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One of 5 000 copies printed. Melnikov's projects.The book is devoted to the worker's club architecture and design. Many of these examples were designed by a constructivist architecture Konstantin Mel'nikov during his 'golden season'. There are illustrations with the following projects (sketches, plans and building photos): Rusakov Worker's Club, Porcelain Factory Club in Likino-Dulyovo, the Central Club of Railway Workers (by A. Shchusev), Frunze Worker's Club, Burevestnik Factory Club, club for food-industry workers in Minsk (by A. Burov, was destroyed), Svoboda Factory Club (project was partly changed), Kauchuk Factory Club, Palace of Culture in Stalingrad (by I. Golosov, unexecuted), Zuev Worker's Club (by I. Golosov), etc.OCLC locates five copies of this edition in US: in the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Library, the Harvard Library, the Stanford Library and the Cambridge University Library.

Limited to 600 copies.The Solovetsky Islands (firstly SLON) magazine was the official edition of the management of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camps. It was published in 1924-1926 and 1929-1930. The first issue was released in 17 copies only and was full of political articles (later poems, essays, and tales appeared). Prisoners were most of the authors. The magazine was managed by the OGPU leaders and demonstrated re-educational work under the enemies of the nation. It was declared that the magazine was distributed not throughout the Soviet Union only but even abroad. The typography of the issue is made in an avant-garde style that was unusual for such publications.The issue includes translation from Ovid's The Metamorphoses and the extract from Shelley's Ode to the West Wind (in English). Some authors of this edition were executed in 1938. We couldn't trace any copy of this issue in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.

Second edition [of this design].Poems about clocks from Russian poetess Elizaveta Polonskaia (1890-1969) - member of The Serapion Brothers group (look Leslie Dorfman Davis, Serapion Sister: The Poetry of Elizaveta Polonskaja. Evanston, IL, 2001). Wolfgang Kasack wrote that her poetry is 'clear and beautiful'. In 20s she worked as a translator into Russian, f.e. works of Shakespeare. The illustrations made by Nikolai Lapshin (1888-1942) one of the main artist of Leningrad school who started as futurist and rayonist. He was a member of Unblood murder group (with Vera Ermolaeva, Mikhaïl Le Dentu and Iliazd) and Union of the Youth (together with Olga Rozanova, Kazimir Malevitch, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin etc.). Lapshin was one of the few Russian artists who worked for Limited Edition Club. He prepared watercolor illustrations for Marco Polo edition published in 1934. He died in besieged Leningrad. The first edition of the poem Chasy published in 1925 with different illustrations and cover. In… Read More

In original illustrated wrappers. In good condition only, stained on the covers, worn on the spines and to the edges, book's section of Management Technology Institute (has existed for several years only in 1920s) stamp to the back cover, stains to some pages. Limited to 40 000 copies. Illustrations for these issues were created by a painter and graphic artist Aleksandr Deyneka (1899-1969), who regarded as one of the most important Soviet modernist figurative painters of the first half of the XXth century. He studied at the Higher Art and Technical Studios (VKhUTEMAS) under Ignatiy Nivinskiy and Vladimir Favorsky. He was one of the founders of the Society of Easel Painters (OST) and a member of art association Oktyabr'. In the early period the artist depicted genre scenes as well as labor and often beauty of naked sport body. In late 1920s and early 1930s he has collaborated with children's publishing houses and several magazines.

Propaganda among the children. Printed in 1939 shortly before expansion territory of USSR. When Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia was joined to USSR this edition became not relevant. The edition was prepared in Museum Leningrad House of Popular Science. It was forward-looking children's museum with interactive exhibitions. Rare. We couldn't find any copy in OCLC

One of 2 000 copies printed.
The Four Arts community united those artists who had exhibited with the pre-revolution associations Mir Iskusstva and Blue Rose. It was named Four Arts because it included painters, sculptors, graphic artists and architects (for example, Alexey Shchusev and Ivan Zholtovsky). The artists declared the value of individual and the necessity of preserving figurative culture. First exhibition of Four Arts was held in 1924 and the last one was in 1929. The community was joined to AKhRR (the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia) in 1931.Vera Mukhina, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Vladimir Favorsky and Martiros Saryan participated in this exhibition, which was opened in Russian museum in Leningrad. It was the only exhibition of The Four Art which held in Leningrad. We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in USA or European libraries via OCLC.
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One of 4 500 (# 22), 6 200 (# 3, 5) and 10 000 copies (others) printed.
Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko.She designed posters, books, magazines, and clothes. In 1919-1920 she was assistant director of the art and literature section of IZO Narkompros (The Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat for Education). Stepanova also led the textile department in VKhUTAMS (Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops). Issues from 1929 contains Stepanova's monogram "SV" on the front cover.
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In original illustrated photomotage wrappers. In good condition, minor losses on the spine, carefully repaired, cracks on the front cover, wear at the edges. Limited to 4 500 copies.IZORAM (Mass Organization of Komsomol Amateurs Art) appeared in 1925 in Leningrad as the Association of Visual Arts Groups for Young Workers to develop a new, avant-garde language of amateur arts and crafts, as amateurs artists used to imitate academic art. Worker's art groups (izoyadra) were led by professional artists which assured the high quality of the amateur IZOTAM productions. The association was disbanded in 1932 after the formation of the Artists Union. This book (the swan song of IZORAM) was prepared by Hungarian-born art critic and one of the members of October art group Ivan Matsa (1893-1974). The monography illustrated with photo of posters and tribune design for the Labor Day rally at Place Square in Leningrad (1931; right part with swastika symbol). It's interesting that the author compared IZORAM's… Read More

