![AVANT-GARDE CIRCUS] Tsirk i estrada [i.e. The Circus and Stage](/pictures/thumb/657.png?v=1558558577)
#1, 3, 5 for 1926; #20 for 1927; #5, 7, 16 for 1928. Overall 7 issues. Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1926-1928. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine (#3, 16, 20), Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover (#3, both #5), a few spots. Very..... More
![A CATALOGUE OF THE KIROV MEAT-PACKING PLANT] Leningradskiy myasokombinat im. S.M. Kirova /...](/pictures/thumb/850.jpg?v=1573079155)
Leningrad: leningradskaya fabrika ofsetnoy pechati, 1956. [32] pp., ill. 26.8x18.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Closed tear on the upper right corner of the front wrapper. Otherwise near fine. First edition. Extremely rare. The front cover depicts one of the most vibrant examples of the Soviet constructivist architecture..... More
![CONSTRUCTIVIST CLASSICS] Kino-Fot [i.e. Film Photo]. Issue #2 of only 6](/pictures/thumb/686.png?v=1559604214)
8-15 of September, 1922. St. Petersburg: Kino-Fot, 1922. 16 pp.: phot.,. 28x22 cm. Original photomontage wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko who used his wife Varvara Stepanova’s photomontage which juxtaposed a photo of Charlie Chaplin with photos of industrial objects. Very good. A few tears on the spine, rust on the staples..... More
![LIFE OF SANATORIUM] Sbornik, posviashchennyi desiatiletiiu sanatoriia #1 im. 10 let Oktyabrya v...](/pictures/thumb/557.jpg?v=1547033986)
Moscow; Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1935. 63 pp., 21 pl.: ill. 23x30 cm. In publisher’s cloth with stamping. A bleak damp stain on the front board. Otherwise very good/near fine. First and only edition. Very rare. One of 2200 copies. Inscribed by director of sanatorium and editor of album Moisei Bolotner..... More
![MEZHRABPOMFILM] Kto ty takoi? [i.e. Who Are You?](/pictures/thumb/759.jpg?v=1563922374)
Leningrad: Tea-kino pechat’, 1927. Leaflet folded into thirds. 23x15,5 cm. In very good condition. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Very rare. Constructivist design of leaflet was produced by Maxim Litvak (1898-1943), the Soviet graphic artist who created the posters of the silent films..... More
![ORIENTAL RODCHENKO] Soume Scheng. Kitayanka Sume-Cheng [i.e. Soume Cheng, the Chinese](/pictures/thumb/747.jpg?v=1563919747)
Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ, 1929. 149 pp.: ill. Original illustrated wrappers. Uncut. Very good condition. Stamps of the ‘GIZ archive’ with ‘withdrawn’ stamp over it. First and only edition. Construction of the book by Alexander Rodchenko. He was also responsible for the choice of the photographs. The book..... More
![PHOTOMONTAGE ADVERTISEMENT] Zhurnaly izdatel’stva “Fizkul’tura i turizm” na 1933 g....](/pictures/thumb/789.jpg?v=1567042030)
Moscow: Fizkul’tura i turizm, 1932. 17,5x25,5 cm. In a very good condition. One of 25 000 copies. Extremely rare. Leaflet printed in red and black ink with photomontage composition of an athlete before a jump, picture of mountaineering and the emblem of GTO (the Soviet program ‘Ready for Labour and..... More
![SOVIET FILM ART] Kollezhskii registrator [i.e. The Stationmaster](/pictures/thumb/282.jpg?v=1494863214)
Moscow: Mezhrabpom- Rus’, 1925. 16 pp.: ill., photographs. 30,5х22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by I. Bograd. Near fine. Some soiling and slightly rubbed spine. One of 15000. This edition is dedicated to the Soviet silent film which came out in 1925. Scenes from the film with captions followed..... More
![UKRAINE IN THE 1930S] SSSR. 1936 [The USSR. 1936]. Photo-album](/pictures/thumb/762.jpg?v=1563924270)
