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Series: Looduse kroonine romaan nr. 82. Good condition: front cover has mild edge fraying and multiple creases at corners, back cover shows some soiling, staining and rubbing; internally few occasional fingerprints.
Estonian translation of the novel "Watling's for Worth: A Romance of an Emporium" by a prolific English writer Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955) first published in 1925. In the focus of the novel is a love story set in a London department store and conflict between the social classes. "Watling's is a great London shop and Watling himself, energetic, crusty, self made, but wise and golden hearted". The young aristocrat falls in love with a daugher of self-made merchant Watling, but young man's family disapproves of his relationship. However, he goes agains the will of his parents and Starts to work in her father's shop to prove his worth.
Book's attractive avant-garde cover design created by unattributed artist.

Very good condition; wrappers show some rubbing and color fading to the edges, repaired spine edges and chippings along upper edge of the wrappers; internally few occasional fingerprints.
Quite seldom seen emirgee edition published in London by the Union of Russian Engineers and Technicians in Great Britain formed in the early 1920s. The journal was intended for distribution in Russia, Siberia, Poland, Finland and Baltic States. Its aim and object were to encourage the development of transport, whether by railway, water, air or road, and to acquaint Russian readers with the progress of the British engineering industry and particularly that portion thereof which was connected with mechanical transport. The journal was to be published monthly. In total were published three issues (all in 1922).
Current, the second issue, contains - inter alia - articles on the Junker's metal aeroplanes, the latest developments in locomotive construction, the present types of mining locomotives, the London autobuses,… Leer más

Print run 4000 copies. Finecondition; one small foxing stain on the back wrapper.
An illustrated catalogue accompanying the retrospective exhibition of the most stylish Russian avant-garde artist Vladimir Lebedev's works at the State Russian Museum in Leningrad in 1972. The publication includes an advanced introduction article exploring artist's multifaceted talent, list of 462 exhibits divided into six sections (painting, drawing and watercolors, lithography, book illustration, posters, theatre design), important dates in life and work, list of exhibitions with Lebedev's participation (among which only two personal exhibitions in 1928 and 1967). Catalogue is richy illustrated; constructivist style poster "Worker at the Anvil" on the cover, artist's self-portrait used as a frontispiece, six full-page tipped-in color plates supplement the text, and fifteen full-page black and wtite reproductions printed on coated paper attached at the end.
Vladimir Vasil'evich Lebedev (1891-1967) - significant… Leer más

Swedish language.The exhibition of contemporary French art in Finland was organized by the French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA). It run at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki from 6 to 30 March 1927. The exhibition of 114 works by 33 contemporary artists introduced the latest art trends and was of great importance for the development of modern art in Finland. By this time cubism from the extreme analytical stage with focus on form, entered its synthetic phase with emphasis on subject matter. So the show was not so cubist in orientation as the one in neighbour Stockholm in 1920. The displayed items included artworks by the such prominent French modernist painters as: Pablo Picasso and Jean Metzinger, who presented the new forms of cubism, expressionists Marcel Gromaire, Henry de Waroquier, Maurice Vlaminck, self-taught painter of cityscapes Maurice Utrillo, post-impressionists Paul Signac, Pierre Bonnard, Maximilien Luce, Albert Marquet and Charles Guerin, Dunoyer de Segonzac, who in contrast… Leer más

Near fine condition: cover shows slight bottom- and fore-edge fraying, multiple soft creases across cover corners; internally almost perfect with only few occasional foxing spots.
The first Latvian edition of the Oppenheim's satirical novel "The Inevitable Millionaire's" firstly published in 1919 by A. L. Burt Company. In this funny satire, Oppenheim offers us an argument that has been used in several movies: Two brothers come into a large inheritance with a pre-condition that they need to spend a big amount of money within a month. This novel resembles a great Wodehousian comedy.
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866 – 1946) was an English novelist, a prolific writer of best-selling genre fiction, featuring glamorous characters, international intrigue and fast action. Notably easy to read, they were viewed as popular entertainments. [2]
Avant-garde book cover design by Pauls Šterns (1907 - 1979), well-known Latvian graphic artist and wood engraver.

