Soviet Photomontage Unknown: 1924-1937

Soviet Photomontage Unknown: 1924-1937

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Item #1515 10 let Uzbekistana [i.e. Ten Years of Uzbekistan] / editorial board: M....

10 let Uzbekistana [i.e. Ten Years of Uzbekistan] / editorial board: M. Tursunkhodzhaev, A. Antonov, L. Kessel

Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ; IZOGIZ, 1934. 238 pp+2 separate leaves.: ill (see below for specification). 29x24 cm. One of 2200 copies. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cover. Cloth box with lid. Book: near fine condition. Case is in good condition, with few bumps and..... More

Item #1519 30 dnei: Illiustrirovannyi ezhemesiachnik [i.e. 30 Days: Illustrated Monthly] #11 for...

30 dnei: Illiustrirovannyi ezhemesiachnik [i.e. 30 Days: Illustrated Monthly] #11 for 1929

Moscow: Zemlia i fabrika, 1929. 94 pp.: ill. + 2 pp. of ads. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Spine rubbed, with fragments lost, occasional minor stains on pages, otherwise very good. A characteristic issue of the monthly “30 Days” published 1925–1941. From 1926 to 1930 the magazine..... More

Price: $2,950.00

Item #1507 Delo chesti, delo slavy, delo doblesti i geroystva [i.e. The Case of Honor, the Case...

Delo chesti, delo slavy, delo doblesti i geroystva [i.e. The Case of Honor, the Case of Glory, the Case of Valor and the Case of Heroism]

Moscow: Partiynoe izdatelstvo; 1ya Obraztsovaya tipografiya, 1932. 32 pp. 22x15,3 cm. Original photomontage wrappers. Very good condition, pale water stains on rear side of covers and last leaf. Spine is slightly restored. Contemporary ink marks and corrections occasionally. The designers are not named in the book itself (except for..... More

Price: $7,500.00

Item #1223 Der Apikoyres: Organ fun Ts. R. funem Farband krigerishe apikorsim [i.e. The Godless:...

Der Apikoyres: Organ fun Ts. R. funem Farband krigerishe apikorsim [i.e. The Godless: Organ of the Central Committee of the League of Militant Atheists] #5 1932

Moscow: Der Farband, 1932. 20 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from the text block, tears to spine, small pieces of paper glued to the first and last pages, otherwise very good. One of 4000 copies. In Yiddish. An issue of the first..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #1509 Diapozitivy. Kul’turnyi passazhir – borets za bezopasnost’ massovykh perevozok...

Diapozitivy. Kul’turnyi passazhir – borets za bezopasnost’ massovykh perevozok [i.e. Diapositives. The Civilized Passenger is a Struggler for Safety on Mass Transportation] / S.P. Orlov

Moscow, [1933]. 38 glass plates in individual paper wraps; in red cardboard box with title on piece of paper mounted. Slides in very good condition. Box rubbed, bumped and soiled, with tears, pale stamps and stickers. An excellent example of Soviet educational slides for use in workers’ clubs. This..... More

Price: $6,500.00

Item #1517 Golos sakharnika [i.e. Voice of a Sugar Industry Employee] #1-12 for 1926

Golos sakharnika [i.e. Voice of a Sugar Industry Employee] #1-12 for 1926

Moscow: TsK sakharnikov, 1926. 30x23 cm. In contemporary binding with most of the original covers preserved; marbled edges. Good. Tears to spine, covers rubbed and bumped. Pp. 17-18 (#9) lost. No covers of #12. Pale water stains on edges, few spots, minor blank fragments of outer edge of pp. 21-30..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #1516 Krasnyi Manchester: Khudozhestvennyi al’bom. Ivanovo-Voznesenskaia guberniia. Ch. 1...

