Gorlyak, F. G. Investigator's Handbook (Spravochnik sledovatelya: oboznachenie i naimenovanie ob'ektov i ikh chastey, vstrechayushchikhsya pri sledstvennom osmotre). First edition, 1957. In Russian.

Горляк, Ф. Г. Справочник следователя : обозначение и наименование объектов и их частей, встречающихся при следственном осмотре / составили Ф. Г. Горляк, И. Д. Найдис, Э. Л. Тунина ; под редакцией Г. Н. Новикова. Первое издание.
Москва : Государственное издательство юридической литературы, 1957. 260 с., ил., 1 вкл. л. схем.
Твердый издательский переплет. 17x12,3 см. Тираж 45 000 экз.
Состояние очень хорошее: переплет чистый и крепкий, с минимальными следами времени; блок отличный, страницы без загрязнений, вклейка со схемой тела человека сохранена полностью.
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Gorlyak, F. G. Investigator's Handbook : designation and naming of objects and their parts encountered during crime scene examination / compiled by F. G. Gorlyak, I. D. Naydis, E. L. Tunina ; edited by G. N. Novikov. First edition.
Moscow : State Publishing House of Juridical Literature (Gosyurizdat), 1957. 260 pp., ill., 1 folding plate.
Hardcover. 17x12.3 cm. Print run of 45,000 copies.
Condition very good: binding clean and firm with minimal age wear; text block excellent, pages clean, anatomical folding plate fully preserved and crisp.

Published by the Methodological Council of the USSR Prosecutor's Office, this fascinating 1957 handbook was designed as a visual and terminological dictionary for Soviet criminal investigators. Its primary practical purpose was to standardize the vocabulary used in crime scene protocols, ensuring that every detective across the vast Soviet Union described evidence - from the components of a lock or a horse-drawn carriage to the anatomy of a stab wound - using identical terminology. Conceptually, however, the manual transcends its forensic utility, operating as a structuralist encyclopedia of mid-century Soviet reality. It effectively breaks down the physical world into a homogenous, strictly regulated semiotic system where every object is assigned a definitive, state-sanctioned signifier. The book is heavily illustrated with schematic diagrams of weapons (including daggers and firearms), vehicles, tools, footprints, and clothing, culminating in a large fold-out topographical chart of the human body for documenting injuries. For collectors of Soviet jurisprudence, criminology, and semiotics, this first edition represents a striking intersection of law enforcement mechanics and the bureaucratic modeling of everyday life during the Khrushchev Thaw.