![LITTLE KNOWN LISSITZKY DESIGN] Ijaillit Une Larme [i.e. The Tear Has Appeared]. Alexandr Crein](/pictures/thumb/1234.jpg?v=1617194986)
Moscow: Obschestvo evreiskoy muziki, 1919. 5 pp. 35x26 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor tears, otherwise in good condition. Jewish sheet music piece, the wrapper is designed by Lazar (EL) Lissitzky. Text in Yiddish and Russian. The design by Lissitzky has been done in his Moscow period, which..... More
![MAYAKOVSKY’S REQUIEM FOR LENIN] Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/1163.jpg?v=1612376623)
Leningrad: Gosizdat Krym. ASSR, 1925. 94, [1] pp. 17,2x13 cm. In original printed wrappers with constructivist design on the front wrapper. Very good, restoration of the spine, pale stain near spine throught the book, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, front cover sligtly chipped on the lower margin, covers..... More
![NEW SOVIET STYLE] Novyi stil’ [i.e. New Style]. I. Ioffe](/pictures/thumb/1107.jpg?v=1604438378)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izogiz, 1932. 156, [4] pp.: ill. 17,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, rubbed, tiny fragments of covers lost, partly restoration of spine and front cover. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. Jeremiah Ioffe (1891-1947), Soviet art historian and critic, belonged to a...... More
![AELITA, ONE OF THE EARLIEST FULL-LENGTH FILMS ABOUT SPACE TRAVEL] Aelita. Kino-lenta na temu...](/pictures/thumb/1082.jpg?v=1604424548)
Moscow: Proizvodstvennyy organ Mezhrabpoma Khudozhestvennyy Kollektiv «Rus’», [1924]. 48 pp.: ill. 22.2x19.8 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Spine and edges are slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. This brochure is dedicated to the Soviet silent film classic ‘Aelita’, which came out in 1924 and became a...... More
![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
![MASTER OF THE SOCIALIST REALISM] Deyneka. B. Nikiforov](/pictures/thumb/1016.jpg?v=1595852384)
Moscow: Izogiz, 1937. 121, [3] pp.: ill., 5 ills. 29,5x23 cm. In original cardboards with colored lettering. Very good, minor tear of the spine. Two pencil sketches on the front flyleaf. First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. Rare. A richly illustrated and the earliest monograph on a leading..... More
![VKHUTEMAS AESTHETICS IN ARMENIA] Khorhrdayin Hayastani kerparvestě: 1922-1934 [i.e. The Art of...](/pictures/thumb/1015.jpg?v=1595852232)
Yerevan: Petakan Hratarakchutyun, 1934. [123] leaves. 26x18 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering on the spine and emblem on the front cover. Front cover cracked from the inner side (restored), some foxing on the first pages, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of..... More
![CUBO-FUTURISM IS EVERYWHERE] Noveishie techeniya v russkom iskusstve. Traditsii noveishego...](/pictures/thumb/1013.jpg?v=1595851885)
Leningrad: Izd. Gos. Russkogo muzeia, 1927. 14 pp. 18x14 cm. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Slightly soiled, with minor tear of the spine, overwise very good. This is one of only two issues printed. Rare. The cover design features V. Tatlin’s work ‘Fishermen’. A fragile pamphlet praising Russian..... More
![ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH – LIFETIME EDITION] Golodnyak: [Stikhi] [i.e. Hunger: [Verses]]. A....](/pictures/thumb/997.png?v=1591802665)
Moscow: Tip. TSIT, 1922. [24] pp. 12,8x17,7 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Fine. Rare especially in such pristine condition. First edition. One of 1000 copies. AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF ZAUM VERSES BY THE WELL-KNOWN RUSSIAN FUTURIST ALEKSEI KRUCHYONYKH (1886-1968). The author went down in the..... More
![HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE GROUPS] Khudozhestvennye gruppirovki za poslednie 25 let [i.e. Art...](/pictures/thumb/983.png?v=1591795092)
Moscow: Khud. izd. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 148 pp. 19x13 cm. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. Viktor Lobanov (1885-1970), art critic and writer. He often wrote articles in the periodicals about artists, exhibitions, articles for catalogs of art..... More
![SOVIET PORCELAIN] Khudozhestvennoe oformlenie massovoi posudy [i.e. The Design of the Mass...](/pictures/thumb/937.jpg?v=1582644336)
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ; IZOGIZ, 1932. 145, 2 pp., 1 folding plate.: ills. 25x17 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Very good. Extremely rare. One of 5000 copies. The ceramics and porcelain became the important field for mass art in Soviet Russia in the 1920s-30s. It started in the early 1920s..... More
![GAMREKELI AT HIS BEST] Sharavandedi: Leksebi da p’oemebi. Ts’, 1 [i.e. Aureole: Verses and...](/pictures/thumb/930.png?v=1582642606)
Tbilisi: Samkhedro stamba, 1923. 139, [4] pp. 22.5x15.5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored and slightly soiled, blank lower corners of p. 41-44 lost, some pale water stains and small tears, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A very rare collaboration between two esteemed..... More
