323 - 372 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT-GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
= Partly based on the writings of Giorgi Nikolaevich Leuchtenberg, a colonel in the regiment, originally intended to be published in 1919, which was thwarted by World War I and the Revolution. Richly illustrated monumental work on military history. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VI.
- Backstrip strengthened and chipped at spine-ends. Otherwise fine.
= The Russian edition of Malerei, Fotografie, Film (Munich, 1925; Bauhausbücher 8) with a different cover design. Parr/ Badger I, p.92; Rowell/ Wye 851.
- Owner's stamp on verso htitle; sl. fingersoiled and stained. Lacks backstrip.
= 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".
- Dedication on first free endpaper. Joints sl. rubbed.
= Lavrentyev, Perekryostki russkogo avangarda p.346. Album containing striking images of the Moscow subway.
= Very rare Polish language wall calendar. With the dates of the official holidays in Soviet Russia listed below.
- Trifle waterst. and spotted; a few tiny marginal tears and strengthened spots on verso.
= Polonsky 851. Showing Piotr Wrangel, general Joffre and the international bourgeoisie attempting to turn the muslim population of Soviet Russia against the Red Army. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VIII.
- Doubled; sl. dustsoiled; one sm. tear/ portion loose(ning) in lower right corner.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VIII.
- Wrapper neatly restored along edges.
= The English and French language edition (simultaneously also published in Russian). All published. Rowell/ Wye 474 and p.160/ 161. Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.98. Overview of Vladimir Lebedev's poster designs for the Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA, in his bright and distinctive style characteristic for his illustrations in S. Marshak's children's books. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
- Sl. creased; a few sm. marginal (closed) tears.
= Civil war time caricatural poster based on Repin's Volga Boatmen. Text in Ukrainian. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
- Some vertical folds; edges creased. = Probably by Konstantin Rotov (1902-1959).
- Binding scratched and worn along extremities; corners showing; paper over spine partly flaking off.
= Exhaustive overview of revolutionary and civil war-era posters, at the end containing a catalogue with 845 entries. With brightly coloured plates reproducing works by i.a. V. Lebedev, D. Moore, V. Deni and M. Cheremnykh. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
- Edges creased; a few sm. closed tears and restored spots.
- Stamps on title-p. Some rubbed spots on frontwr.
= Collection of articles on the events that took place in Nizhnyj Novgorod surrounding the 1905 Revolution.
AND 1 other: I. NECHAEV, Revolyutsia 1905 goda v Nizhegorodskom kraye (ibid., 1931, plates, orig. boards).
- Bookblock of vol. 2 loose and sm. stamps and annots. on backwr.
= Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 p.145f. Nikolai Punin was one of the main theorists of the Russian avantgarde.
- Wrappers sl. fingersoiled; frontwr. vol. 2 lacks slim portion of lower corner.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VII.
- Backstrip sl. dam.; wr. trifle scratched. Otherwise fine.
= Collected lectures at Sverdlovsk University. Karl Radek was responsible for organizing communist underground movements abroad, i.a. in Germany. He fell victim to the great stalinist purges of the late 1930s and his publications were banned (and destroyed). Very rare.
- Sl. foxed; new endpapers(?).
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to "Mevrouw Sjoukje van der Minne avec les hommages de [signature]. 15.11.27. Paris" on first blank, in the author's distinct calligraphic style. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE X.
- Wrappers sl. creased and w. some stamps and markings.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. This issue with i.a. images of the cardboard puppets constructed and photographed by Stepanova and Rodchenko for S. Tretyakov's children's book Samozveri (1926).
AND 1 other issue of NOVYJ LEF (year 1927, no.10. Cut short w. loss of most of the word "Novyj" on frontwr.).






































