![Item #1515 10 let Uzbekistana [i.e. Ten Years of Uzbekistan] / editorial board: M....](/pictures/thumb/1515.jpg?v=1663092529)
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ; IZOGIZ, 1934. 238 pp+2 separate leaves.: ill (see below for specification). 29x24 cm. One of 2200 copies. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cover. Cloth box with lid. Book: near fine condition. Case is in good condition, with few bumps and..... More
![Item #1519 30 dnei: Illiustrirovannyi ezhemesiachnik [i.e. 30 Days: Illustrated Monthly] #11 for...](/pictures/thumb/1519.jpg?v=1663098594)
Moscow: Zemlia i fabrika, 1929. 94 pp.: ill. + 2 pp. of ads. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine rubbed, with fragments lost, occasional minor stains on pages, otherwise very good. A characteristic issue of the monthly “30 Days” published 1925–1941. From 1926 to 1930 the magazine..... More
![Item #657 [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
Moscow: Partiynoe izdatelstvo; 1ya Obraztsovaya tipografiya, 1932. 32 pp. 22x15,3 cm. Original photomontage wrappers. Very good condition, pale water stains on rear side of covers and last leaf. Spine is slightly restored. Contemporary ink marks and corrections occasionally. The designers are not named in the book itself (except for..... More
Moscow: Der Farband, 1932. 20 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from the text block, tears to spine, small pieces of paper glued to the first and last pages, otherwise very good. One of 4000 copies. In Yiddish. An issue of the first..... More
Moscow: Zhurnal’no-gazetnoe ob’edinenie, [1934]. 80 pp.: ill., 10 plates with illustrations mounted. Leaves of tissue paper announce preserve the titles and artists’ names. Restored, otherwise very good. A special Central Asian issue of the magazine “Ogonek”, a copy from a limited special print-run bound in red cloth with blind..... More
Moscow, [1933]. 38 glass plates in individual paper wraps; in red cardboard box with title on piece of paper mounted. Slides in very good condition. Box rubbed, bumped and soiled, with tears, pale stamps and stickers. An excellent example of Soviet educational slides for use in workers’ clubs. This..... More
![Item #1508 Kommunarka Ukrainy [i.e. Communist Woman of Ukraine] #40, 48 for 1932](/pictures/thumb/1508.jpg?v=1663082630)
Kharkiv: Kommunist, 1932. 30x22 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. In very good condition. Small tear to front cover of #40, covers of #48 almost detached with fragments of edges lost, minor tears of edges. Two issues of an early Soviet periodical for Ukrainian women demonstrating excellent experiments in..... More
Ivanovo-Voznesensk: Izd. “Reklamprovintsii” pri gaz. “Rabochii krai”, 1925. [1-22], 25-123, [6], 135-240, [2], 241-355 = 356 (of 355 indicted) pp.: ill. 26x35 cm. In original full-cloth binding with blind lettering. No half-title. Spine and few leaves restored, endpapers renewed. Some soiling, otherwise very good. Rare provincial edition. Striking..... More
![Item #747 [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
![Item #1525 [PAPER MEMORIAL TO LENIN] Peredovye otriady – Leninu [i.e. From Vanguard Groups to...](/pictures/thumb/1525.jpg?v=1666180881)
Moscow: Rabochaia Moskva, 1924. 40 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Foxing occasionally, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Rare. Notable constructivist cover design reproduces Lenin’s portrait. It was created by Leonid Mezhericher (1898-1938), an artist and photographer who was known as an initiator of the Soviet..... More
![Item #1048 [PARADE EDITION BY RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Soviet Aviation](/pictures/thumb/1048.jpg?v=1601548185)
Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939. 96 pp.: ill. 40x26 cm. In original full cloth with lettering and design on the front cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Slightly soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Illustrated throughout with photomontages and photographs by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova... More
Tiflis: Tipografiia ZKV zhel. dor. 1929. [2], 55 pp.: ill. + [2] pp. of ads. 26x23 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design and the theater’s logo. Modern back cover and spine. Front cover, title page and few other pages repaired, minor occasional stains, otherwise very good. First and only..... More
![Item #1580 [VARVARA STEPANOVA] Smena [i.e. Shift] #4, 9, 19 for 1931](/pictures/thumb/1580.jpg?v=1673275907)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 33x24,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. #4: Rubbed, bottom of spine lost, small hole in blank part of back cover (ad on rear side affected), some soiling of covers, pencil note on back cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. #9: Spine slightly chipped..... More
