79 1705 Karasik M Kafka F 
79 1706 Kruchonykh A 
- Spine splitting at foot; wr. sl. yellowed. = Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005, p.88.
79 1707 Lausanne S 
- Owner's entry on title-p. Wrappers sl. creased and frayed; lacks large portion of backstrip.
79 1708 Lebedev V Punin N 
- A few plates reattached/ loosening; final 2 text lvs. bound in between plates.
79 1709 Léger F Ehrenburg I 
79 1709 Léger F Ehrenburg I 
- Wrappers and backstrip sl. creased.
= Rowell/ Wye 401; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.52: "The year 1922 saw increasing exchange of information about avant-garde art between the Soviet Union and Western Europe. Publications printed in Berlin brought up-to-date news to artists in a language they could understand. Thus the writer Ilia Ehrenburg's book - with a striking cover by Fernand Léger composed from stencilled letters and machine-like forms - included information about the pricipal European avant-garde journals (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
79/1710 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus 
79/1710 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus 
79/1710 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus 
79/1710 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus 
79/1710 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus 
- Covers sl. scratched and soiled; lower corners bumped/ sl. dam.
= A report on the USSR's first Five Year Plan and one of the first projects Lissitzky worked on (alongside the propagandist periodical USSR in Construction) after signing a contract with state publishing house Izogis. Lissitzky-Küppers p.96; El Lissitzky, Retrospektive 247; Rowell/ Wye 996; Parr/ Badger, The Photobook I, p.155: "(...) the pace and rhythm of his [Lissitzky's] layouts show both a cinematic influence and a master graphic designer at work (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
79/1711 Lissitzky El Vesch Objet Gegenstand Revue internationale de l'art moderne Year 1 no 1/2 Ed El Lissitzky and E Ehrenburg 
- A few lvs. margins restored; one leaf w. professionally closed tear; first leaf lower corner restored. Spine strengthened; wr. trifle stained; backwr. lacks tiny chip in upper margin.
= Rowell/ Wye 410 and p.196; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p52 and passim; Lissitzky-Küppers p.24: "At the beginning of 1922, Lissitzky collaborated with Ehrenburg in producing the first pro-Soviet periodical, Veshch ('Objet'), published by the Skythen-Verlag. Here Lissitzky could make his new typographical ideas become concrete facts - thanks to highly-developed printing techniques. (...) The pages of the journal were architectonically arranged, and all the resources of the type-case were employed to catch the reader's eye and to give emphasis to the contents. The striking effect made by the typographic composition of the cover (a floating Proun in red) is created by the colossal tension in which the letters are held counterpoised on the coloured background. Few cover designs produced since then bear comparison with these first fruits of Lissitzky's typographical genius." Bolliger III, 242: "Zeitschrift der russischen und europäischen avantgarde, die sich zur Aufgabe setzte: "Die in Russland Schaffenden mit der neuesten westeuropäischen Kunst bekanntzumachen und 2. Westeuropa über die russische Kunst und Literatur zu informieren"." Only 2 issues were published (no.1/2 and 3), although a fourth and a fifth were announced. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
79 1712 Lissner E 
- Sl. foxed/ waterst. and occas. trifle mouldy. Backstrip strengthened w. paper; backwr. w. some closed tears and dam. spots.
= Beautifully illustrated somewhat in the style of Ivan Bilibin. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
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.