78/1788 Pamphlet Library on the Soviet Union. Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939, 47 vols., (photogr.) ills., orig. unif. wr., sm. 8vo, in orig. board box w. printed title-piece.

- Box badly dam./ worn and crudely repaired w. tape.

= Series of brochures published on occasion of the New York World Fair of 1939-1940. Karasik/ Heiting, The Soviet Photo Book p.462f: "The contents of these brochures cover all spheres of life in the USSR. Their authors included well known writers, actors, architects, scholars, heroes of labour and conquerors of the North (...). The brochures display a high quality of printing - some of the covers have Congreve embossing and colour engraving, in the illustrations extensive use of photographs and wood engravings, the latter created specially for these publications by eminent Soviet graphic artists (...)". With contributions by i.a. S. Marshak, S. Eisenstein, A. Stakhanov, A. Zhitomirsky and M. Gromov.