Print run 500 copies only. Fine condition; bookstore stamp on the back cover, minor darkening to the cover edges.
Danas Pumputis (1913-1980) – poet, journalist. From the second half of 1920s published poetry reviews in Latvian press. In 1931 was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for anti-state activities (as a secretary of an illegal Komsomol organization), after that was deported to Poland, from where fled to Lithuania, where contibued working as a journalist. In 1938-40 headed Lithuanian Writers' Affairs. Published three collections of poems and one novel.
Current, the first poetry book contains verses written during imprisonment in 1932-33. These are imbued with pain, protest, hatred for the ruling regime. Great example of leftist Lithuanian avant-garde.

Print run 50,000 copies. Good condition; creases across upper corners of the wrappers, back wrapper is stained, moisture stains on the outer corners of the front wrapper; internally trace of moisture along fore-edge margin throughout the book gradually disappearing to the beginning.
In 1949 publishing house of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU "Moskovskiy Raborchiy" (Moscow Worker) rated the book "American Gestapo" as "a political pamphlet exposing contemporary American reality" and representing "the transformation of the United States into a fascist-police country where flourishes terror and lawlessness." The manuscript of the book was sent to the Department for Agitation and Propaganda for reviewing. The chapters focusing on the intelligence activities were sent for assessment to the Minister of State Security of the USSR V. S. Abakumov. The conclusions were as follows: "A considerable part of the book is based on the author's conjectures and fabrications, therefore, cannot be used to expose… Leer más

Print run 2,000 copies. Series: Eesti Kirjanduse Seltsi koolikirjanduse toimkond : Noorsoo kirjavara nr. 22 (Committee for School Literature of the Estonian Literary Society : Youth Adult Literature no. 22). Good condition: cover shows extensive foxing and rubbing, missing minor piece of the bottom outer corner of the front cover, soft book-length vertical creaser in the centre of front cover, damaged spine; internally foxing and fingerprints throughout the book, traces of erased pen markings on the title.
First Estonian edition of the collection of stories for children "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" by Oscar Wilde first published in 1888. Like the original English edition, the current book contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket".
Suffering, compassion, egoism, repentance, etc. – are the cross-cutting themes of all the tales included in the collection, but the central story "The Happy… Leer más

Very good condition; cover shows slight soiling, foxing, wear along the edges, wear and bumping at corners; internally occasional foxing and fingerprints, rust at staples, private collector's ex-libris stamp on the title and on the last page, bookstore stamp on the back endpaper.
The book contains nine biographical articles about world famous academics, scientists and inventors: James Watt, after whom is named the unit of power – the watt; Robert Fulton - the inventor of the first steamboat; George Stephenson – the constructor of the first steam locomotive; Humphry Davy - the famous English chemist; Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of Planetary motion; the father of Classical Physics Isaac Newton; the Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam; the French entomologist Pierre André Latreille; and David Livingston, a Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
Edition is beautifully designed. Striking colorful cover created by artist under initials G. A. Text is supplemented with full-page portrait… Leer más

Very Good condition; cover shows slight rubbing, small creases across cover corners, repaired chipped off front cover corners and couple of small chippings on the cover edges, repaired spine ends; internally some minor foxing mainly on the first and last pages, charity association label on the title page.
Current brochure, published by the Ministry of Agriculture and written by the F. Kryshtofovich who served as an agricultural agent of the General Directorate of Land Management and Agriculture of Russian Empire in the North America from 1900-1912, aims to provide information about the American method of constructing and repairing roadways, the use of which should provide invaluable help for the agricultural population in Russia for the transport of goods to the markets. The essence of this method is to transfer hard physical work to the mechanical engines and animals power. Covered all stages of roadways construction, provided a description of equipment and machines with 15 illustrations in the text.

