1738 - 1823 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
- 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.