392 - 519 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT-GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.








































