- Occas. sl. stained and fingersoiled. Wrappers rather heavily creased and worn.

= 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 proceeds were intended as relief for the victims of the Podvolzhye famine. With remarkable illustrations in a somewhat cubist style.

- Lacks p.27/28; lower corner first lvs. creased/ dogeared. Wrappers sl. worn and fingersoiled.

= Illustrated history of the Tbilisi Workers' Theatre, established by Vladimir Schweitzer ("Pessimist") in 1926. Very rare.

- Sl. creased and fingersoiled. Frontwr. w. some rubbed/ dam. spots along spine and sm. stamp and numb. in pen.

= Petrov, Vladimir Lebedev p.104; Lévèque/ Plantureux p.161. Children's book by the prolific duo Marshak and Lebedev on woodworking. "The text and the illustration grow into an inseparable unity. The theme of the book becomes a poetry of labour, bringing the worker's tools to life." (Petrov).

- Scribbling in col. pencil on backwr.; frontwr. sl. stained. Spine splitting at foot.

= Petrov, Vladimir Lebedev p.97ff; Lévèque/ Plantureux p.162; Witkovsky/ Fore 167; Lemmens/ Stommels p.348f. "(...) the illustrations for Vchera i segodnia are a step forward. In that book Lebedev found a way to combine the sketchy (line) drawings with stencil-like designs. The first he uses to depict the old, yesterday, the latter stand for the new, today." (Lemmens/ Stommels). "It is hardly an exaggeration to state that this book is not only the artist's best graphic work, but also one of the pinnacles of 20th century book art." (Petrov). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.

- Backstrip and part of (blank margins) of frontwr. renewed.

= Scarce first (Russian) edition. Also published in English and French in 1923 (without the text by Punin). All published. Rowell/ Wye 474 and p.160/ 161. Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.98. Overview of Vladimir Lebedev's poster designs for the Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA, in his bright and distinctive style characteristic for his illustrations in S. Marshak's children's books. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.

- A few plates reattached/ loosening; final 2 text lvs. bound in between plates.

- Frontwr. sl. dogeared; sm. stamps on backwr.

= Rowell/ Wye 401; Global Avantgarde Russia 10; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.52: "The year 1922 saw increasing exchange of information about avant-garde art between the Soviet Union and Western Europe. Publications printed in Berlin brought up-to-date news to artists in a language they could understand. Thus the writer Ilia Ehrenburg's book - with a striking cover by Fernand Léger composed from stencilled letters and machine-like forms - included information about the pricipal European avant-garde journals (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VI.

- Backstrip restored; wr. sl. frayed. = Lissitzky-Küppers p.25.

- Covers sl. soiled and worn along extremities.

- Lacks pp.15-22, 25-28 and 31-32; contents loose; flattened horizontal fold throughout. Spine split; wrappers loose. Sold w.a.f.

= Literary-artistic group Makovets was named after the hill in Sergiev Posad on which the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is built.

- Wrappers partly restored and w. some stamps and annots.; spine restored.

= Rowell/ Wye 311; Futurisms in the World p.928. Probably the first and only publication in Russian of Malevich' important essay on the development of modern art movements.

- Backstrips worn/ (partly) lacking; wrappers partly sl. yellowed.

= Rare publications on experimental theatre.

- Wrappers partly sl. discoloured; spine restored.

= Second separate edition of Mayakovsky's poem, addressing the world and inciting to revolution. The title being a pun on Tolstoi's War and Peace. Futurisms in the World p.920: "The text contains musical notes with onomatopoeias along the lines indicated by Marinetti, who in the manifesto of Futurist literature had recommended the use of musical symbols and noises".

- Bookblock loose; title-p. sl. stained; one text leaf w. some additions in pen and ink. Wrappers creased and sl. worn; backstrip partly restored.

= Rowell/ Wye 54; Compton, Russian Futurist Books 1912-16, p.79f; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 14. Anthology of futurist poetry interspersed with drawings and portraits by V. Mayakovsky, V. Tatlin and the Burlyuk siblings (David, Vladimir and Nadezhda). "In this book, all the elements of the Russian Avant-garde flow together: poetry, visual art and folk art moulded into an organic whole, into a prayer book" (Lemmens/ Stommels). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VI.

- Vol. 1 wrappers reattached and backstrip restored; vol. 2 backstrip worn off and frontwr. w. rubbed spot and paper ticket; vol. 4 frontwr. loose and backstrip dam.

= Witkovsky/ Fore 18. Articles on Lenin by i.a. Trotsky, Zinovyev, Bukharin and other enemies of the people. Later withdrawn from circulation in the Soviet Union.

- Spine-ends sl. dam.; frontwr. loosening.

= Contains chapters on the design of i.a. bookcovers, logo's, labels, packages, coins and stamps etc.

- Backstrip dam.; frontwr. partly dustsoiled.

= The Russian edition of Malerei, Fotografie, Film (Munich, 1925; Bauhausbücher 8) with a different cover design. Parr/ Badger I, p.92; Rowell/ Wye 851.