80 2186 Lissitzky El Mayakovsky V

80 2186 Lissitzky El Mayakovsky V

80 2186 Lissitzky El Mayakovsky V

80 2186 Lissitzky El Mayakovsky V

- Owner's entries on first lvs. and on frontwr.; page tabs partly stained/ spotted and dustsoiled. Lower corner frontwr. sl. stained.

= Lissitzky-Küppers 94-110; El Lissitzky Retrospektive 82; Rowell/ Wye 478 and ills. p.194f; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.92ff; Bolliger IV, 679. One of the most striking examples of El Lissitzky's constructivist bookdesign. "The sheer invention of his design of Mayakovsky's For the Voice of 1923 - with its page margins stepped like an address book to form an index to the poems - equals that of Rodchenko's design for About this (Pro eto) of the same year. (...) He built his illustrations from the printers' stock, printing in red as well as black to enliven the pages" (Compton). "Eines des außergewöhnlichsten Bücher, deren typographische Gestaltung Lissitzky übernahm (...)" (El Lissitzky Retrospektive). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.

80/2187 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus

80/2187 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus

80/2187 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus

80/2187 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus

80/2187 Lissitzky El SSSR stroit socializm USSR baut den Sozialismus

- Covers sl. scratched and soiled; lower corners bumped/ sl. dam.

= A report on the USSR's first Five Year Plan and one of the first projects Lissitzky worked on (alongside the propagandist periodical USSR in Construction) after signing a contract with state publishing house Izogis. Lissitzky-Küppers p.96; El Lissitzky, Retrospektive 247; Rowell/ Wye 996; Parr/ Badger, The Photobook I, p.155: "(...) the pace and rhythm of his [Lissitzky's] layouts show both a cinematic influence and a master graphic designer at work (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.

80 2188 Lissitzky El Tairoff A

- Sl. foxed and yellowed. Boards sl. browned along spine; dam./ restored spot at top of spine; frontcover trifle warped.

= Lissitzky-Küppers 92; Gray 227; Bolliger I, 389 and VI, 680; Spencer, Pioniers van de moderne typografie, p.70. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.

80/2189 Lissitzky El Wendingen Year 4 no 11 H P Berlage on Frank Lloyd Wright

80/2189 Lissitzky El Wendingen Year 4 no 11 H P Berlage on Frank Lloyd Wright

- Contents fine. Covers partly dustsoiled and duststained; dam. spot in outer margin frontcover

= One of ±125 copies of the hardbound "Luxe uitgave". Le Coultre 4 - 11D; Lissitzky-Küppers 70; Purvis 3-6. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.

80/2190 Lissitzky El Wendingen Year 4 no 11 H P Berlage on Frank Lloyd Wright

- Spine worn/ splitting.; wr. sl. (dust)soiled and agetoned. Not examined out of frame.

= Le Coultre 4 - 11d; Lissitzky-Küppers 70; Purvis 3-6.

80/2191 Lot of 10 odd issues of periodicals

80/2191 Lot of 10 odd issues of periodicals

- A few sm. tears/ stamps etc.; one issue wr. loose(ning).

= All w. illustrated wrapper design. Contains issues of Osodviakhim (2x), Golos Rabotnika, Spartak, Rabotnitsa i Krestyanka (2x), Iskra (2x), Stroika and Krasnaya Niva.

80 2192 Malevich K and Rozanova O Kruchonykh A and Khlebnikov V

80 2192 Malevich K and Rozanova O Kruchonykh A and Khlebnikov V

80 2192 Malevich K and Rozanova O Kruchonykh A and Khlebnikov V

- Wrappers rather heavily creased and frayed; backstrip worn off. Internally good/ fine.

= Second, entirely reworked edition of one of the landmark early Russian futurist books, sarcastically describing Hell and its inhabitants. Rowell/ Wye 80 and ills. p.80f; Compton, Russian Futurist Books 1912-16 p.80; Karshan 16-20; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005 p.19: "It is a typical example of a Russian futurist artists' book. The use of primitive imagery is an attribute of Russian Futurism. The handwritten text and drawings were reproduced as inexpensive single lithographed sheets that made them distinctly unlike the luxury edition of artists' books published in Paris at that time. However, it did make them distinctly Russian avant-garde". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.

80 2193 Mandelstam O

- Loose(ning); title-p. w. dam. spot in lower blank margin; large tear in final blank and backwr.; some foxing. Closed tear in frontwr.; backstrip dam./ worn; sm. stamps on backwr.

= The author's debut in the 2nd, greatly enlarged edition (adding 43 poems to the original 23).

80 2194 Mariengof A

- Owner's entry on title-p. Wrappers w. very vague vertical creases.

= Rowell/ Wye 381. Published by the group of Imaginist poets, which included i.a. Sergei Yesenin, Aleksandr Kusikov and Anatoli Mariengof himself.

80 2195 Mayakovsky V

- Large closed tear in frontwr.; corners of wr. sl. chipped; sl. yellowed.

