aleksei Gan (1885-1935) - art theorist, his book-manifesto Konstruktivism [Constructivism] published in the same place a year later. MoMA has another Tver' edition of the book with Sokolov's covers – 100 Poetov [One hundred poets], 1922 (Rowell-Wye #436). Hellyer # 788 and back cover, Russian Modernism: The Collections of the Getty Research Institute... #612. OCLC traces several copies of the edition in USA, in Library of Congress (Rare Book/Special Collections),… Read More

Moskva, Iz-vo Inostrnnoy literatury, 1956.In good condition, slightly spotted to the cover, crack and tear to the front cover, usual stamp to the front cover.Copy #324.First and only Russian edition of Campbell-Johnson's Sir Anthony Eden. A Biography (1955).The series of such books were sent out to Soviet authorities according to the special list. Each number in the list corresponds to the number on the cover. It was assumed that after reading every copy had to be returned.
During the WWII, Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (1897-1977) sternly opposed to the Soviet borders as they existed prior to the German invasion in June 1941. On the other side, Eden, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since April 1955, attempted to relax international tension by welcoming to Great Britain the Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolay Bulganin (1956).
Eden's biography was prepared by British Liberal Party politician and journalist Alan Campbell-Johnson (1913-1998).
Very rare.We couldn't trace any… Read More