1693 - 1734 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
79 1713 Livshits B 
79 1713 Livshits B 
79 1713 Livshits B 
79 1713 Livshits B 
- Internally fine; wr. sl. frayed and w. some restorations.
= Rowell/ Wye 67. The final vol. from a series of books by futurist literary group Hylaea, published by the Burlyuk brothers in Kherson, near their family estate. David Burlyuk took the opportunity to publish his series of drawings Chetyre Zhenschiny (Four Women), as a supplement at the end of the work. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
79 1714 Malevich K Punin N 
79 1714 Malevich K Punin N 
- Wr. sl. fingersoiled and stained; sm. price stamp on backwr.; backstrip sunned; spine-ends worn.
= First edition, with the original cover by Malevich. One of the few examples of colour lithography by the Suprematist artist, composed while he was at UNOVIS, where Lissitzky was working on his Proun images. Punin's essay calls for a renewal of Russian art, putting forward a more dynamic avant garde. Rowell/ Wye 306 and p.151 (illustration). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
79 1715 Mayakovsky V Katanyan V 
- Binding trifle rubbed.
79/1716 Ogonyok N 40 
79/1716 Ogonyok N 40 
- One collage lacks a small part of the first "O" in Ogonyok.
= Two variant designs (not used?) for an October 1926 issue of the periodical Ogonyok (published between 1923 and 2021). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
79/1717 Organizuyte Detvoru Mobilize the children Year 1 no 3 Ed E Glatman 
- A few sm. library stamps. Vague fold in frontwr. Otherwise fine.
79/1718 Photography Sovetskoe foto Year 3 no 2 and year 4 no 17 19 
79/1718 Photography Sovetskoe foto Year 3 no 2 and year 4 no 17 19 
79/1718 Photography Sovetskoe foto Year 3 no 2 and year 4 no 17 19 
79/1718 Photography Sovetskoe foto Year 3 no 2 and year 4 no 17 19 
- One issue foot of spine sl. dam. Otherwise fine.
79 1719 Posters Anonymous 1st half 20th cent 
= Very rare Polish language wall calendar. With the dates of the official holidays in Soviet Russia listed below.
79 1720 Posters Anonymous 1st half 20th cent 
= Titled in Polish. The young man seated on a fiery red horse (symbolizing the Revolution) holding an open book reading "Proletarians of All Countries, Unite" in Russian. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
79 1721 Posters Denisov V N 1893 1946 
- Sharp horizontal fold.
= Caricatural poster showing Józef Piłsudski as king of Poland, with white army chief Boris Savinkov kneeling at his feet. The word Krul' phonetically spelt as the Polish word for king (król). A satirical poem by Demian Bednyj (= E.A. Pridvorov) below. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
79/1722 Rabis No 45/46 
- Bookblock sl. trimmed; stamp on first leaf and frontwr.
= Official organ of the Union of Workers in Fine Arts (the name being an acronym of "Rabotniki Iskusstv" (Workers in Fine Arts)).
79/1723 Radio vsem Radio for all Year 1925 no 1 3 and 7 year 1926 no 2 year 1927 no 21 year 1929 no 1 2 12 and 18 Continued as Radiofront Year 1937 no 17 19 and 23 
79/1723 Radio vsem Radio for all Year 1925 no 1 3 and 7 year 1926 no 2 year 1927 no 21 year 1929 no 1 2 12 and 18 Continued as Radiofront Year 1937 no 17 19 and 23 
- Wrappers partly frayed and split(ting) along spine; year 1925, no.3 lacks half of backwr.
Radio slushatel' (The Radio Listener). Year 1928, no.3, 7, 8 and 15; year 1929, no.7 and 18/19. Ibid., N.K.P.T., 1928-1929, 6 issues, ills., orig. unif. wr., 4to.
= Partly w. interesting typography/ design.
79 1724 Rodchenko A Ehrenburg I 
- Dam. spot in backwr. professionally restored.
= Khan-Magomedov p.141; Rowell/ Wye 714 and p.215; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.90 and ill. p.80. For the frontcover, Rodchenko used the same photograph as he had used for Mayakovsky's Syphilis (1926). "The superlative quality of the printing shows up the poor quality of the earlier Syphilis which had been printed in Tiflis. No doubt this is because the publisher of Erenburg's theoretical discussion about film was Film-press (Kino-pechat') which evidently had access to superior equipment." (Compton). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
79 1725 Rodchenko A Mayakovsky V 
79 1725 Rodchenko A Mayakovsky V 
- Backwr. trifle creased/ fingersoield and w. sm. stamp. Otherwise fine.
= Rowell/ Wye 662 and p. 214; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.90f: "Rodchenko also began to play more serious 'games' with photography. For the cover of Mayakovsky's poem, dramatically named Syphilis, he printed a woman's head in negative and continued the metaphor in the photographic illustrations. For instance, opposite page ten, a small man - printed positively - raises his hat to the woman's head - seen in close-up and printed in negative - which dominates the page." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
79/1726 Rodchenko A Novyj LEF Year 1927 no 2 Ed V Mayakovsky 
- Sl. creased and vaguely waterst. in lower corner. Spine restored.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
79/1727 Rodchenko A Novyj LEF Year 1928 no 1 Ed V Mayakovski 
- Stamps and annots. on verso frontwr. and first leaf; lower margin final lvs. (incl. backwr.) sl. frayed.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
79 1728 Sel'vinsky I 
- Occas. vaguely waterst. in upper inner margin; bookplate on upper pastedown. Otherwise fine.
= Rowell/ Wye 847.
79/1729 Theatre Rabochij i Teatr The worker and the theatre Year 5 no 29 32 34 and 41 
79/1729 Theatre Rabochij i Teatr The worker and the theatre Year 5 no 29 32 34 and 41 
- No.32 wr. foxed/ stained; no.41 bookblock w. sm. tear and wr. sl. dam.
= No.34 devoted to Japanese Kabuki theatre.
79 1730 Tyrsa N Bakrylov B 
- Bookblock loose in quires.
79 1731 Vekstein L 
79 1731 Vekstein L 
79 1731 Vekstein L 
79 1731 Vekstein L 
- Wrappers sl. (ink)stained; spine-ends worn; sm. owner's entry on frontwr.
= Nice series of studies in human shape and motion (i.a. dancers and musicians) in a somewhat cubist style. Little could be traced on the author.
79 1732 Yefremin A 
79 1732 Yefremin A 
- Frontwr. sl. waterst. in lower corner and w. some sm. restorations.