Propper Grashchenkov (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Study of health protection in the Soviet Union with an appendix 'Notes of a Guerilla Surgeon'. 35 pages. Undated, ca. 1944. First edition, first printing. Slight shelf wear to cover edges, spine reinforced with document repair tape, couple of pencil marks to front cover, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Typographical card covers, stapled, 5 photos pp48. Soviet propaganda published for the New York Worlds Fair 1939. Design B Schwartz. Author Assistant People's Commissar of Public Health. Condition Near Fine marred only by inscribed number to front cover top right corner. Page block tight, bright and clean. Sharp edges and corners.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good+. 35pp With an Appendix 'Notes of a Guerilla Surgeon'. Uncommon. Missing from the British Library.

Hardcover. Condition: g+ to vg-. First edition. Folio. Unpaginated (113 double-sided leaves). Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and yellow circular embossed bas-relief on the front cover (designed by Anna Yuzhakova). Spine with blind-stamped illustration and lettering. Binding protected in modern mylar. Housed in its original blue cloth slipcase, with a circular windowed cutout for the bas-relief. Photo-illustrated endpapers. The title page is a double-page spread with modernist typography and title text appearing in 10 additional languages including Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Georgian, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Uzbek and others. Following the title page are four pages of introductory text, and then a fold-out with woodcut illustrations in black (by Nikolai Piskarev, 1892-1959) showing images of the Russian revolution, revealing photographic portraits of Lenin and Stalin when opened. The work is profusely illustrated throughout with countless photographic images beautifully printed in b/w and sepia-toned gravure. The book's overall design and layout was the work of Yakov Babushkin (b.1907), which displays a wide variety of artistic and conceptual flourishes. Throughout the book are many smaller half-width multipage inserts, artistic insets and fold-outs, as well as extensive photomontages and large double-page spreads. Final leaf contains extensive contributor's credits. The publication features the work of a long list of contributors, including noted photographers such as Olga Ignatovich (1905-1984) and Elizaveta Ignatovich (1903-1983) - both sister of pioneering Soviet photographer and photojournalist Boris Ignatovich, cinematographer and filmmaker Alexander Frolov (1904-1962) and Solomon Tules, among many others. This lavishly produced piece of Soviet photo-propaganda praising the state's maternity and child-care institutions and services. Published on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the department for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy (Okhrana Materinstva i Mladenchestva or OMM), the book showcases the state's initiatives to support mothers and and their young children in the and promote the importance of Motherhood as a vital role within Soviet society. Documented are women's centers, hospitals, early childhood education and summer camps, among countless other state-controlled entities, from across many different republics of the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan). The work one of 5 notable Soviet photo-books issued between 1933 and 1938, focussing on women and women's issues in the USSR. Binding with light bumping and rubbing to extremities, including some light abrading to the very bottom of the front cover. Interior with starting at the interior front cover. Sporadic light staining to the endpapers and interior covers. Persistent light stain along the bottom of the book block visibly affecting the bottom of most pages throughout. Images are otherwise still mostly clean and vibrant. Binding fairly tight overall. Binding and interior in good+ to very good- condition overall. Scarce. Bibliographic reference: Heiting and Karasik, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 (p. 380). A scarce work with only 6 known copies woldwide on OCLC.