- Some foxed spots; otherwise fine.
- A few sm. tears in dustwrs. Otherwise fine.
- Title-p. w. brown offsetting. Dustwr. yellowed, sl. brittle and w. num. (marginal) tears and dam. spots, partly rather crudely repaired w. sellotape.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 168. Contains chapters on i.a. Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, J.J.P. Oud and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Frontwr. w. sm. additions in pen and ink; spine and fore-edge frontwr. restored/ strengthened.
- Title-p. and a few lvs. at the beginning w. restorations (mostly) in upper margin. Lacks orig. backwr. and backstrip (neatly replaced w. matching col. paper); frontcover sl. creased and w. restoration in lower corner.
= Rowell/ Wye 106; Compton, Russian futurist books 1912-16, p.126. With literary contributions by i.a. V. Aseev, V. Mayakovsky, B. Pasternak and V. Khlebnikov. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.
- Sl. creased; some sm. annots. on frontwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.142f; Rowell/ Wye 852 and ills. p.237. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
- Wr. chipped and restored along edges; vague stamp on backwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.121 and 125; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 p.82, 86 and 157 note 50: "Rodchenko's fascination with film continued to inspire many of his book covers, including a scheme capable of variation for a series of popular detective stories - Mess Mend or the Yankee in Petrograd (...) - written by Marietta Shaginian under the pseudonym Jim Dollar. For all ten volumes Rodchenko devised a complicated geometric layout combining colour with black and white, by dividing the cover into alternating coloured and black fields carrying white lettering. The central areas vary from cover to cover: they include cleverly cut photographs, including close-ups, reflecting the description to be found on the title page of volume one: 'cinematographic novel'. He chose a different colour for each cover and the series, which came out in 1924, remains most effective, though cheaply produced" (p.82).
- Spine and edges of wrapper restored. Stamp on backwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.121 and 125; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 p.82, 86 and 157 note 50: "Rodchenko's fascination with film continued to inspire many of his book covers, including a scheme capable of variation for a series of popular detective stories - Mess Mend or the Yankee in Petrograd (...) - written by Marietta Shaginian under the pseudonym Jim Dollar. For all ten volumes Rodchenko devised a complicated geometric layout combining colour with black and white, by dividing the cover into alternating coloured and black fields carrying white lettering. The central areas vary from cover to cover: they include cleverly cut photographs, including close-ups, reflecting the description to be found on the title page of volume one: 'cinematographic novel'. He chose a different colour for each cover and the series, which came out in 1924, remains most effective, though cheaply produced" (p.82). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.