1738 - 1823 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
78 1778 Kruchenykh A 
- Spine splitting and w. some restored spots.
= Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34, p.58. From a series of publications inspired by Sergei Yesenin's suicide. "The dramatic incident shocked the literary world - particularly young Communists who had admired the 'hooliganism' of his poetry - and the event subsequently inspired a great deal of material for publication; Kruchenykh used the event as the excuse for at least six books" (Compton).
78 1779 Kukryniksy Bednyj D = E A Pridvorov 
78 1779 Kukryniksy Bednyj D = E A Pridvorov 
- Fine copy.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "[in Russian:] With great love and respect. Kukryniksy. 5 May 1935 Moscow" on first free endpaper. Artists' collective Kukryniksy (an acronym of the members' (sur)names) was formed by Mikhail Kuprianov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolai Sokolov. This book prob. signed by Sokolov.
78 1780 Kusikov A 
78 1780 Kusikov A 
78 1780 Kusikov A 
- Library stamp on title-p. Wr. rather heavily foxed. = Rowell/ Wye 453.
Val'dman, V. Voina (War). Leningrad, Krasnaya Gazeta, 1930, 216p., (photomontage) ills. and orig. wr. by V. BRODSKY.
- Sl. yellowed. Wr. rubbed and sl. worn. = Anthology of (European) World War I literature.
78 1781 Lissitzky El Arkin D ed 
- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper and title-p. Dustwr. dam. at top of spine and backcover and sl. frayed.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 168. Contains chapters on i.a. Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, J.J.P. Oud and Frank Lloyd Wright.
78/1782 Lissitzky El Na stroike MTS i sovkhozov At the construction of MTS and State Farms Year 2 no 2 
- Spine strengthened w. cloth.
= Periodical devoted to agriculture in the Soviet Union, published as a division of USSR in Construction. Special issue on horses and horsemanship.
78 1783 Lissitzky El Sel'vinsky I 
78 1783 Lissitzky El Sel'vinsky I 
- As often without the fold. suppl. leaflet; owner's entry on title-p. Frontwr. rubbed (image sl. eroded).
= Lissitzky-Küppers 121 and p.93; El Lissitzky, Retrospektive 217; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.93; Rowell/ Wye 750 and p.215. For the frontcover Lissitzky used his photographic double-portrait of Hans Arp.
78/1784 Lot of 10 odd issues of periodicals 
78/1784 Lot of 10 odd issues of periodicals 
- A few sm. tears/ stamps etc.; one issue wr. loose(ning).
= All w. illustrated wrapper design. Contains issues of Osodviakhim (2x), Golos Rabotnika, Spartak, Rabotnitsa i Krestyanka (2x), Iskra (2x), Stroika and Krasnaya Niva.
78 1785 Mayakovsky V 
78 1785 Mayakovsky V 
- Spine splitting; wrappers sl. creased and foxed.
= Rowell/ Wye 482 and p.164; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005, p.58. Contains caricatures of Raymond Poincaré, Mussolini, George Curzon, Józef Piłsudski, Hugo Stinnes, Samuel Gompers and Emile Vandervelde, accompanied by satirical verse. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.
78 1786 Mayakovsky V Katanyan V ed 
- Orig. frontwr. sl. frayed, dam. and stained.
= Rowell/ Wye 988 and p.165; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.11. Overview of Mayakovsky's life and work as an artist.
78/1787 Nauka i Tekhnika Science and technology Year 8 no 61 
- Spine splitting.
78 1788 Pamphlet Library on the Soviet Union 
78 1788 Pamphlet Library on the Soviet Union 
78 1788 Pamphlet Library on the Soviet Union 
- Box badly dam./ worn and crudely repaired w. tape.
= Series of brochures published on occasion of the New York World Fair of 1939-1940. Karasik/ Heiting, The Soviet Photo Book p.462f: "The contents of these brochures cover all spheres of life in the USSR. Their authors included well known writers, actors, architects, scholars, heroes of labour and conquerors of the North (...). The brochures display a high quality of printing - some of the covers have Congreve embossing and colour engraving, in the illustrations extensive use of photographs and wood engravings, the latter created specially for these publications by eminent Soviet graphic artists (...)". With contributions by i.a. S. Marshak, S. Eisenstein, A. Stakhanov, A. Zhitomirsky and M. Gromov.
