- Wrappers partly restored and w. some stamps and annots.; spine restored.
= Rowell/ Wye 311; Futurisms in the World p.928. Probably the first and only publication in Russian of Malevich' important essay on the development of modern art movements.
- Backstrips worn/ (partly) lacking; wrappers partly sl. yellowed.
= Rare publications on experimental theatre.
- Wrappers partly sl. discoloured; spine restored.
= Second separate edition of Mayakovsky's poem, addressing the world and inciting to revolution. The title being a pun on Tolstoi's War and Peace. Futurisms in the World p.920: "The text contains musical notes with onomatopoeias along the lines indicated by Marinetti, who in the manifesto of Futurist literature had recommended the use of musical symbols and noises".
- Bookblock loose; title-p. sl. stained; one text leaf w. some additions in pen and ink. Wrappers creased and sl. worn; backstrip partly restored.
= Rowell/ Wye 54; Compton, Russian Futurist Books 1912-16, p.79f; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 14. Anthology of futurist poetry interspersed with drawings and portraits by V. Mayakovsky, V. Tatlin and the Burlyuk siblings (David, Vladimir and Nadezhda). "In this book, all the elements of the Russian Avant-garde flow together: poetry, visual art and folk art moulded into an organic whole, into a prayer book" (Lemmens/ Stommels). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VI.
- Vol. 1 wrappers reattached and backstrip restored; vol. 2 backstrip worn off and frontwr. w. rubbed spot and paper ticket; vol. 4 frontwr. loose and backstrip dam.
= Witkovsky/ Fore 18. Articles on Lenin by i.a. Trotsky, Zinovyev, Bukharin and other enemies of the people. Later withdrawn from circulation in the Soviet Union.
- Sl. foxed.
Zemenkov, B. Grafika v bytu (Graphics in everyday life). Moscow, AKhR, 1930, 82,(2)p., ills., orig. wr. by B. ZEMENKOV, sm. 8vo.
- Spine-ends sl. dam.; frontwr. loosening.
= Contains chapters on the design of i.a. bookcovers, logo's, labels, packages, coins and stamps etc.
- Backstrip dam.; frontwr. partly dustsoiled.
= The Russian edition of Malerei, Fotografie, Film (Munich, 1925; Bauhausbücher 8) with a different cover design. Parr/ Badger I, p.92; Rowell/ Wye 851.
- Backstrip worn; wrappers loosening; sm. portion of frontwr. restored.
= Periodical of the State Publishing House. With loosely inserted addendum listing the newest publications and a fold. leaflet "To the 10-year jubilee of the State Publishing House of the RSFSR".
AND 1 other: KATALOG PERIODICHESKIKH IZDANII SSSR NA 1925 GOD. V-yj Vypusk (Moscow, 1925, advertisements, orig. wr., obl. 8vo).
- Binding rubbed along spine and edges of covers.
- Wrappers partly sl. worn/ dam.
AND 1 other: WOKS/ Sozialistischer Aufbau in der USSR Illustrierte Sammelhefte. Year 4, no.1/ 2. (Moscow, 1933, num. photogr. ills., orig. wr., 4to).
- A few issues dam./ incomplete; most spines worn.
= Comprises: Year 1, no.14 and 34-36; year 3, no.11, 41, 42 and 49; year 4, no.12, 13, 42 and 46; year 5, no.7, 16 and 22; year 6, no.9 and 41. Weekly magazine on theatre and cinema.
AND 5 issues of RABOCHIJ I TEATR (1928, all w. 2 filing holes) and 1 issue of SOVREMENNYJ TEATR (1929).
- Wrappers fingersoiled and stained; tear in backwr.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on title-p.
Nikitin, N. Seychas na Zapade. Berlin - Rur - London (Today in the West. Berlin - Ruhr - London). Leningrad/ Moscow, "Petrograd", 1924, 138,(6)p., orig. wr. by YU. ANNENKOV.
- Backstrip restored; wr. yellowed and sl. frayed.
AND 1 other.
- Title-p. sl. fingersoiled. Spine-ends worn/ sl. dam.; wrappers sl. frayed and creased along edges.
- Usual (minor) defects.
- Spine-ends sl. dam. = Illustrated account of the Leningrad-Tbilisi (and back) car rally of 1925.
- No.1 sl. dogeared; wr. loose and rather brittle.
= Bimonthly literary periodical. Especially the 2nd issue, with a portrait of Isadora Duncan (American dancer and Yesenin's lover) by Yuri Annenkov on frontwr. (and repeated on p.14), is very rare. With contributions by i.a. Anna Akhmatova, Vladislav Khodasevitch and Michail Zoschenko. No.1 w. owner's stamp of bibliographer Lev Turchinsky on title-p.
- A few lvs. loose(ning); p.145/146 removed by the censors. Plates on covers sl. scratched and chipped.
= Karasik, The Soviet Photobook p.418. With the fold. plate showing a full cinema hall with a cut out filmscreen revealing a portrait of Lenin (on the following page) and (on the preceding page, seen from the other side) his famous quote on the art of cinema ("Pour nous le cinéma est de tous les arts le plus important") as well as the transparent plastic plate with a silver silhouette portrait of Stalin and his salute to the Soviet cinema workers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VII.
- Spine-ends sl. worn; frontcover trifle spotted. A fine copy.
= Karasik, the Soviet Photo Book p.466ff. From a series of 16 photobooks (3 of which were designed by Rodchenko and Stepanova) showing the various aspects of life in the Soviet Union, published especially for the 1939 World Fair in New York. This book dealing with sports and Fizkultura. The series was published without crediting the designers so they could not claim intellectual property rights.
- Spine-ends splitting; backwr. sl. waterst. in upper margin.
= This issue with El Lissitzky's article on photograms, a technique of cameraless photography developed by i.a. Man Ray, which produces photographic images by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material. With 2 photograms by Lissitzky. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VII.