Krasnyi Manchester: Khudozhestvennyi al’bom. Ivanovo-Voznesenskaia guberniia. Ch. 1 [i.e. Red Manchester: Artistic Album. Ivanovo-Voznesensk Province. Part 1 [and all]

Ivanovo-Voznesensk: Izd. “Reklamprovintsii” pri gaz. “Rabochii krai”, 1925. [1-22], 25-123, [6], 135-240, [2], 241-355 = 356 (of 355 indicted) pp.: ill. 26x35 cm. In original full-cloth binding with blind lettering. No half-title. Spine and few leaves restored, endpapers renewed. Some soiling, otherwise very good. Rare provincial edition. Striking..... More

Price: $6,500.00

Item #1500 Malye formy klubnogo zrelishcha [i.e. Small Forms of Club Spectacle] #1 and #8 for 1929

Malye formy klubnogo zrelishcha [i.e. Small Forms of Club Spectacle] #1 and #8 for 1929

#1 Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1929. 64 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, spine and tears of covers restored. One of 5000 copies. #8 Moscow: Trud i kniga, 1929. 64 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, spine..... More

Price: $4,500.00

Item #1504 May Celebrations in the Soviet Union

May Celebrations in the Soviet Union

Moscow: Inturist, 1931. One leaf folded as a 16-page brochure. Folded: 22,5x15,5 cm, unfolded: 63x45 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Creases slightly worn, small tears to spine (in folded mode). Striking photomontage advertisement of May tours to the USSR offered by the official traveling agency of the Soviet Union..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #1497 Pervaia Vsesoiuznaia spartakiada, Moskva-1928 i Zimniaia rabochaia spartakiada, Oslo...

Pervaia Vsesoiuznaia spartakiada, Moskva-1928 i Zimniaia rabochaia spartakiada, Oslo [i.e. The First All-Union Spartakiad, Moscow-1928 and the Winter Workers’ Spartakiad, Oslo]

[Moscow]: Fizkul’tura i sport, [1928]. 170 pp.: ill. 23x31 cm. In original dark blue cloth with colored lettering and decoration. Rubbed, ink signature (1928) on front flyleaf, light soiling of corners occasionally, otherwise very good and clean internally. Together with: Advertising brochure. Spartakiada [i.e. Spartakiad]. Moscow: Fizkul’tura i sport, [1928]..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #1520 Poster Kak nado rabotat’ na iaichnom sklade [i.e. How to Work at an Egg Warehouse

Poster Kak nado rabotat’ na iaichnom sklade [i.e. How to Work at an Egg Warehouse]

Khabarovsk: Dal’kraisoiuz, 1930. 87x63 cm. Backed, few tears have been restored, otherwise near fine. One of 2000 copies. An impressive photomontage poster and a good example of an early Soviet posters issued for Far East enterprise staff. It was produced for employees of the Dal’kraisoiuz egg warehouses. Between..... More

Item #1502 Sbornik: Pereklichka narodov [i.e. Collection : Roll Call of Ethnic Groups] /...

Sbornik: Pereklichka narodov [i.e. Collection : Roll Call of Ethnic Groups] / B. Lapin, M. Shkapskaia, V. Lebedev, et al.

Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 333, [3] pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers rubbed, with tears of spine, otherwise very good and clean. First and only edition. One of 10,300 copies. Constructivist cover design by V. Shcheptev. The front cover features small groups of indigenous women undertaking traditional..... More

Price: $2,500.00
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Item #1510 Vive la Commune. May of 1933

Vive la Commune. May of 1933

[Moscow, Paris], 1933. [32] c.: ill. 42x30 cm. In original photomontage covers. Horizontal crease (due to folding copy in half), spine and tears to last leaf repaired, otherwise very good and clean. In French. Soviet photomontage propaganda produced for the benefit of the French proletariat. It was announced..... More

Price: $8,500.00
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Item #1505 Za rubezhom [i.e. Abroad]. #5-6 for 1931; #1-2 for 1932 / edited by Maxim Gorky and...