[68] pp.: photos. 25,5x34 cm. Leather covers tied with a string. Fine. The travel album of Czech professor Ilek Bohuslav who traveled to USSR in July of 1936 with Intourist. The album includes the photographs and postcards bought on the way and dedicated mostly to the southern part of USSR..... More
![UKRAINIAN PHOTOMONTAGE] Za robitnyche zhytlo [i.e. For Workers’ Dwelling](/pictures/thumb/851.jpg?v=1573079824)
#1-5, 6/7, 8, 9/10 for 1931. Kharkiv: Ukrzhitlospilka, 1931. Overall 8 issues. 23,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers: #1-5 with constructivist composition; #6/7, 8, 9/10 with constructivist composition and printed illustration. Rubbed, minor fragments of cover paper lost (#1-2) and stains occasionally (#1, 9/10). Issues were disbound, the covers detached..... More
![PHOTO GRAPHICS BY TELINGATER] Tragediinaia noch’. Poema [i.e. Tragic Night. A Poem]. A. Bezymensky](/pictures/thumb/856.jpg?v=1573081658)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1931. 64 pp.: ill. 18,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored, some creases, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. This is one of the well-known Soviet photobooks and one of the earliest literary works on triumphal projects of the First Five-Year Plan. The poem by..... More
![RODCHENKO DESIGN] Chudesa stroitel’nogo iskusstva / per. c fr. s dop. Pod red. E.V. Blizniaka...](/pictures/thumb/838.png?v=1569967956)
Moscow: Transpechat’, 1926. 230 pp.: ill. 17x11 cm. In publisher’s photomontage wrappers. Very good. Spine is restored, front cover is rubbed, contemporary owner’s marking on the title page. First and only edition. One of 7080 copies. Very rare. Constructivist cover design by Alexander Rodchenko. The book describes various..... More
![AVANT-GARDE CINEMA] Chelovek i kino: Estetiko-sotsiologicheskii etiud [i.e. Mankind and...](/pictures/thumb/283.jpg?v=1494863494)
Moscow: Kino-izdatelstvo RSFSR Kinopechat, 1927. 112 pp. 13,5 x 17,5 cm. Original illustrated photomontage wrappers. Tiny tears of the spine, Georgian stamp on the title page ‘From books of Nico Mitsishvili’. Otherwise very good. Very rare. First and only edition. One of 3500 copies. The constructivist edition by Mikhail..... More
![VARVARA STEPANOVA & MAYAKOVSKY’S COLLABORATION] Groznyi smekh. Okna Rosta [i.e. Menacing...](/pictures/thumb/749.jpg?v=1563920659)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1932. [1], 79 pp.: ill. 25х22 сm. In original constructivist cardboards and dust jacket, both with red and black lettering. Dust jacket is slightly restored, but generally in very good / near fine condition. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Extremely rare in this condition. Brilliant..... More
![THEORY OF PHOTOMONTAGE] Iskusstvo dnia [i.e. The Art of the Day. What to Know In Order to Make a...](/pictures/thumb/855.jpg?v=1573081413)
Moscow: Vserossiyskiy proletkult, 1925. 135, [2] pp. 22x15 cm. Original publisher’s cover. Covers restored, bookstore stamp on back cover, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare. The program work by art critic Nikolay Tarabukin (1889-1956), one of the ideologists of Proletkult, who at the..... More
![KOMSOMOL YOUTH LED INDUSTRIALIZATION] Nashi universitety [i.e. Our Universities]. V. Vinogradova](/pictures/thumb/857.jpg?v=1573081952)
Sverdlovsk [Yekaterinburg]: Uralpartizdat, 1932. 52 pp. 23x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Minor tears of the spine, otherwise near fine. Photomontage cover design shows curious example of Ural constructivism. It’s located on the both covers and features picture of factory. The work was produced by Gennadii Liakhin who..... More