Kazanskii bibliofil. Zhurnal kritiko-bibliograficheskii. Kazan, Izd. Bibliograficheskogo kruzhka 'Druzeĭ knigi', [1921], No.2, only. 206, [2] pp. 1000 copies only.	€275

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4 to, custom made binding by Christina Finnberg of Helsingborg Bindery Workshop (Sweden) under supervision of master binder Henning Hansen (Denmark). Only acid-free material used in the process of preservation.Hand made paper produced especially for this binding by Christina Finnberg. Better paper in mint condition inside.Original wrs. with some loss of paper preserved and bound in. 7 original linocuts by Vladimir Ivanovich Sokolov, ills., vignettes. Magazine edited by Petr Dul´skii, a prominent Russian book and art historian, leading specialist on Russian pulp fiction, bibliographer.An important publication on the history of Russian cultural and book history, history of ideas in Russia of 1920s and history of Russian printing. Due to political reasons publishing of some Soviet provincial magazines was restricted already in 1920s, many published issues were destroyed.Surviving issues were read into pulp or preserved in few academic libraries in Spetskhran section. Not in MOMA, not in Getty, not in British Library, not listed in PPS, not listed in Smits.