Moscow: Sovetskaia literatura, 1933. 259 pp.: ill. In original constructivist wrappers and photomontage dust-jacket. Dust-jacket restored, covers rubbed and bumped, otherwise very good and clean copy. One of 5000 copies. Edited by a constructivist poet, Eduard Bagritskii. An almanac relating to the phenomenon of Soviet working communes. It..... More
[Moscow, Paris], 1933. [32] c.: ill. 42x30 cm. In original photomontage covers. Horizontal crease (due to folding copy in half), spine and tears to last leaf repaired, otherwise very good and clean. In French. Soviet photomontage propaganda produced for the benefit of the French proletariat. It was announced..... More
![Item #1505 Za rubezhom [i.e. Abroad]. #5-6 for 1931; #1-2 for 1932 / edited by Maxim Gorky and...](/pictures/thumb/1505.jpg?v=1663077748)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo khudozhestvennoy literatury; Krasniy proletariy, 1931–1932. Original illustrated wrappers. Minimal restoration to the spines, loss of the lower fragment of the spine of issue #5–6, otherwise good. Two issues of the important propaganda magazine. The periodical was founded in 1930 on the initiative and under the..... More
![Item #1514 Za sanitarnuiu oboronu i.e. For Sanitary Defense] #2 for 1936](/pictures/thumb/1514.jpg?v=1663095129)
Moscow; Leningrad: [Biomedgiz], 1936. 24 pp.: ill. 29,5x22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine repaired, minor tears to edges (few of them repaired), otherwise a very good and clean copy. An issue of the mass monthly published by the Executive Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies..... More
![Item #1470 [PHOTOMONTAGE AND PUSHKIN] Pushkin v Tsarskom Sele (Literaturnaia progulka po Detskomu...](/pictures/thumb/1470.jpg?v=1660921461)
Leningrad: Izd. Ekskursionno-lektorskoi bazy OBLONO, 1929. 55 pp.: ill., 4 ills. 17,5x12,5 cm. In original wrappers with the organization’s mark and lettering reproducing handwritten title. In very good condition, pale water stains on covers, rubbed, 1920s stamps of the Central bureau of local lore. First edition. One of 2000..... More
![Item #1435 [SOVIET PHOTOMONTAGE SATIRE] Elektricheskoe kreslo [i.e. Electric Chair]. A. Arnoux](/pictures/thumb/1435.jpg?v=1660816037)
Moscow: Ogonek, 1925. 40 pp. 14,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Ink signature on front cover, otherwise very good. The only work by the author that was adapted to Russian. The Ogonek book supplement #54 presented a work by French novelist and screenwriter Alexandre Arnoux (1884-1973). Small books, published..... More
![Item #1601 [PHOTOMONTAGE OF THE THAW] Kak gaika tolknula gruzovik [i.e. How a Nut Propelled a...](/pictures/thumb/1601.jpg?v=1673279328)
Moscow: Detgiz, 1959. 56 pp.: ill. 29х23 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Covers rubbed, pages slightly soiled, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Design by S. Zus’kov. Photographs are provided by Vladimir Kuz’min. Children’s photomontage book on production of trucks at the Moscow factory called after Likhachev (ZIL). The..... More
Leningrad: Lenoblizdat, 1935. 60 pp., 5 ills. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of covers along edges and some corners of pages restored, few tears, some soiling of title page, otherwise very good. Photomontage front cover design features a female worker in a textile factory and a...... More
![Item #1489 [AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY] Oshibki i neudachi negativnogo protsessa [i.e. Errors and...](/pictures/thumb/1489.jpg?v=1660931948)
Moscow: Gos. izdat. khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1930. 159, [5] pp., 6 ills. 19x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Rubbed, with small tears of spine and oversized covers, soiling of back cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. Third edition, occasionally revised. Front and back covers feature positive and negative images..... More
![Item #283 [AVANT-GARDE CINEMA] Chelovek i kino: Estetiko-sotsiologicheskii etiud [i.e. Mankind...](/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
![Item #1581 [VARVARA STEPANOVA & MAYAKOVSKY’S COLLABORATION] Groznyi smekh. Okna Rosta [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1581.jpg?v=1673276047)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1932. [1], 79 pp.: ill. 25х22 сm. In original constructivist cardboards and dust jacket, both with red and black lettering. Dust jacket restored, some stains on covers, some foxing occasionally, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 3000 copies. The last Mayakovsky’s project he compiled himself. The book..... More