78 1789 Pasternak B 
78 1789 Pasternak B 
- Spine-ends chipped; edges of wrappers sl. frayed and creased.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.
78 1790 Pasternak B 
- Both vols. owner's entry on htitle; vol. 1 w. some underlining at the beginning. Bookblock trifle warped.
= The second printing of a Russian language edition of Pasternak's novel, published by the CIA under the name of a non existing publisher's house in a handy pocket format, in order to be spread within the Soviet Union. It is not unlikely a considerable number of copies were confiscated and destroyed.
78/1791 Perezvony Chimes No 5 7/8 12 20 23 24 29 30 33 34 and 42 
- Wrappers sl. yellowed and worn; no.7/8 wr. loose; a few library stamps; no.33 paper ticket on frontwr.
= Literary-artistic periodical primarily published for Russians in Latvia. Initially a weekly, it gradually evolved into a monthly. A total of 43 issues was published between 1925-1929.
78 1792 Photography Gvaita V 
78 1792 Photography Gvaita V 
- Final lvs. creased. Boards sl. darkened/ soiled.
78 1793 Photography Harry A and Cassil L 
78 1793 Photography Harry A and Cassil L 
- Joints and spine-ends worn.
= Commemorative album of the manned balloon flight of balloon SSSR-1, which reached a height of 19 km. into the stratosphere on 30 September 1933. Karasik/ Heiting, The Soviet Photobook p.334ff: "The endpaper is particularly successful, despite the fact that the photograph of people gazing skywards is to a considerable aspect actually drawn".
78/1794 Photography Illyustrirovannaya gazeta The illustrated newspaper No 29 31 70 71 75 79 81 83 86 88 91 and 93 
78/1794 Photography Illyustrirovannaya gazeta The illustrated newspaper No 29 31 70 71 75 79 81 83 86 88 91 and 93 
78/1794 Photography Illyustrirovannaya gazeta The illustrated newspaper No 29 31 70 71 75 79 81 83 86 88 91 and 93 
- All but two issues w. a few filing holes; no.70 worn/ dam.
= Illustrated weekly published by the Pravda state newspaper. Nice layout and design.
AND 12 others, i.a. an issue of SSSR NA STROIKE (1940, no.10. Loosening; lacks backwr.) and issues of SOWJETUNION (1957-1963).
78 1795 Photography Kol'tzov M ed 
78 1795 Photography Kol'tzov M ed 
- Lacks ±10 lvs. (supplied in photocopy); manuscript schoolprize on verso first free endpaper. Binding sl. worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Special issue of the periodical Ogonyok devoted to Transcaucasia, presenting a sunny and happy image of the land that brought forth the Great Leader. El Lissitzky 1890-1941 Retrospektive p.295; Rowell/ Wye 1045; Karasik/ Heiting, The Soviet Photobook p.396ff.
Spartakiada narodov SSSR 1956 (The Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR). Moscow, Fizkul'tura i Sport, 1957, no pagination, num. photogr. ills., orig. cl. w. (dam./ worn) dustwr., 4to.
78/1796 Photography Sotzializma Pobednyj Stroi The Victorious Construction of Socialism 
78/1796 Photography Sotzializma Pobednyj Stroi The Victorious Construction of Socialism 
- Wr. sl. creased; dam. spot in upper corner frontcover (removed ticket).
= Karasik, The Soviet Photobook p.166. Album dedicated to newly created industrial centres of coal-mining and metallurgy in the Ural regions, in layout and design somewhat reminiscent of USSR in Construction.
78 1797 Posters Anonymous 1st half 20th cent 
- Doubled; one closed tear, reaching ±5 cm. into image; sl. creased; sm. (partly erased) annots. in upper blank corners.
= Civil war time poster alluding to the prodrazvyorstka ("food apportionment"), the confiscation of grain surplus and other agricultural products at fixed prices, in order to feed the urban population and Red Army, as part of Lenin's policy of "war communism". The poster warns that reluctance to cooperate with the prodrazvyorstka will eventually result in being harassed and pilliged by the White Armies (ironically, a form of treatment likely to be inflicted by the bolsheviks themselves upon unwilling peasants). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVI.