- Good copy.
= Global Avantgarde Russia 65; Rowell/ Wye 939. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Wrappers creased and worn along spine; fingersoiled and sl. stained.
- Bookblock sl. shaken; backstrip creased.
= Ehrenburg's wife Lyubov Kozintsova was a student at Aleksandra Ekster's art school and later at VKhUTEMAS. She contributed i.a. to Lissitzky's journal Vesch.
- Backstrip worn; some restorations along edges of wr.; annots. on ballpoint on backwr.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Spine neatly restored. A fine copy.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION (by the author) to novelist Vissarion Sayanov. The first book illustrated by Aleksandra Ekster. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Backstrip w. some restorations. A fine copy.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to author Ivan Shmelyov on htitle. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Spine strengthened. = All published. Rare and short-lived artistic periodical.
- A few sm. stamps on wr.
Stroim Sozializm (We build Socialism). No.2. Ibid., Uchgiz, 1931, 47,(1)p., ills. and orig. wr. by "the first artists' brigade of Uchgiz".
- Wrappers fingersoiled and sl. creased. = Political periodical for people with beginning reading skills.
Gershenzon, M. V Boi (To Battle). Ibid., Ogiz/ Molodaya Gvardija, 1932, 40p., ills., orig. wr.
- Frontwr. doubled and w. restorations along spine and corners.
- Wrappers sl. dustsoiled/ dampstained and w. some restorations.
= The publication later got banned in the Soviet Union for unwanted content, i.a. Lenin speaking positively about Trotsky.
Smert' Lenina (Lenin's death). Leningrad, Gos. Izd., 1925, 27,(1)p., ills., orig. wr., sm. 8vo.
- Small number in col. pencil on frontwr. Otherwise fine.
AND 2 others: A. SHOTMAN, Lenin v podpolye (ibid., 1924, orig. wr., sm. 8vo) and P. LISOVSKY (ed.), Lenin v svete inostrannoi pechati (ibid./ Moscow, 1925, orig. wr., sm. 8vo).
- Wrappers reattached; backstrip restored.
= Rowell/ Wye 600; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.64; Leclanche-Boulé 8. Anthology of constructivist poetry by the Literary Centre of Constructivists (LTsK). WITH the insert "Izvestia LTsK" (fold. newspaper, (4)p., 1 ill.). "Its cover was designed by Nikolai Kupreianov, who closely followed Rodchenko's example; the title was exceptionally pertinent at this time of discussion on the status of literature in a Communist society. The book contains an insert, with a newspaper-like format, entitled LTsK News with a montage of photographs of the faces of the principal contributors superimposed on cartoon-like bodies. The joke suggests that the choice of title for the anthology should not be taken as a serious proposition that the Constructivists' plan was in some sense a State-approved plan for literature" (Compton).
Arvatov, B. Iskusstvo i klassy (Art and the Class). Ibid., Gosizdat, 1923, 87,(1)p., orig. wr. (monogrammed "L.N.").
- Wrappers loose and sl. foxed/ yellowed.
= Leclanche-Boulé 163; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.64: "LTsK did not share the extremism of theorists such as Brik and Boris Arvatov, who advocated the extension of Constructivism into Productivism in books such as Production Art and Art and Class."
- Splitting on folds; creased and fingersoiled.
= Awarding comrade Kuznetsov the title of Udarnik (shock worker), in the 4th year of the 2nd Five Year Plan (1936). With nice, somewhat modernist design.
- Partly vaguely waterst. in upper margin; owner's entry on title-p. Wrappers sl. waterst., soiled and creased.
= Rare technical car manual.
Za Rulyom (Behind the wheel). Year 3, no.23. Ibid., Avtodor, 1930, 29,(3)p., ills., orig. wr.
- Wrappers loose(ning).
- Wrappers reattached and sl. soiled; backstrip worn and sl. dam.
= Play dealing with the Bulgarian communist underground, "in comradely consultation with the Bulgarian political emigrants to the USSR" T. Marek and T. Draganov.
Nechaev, A.P. Pamyat' cheloveka i ego vospitanie (Memory of a man and his upbringing). Ibid., Gos. Izd., 1930, 124p., orig. wr.
- Sl. foxed; bookblock and upper hinge broken. Backstrip lacks portion at top.
- Several stamps and annots. on title-p. and frontwr.; mounted piece of paper on verso frontwr. Backstrip dam.
- Wrappers sl. creased and w. some closed tears.
= Rare and short-lived literary periodical. From the library of bibliographer Lev Turchinsky, with his owner's stamp on title-p.
- Wr. sl. worn and fingersoiled; backwr. w. some vague small stamps.
= Rowell/ Wye 248; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.46ff: "The cover has a sober Cubist design by Shterenberg and Fine Art included good-quality photographs of paintings and sculpture by the principal avant-garde artists, uncluding Malevich and Tatlin. It served as a herald of new Russian art in Western Europe, where it bears comparison with the spate of avant-garde journals published in the early 1920s. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Dedication in pen on title-p. Edges of wrappers partly restored (author's initial "V" on frontwr. partly neatly reproduced in pen and ink).
= Aleksandr Konstantinovitch Shervashidze (1867-1968) is considered the first Abkhazian modern artist. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Frontwr. sl. yellowed and creased; backstrip and backwr. renewed.
= Cf. Rowell/ Wye 764. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
AND 3 others, i.a. KATALOG PRINADLEZHNOSTEI BIBLIOTECHNOI TEKHNIKI (Moscow, 1927, ills., orig. wr.).
- Creased, sl. fingersoiled and dogeared.
= Poem on the civil war, written during the author's Kharkov period.
- Spine-ends chipped; wr. trifle yellowed and frayed.
= Rowell/ Wye 598. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.