= Rowell/ Wye 592. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.

80 2196 Nabokov V

- Upper corner frontwr. sl. dogeared.

= Translated from the English original into Russian by the author. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI

80 2197 Nikulin L

- Some scattered pencil scratching; contents loosening; sl. yellowed. Wr. frayed.

= Very rare publication of the satirical periodical Krokodil.

80/2198 Novyj zritel' The New Spectator Lot of 9 issues

- Trifle worn; mostly in good condition.

= Comprises: Year 1, no.44; year 2, no.40; year 3, no.4 and 43; year 4, no.45; year 5, no.15, 17, 39 and 51. Weekly magazine on theatre and cinema. One issue with a film still from Battleship Potemkin on frontcover. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.

80/2199 Ogonyok Year 31 no 10 and 11

80/2199 Ogonyok Year 31 no 10 and 11

80/2199 Ogonyok Year 31 no 10 and 11

- Good/ fine copies.

= The first two issues of the literary-cultural-political weekly Ogonyok ("sparkle") published upon (and devoted to) the death of Josef Stalin (5 March 1953), showing the entire Soviet Union plunged into mourning. No.10 with the original col. insert showing Stalin lying in state.

80 2200 Pasternak B

- Sm. portion of upper corner htitle cut off. Otherwise fine.

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

80/2203 Photography UdSSR im Bau / USSR in Construction / USSR en Construction

- Contents mostly fine; some lvs. loose(ning); occas. trifle thumbed/ waterst. Wrappers occas. nibbled by silverfish/ sl. yellowed/ trifle frayed. Nevertheless a desirable set.

= Comprises 6 German issues: year 14 of the Revolution, no.9; year 15, no.2 and 10; year 16, no.11; year 17, no.12; year 19, no.7. Four French issues: year 17, no.3; year 18, no.1 and 2; year 19, no.1. One English issue: year 16, no.4. Parr/ Badger p.148-149: "Any discussion of the soviet propaganda photobook of the 1930s must begin not with an individual book, but with a magazine. Between 1930 and 1940, USSR in Construction employed the best Soviet photojournalists and graphic designers. (...) They were undoubtely the best in their field, and the very nature of the magazine, a lavishly produced monthly published in four separate editions - Russian, English, German and French (and later, Spanish) - ensured that the magazine's editorial offices became a hothouse of ideas. All the visual strategies, of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitzky, Rodchenko and others - the elaborate photomontages, innovative photography, fold-out pages, transparent overlays and so on - were developed in USSR in Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century". Lissitzky-Küppers p.96ff. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.

80/2205 Photography URSS en construction Revue mensuelle illustrée Year 1934 no 4 1935 no 6 8 10 and 11 year 1936 no 1 2 4/5 7 10 and 12 year 1937 no 1 and 2

80/2205 Photography URSS en construction Revue mensuelle illustrée Year 1934 no 4 1935 no 6 8 10 and 11 year 1936 no 1 2 4/5 7 10 and 12 year 1937 no 1 and 2

80/2205 Photography URSS en construction Revue mensuelle illustrée Year 1934 no 4 1935 no 6 8 10 and 11 year 1936 no 1 2 4/5 7 10 and 12 year 1937 no 1 and 2

80/2205 Photography URSS en construction Revue mensuelle illustrée Year 1934 no 4 1935 no 6 8 10 and 11 year 1936 no 1 2 4/5 7 10 and 12 year 1937 no 1 and 2

80/2205 Photography URSS en construction Revue mensuelle illustrée Year 1934 no 4 1935 no 6 8 10 and 11 year 1936 no 1 2 4/5 7 10 and 12 year 1937 no 1 and 2

80/2205 Photography URSS en construction Revue mensuelle illustrée Year 1934 no 4 1935 no 6 8 10 and 11 year 1936 no 1 2 4/5 7 10 and 12 year 1937 no 1 and 2

- All vols. w. (sm.) defects and dam., i.a. lvs. torn; foxed wrs.; i.a. year 1935, no. 11 lvs. w. tear in lower part; year 1936, no. 10 spine split. Sold as periodical, not subject to return.

= Year 1935, no. 11 and year 1936, no. 8 w. typography and design by A. RODCHENKO and V. STEPANOVA; year 1936, no.4/5 and 10, typography and design by EL and S. LISSITZKY. Parr/ Badger I, p.148f. "Any discussion of the Soviet propaganda book of the 1930s should begin not with an individual book, but with a magazine [URSS en construction]. (...) Amongst the photographers were Max Alpert, Arkadi Shaikhet, Georgi Zeima, Boris Ignatovich, Semen Fridland and Georgi Shaikhet. Designers included the husband-and-wife teams of El Lissitsky, Sophie Kueppers, and Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. (...). All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitsky, Rodchenko and others - the elaborate photomontages, innovative photography, fold-out pages, transparent overlays and so on - were developed in URSS en Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century."