82 484 Photography Troshin N 
82 484 Photography Troshin N 
- Backstrip dam. = Rowell/ Wye 792.
82 485 Photography Zetkin C 
82 485 Photography Zetkin C 
82 485 Photography Zetkin C 
- Dedication and stamp on htitle. Binding sl. rubbed along edges.
= Rowell/ Wye 1052; Karasik, the Soviet Photo Book p.364f. Co-founder of the German Communist Party and women's rights activist Clara Zetkin's book was intended to be published in Germany on international women's day 1933. This was thwarted by Hitler's takeover and the book was first published in Russian in the Soviet Union. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VI.
82 486 Picasso P Parnakh V 
82 486 Picasso P Parnakh V 
- Frontwr. foxed and loose(ning). = Horodisch C6. Rare.
82 487 Posters Anonymous 1st half 20th cent 
- Formerly folded; several restored spots incl. sm. part at intersection of folds (±3x2 cm.).
= The Russian Chelyuskintsev Theatre in Grozny, capital of Chechnya, was established in 1934. Extremely rare, no copy traced. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VII.
82 488 Rafalovich S 
82 488 Rafalovich S 
- Some foxing. Spine strengthened w. paper; wr. sl. frayed; lower blank corner frontwr. torn off.
= Kilgour 915. Rare art nouveau publication, illustrated by members of the Mir Iskusstva.
82 489 Rand A Rozenbaum A 
82 489 Rand A Rozenbaum A 
82 489 Rand A Rozenbaum A 
- Owner's entry on title-p.; sl. fingersoiled. Wr. loose(ning).
= Alisa Rozenbaum's second (and final) Russian bookpublication. In 1926 she emigrated to the United States, where she became famous as philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VII.
ADDED: 2 others publ. by Kinopechat'.
82 490 Rodchenko A Arvatov B 
82 490 Rodchenko A Arvatov B 
- Covers sl. rubbed along edges.
= Rowell/ Wye 890; Leclanche-Boulé 217. Important treatise on the theory of agitation and constructivist art in Russia. The work was later withdrawn from circulation. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VIII.
82 491 Rodchenko A Barbusse H 
- Num. (library) stamps and annots. on title-p.; some scattered stamps in text; bookblock sl. trimmed. Backstrip and backwr. renewed; frontwr. w. some restorations.
= Rare.
82/492 Rodchenko A Novyj LEF Year 1927 no 2 Ed V Mayakovsky 
- Library stamp on front- and backwr. Otherwise (very) fine.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
82/493 Rodchenko A Novyj LEF Year 1927 no 3 and 5 Ed V Mayakovsky 
- Both issues bookblock and wrappers cut short (partly affecting text and image of plates); backstrips worn; no.3 wr. yellowed.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
82/494 Rodchenko A Novyj LEF Year 1927 no 11/12 Ed V Mayakovsky 
- Bookblock and wr. cut sl. short; backwr. reattached and w. stamp.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
AND 4 other issues of NOVYJ LEF, year 1927, all sl. mediocre copies: no.1, 2, 5 and 10.
82/495 Rodchenko A Novyj LEF Year 1928 no 4 Ed V Mayakovski 
- Backstrip worn/ splitting; frontwr. sl. dogeared and waterstained.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VIII.
82/496 Rodchenko A LEF Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv Magazine of the leftist front of the arts No 2 April May 1923 Ed V V Mayakovski 
82/496 Rodchenko A LEF Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv Magazine of the leftist front of the arts No 2 April May 1923 Ed V V Mayakovski 
- Sl. foxed; owner's entry and stamp on title-p. Foot of spine restored; wr. sl. worn.
= Bowlt/ Hernad p.135. Periodical of the early Russian avantgardist movement. With contributions by i.a. Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksandr Kruchenykh and Sergei Tretyakov. Only 7 issues were published between 1922 and 1924. This issue i.a. with designs for sporting attire by Varvara Stepanova and trademark designs for Soviet aviation company Dobrolet by A. Rodchenko.
AND 1 other issue of the same periodical: no.6 (1924) (without orig. wr. (supplied in facsimile); bookblock trimmed. This issue i.a. w. textile designs by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko).
82 497 Roizman M 
- Fine copy.
= Very rare. Poet, memoirist and translator of Yiddish poetry Matvej Roizman was associated with the imaginist group of Russian poets. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VIII.
82 498 Savelyev A 
82 498 Savelyev A 
82 498 Savelyev A 
82 498 Savelyev A 
- Frontwr. sl. dustsoiled.
Muller, I. Solntse i vozdukh (Sun and air). Russian transl. R. Kalmens. Ibid., idem, 1931, 64p., orig. wr. by N. BOROV. - AND 2 others: M. SOBETSKY and S. PRAVDOLYUBOV, Zimnij sport (Leningrad, 1925, ills., orig. wr. by E. BELUKHA) and V. SOLOVYOV, Chistota kozhi - zalog zdorovya (Moscow/ Leningrad, 1930, ills., orig. wr. by A. TOLOKONNIKOV).
= Four rare publications on Fizkultura, healthy life style and sports.
82 499 Shengelaya D 
82 499 Shengelaya D 
- Hinges sl. weak. = Rowell/ Wye 790.
Zamyatin, E. Obschestvo pochotnykh zvonarey (Honorary Bell Ringers' Society). Leningrad, Mysl', 1926, 91,(5)p., orig. wr. by V. IZENBERG.
- Bookblock loose(ning); owner's entry on htitle.
AND 1 other: B. PASTERNAK, Gruzinskie liriki (Moscow, 1935, orig. cl. w. dustwr. by L. GUDSIASHVILI).
82 500 Shershenevich V 
82 500 Shershenevich V 
- Bookblock broken; spine split; wrappers sl. faded and w. sm. (owner's) stamps and annots.
= Rowell/ Wye no.285; Futurisms in the World p.940. Rare manifesto by the "imaginist" group of poets, also including Anatolij Mariengof and Sergei Yesenin. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VIII.
82 501 Shevchenko A 
- Wrappers sl. soiled/ stained and dogeared; dam. spot on spine.
= Rowell/ Wye 47. One of two works of art theory published in 1913 by the modernist artist Aleksandr Shevchenko.
82/502 Sovetskoe Iskusstvo Soviet Art No 4/5 
82/502 Sovetskoe Iskusstvo Soviet Art No 4/5 
82/502 Sovetskoe Iskusstvo Soviet Art No 4/5 
- Bookblock loose; wr. lacks sm. portions along spine; frontwr. w. some (modernist) decorative elements added in col. pencil.
= Publication of the Committee to Combat Illiteracy. With designs of the exterior and interior of an Izba-Chitalnya (Reading Hut) by A. Lavinsky on verso wrappers.
WITH: 3 small exhibition catalogues of i.a. Mir Iskusstvo (1911).
82 503 Tatlin V Punin N 
82 503 Tatlin V Punin N 
- Contents loose. Sharp fold in backwr. near spine and sl. creased.
= Zhadova 182; Rowell/ Wye 317 and ill. p.200; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.130 and 133; Witkovsky/ Fore 268. First edition of Punin's description of Vladimir Tatlin's (never constructed) famous tower design ("(...) best known in the version shown on the cover of a book by Punin" (Compton)). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.