Kobylina, M. The Art of Ancient Rome (Iskusstvo Drevnego Rima). 1939. In Russian.

М. Кобылина. Искусство Древнего Рима. Редактор Г. Бандалин, технический редактор Н. Мурашова, художник Б. Шварц.
Москва – Ленинград: Государственное издательство «Искусство», 1939.
153, [3] с., с илл. в тексте; 8 л. фототипических илл. вне текста. Тираж 5 000 экз. Формат 26 × 17,5 см.
Издательский коленкоровый переплет темно-синего цвета.
Состояние хорошее: переплет крепкий, блок плотный, утрат страниц и таблиц нет. Незначительные потертости и небольшие утраты ткани у головки и хвостика корешка; легкие потертости тканевого покрытия на крышках. 
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Kobylina, M. The Art of Ancient Rome. Editor G. Bandalin, technical editor N. Murashova, designer B. Schwartz.
Moscow – Leningrad: State Publishing House «Iskusstvo», 1939.
153, [3] pp., with illustrations in the text; 8 plates of phototype illustrations. Print run 5,000 copies. Format 26 × 17.5 cm.
Publisher's dark-blue cloth binding.
Condition good: binding firm, text block tight, no losses to pages or plates. Minor rubbing and small losses to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine.

A pre-war Soviet monograph of considerable scholarly and bibliographic interest — one of the very few Russian-language treatments of the art of Ancient Rome to appear before the Great Patriotic War. Its author, Mariya Aleksandrovna Kobylina (1897–1988), was among the most distinguished Soviet specialists in classical archaeology and ancient art: a longtime fellow of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, doctor of art history, and the author of foundational studies of Greek and Greco-Roman sculpture, of Roman portraiture, and of the antiquities of the northern Black Sea coast. Issued in 1939 by the State Publishing House «Iskusstvo» in only 5,000 copies — a small print run by Soviet standards, on the eve of the war — the book traces the development of Roman art from its origins through the late Republic, the Principate, the reigns of the Flavians, Trajan and Hadrian, the Antonine and Severan periods, to its final phase in the third century, with sustained attention to portraiture, relief sculpture and architecture. Russian and Western European scholarship had long treated Roman art as a derivative of the Greek; drawing on the early-twentieth-century reassessments of Wickhoff, Riegl and Strzygowski, Kobylina treats it instead as a coherent artistic system grounded in the historical specificity of Roman society, and her short text — supplemented by eight plates of phototype reproductions and numerous in-text illustrations — remained a standard short Russian-language introduction to the field for several decades. The book is rendered particularly distinctive by the «Искусство» publisher's signature pre-war presentation: fine dark-blue cloth, blue stamped lettering, a blind-stamped profile medallion, the date set in Roman numerals (MCMXXXIX), and a title-page vignette combining the Colosseum and Trajan's Column.