Good condition: mostly uncut book which bottom edge was exposed to moisture, cover shows minor edge fraying, damaged ends of the spine.
An overview of the life and work of the most influential American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) with examples of his poetry. Whitman is considered the father of free-verse and predecessor of futurism, whom Semper puts in line with other distinguished futurists: "Today, poetry of technology and machines is no surprise to anyone. We often come across it: E. Verhaeren, F.-T. Marinetti, V. Majakovski, J. Romains, G. Duhamel and many others have brought to poetry the smoke of factories and the noise and roar of engines, and made these modern topics acceptable." (p. 15) The second part of the book includes a selection of Whitman's poems translated to Estonian by Semper.
Book's avant-garde cover design by Ado Vabbe (1892-1961), the first Estonian avant-garde artist and the most important innovator in Estonian art, whose early works were clearly connected to Futurism.… Leer más

Near Fine condition; soft creases across upper outer corners of the cover, spine and front cover edges show some color fading, few very light stains on the front cover; internally fine, author's inscription on the title.
Gifted Latvian poet, writer, literary critic Pēteris Ķikuts (1907-1937) known for his radical leftist views. Was accosiated with the leftist avant-garde literary circle Trauksme (Alarm, 1928-1930) and other revolutionary editions. In his writings, Kikuts sharply attacked Social Democrats, defended the interests of the revolutionary working-class, and praised the Soviet Union, showing its tremendous achievements in building socialism. Was imprisoned several times in bourgeous Latvia. Because of the persecutions he had fled to USSR in 1932. But fell as a victim of repression (genocide) of the Soviet regime, in 1937 was arrested by the NKVD and shot.
The verses included in this second collection showing strong leftist avant-garde influences are socially inspired by the painfulness… Leer más

According to the exhibition catalogue introduction article Danish painting history dates back to the 18th century. Till then painters were foreigners invited by a king for a work at royal court. The determining role in the art development played foundation of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1754. Until mid of 19th century Danish art followed by the principles of French Classicism without any other influences. Only in the second half of 19th century national motifs began to appear. That's why current exhibition covers the period from about 1880s to the 1930s.
Among the oldest exhibited grand masters, who represented naturalist trends (without French influences) were: Michael and Anna Ancher, L. A. Ring, Vilhelm Hammershöj, Julius Paulsen, Joakim Skovgaard, Niels Larsen-Stevns. J. F. Willumsen was the only among older generation, whose works marked by the French influences and modernist experimentations.
Younger generation of artists was introduced by the group of Funen Painters, who formed… Leer más

Print run 500 copies.Good condition: creases across outer corners and edge-foxing throughout the book, wrappers detached at spine were restappled, cover shows some soiling and staining.
Golubaya Roza (the Blue Rose) was a Symbolist artist association organized in Moscow in 1907. Members included the ideologist of the group Pavel Kuznetsov, Anatolii Arapov, Petr Bromirsky, V. Drittenpreis, Nikolai Feofilaktov, Artur Fonvizen, Nikolai Krymov, Ivan Knabe, Nikolai Milioti, Vasilii Milioti, Aleksandr Matveev, Nikolai Ryabushinsky, Nikolai Sapunov, Martiros Saryan, Serge Sudeikin and Petr Utkin. Their style was inspired by the Russian Impressionist Viktor Borisov-Musatov. The only exhibition of the group was opened on March 18, 1907 in Moscow, and had become a legendary cultural event. The Blue Rose turned pre-eminent due to the fact that its artists managed to figuratively convey the non-material categories of emotions, moods, and deep heartfelt experiences. Having made Neo-Primitivism its part and parcel,… Leer más

Print run 1450 copies. Near fine condition: cover shows some foxing and slight rubbing along the edges, small creases across bottom corners of the cover; internally fine.
The book tells the story about difficulties of two Estonan immigrants in US in the late 1920s. Being affected an impact of unemployment himself, author's own experience became the basis for the story. The protagostist Jaan Kirves leaves Estonia for the USA in 1924. Had been interested in educational science, later his interest turned more to sports. But with those skills he was able to find only occasional jobs such as carpets flapping, participation in boxing fights, there he had met his compatriot. Together they had come to the idea to try out for circus artists, which succeeded and brought them money. However, they money attracted a woman scammer, and they сould have lost all. But the story had a patriotic happy ending – they returned to Estonia with hard earned money and with the awaraness of the importance of homeland.… Leer más

