The article is an extract from a report delivered by the author on 11/27/2014 and 12/23/2014 at the Moscow Club of Bibliophiles at the meetings dedicated to publications of the 1930s - 1950s (the style of oral speech in the publication is preserved). The article contains a description and 96 characterization of some book rarities that appeared in the Stalin era (1930s - early 1950s). More specifically, we are talking about publications that can be divided into two groups. The first of them includes books that have been published, but are extremely inaccessible even to collectors. These are "[The Letter] To the Great Stalin from the Belarusian people" (1936), I. Stalin "On the foundations of Leninism. On the issues of Leninism" (1949), I. Stalin "On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union" (1949, 5th edition), I. Stalin "Report on the draft Constitution of the USSR. The Constitution (Basic Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (1949). The second group includes models of unpublished books: Volume VI of the "Archive of A.M. Gorky" (1949) and M. Gorky "Poems" (1950). In addition to special bibliographic information, the article provides a number of observations concerning the poetics of collective "Letters to Comrade Stalin", the fate of writers and cultural figures who participated in the compilation of these "Letters", the peculiarities of the publishing and censorship policy of Stalin's time. The article includes information that may be interesting and useful not only to bibliophiles and bibliographers, but also to specialists in humanities: literary critics, historians, cultural scientists, archivists, book historians.
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