- Bookplate on upper pastedown; first and final (blank) lvs. trifle foxed. Wr. sl. discoloured along spine.
= De Zilverdistel 1.
- Traces of bookplate on first blank.
= One of 50 copies printed for members of the Vereeniging der Vijftig, this copy printed on the name of "Annie van Beuningen-Eschauzier". The final Zilverdistel publication.
- Vellum stained. = With the loosely inserted glossary (4p.).
- Vellum sl. browned/ discoloured.
- Spine discol.; spine-ends chipped; upper joint some worn/ sl. dam. spots.
= From the library of the English collector Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), with his armorial bookplate on upper pastedown.
= I.a. H. ROLAND HOLST, Twee brieven aan Jan Rogier (1988); M. TER BRAAK, Brief aan Arthur Lehning/ A. LEHNING, Ter Braak over Nietsche en Bakoenin (1990); M. NIJHOFF, Pierrot aan de lantaarn (1994); F. VAN DER LINDEN, Sex Six Sechs Six Zes epigrammata van Marcus Valerius Martialis (1997); J.I. DE HAAN, Stadsgezichten: Nijmegen (1998); N. VAN DER HEIJDEN-ROGIER (introd.), Jan Engelman's Vera Janacopoulos (2000); M. VAN DER HEIJDEN, Kind in Oirschot (2001); T. RÓZEWICS, Verhaal over oude vrouwen (2005); M.T. CICERO, Somnium Scipionis. De droom van Scipio (2011) and a few New Year's wishes.
- Without no.6.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005, p.206f: "Due to the major quality of its content and helped by the growing interest in contemporary Russian art, the journal began to draw attention and, in the end, earned its well-deserved fame as the leading journal in contemporary Russian art". A total of 7 issues were published.
- Wr. sl. creased and foxed; foot of spine dam.
- Title-p. sl. yellowed. Binding trifle spotted.
= Contains chapters on i.a. Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, J.J.P. Oud and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Lower hinge weak; 3 plates w. marginal tear. Binding worn and stained; backstrip w. some dam. spots.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on first free endpaper. Rowell/ Wye 928 and p.227; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.142f: "(...) The verdict must surely be that Chernikhov's almost unlimited imagination for architectural forms provides a pattern book for modernist architecture, rather than a repertoire of viable designs". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXII.
- Binding worn along edges; upper joint w. some dam. spots.
= Rowell/ Wye 929; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.142f: "(...) The verdict must surely be that Chernikhov's almost unlimited imagination for architectural forms provides a pattern book for modernist architecture, rather than a repertoire of viable designs". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXII.
- Lacks backwrapper; frontwr. sl. creased and fingersoiled.
= Satirical verse under a collective pseudonym by A. Tolstoi and the brothers Aleksei, Vladimir and Alexandr Zhemchuzhnikov.
Voinov, Ya. Goryunova radost'. Tallinn, Bibliofil, 1922, 95,(1)p., ills. and orig. wr. by V. BELKIN.
- First quire loose. Frontwr. cut sl. short at fore edge margin.
= Russian émigré artist Vladimir Belkin (or Bièlkine) settled in Haarlem in 1924. Between 1927 and 1930 he worked as a designer for Philips.
- Wrappers loose(ning). = Notorious Soviet atheist periodical published between 1922 and 1941.
AND 1 other: INTERVENTSIA (Moscow, 1934, ills., orig. wr., 4to).
- Without the orig. col. paper wr.; uncut; sl. waterst. and -wrinkled; partly splitting on folds.
Livshitz, B. Gileya. Ibid., idem, 1931, 15,(1)p., ills. by i.a. V. and D. BURLYUK, folio.
- Without the orig. col. paper wr.; owner's entry and some scribbling in pen and ink on title.
= The Burlyuk family publishing house, run by David's wife Mary. Between 1931 and 1970 they published the periodical Color and Rhyme, devoted to the Russian avant-garde.
AND 3 others, i.a. COLOR AND RHYME, no.66 (final issue).
- Incl. duplicates; most issues in rather poor condition: brittle, dam./ loose(ning) etc. Not collated, the lot sold w.a.f.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005 p.32: "Members of the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] appeared frequently in the revolutionary and satirical journals that sprouted up after the 1905 resurgence in Russia (...). The most impressive was the weekly Satyricon and its successor New Satyricon (...). It was closed as an anti-soviet publication within one year after the October revolution".
= Nikolai Suetin (1897-1954) was a student of Malevich. From 1922 onwards he worked for the Imperial Porcelain Factory (then State Porcelain Factory) in Leningrad. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIII.
- Edges wrappers sl. frayed; backstrip trifle worn.
- Inkstain in upper corner throughout (backwr. sl. affected); front- and backwr. vaguely dampstained.
= Very rare first publication by the Leningrad architect and art theorist Jakov Chernikhov, in which he formulates his principle ideas of composition theory.
= Russian émigré periodical. With contributions by i.a. Rea Nikonova, Serge Segay, Nina Kovalenko and Vilen Barsky.
AND 27 others, incl. issues of the VYDAVY newspaper (Russian language "Brooklyn based group experiment") and sm. artist's books by ARTUR MOLEV.