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Stenbergs brothers – colour lithographed covers.One of 5 000 copies printed. Wrappers are in constructivism style by famous graphic and film poster artists Vladimir and Georgii Stenbergs. They were members of Institute of artistic culture in Moscow together with Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova and Liubov Popova. Since 1922 the Stenbergs designed sets and costumes for Alexander Tairov's Moscow Kamernyi (Chamber) Theatre. Later they started to work as film posters designers for Sovkino. Their famous sign looks like they are circus artists: 2 Stenberg 2.The author Iakov Apushkin (1899-1989) studied in VKhUTEMAS, became a playwriter. He was arrested in 1935.Rowell-Wye #718 and p. 203, Hellyer #10, LeclancheBoulĂ© # 160, Ex libris 6 #96, Russian Modernism: The Collections of the Getty Research Institute... #19. OCLC traces several copies of the edition in USA, in NYPL (Rare book collection), Yale University, Houghton Library, University of Chicago, Stanford University and Getty Research Institute… Read More

One of 1.500 copies published.
Covers by Mikhail Sokolov (1885-1947) - member of World of Arts movement. He lived in Tver' in the beginning of 20s. In 1923 he destroyed almost all of his works fearing of arrest. He was arrested in 1938.Among the contributors are composer and critic Leonid Sabaneev (1881-1968) who left Russia in 1926, futurist poet Ivan Aksenov (1884-1935) - founder of Tsentrifuga group and author of the first book about Pablo Picasso's art in any language, Boris Arvatov (1896-1940) - one of the founders of LEF movement and Aleksei Gan (1885-1935) - art theorist, his book-manifesto Konstruktivism [Constructivism] published in the same place a year later. MoMA has another Tver' edition of the book with Sokolov's covers – 100 Poetov [One hundred poets], 1922 (Rowell-Wye #436). Hellyer # 788 and back cover, Russian Modernism: The Collections of the Getty Research Institute... #612. OCLC traces several copies of the edition in USA, in Library of Congress (Rare Book/Special Collections),… Read More