Very good condition; cover shows slight soiling, fore-edge fraying and some creasing along fore-edge, owner's signature to the upper edge of the front wrapper, closed vertical tear (about 8 cm. length) from the bottom edge of the back wrapper and back sheet. Current research work by Russian symbolist and modernist writer, poet, philosopher and scholar Grigory Rachinsky (1859-1939) traces the history of Japanese poetry from the ancient ritual songs until the lyric court poetry, five-line tanka and three-line haiku. Also consedered Japanese light novel monogatari and Japanese drama. The work is extensively supplemented with translations of five-line, three-line and nagauta "long-song" poems. Works by the German translators Karl Rathgen and Otto Hauser, served as sources for the current research. Rachinsky, like many others, who used to devote themselves to the research of Japanese culture at the beginning of the 20th century, tends to draw analogies with European culture in his work. Book's cover… Leer más

Very good condition; cover shows slight soiling and color fading to the edges, creases across cover corners, replaced spine; internally occasional pencil markings in the text.
The first multi-pronged research on public libraries in America published in Russia. It covers their history and legislation, state funding and private initiative, contribution of the American Library Association, education for librarianship (schools of library), internal organization (branches, cataloguing, borrowing, etc.), statistical data, and much more. The author points out that libraies in America have gone far ahead of Russia, so this research could be of considerable practical importance at adopting America's practical experience in Russia. The text is supplemented with numerous photographic images. At the end of the book attached bibliography list of American and German editions.
Charnoluskaya Ekaterina Matveenva (-) of noble origin Russian litterateur, translator, publisher, bibliographer.

Near fine condition; cover shows some foxing (extensive on the back wrapper) and creasing across corners; internally foxing throughout the book (mainly on the outer corners).
The first Latvian translation of Sinclair's novel "The Metropolis" (Latvian edition) with striking avant-garde cover design by S. Vidbergs.
Set in the exciting scene of New York city in 1907, the Metropolis depicts a duality by showing both the glamourous and obscene lifestyle of the rich and the desolate, difficult life of the poor and working class. This contrast describes the cruelty of the rich, often making the poor victims to their greed and selfishness.
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a famous American writer. Though he wrote across many genres, Sinclair's most famous works were novels of social protest and political tracts.
Sigismunds Vidbergs (1890-1970) was an outstanding Latvian graphic artist, member of the Riga Artists' Group (1921- 1925) and Riga Graphic Artists' Association. Until the 1920s he was close to… Leer más

Print run 10,000 copies. Near fine condition; slight wear at spine ends, bumped bottom corners of the cover; internally fine.
The compilation of American poetry containing the poems of many iconic American poets first published and translated into Russian by M. Zenkevich and I. Kashkin. As follows from the compilers' introductory, the collection focuses mainly on the period between 1910 and 1930 that was marked by the dawn of American proletarian poetry movement. It icludes translations of poems by Edvin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vaclel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, John Gould Fletcher, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Walch, Alphred Kreymborg, Louis Untermeyer, Robinson Jeffers, Archibald Mac-Leish, Ernest Hemingway, Michael Gold, Joseph Kalar, A.B. Magil. There are also included ballads and songs by Joe Hill, One-Finger Ellis, Eduard O'Connor, Aunt Molly Jackson, Ben Lucien Burman, Lawrence Gellert, County Cullen, Sterling… Leer más

Very Good condition; cover edges are slightly frayed, creases across cover corners, cover shows some rubbing, multiple creases along bottom edge of back cover, back cover is slightly soiled with moisture stain along the spine; internally slight foxing on the inner side of the wrappers, bookstore stamp on the inner side of back wrapper.
Current travel fiction book about Estonian's job hunting in Chicago was published by Estonian politician Eduard Riisman (Riisna) (1898-1900). He was also editor of magazine "Välis Eesti" (Foreign Estonia) in 1928. In 1940 he became the president of Labour Union.
Excellent modernist cover design and seven full-page illustrations created by artist and book designer Felix Valdman (Valdvere) (1900-1954). He was a student of Estonian famous artist Roman Nyman in 1920s. Later became one of the most significant calligraphers, graphics and book designers.