2138 - 2229 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT-GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
80 2178 Kruchonykh A 
- Sm. stamps and annots. on backwr. Otherwise fine.
= Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34, p.58. From a series of publications inspired by Sergei Yesenin's suicide. "The dramatic incident shocked the literary world - particularly young Communists who had admired the 'hooliganism' of his poetry - and the event subsequently inspired a great deal of material for publication; Kruchenykh used the event as the excuse for at least six books" (Compton). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
80 2179 Kruchonykh A 
- Title-p. and frontwr. creased (frontwr. worse and w. sm. tear); spine splitting; sm. stamps and annots. on backwr.
= Rowell/ Wye no.644; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.58. From a series of publications inspired by Sergei Yesenin's suicide "The dramatic incident shocked the literary world - particularly young Communists who had admired the 'hooliganism' of his poetry - and the event subsequently inspired a great deal of material for publication; Kruchonykh used the event as the excuse for at least six books" (Compton).
80 2180 Kusikov A 
80 2180 Kusikov A 
80 2180 Kusikov A 
- Inevitable sl. offsetting from ills. on opposite pages; two lvs. w. neatly closed (small) tear. Wr. sl. creased and fingersoiled.
= Rowell/ Wye 329. Very rare publication by the group of Imaginist poets, which included i.a. Sergei Yesenin, Anatoli Mariengof and Aleksandr Kusikov himself. The proceedings were intended as relief for the victims of the Podvolzhye famine. With remarkable illustrations in a somewhat cubist style. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
80 2181 Kuzmin M 
- Wrappers trifle stained. = Rowell/ Wye 808.
80 2182 Kuzmin M 
- Top of spine waterst.; frontwr. trifle foxed; sm. stamps and annots. on backwr.
80 2183 Lebedeff J Anet C 
80 2183 Lebedeff J Anet C 
- Occas. sl. foxed.
= One of 25 copies on Raphia de Madagascar. The publisher's copy, with SIGNED DEDICATION on 2nd blank: "Cet exemplaire qui m'était personnel est devenu l'exemplaire de mon ami Roman[?] Arents (...)" with on opposite leaf 2 woodcut ex libris: of Georges Crès and R. Arents (by J. LEBEDEFF, signed in pencil) and bound w. 2 extra woodcuts (1x on Japanese) by J. LEBEDEFF, both signed and w. dedication to the publisher in pencil. Monod 277; not in Carteret.
80 2184 Lebedeff J Pouchkine A 
= Not in Monod.
80/2185 Lissitzky El Erste Russchische Kunstaustellung 
- Wr. agetoned and sl. dustsoiled; upper joint splitting at top and foot of spine.
= Lissitzky-Küppers no.65; cat. Sprengel Museum Hannover no.72; Andel p.159. The catalogue of the landmark exhibition of Russian art in Berlin and Amsterdam, an event which - along with the Der Sturm exhibition of that year - decisively introduced modern Russian art into the mainstream of Western culture. The catalogue lists all works shown at the exhibition and contains reproductions of a number of these works, i.a. by Malevich, Rodchenko and Tatlin. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
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.