392 - 519 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT-GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
- Wrappers sl. dustsoiled/ dampstained and w. some restorations.
= The publication later got banned in the Soviet Union for unwanted content, i.a. Lenin speaking positively about Trotsky.
Smert' Lenina (Lenin's death). Leningrad, Gos. Izd., 1925, 27,(1)p., ills., orig. wr., sm. 8vo.
- Small number in col. pencil on frontwr. Otherwise fine.
AND 2 others: A. SHOTMAN, Lenin v podpolye (ibid., 1924, orig. wr., sm. 8vo) and P. LISOVSKY (ed.), Lenin v svete inostrannoi pechati (ibid./ Moscow, 1925, orig. wr., sm. 8vo).
- Wrappers reattached; backstrip restored.
= Rowell/ Wye 600; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.64; Leclanche-Boulé 8. Anthology of constructivist poetry by the Literary Centre of Constructivists (LTsK). WITH the insert "Izvestia LTsK" (fold. newspaper, (4)p., 1 ill.). "Its cover was designed by Nikolai Kupreianov, who closely followed Rodchenko's example; the title was exceptionally pertinent at this time of discussion on the status of literature in a Communist society. The book contains an insert, with a newspaper-like format, entitled LTsK News with a montage of photographs of the faces of the principal contributors superimposed on cartoon-like bodies. The joke suggests that the choice of title for the anthology should not be taken as a serious proposition that the Constructivists' plan was in some sense a State-approved plan for literature" (Compton).
Arvatov, B. Iskusstvo i klassy (Art and the Class). Ibid., Gosizdat, 1923, 87,(1)p., orig. wr. (monogrammed "L.N.").
- Wrappers loose and sl. foxed/ yellowed.
= Leclanche-Boulé 163; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.64: "LTsK did not share the extremism of theorists such as Brik and Boris Arvatov, who advocated the extension of Constructivism into Productivism in books such as Production Art and Art and Class."
- Splitting on folds; creased and fingersoiled.
= Awarding comrade Kuznetsov the title of Udarnik (shock worker), in the 4th year of the 2nd Five Year Plan (1936). With nice, somewhat modernist design.
- Partly vaguely waterst. in upper margin; owner's entry on title-p. Wrappers sl. waterst., soiled and creased.
= Rare technical car manual.
Za Rulyom (Behind the wheel). Year 3, no.23. Ibid., Avtodor, 1930, 29,(3)p., ills., orig. wr.
- Wrappers loose(ning).
- Wrappers reattached and sl. soiled; backstrip worn and sl. dam.
= Play dealing with the Bulgarian communist underground, "in comradely consultation with the Bulgarian political emigrants to the USSR" T. Marek and T. Draganov.
Nechaev, A.P. Pamyat' cheloveka i ego vospitanie (Memory of a man and his upbringing). Ibid., Gos. Izd., 1930, 124p., orig. wr.
- Sl. foxed; bookblock and upper hinge broken. Backstrip lacks portion at top.
- Several stamps and annots. on title-p. and frontwr.; mounted piece of paper on verso frontwr. Backstrip dam.
- Wrappers sl. creased and w. some closed tears.
= Rare and short-lived literary periodical. From the library of bibliographer Lev Turchinsky, with his owner's stamp on title-p.
- Wr. sl. worn and fingersoiled; backwr. w. some vague small stamps.
= Rowell/ Wye 248; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.46ff: "The cover has a sober Cubist design by Shterenberg and Fine Art included good-quality photographs of paintings and sculpture by the principal avant-garde artists, uncluding Malevich and Tatlin. It served as a herald of new Russian art in Western Europe, where it bears comparison with the spate of avant-garde journals published in the early 1920s. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Dedication in pen on title-p. Edges of wrappers partly restored (author's initial "V" on frontwr. partly neatly reproduced in pen and ink).
= Aleksandr Konstantinovitch Shervashidze (1867-1968) is considered the first Abkhazian modern artist. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Frontwr. sl. yellowed and creased; backstrip and backwr. renewed.
= Cf. Rowell/ Wye 764. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
AND 3 others, i.a. KATALOG PRINADLEZHNOSTEI BIBLIOTECHNOI TEKHNIKI (Moscow, 1927, ills., orig. wr.).
- Creased, sl. fingersoiled and dogeared.
= Poem on the civil war, written during the author's Kharkov period.
- Spine-ends chipped; wr. trifle yellowed and frayed.
= Rowell/ Wye 598. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
- Covers sl. dustsoiled; backstrip rubbed. = Rowell/ Wye 763.
- Lower hinge w. some rust stains and rubbed spots. Otherwise a fine and clean copy.
= Rowell/ Wye 741; Gaßner/ Nachtigäller 152; Leclanche-Boulé 178. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Wrappers partly waterst. and discoloured; frontwr. w. a few closed tears and sl. dam. at upper edge.
= Bimonthly periodical devoted to the publications of the State Military Publishing House.
- Fingersoiled and sl. worn; bookblock sl. warped and loose(ning).
= Periodical for kolkhoz workers. Partly with modern typography and text (and illustrations) printed in various contrasting colours, i.a. green and orange, yellow and blue, purple and orange.
AND 8 others, mostly periodicals, i.a. REVOLYUTSIA I KUL'TURA, no.16 and 17 (Moscow, 1928, 2 vols., orig. unif. wr. by S. CHEKHONIN, sm. 4to) and REVOLYUTSA I NATIONAL'NOSTI, Year 4, no.5 (ibid., 1934, ills., orig. wr., sm. 4to).
- Spine worn and splitting. = Novella on the Dneprostroi hydroelectric dam.
AND 6 others, mostly small publications, i.a. NARANOVITCH-BETONNYJ, Elektrogigant na Dnepre (Moscow, 1930, orig. wr., 12mo); A. BOGDANOV a.o. (ed.), Zemlya Sovetskaya. Udarnyj Literaturno-Khudozhestvennyj Sbornik (ibid., 1930, orig. wr.) and D. KRESTYANSKY, Burzhuaznyj i nash vozdushnyj flot (ibid., 1925, orig. wr.).
- Backstrip sl. dam. at foot.
= The third issue of MAF (Moscow Association of Futurists). Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005, p.57; Rowell/ Wye 490; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.52/ 54.
- Trifle yellowed; spine sl. worn.
= Rowell/ Wye 645 and ill. p.204; Gaßner/ Nachtigäller V, 55. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
- A few ills. lightly handcol. in pencil. Backstrip worn; wrappers sl. soiled and waterst.
= Artists' collective Kukryniksy was formed by Mikhail Kuprianov (1903-1991), Porfiry Krylov (1902-1990) and Nikolai Sokolov (1903-2000). Contains interesting typography.