- No.1 final lvs. and backstrip dam.; no.1-4 wrappers sl. (water)stained/ soiled and w. some restored spots.
= Complete run of this perodicial containing many first Russian translations of (fragments of) western works, i.a. by Stefan Zweig, Émile Zola, Sinclair Lewis, Rudyard Kipling and Oswald Spengler. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVIII.
- One plate sl. browned. Backstrip worn; spine-ends chipped.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
- Backstrip sl. cracking and w. some restored spots.
= Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-1934, p.108f. Publication dedicated to the 10-year anniversary of Alexandr Tairov's Moscow Kamerny (Chamber) Theatre. "Inside the book, there are pages devoted to production photographs of the set for G.K. Chesterton's The Man who was Thursday designed by architect/ painter, Alexander Vesnin. These show Tairov's new preference for Constructivist stage design taken to the extreme of replacing conventional scenery by a free-standing multi-level structure" (Compton). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
- Upper joint splitting; wr. creased and worn along spine and edges; sm. vague stamp on backwr.
= Rowell/ Wye 913 and p.217; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.65 and plate 5; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005, p.66: "In the publication above, Telingater created one of his most avant-garde designs (...), using different sorts and formats of typefaces. The use of linear structures and use of photo collages on a bright yellow colour of the cover, on the other hand, is an aspect of constructivist ideas". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
- Bookblock loose and w. tear in upper margin. Wrapper worn.
- Waterst. in lower inner margin. Wr. sl. dustsoiled/ discoloured along edges.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
- Lacks one leaf? (pagination skips p.36). Spine sl. sunned.
= Publication dedicated to the 20-year anniversary of Alexandr Tairov's Moscow Kamerny (Chamber) Theatre. Nice plates of costumes and stage designs.
- Fine copy.
AND a fold. brochure of the Soviet section at the World Exhibition in Brussels (1958), w. nice colourful (and photomontge) design.
- Boards worn along extremities; upper corner backcover chipped.
- Edges wrappers sl. creased. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
- No.5 wr. sl. yellowed and fingersoiled; top of spine strengthened w. tape.
= Organ of the RAPKh group (Russian Association of Proletarian Artists). Wrapper design w. typography in red and black, somewhat reminiscent of Solomon Telingater.
AND 1 other issue of the same periodical (lacks frontwr.; one text leaf portion cut out).
- No.12 dedication on htitle. Backstrips worn/ sl. dam.
= Emigré Russian artistic periodical. A total of 14 issues was published between 1921 and 1926. Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005 p.127. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
- Sl. waterstained in lower and upper margin; 2 lvs. lower inner margin strengthened w. tape.
= Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 19a (and cf. 19b) and cf. Ki.la.ki.le. 17.
- Spine sl. dam; a few chips along edges; trifle soiled.
= Very rare A.-B.-book. Lust en Leering p.155. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
- Recently stapled. Spine worn and strengthened on the inside w. japanese; wrappers sl. soiled.
= A is een aapje p.96.
- With facsimile title-page. Binding also in facsimile.
= Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 9c: "Dit ABC is geenszins in de traditie van Piet de Smeerpoets."; A is een aapje p.125. Rare.
- Spine rubbed; wrappers sl. creased; sm. stain on frontwrapper. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Rare. No copy traced in the usual reference works.
- A few leaves sl. frayed/ sm. tears; final advert. leaf sm. hole; some scribbling in pencil on verso of wrappers; newly sewn. Wrappers soiled; frontwr. sl. dam.; spine split and repaired w. tape at inner margin.
= First letter: "A is een anker". Rare, not traced in the usual bibliographies. Nice, plain A.B.-book, without any adornments.
- Contemp. owner's entry on upper pastedown; sl. soiled (incl. wr.).
= Very rare, no copy traced. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Spine-ends worn. Otherwise fine.
= A is een aapje p.123. Rhyming advice for children on how to prevent dental decay.