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82/512 Vystavka Okna Satiry ROSTA The exhibition Satirical Windows of ROSTA
82/ 512 Vystavka "Okna Satiry ROSTA" (The exhibition "Satirical Windows of ROSTA"). Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 1929, 23,(1)p., ills., orig. wr., sm. 8vo.

- 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.

€ (150-250) 150
82 513 Yagov V
82/ 513 Yagov, V. Programmy i ustavy vazhneishikh partii II Internationala (Programs and charters of the leading parties of the 2nd International). (Moscow), Gos. Izd., 1929, 240p., orig. wr. by S. TELINGATER.

- 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).

€ (60-80) 110
82 514 Yaroslavsky A
82/ 514 Yaroslavsky, A. Svyataya Bestial' (Holy Bestial). Petrograd, Komitet Poezii Biokosmistov-Immortalistov (Severnaya Gruppa), 1922, 14p., orig. wr.

- 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.

€ (100-150) 110
82 515 Yevreinov N
82/ 515 Yevreinov, N. Teatr u zhivotnykh. O smysle teatral'nosti s biologicheskoi tochki zrenia (Theatre among animals. On the meaning of theatricality from a biological point of view). Moscow/ Leningrad, Kniga, 1924, 72p., orig. col. lithogr. wr. by N. USHIN.

- 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.).

€ (100-150) 100
82 516 Zamyatin E
82/ 516 Zamyatin, E. Blokha. Igra v chetyryokh deystviakh (The Flee. A play in four acts). Moscow/ Leningrad, Mysl', 1926, 2nd ed., 94,(4)p., orig. wr. by V. IZENBERG.

- 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).

€ (50-70) 50
82 517 Zaslavsky D
82 517 Zaslavsky D
82 517 Zaslavsky D
82/ 517 Zaslavsky, D. Na zapadnom fronte - peremeny (Changes on the Western Front). Moscow/ Leningrad, Ogiz-Izogiz, 1931, 19,(1)p., ills., orig. wr. by B. PROROKOV.

- 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.

€ (50-70) 90
82 518 Zdanevitch K Dunsterville L
82/ 518 [Zdanevitch, K.]. Dunsterville, L. Britanskij imperializm v Baku i Persii 1917-1918 (British imperialism in Baku and Persia). Russian transl. B. Rudenko. Tbilisi, Sovetskij Kavkaz, 1925, 281,(1)p., orig. wr. by K. ZDANEVITCH.

- 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.

€ (100-150) 110
82/519 Zhar Ptitza The Fire Bird No 2 8 and 12
82/519 Zhar Ptitza The Fire Bird No 2 8 and 12
82/519 Zhar Ptitza The Fire Bird No 2 8 and 12
82/ 519 Zhar-Ptitza (The Fire-Bird). No.2, 8 and 12. Berlin, Russische Kunst, 1921-1922, 3 vols., (tipped-in col.) plates, (col.) ills., orig. pict. wr. by I. BILIBIN, L. TCHIRIKOV and M. LARIONOV, 4to.

- 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.

€ (250-350) 250
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