- Small tear in first leaf. Backstrip dam. and lacks portions; wr. creased and loose(ning).
= Rowell/ Wye 913 and p.217; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.65 and plate 5; Leclanche-Boulé 60. 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 IX.
- Wrappers creased and sl. worn; spine w. some dam. spots; lower corner frontwr. chipped.
= Rowell/ Wye 965. Illustrated biography of Maksim Gorky. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
- Spine-ends chipped; wr. yellowed and sl. foxed.
- Sl. dogeared and creased. = SIGNED on first blank.
Ehrenburg, I. Rasskazy (Stories). Leningrad, Priboi, 1928, 81,(2)p., orig. wr.
- Hinges sl. weak.
AND 1 other: I. EHRENBURG, Khleb nash nasuschnyj (Moscow, 1933, orig. wr.).
- Bookblock loose in quires.
- Wrappers sl. foxed and creased; spine-ends sl. worn.
= Contains works by i.a. N. Aseev, A. Bezymensky and I. Selvinsky.
Veshnev, V. Kniga Kharakteristik. Stat'yi o soveremennoi literature (Book of characteristics. Essays on modern literature). Ibid., idem, 1928, 254,(2)p., orig. wr. by G. YECHEISTOV.
- Frontwr. partly sunned/ faded.
- Boards worn along extremities; upper corner backcover chipped.
- Spine-ends sl. dam.; stamp on backwr.; wr. sl. foxed. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
- Dedication in ballpoint on title-p.; bookplate on verso frontwr. Gluestains on backwr.
= Okna ROSTA refers to a series of Russian Civil War-era agitational posters designed for telegraphy agency ROSTA by i.a. V. Mayakovsky. The posters were mostly suspended in empty shop windows (deserted due to the civil war), hence the nickname "okna" (windows). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE X.
- Title-p. and frontwr. reattached; backstrip dam. and strengthened w. restoration tape; without orig. backwr.(?).
Krupskaya, N. 1 syezd po politicheskomu obrazovaniu (First congress on political education). Ibid., idem, 1930, 47,(1)p., orig. wr., 12mo.
- Trifle yellowed; owner's entry on title-p.
AND 2 others, i.a. BULYZHNIK (= V. Yefimkin), Udarnye Brigady na rabote (ibid., 1929, orig. wr., 12mo).
- First leaf and frontwr. sl. waterst.; spine splitting.
= Very rare. Aleksandr Yaroslavsky was the founder of the "Biocosmist" movement in Russian poetry. In 1922 he edited the periodical Bessmertie (Immortality) which was soon closed down on allegations of "poetical pornography". He was arrested in 1928 and sent to Solovki prison camp where he was executed for an escape attempt in 1930.
- Trifle yellowed. Wr. frayed and sl. dogeared; foot of spine dam.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE X.
AND 1 other by the same: Teatr kak takovoi (St. Petersburg, (1912), frontisp. portrait and ills. by N. KUL'BIN, contemp. hmor., sm. 4to. Lacks orig. wr.).
- Backstrip worn; wr. sl. yellowed and vaguely waterst. in lower corners.
Grabar, L. Sel'vinity (Selvinite). Ibid., Gos. Izd., 1933, 151,(1)p., endpapers and orig. boards by V. IZENBERG.
- Binding sl. scratched and worn.
AND 1 other: M. GORKY, 9oe Yanvarya (Moscow/ Leningrad, 1930, ills., orig. wr., sm. 8vo).
- Backstrip sl. worn; wr. sl. yellowed and creased.
= Caricatures on the capitalist contries by the "1st Brigade of Satirical Artists".
Denisov, V. Voina i Lubok (War and the popular image). Petrograd, Novyj Zhurnal dlya Vsekh, 1916, 39,(2)p., ills., title-p. and orig. wr. by D. MITROKHIN, 4to.
- Backstrip restored. = Illustrated history of war-themed popular imagery.
- Without the black dustwrapper w. title-piece (also by Zdanevitch); wrappers reattached and sl. frayed.
= Memoires of British general Lionel Dunsterville, who led an allied force which set out from Persia towards Baku to defend the Centro-Caspian Dictatorship against the advancing Ottoman army in 1917. Here presented to the Sovet public in order to expose the British imperialist mindset.
- 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.
- One tie broken; occas. boards trifle rubbed along extremities.
= All vols. one of 50 copies, 2x on Japanese and 1x Roman numbered. 11. Lobel-Riche (Monod 556); 14. A. Brouet (Monod 562); 21. Louis Legrand (Monod 566).
- Binding sl. worn along edges. = Interleaved w. results and names of buyers in pencil.
= Fine copy of catalogue 48 of Antiquariat Bibermühle and H. Tenschert.
ADDED: 2 others, i.a. J. LOUBIER, Der Bucheinband in alter und neuer Zeit (Berlin and Leipsic, ±1903, ills., orig. clothbacked boards, 4to).