77/ 435 [Russian avant-garde]. Chernikhov, J. Ornament. Kompozitsionno-klassicheskie postroenia (The Ornament. Compositional-classical constructions). Leningrad, the author, 1930 (frontwr. dated 1931), 222,(5)p., 8 col. plates w. ornaments, num. ills., orig. wr., large 4to.

- A few annots. and sm. stamps on backwr.; backstrip sl. worn.

= The second book publication by modernist architect Yakov Chernikhov in which he laid out his inventive architectural ideas. Rowell/ Wye 857; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.142: "(...) it was a practical textbook aimed at students (...) and it seems remarkable today for its myriad of geometric conceits generated without the help of a computer". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.