New Books of the USSR: Weekly Bulletin [Novye knigi SSSR: Ezhenedel'nyi biulleten'], 1968–1969 (5 issues)

Item #1661

Moscow: V/O "Mezhdunarodnaia Kniga", 1968–1969. Run of 5 issues: 1968, Nos. 48 (25 Nov) & 49; 1969, Nos. 6 (3 Feb), 7 (10 Feb), & 8 (17 Feb). Each issue approx. 64–80 pp. Original publisher's bright magenta and white printed paper wrappers. Covers vibrant and fresh, with light age-toning along the white margins, minimal edge wear, and faint creasing to spine folds; issue No. 48 with a pale minor spot to the lower front wrapper.

A crisp group of five issues of this official Soviet weekly bibliographic trade bulletin published by Mezhdunarodnaia Kniga, the foreign trade enterprise responsible for the international distribution, export, and licensing of Soviet books and periodicals. Designed primarily for foreign booksellers, research libraries, and Slavonic institutes, each issue provides advance bibliographic notices of forthcoming publications (Gotoviatsia k vypusku) alongside listings of recently printed titles (Vyshli iz pechati). The categorized contents span social sciences, technical literature, natural sciences, belles-lettres, fine arts, sheet music, and children's books, with prominent dedicated sections preparing for the 1970 Vladimir Lenin birth centennial. Notably, the bulletins detail regional press output and polyglot publishing plans across the USSR, recording works issued in Georgian, Belarusian, Yiddish, English, French, German, and Spanish. These bulletins serve as a bibliographic tool for analyzing late-1960s Soviet state publishing quotas, censorship guidelines, and official cultural diplomacy.

Price: $125.00