One of 15.000 copies printed.
First edition.
An unusual book of poems published during the beginning of Cold War, but designed as the best Soviet editions of 1930s. Photoillustration is on the front side of the dust jacket, depicting Mayakovsky posing on the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1925 V. Mayakovsky planned to make a trip around the world, but it didn't work out and the poet didn't get even to the western coast of America and spent three months in USA. The result of the trip was a manuscript of a book of essays Moe otkrytie Ameriki [My discovery of America] and the cycle of poems. Essays interspersed with poems in this edition.
Vasily Katanyan, literary critic, Mayakovsky's biographer and a member of the Left Art Front (LEF), prepared for publication a large corpus of the poet's texts. An editor of this publication was A. Tarasenkov, a famous bibliophile and expert on Soviet poetry of the XXth century.
OCLC locates two copies in USA: in MoMA and Princeton library

R.I. Kalmens - traslation from German. B.A. Kal'pus - foreword. N. Borov – covers with photomontageOne of 20.000 copies printed.A series of books about a healthy lifestyle of the Danish gymnast Joergen Peter Mueller (1866-1938) was very popular in pre-revolutionary Russia. In 1911 Müller came to Russia and acted in Moscow and St. Petersburg where showed as it is necessary to carry out exercises.Naym Borov (1906-1942) was architect and interior designer, he headed one of architecture workshops in Moscow. There he collaborated with another artist Grigorii Zamskii (1903-1984) as well as for several other photomontage covers for this publishing house. N. Borov was killed during WWII. Boris Kal'pus (1895-1938) created his own system of hand-to-hand fight for Red Army. He was shot during Great Purge.

Very rare first edition. Livre d'artiste. Lithographed book.Early illustrations of Tatiana Mavrina. She studied at VKhUTEMAS. Mavrina started illustrated children books since 30s as well as some other Russian avantgarde artists due to less censorship in this genre in USSR. Mavrina is the only Russian artist who won Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration. OCLC locates only one copy in Germany. Rats, 391

Popular edition for children about rivers, channels and ships illustrated with photos and photomontages.It includes story about SS Leviathan, photos of semidreadnought Lord Nelson and South Carolina-class battleships.There is distinguished story about Special Expedition for Underwater Works to salvage valuable cargo and equipment from sunken ships established by GPU. They tried to find HMS Prince lost in a storm off Balaklava in November 1854 during the Crimean War. The vessel is rumored to have a cargo solid gold. They have failed. The remains of the HMS Prince was founded in 2010 without any traces of treasures that never exists.Nikolai Lopatin (1898-1962) has prepared a set of popular science books for youths including books illustrated with photos of photomontages (Photographic illustration and photomontage in books for children and youths in 1920s and 1930s pp. 214-219).We couldn't find any copy in OCLC

Celebration was held on 1 st and 2 nd February 1925. Four performances were shown on the second day. It was excerpts from the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, ballet La Sylphide by Jean-Madeleine Shneytshoeffer and Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky

First and only one edition. Livre d'artiste. Lithographed book. Aleksandr Vvedensky was one the founders the OBERIU group (Union of Real Art). This association considered be one of the most radical poetry groups. The members of the group were attacked in press, then arrested and expelled from Leningrad. Since that Vvedensky started work for children. Nevertheless Vvedensky was arrested and died in prison in 1941. Most of Vvedensky's poetry was not widely known during his life-time. The book was illustrated by Ol'ga Pchel'nikova. She studied at The Russian Academy of Arts. She worked as artist in film industry. Pchel'nikova died in Leningrad during WWII. We couldn't trace any copy on OCLC

The one and only edition of the book. The book about chocolate. How it made, from the Native Americans to Russian confectionary Red October.Illustrator Vera Ivanova (1896-1948) studied in VKhUTEMAS and made several books together with Lev Zilov (The century of Russian book art, p.114). The author Lev Zilov (1883-1937) was poet and writer for children. OCLC traces one copy in USA only, in Princeton University (Cotsen Children's Library).

One of 10 000 copies published.The issue includes photos by Arkady Shaikhet, Georgy Lipskerov, Abram Shterenberg, Dmitri Debabov and Ivan Shagin.Sovetskoe Foto magazine was issued with two pauses from 1926 to 1991 and included editorials, letters, articles, photographic essays and works by Soviet and international photographers, advertisements for photography, photographic processes, photographic chemicals and equipment.

With Varvara Stepanova stamp on the back cover's turnover. Artist's copy.One of 10 000 copies published.
Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was a long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko. The stamp contains their home and workshop address. The issue also contains posters and photomontage from Vladimir Mayakovsky's books by Alexander Rodchenko.

This picture book coincides with opening of first Planetarium in Russia (1929). Planetarium 'only looks like a church', but here we will tell you the whole truth about the Universe, will wean you from belief in fairy tales about the creation of the World and 'will teach you the truth'.The book made by Dmitrii Mel'nikov (1889-1966). He worked a lot in Russian satirical serials, then prepared political posters including TASS Windows. Rare, especially in such condition. Musee Imaginaire (Tokyo, 1991) #14 OCLC locates one copy only, in University of Chicago