Za rubezhom [i.e. Abroad]. #5-6 for 1931; #1-2 for 1932 / edited by Maxim Gorky and Karl Radek

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo khudozhestvennoy literatury; Krasniy proletariy, 1931–1932. Original illustrated wrappers. Minimal restoration to the spines, loss of the lower fragment of the spine of issue #5–6, otherwise good. Two issues of the important propaganda magazine. The periodical was founded in 1930 on the initiative and under the..... More

Price: $7,500.00

Item #1514 Za sanitarnuiu oboronu i.e. For Sanitary Defense] #2 for 1936

Za sanitarnuiu oboronu i.e. For Sanitary Defense] #2 for 1936

Moscow; Leningrad: [Biomedgiz], 1936. 24 pp.: ill. 29,5x22,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine repaired, minor tears to edges (few of them repaired), otherwise a very good and clean copy. An issue of the mass monthly published by the Executive Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1521 Organizatsiya uborki urozhaia [i.e. The Organization of the Harvesting]. L. G. Gavrilov

Organizatsiya uborki urozhaia [i.e. The Organization of the Harvesting]

Gavrilov, L.G.

Moscow: Selkolkhozgiz, 1931. 142 pp. 22,2x14,7 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. The architecture of the book by “Brigade #1 For Mass Book Production”. No copies in Worldcat. The polygraphic masterpiece by the unsung hero of Soviet book constructivism, Elbrus Gutnov (1906–1981), and his “Brigade #1 For..... More

Price: $12,500.00

Item #1512 Legkaia promyshlennost’ vo vtoroi piatiletke [i.e. Light Industry During the Second...

Legkaia promyshlennost’ vo vtoroi piatiletke [i.e. Light Industry During the Second Five-Year Plan]

Kogan, E.

Leningrad: Lenoblizdat, 1935. 60 pp., 5 ills. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small fragments of covers along edges and some corners of pages restored, few tears, some soiling of title page, otherwise very good. Photomontage front cover design features a female worker in a textile factory and a...... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #1501 Povstannia na “Potemkine” [i.e. The Mutiny on the “Potemkin”]. A. Platonov

Povstannia na “Potemkine” [i.e. The Mutiny on the “Potemkin”]

Platonov, A.

Kharkiv: Na varti, 1930. 32 pp. 18x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed, numbers and publisher’s stamps on front cover and title page, otherwise very good. One of 7000 copies. In Ukrainian. The anonymous constructivist cover design features a photomontage of three film stills from “Battleship Potemkin” (1925)..... More

Price: $2,250.00

Item #1503 Mul’tiplikatsiia fil’my [i.e. Animation Movie]. A. Ptushko

Mul’tiplikatsiia fil’my [i.e. Animation Movie]

Ptushko, A.

Moscow: Gos. izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1931. 62 [2] pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Ink marks and signature on front cover and title page, spine chipped, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Photomontage cover design was created by Natalia Bukharova-Pinus (1901–1986). Having graduated from VKHUTEMAS..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #1495 Kak nauchit’sia plavat’: Plavanie vsemi stiliami, igry na vode, spasenie...

Kak nauchit’sia plavat’: Plavanie vsemi stiliami, igry na vode, spasenie utopaiushchikh [i.e. How to Swim: Swimming All Strokes, Water Plays, Rescuing Drowning Ones]

Smirnov, S.

Leningrad: Priboi, 1925. 48 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good and clean copy, covers slightly bumped, spine chipped, blank upper corners of last two leaves lost. First and only edition. One of 10 130 copies produced. This handbook on the common topic of “how..... More

Price: $1,200.00

Item #1496 Fizkul’tura i byt [i.e. Physical Culture and Daily Routine]. A. Zikmund

Fizkul’tura i byt [i.e. Physical Culture and Daily Routine]

Zikmund, A.

Moscow: Vserossiiskii proletkul’t, 1925. 56 pp.: ill. In original photomontage wrappers. Very good, spine rubbed and chipped. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Constructivist cover design was produced by a member of Moscow Proletkult, one of the earliest female artists in cinematography, Valentina Khmeleva (1903–?)..... More

Price: $1,950.00

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