![Item #1291 [EL LISSITZKY AND HIS PHOTOMONTAGES] SSSR na stroike [i.e. USSR in Construction] #...](/pictures/thumb/1291.jpg?v=1634125904)
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo SSSR, 1932. 48 pp.: ill (including 2 folding leaves). 41,5x30 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed, minor tears of spine and edges of covers, pale water stains on inner lower corner throughout copy, minor soiling of lower margin, otherwise very good. An issue of the striking..... More
![Item #1395 [A PARADE EDITION - SOVIET SHOCK-WORKERS] Stalinskoe plemia stakhanovtsev [i.e. A...](/pictures/thumb/1395.jpg?v=1658794465)
Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo izobrazitel’nykh iskusstv, 1936. [2], XX, 71, [1], 72-82, [2], 83-86 pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 29x30 cm. In original cloth binding with a flap of the back cover, with silver lettering and blind debossed image on the front cover, silver design on the spine; publisher’s blind logo on..... More
![Item #1292 [ONE OF THE LEADING BOOK DESIGNERS IN THE SOVIET UNION IN THE 1920S] 920-1928....](/pictures/thumb/1292.jpg?v=1634126021)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1929 (Moskva: tip. «Krasnyy proletariy»). 154, [6] pp. 18x13.6 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust-wrappers by Boris Titov. Tears to the dust-wrappers. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 2,000 copies. Dust-wrappers by Boris Titov (1897-1951), a Soviet graphic..... More
![Item #1304 [THE CIVIL WAR] Semen Proskakov: Stihotvornye primechanija k materialam po istorii...](/pictures/thumb/1304.jpg?v=1634128237)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1928. 51 pp., 6 ills. 21x14 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine repaired, some stains, minor tears of edges of oversized covers, p. 3-14 detached from text block, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. The book is written by futurist poet..... More
![Item #1476 [KONASHEVICH] Sto oktiabriat [i.e. One Hundred Little Octobrists]. I. Belyshev](/pictures/thumb/1476.jpg?v=1660924020)
Leningrad: Lenizdat, [early 1930s]. 20 pp.: ill. 18,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of edges, stains occasionally, original black and white illustrations colored by hand. Very rare. Brilliant children’s book about the practice of waste paper gathering and involvement of little octobrists in it. Soviet..... More
![Item #1417 [SHARK FISHING IN THE SOVIET UNION] Promysel akuly, lov i obrabotka [i.e. Shark...](/pictures/thumb/1417.jpg?v=1658799192)
Moscow: Snabtekhizdat, 1932. 53, [2] pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears of the spine with minor fragments lost, creases of the back cover, p. 54 soiled, pale private stamps on the title page and p.54, pencil marks on margins and colored pencil number on the back..... More
![Item #1059 [A STUDY OF THE BOOK COVER] Oblozhka knigi: Opyt istoricheskogo issledovaniia. I....](/pictures/thumb/1059.jpg?v=1601554848)
Leningrad: Izdanie Akademii Khudozhestv, 1929. 120 pp.: ill., 1 ill. In original cardboards. Very good. First edition. One of 600 copies. Very rare. Cover design produced by the author, graphic artist Georgy Brylov who contributed to the Soviet design of books and posters and wrote 5 works about his..... More
![Item #896 [HOW TO DESIGN A BOOK] Osnovy oformleniya sovetskoy knigi [i.e. Basics of the Soviet...](/pictures/thumb/896.jpg?v=1576162819)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1956. 502 pp., 3 tables: ill. 26.6x18.1cm. In original publisher’s cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine. Dust-wrapper. Fine. First edition. Scarce. One of the most comprehensive Soviet editions to meticulously analyze and interpret peculiarities of book design and technical editing. Written by a...... More
![Item #1022 [LETTERPRESS ABC] Uchenik-naborshchik [i.e. Typesetter Apprentice]. I. Vie](/pictures/thumb/1022.jpg?v=1595853325)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1927. IV, 80 pp.: ill. 23x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Bumped edges of oversized covers, small tear of the spine and a few spots on front cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. First and only Russian edition. One of 3000 copies. Cover design..... More
![Item #1025 [CONSTRUCTORS OF THE NEW WORLD] Liudi 30-kh godov [i.e. People of the 30s]. Iu Zhukov](/pictures/thumb/1025.jpg?v=1595853874)
Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1966. 575 pp.: ill., 32 ill. 20,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated full-cloth with lettering on the spine; in original illustrated dust-wrapper; illustrated endpapers. Very good, small fragment of the spine lost, covers slightly rubbed. First edition. Solomon Telingater’s later yet brilliant book design. Resembling the..... More