![THE MAIN GEORGIAN SATIRICAL MAGAZINE] Niangi: sat’irisa da iumoris zhurnali [i.e. Crocodile:...](/pictures/thumb/927.jpg?v=1582641401)
Tbilisi, 1923-1946. The collection of 564 issues. Complete sets of the year runs: 1931, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946. Incomplete sets (usually lacking few to several issues): 1923-1928, 1930, 1932, 1934-1937. Full descriptions of all present issues are available upon request. This is a collection of..... More
![MAGNIFICENT KLUTSIS-KULAGINA DUO] Iazyk Lenina: Odinnadtsat’ priemov Leninskoi rechi [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/923.jpg?v=1582640276)
Moscow: Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 60, [2] pp.: ill. 19x14,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers restored, pencil marks, pale water stain on the upper inner corner throughout the copy, pale stamp on publisher’s advertising page, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 5000 copies. Constructivist cover design..... More
![KRUCHYONYKH/ILIAZD COLLABORATION] Milliork. Alexei Kruchyonykh](/pictures/thumb/921.jpg?v=1582639596)
Tiflis: 41 degrees, 1919. 32 pp. 22,5x15 cm. Original letterpress design by Ilia Zdanevich. The wrappers used to be folded. Tears and minor restoration, otherwise good. One of approximately 250 copies. The following book is one of the classic examples of the collaboration of the two greats of Russian..... More
Pair of children’s collages, from the first futurist exhibition ‘Mishen’ [i.e. The Target] showing the landscape and the flower. 11,5x19,5 cm and 18x11,5 cm. Provenance: from the collection of architect Nikolay Vinogradov (1885-1980). Both are reproduced in Anthony Parton’s ‘The Art and Life of Natalia Goncharova’ (London, 2010)... More
![RODCHENKO] Den Shi-Khua: Bio-interv’iu [i.e. Tan Shih-hua: A Bio-Interview]. S. Tretyakov](/pictures/thumb/915.jpg?v=1580220409)
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. 392 pp.: ill. 21,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Good. Tears and small losses of the spine, soiling, some pages detached from block, tears and small fragments of margins lost occasionally, ink note on p. 37. Second edition. One of 7500 copies. Very rare... More
![LISSITZKY] Vladimir Mayakovsky: (“Misteriia” ili “Buff”) [i.e. Vladimir Mayakovsky:...](/pictures/thumb/842.png?v=1569969212)
Berlin: Skify, 1922. 56 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with letterpress design. Restored spine, copy faded, otherwise very good. First separate edition. A stunning letterpress design on the front cover was created by El Lissitzky in Berlin period. The crossword motif appeared on several book..... More
![MAYAKOVSKY’S CRY OF THE SOUL] Razgovor s fininspektorom o poezii [i.e. Conversation With A Tax...](/pictures/thumb/827.png?v=1569960326)
Tbilisi: Zakkniga, 1926. 14 pp., 1 ill. 17.6x13cm. In original photomontage wrappers by Alexander Rodchenko. Tear of the spine, four pages are detached, soviet bookselling stamps on the rear wrapper. Otherwise in a good condition. First edition. 1 of 5000 copies. An epitome of Mayakovsky’s inner struggle that had..... More
![THE SHORT-LIVED ARTISTIC CLUB IN TIFLIS] Pavliniy khvost [i.e. The Tail of Peacock] / words...](/pictures/thumb/765.jpg?v=1563925222)
Tiflis, [1918]. 1 leaf. 36x15 cm. Folded in four. The contemporary pencil notes suggest that the leaflet was in use during the meetings of the club. The emblem of the peacock by Boris Ryabov, the art critic and the historian of architecture. The leaflet includes the ‘March of..... More
![SOVIET CITY DEMONSTRATIONS AT ITS BEST] Oformlenie goroda v dni revolutsionnykh prazdnenst...](/pictures/thumb/764.jpg?v=1563925079)
Moscow; Leningrad: IZOGIZ, 1932. 140 pp.: ills. 27x15 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Very good condition, spine is restored with fragments lacking. First edition. Illustrated throughout. Kuznetsova and Magidoon are responsible for the design of the book, as well as the design of many decorations for street celebrations..... More
Devushka s korobkoi [i.e. The Girl with a Hatbox]. Leningrad: Izd. kinoteatra ‘Gigant’, [1936]. Lithographed two-colored leaflet. 20,5x28 cm. Mint. One of 1200 copies. Extremely rare. This is an advertisement of Boris Barnet's film ‘The Girl with a Hatbox’ (1927) for showing it in the largest Soviet movie..... 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
![BORIS GRIGORIEV AND VASILY KAMENSKY] Zemlianka [i.e. The Mud Hut]. V. Kamensky](/pictures/thumb/745.jpg?v=1563919459)
St. Petersburg: Obshhestvennaia pol'za, 1911. 172 pp.: ill. 21,5×17,5 cm. In illustrated wrappers, the original front cover preserved. Restored, some soiling, otherwise good. First edition. Very rare. Cover design and illustrations produced by Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939), the Russian painter and graphic artist whose style was a compromise..... More
Warsaw: PWN, 2018. This amply illustrated reference book on Georgian book design in the 1920s and '30s is based on a broadly representative private collection of a hundred works. It traces the main trends and developments in Georgian book design at that time, and identifies the main artists involved. The book..... More