Item #1065 [MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]
[MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]
[MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]
[MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]
[MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]
[MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]

[MOSCOW METRO] Le Métropolitain de Moscou [i.e. The Moscow Metro]

Item #1065

Moscow: Société por les relations culturelles entre l'U.R.S.S. et les pays étrangers (VOKS), 1938. 8, [2], 21-66, [7] pp., 24 ills. 25x18 cm. In original red cloth with Metro logo on the front cover. Rubbed, slightly soiled, otherwise very good.

First and only edition. Very rare. Complete edition.
The book was printed in French by the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries that promoted the Soviet life and published different editions in English, German and French.
This book overviews a system of the Moscow Metro, contains photographs and designs of early stations, as well as photo portraits of the party leaders. A woodcut frontispiece was produced by Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889-1972). He depicted the Metro as an oeuvre of socialist culture and its great arch became the meeting point for the Communist crowd.

Worldcat shows copies located in Harvard and Stanford Universities, Getty Research Institute.

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