Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.

Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.

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  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
  • Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.
Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.

Golubev, V. G. The Young Dog Handler (Yunyi sobakovod). Osoaviakhim USSR, 1939. First edition. In Russian.

$150.00

Голубев, В. Г. Юный собаковод.
Москва: Редиздат ЦС Осоавиахима СССР, 1939.
116 с.: ил., черт., схем.; 21 см.
В издательской иллюстрированной мягкой обложке.
Первое издание. Редкость.
Состояние: хорошее. Издательская обложка с возрастной желтизной, разводами и пятнами от влаги (особенно на задней крышке), потёртостями и небольшими утратами по краям, заломами уголков. Блок крепкий, страницы пожелтевшие со следами лисьих пятен по полям, текст, схемы и фотографии чёткие, полностью читаемые. 
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Golubev, V. G. Yunyi sobakovod [The Young Dog Handler].
Moscow: Redizdat TsS Osoaviakhima SSSR (Editorial-Publishing Department of the Central Council of Osoaviakhim USSR), 1939.
116 pp.: illustrations, drawings, diagrams; 21 cm.
In publisher's illustrated soft wrappers.
First edition. Rare.
Condition: good. Publisher's wrappers with age-toning, damp-staining and spotting (more pronounced on the rear cover), edge wear with small chips and creased corners. Text block firm; pages toned with light foxing to margins; text, diagrams, and photographic illustrations remain crisp and fully legible throughout. 

A scarce pre-war manual of Soviet service-dog training aimed at the young members of Osoaviakhim — the Society for the Promotion of Defence, Aviation and Chemical Construction (Obshchestvo sodeistviia oborone, aviatsionnomu i khimicheskomu stroitel'stvu, 1927–1948) — the mass paramilitary organization that prepared millions of Soviet citizens for war and was the direct predecessor of DOSAAF. By the late 1930s the Soviet military dog programme, anchored at the Central School of Military Dog Breeding ("Krasnaia zvezda") at Kuskovo, had built up a sophisticated doctrine of training messenger, sentry, sapper, sled-medical, and anti-tank dogs, and Osoaviakhim's youth clubs were the main feeder system for that effort. Vsevolod Golubev's manual — issued on the eve of the Winter War and the Great Patriotic War, in which Soviet service dogs would famously locate over four million mines and evacuate tens of thousands of wounded — covers selection of breeds (especially the East European Shepherd then under development), kennel construction, feeding, basic and advanced obedience, and the specialized commands required for defence work, illustrated throughout with diagrams of equipment, harness, and field exercises. Books from the Redizdat TsS Osoaviakhima imprint had high attrition rates (heavy use by club instructors, fragile wrappers, paper rationing during the war) and pre-war first editions of this manual are seldom encountered intact.

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