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[REVOLUTIONARY ART] Oktyabr’ v iskusstve i literature. 1917-1927 [i.e. October in Art and Literature. 1917-1927]

Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1927. Item #350

85, [2] pp.: ill. 25x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A very good and clean copy. A fragment of the outer edge of yapped front wrapper is missing, closed tear of the front wrapper, small spots and tears of the margins, text block is detached from the wrappers.

Wrappers, frontispiece, ornamentation, headpieces and initials designed by S.V. Chekhonin. Headpiece on the title page designed by A. Fedorovsky. Lenin’s portrait by I. Brodsky.

The book contains a number of rare illustrations and published materials on the development of Soviet art in 10 years by A. Lunacharsky, A. Voronsky, E. Braudo, V. Voinov, D. Aranovich. The articles are dedicated to the theatre, cinema, literature, music, painting, as well as the art industry of the USSR.

Price: $600.00