![SUKHAREV TOWER AND MOSCOW STREET LIFE] Abdulka. A. Shul’gin](/pictures/thumb/1315.jpg?v=1634132168)
Moscow: Novaia Moskva, 1924. 48 pp. 18,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Pale water stains, minor tears of oversized covers, otherwise very good. Signed by the author on the title page. First and only edition. One of 8000 copies. Very rare. Cover design was created by Galina Chichagova (1891-1967)..... More
![COVER DESIGN BY VASYL YERMYLOV] Za tamtoi bereg...: Zbirka [i.e. Beyond the Far Shore:...](/pictures/thumb/1306.jpg?v=1634128569)
Kiev: Rukh, 1933. 141 pp. 18,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of oversized covers, fragments of spine lost, stamps and marks of library of the Union of Soviet Writers of Ukraine (was a part of the Union of Writers of USSR and was reorganized in 1991) on t.p., p...... More
![THE CIVIL WAR] Semen Proskakov: Stihotvornye primechanija k materialam po istorii grazhdanskoj...](/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
![STRAKHOV: PERIODICAL FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS] Student revoliutsii [i.e. Student of the...](/pictures/thumb/1294.jpg?v=1634126364)
Kharkiv: Derzhavne vydavnytstvo, 1925. 65 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of spine and back cover with fragments lost, blank corner of p. 21/22 lost, Soviet stamp ‘Press’ on front cover, otherwise uncut and very good copy. One of 5000 copies. In Ukrainian and Russian. An..... More
![ONE OF THE LEADING BOOK DESIGNERS IN THE SOVIET UNION IN THE 1920S] 920-1928. Stikhotvoreniya...](/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
![EL LISSITZKY AND HIS PHOTOMONTAGES] SSSR na stroike [i.e. USSR in Construction] # 10 for 1932](/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
![COMMUNIST EDUCATION: EL LISSITZKY] V pomoshch partuchebe [i.e. Aiding Party Education] #12 for...](/pictures/thumb/1286.jpg?v=1634131716)
Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1930. 30 pp. 25,5х17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tear of spine, small upper outer corners of covers lost, otherwise very good and clean. Constructivist design was produced by one of the key avant-garde artists and founders of Jewish modernism, El Lissitzky (1890-1941). The cover features..... More
![TELINGATER FOR STALIN] Otchetnyi doklad XVII S’ezdu Partii o rabote TsK VKP(b), 26 ianvaria...](/pictures/thumb/1064.jpg?v=1601555538)
Moscow: Partizdat, 1934. In two volumes. 11,5x8 cm. In two original red full-cloth bindings; metal plates with embossed name lettering on both front covers; silver lettering on both spines. Shelf worn, small tear of the spine of the 2nd volume, otherwise very good. Very rare with no copies..... More
![BANNED EDITION. TELINGATER’S DESIGN] Programmy i ustavy vazhneishikh partiy II Internatsionala...](/pictures/thumb/1063.jpg?v=1601555438)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1929. 240 pp. 20x13,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine chipped, some foxing on recto and verso of t.p. One of 10 000 copies. The edition was banned, according to ‘List of books to be excluded from libraries and book trade chain’ (1961). Interesting example of..... More
![HOW TO PRINT NEWSPAPER WITH GLASS LITHOGRAPHY] Rukovodstvo po tekhnike pechataniia gazety...](/pictures/thumb/1062.jpg?v=1601555318)
Moscow: Kolkhoznaia mnogotirazhka, 1932. 40 pp.: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, an uncut copy. First edition. One of 12 000 copies. Rare. The illustrated handbook on planographic vitreography was compiled for printers and editors of kolkhoz newspapers. High-run newspapers were published by scientific and educational..... More
![A STUDY OF THE BOOK COVER] Oblozhka knigi: Opyt istoricheskogo issledovaniia. I. Proiskhozhdenie...](/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
![COVER DESIGN BY RODCHENKO] Kniga o knigakh: Dvukhnedel’nyi bibliograficheskii zhurnal [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1058.jpg?v=1601554740)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. 80 pp.: ill. 25x17 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Covers and spine restored, new back cover, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. One of 5000 copies. Rare. Alexander Rodchenko’s design exemplifies the tenets of pure constructivist design. The front cover also includes a wrapper for the..... More
![BOOK PRINTED ON CLOTH] 300 let tomu nazad [i.e. Three Hundred Years Ago](/pictures/thumb/1049.jpg?v=1601548530)
Moscow: Trekhgornaya manufactura, 1913. [10] pp. 16x20 cm. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. One of 100 copies. An extremely rare example of cloth printing in pre-revolutionary Russia. To our knowledge one of only 4 such books produced by Trekhgornaya Manufactory at the time (two other being children’s books and..... More
![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
![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
![HOW TO DESIGN A BOOK] Osnovy oformleniya sovetskoy knigi [i.e. Basics of the Soviet Book Design]....](/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