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1. GERMAN LANGUAGE CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY YURI PIMENOV

A. Newerow [Neverov]. Erzählungen für die Kleinen.

(Serious and Funny) Stories for Kids.

Seventeen colored drawings by Yuri Pimenov. 30 pages, 6-3/4" x 8-1/2". Tsentral'noe Izdatel'stvo Narodov SSSR. Moscow. 1928.

Translated from the Russian, this rare German language children's book was published for German speaking people within the USSR. Edition 3,000.

2. COVER DESIGN BY ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO
Novyi byt i iskusstvo. The New Everyday Life and Art. By M. Shaginian, who authored (alias "Jim Dollar") Mess Mend - A Yankee in Petrograd. Designed paper wraps by Rodchenko. Zakkniga. 93 pages, 5-1/8" x 6-7/8". Tiflis. No date. Collection of her essays on art and architecture in the Soviet Union. Getty #707 shows 1926. Ex Libris 6 #432.

3. FIVE CHILDREN'S BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY VERA ERMOLAEVA

Four books of Krylov's fables illustrated by Vera Ermolaeva:

(1) Martyshka i ochki. The Monkey and the Eyeglasses. 8 pages, 5" x 6-1/2". Gosizdat. Moscow-Leningrad. 1929.

(2) Lebed' shchuka i rak. The Swan, Pike and Crawfish. 8 pages. 5" x 6-3/8". Gosizdat. Moscow-Leningrad. 1929.

(3) Dem'ianova ukha. Demian's Fish Soup. Third ed. 8 pages, 5 " x 6-5/8". Ogiz-Molodaia gvardiia. Leningrad. 1931.

(4) Lzhets. The Liar. Second ed. 8 pages, 5" x 6-7/8". Ogiz-Molodaia gvardiia. Moscow-Leningrad. 1931.

With: (V. Ermolaeva) A. Aseev. Krasnosheika. Red Neck. 14 pages. 5" x 6-1/2". Gosizdat. Moscow-Leningrad. 1927.

4. ALEXANDER DEINEKA ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK

N. Aseev. Kuter'ma. Commotion: A Winter Tale. Cover printed on boards and five black and white illustrations by Deineka. 16 pages, 6-1/2" x 8-1/4". Gosizdat. Moscow. 1930.

Restoration to cover and spine.

5. GUSTAV KLUTSIS ILLUSTRATIONS

Iazyk Lenina.
Odinnadtsat' priemov Leninskoi rechi.

Lenin's Language: Eleven Devices of Lenin's Speech.

By Aleksei Kruchenykh. Letterpress cover illustration by Valentina Kulagina (incorporating a drawing by Klutsis). 4 letterpress illustrations by Klutsis in black on ivory wove paper with original tissues. 60 pages, 5-1/2" x 7-1/2". Vserossisskii soiuza poetov. Moscow. 1925. MoMA # 596, Getty #363.

6. ZIMIN - SCRIABIN IN LUKIN'S DANCE

Original lithographs made by Grigory Zimin on the subject of erotic dances from Scriabin's music and Lukin's choreography.

Sixteen sheets. 10-1/2" x 7-3/4". Moscow. 1922.

Grigory Zimin (1900 -1983) was a little-known Soviet graphic artist and photographer who studied at VKhUTEMAS under the Stenberg Brothers and Gustav Klutsis. .

7. COVER IMAGE BY ADOLF STRAKHOV
A. Shlikhter. Il'ich. Kakim ia ego znal. [Lenin]. As I Knew Him. Cover drawing by A. Strakhov (Ukrainian born sculptor and graphic artist). 95 pages, 6" x 9". Gosizdat Ukrainy. Kharkov. 1925.

8. DRAWINGS BY YURI PIMENOV

Aleksandr Zharov. Osen', vesna: stikhi i poemy. Autumn, Spring: Verses and Poems.

Cloth boards with imprinted title, decorated endpapers and frontispiece. Twenty-four colored (plus one black and white) illustrations by Yuri Pimenov printed on heavy wove paper. 43 pages, 9" x 12". Gosizdat. Moscow. 1933.

9. SOLOMON TELINGATER DESIGNED CONSTRUCTIVIST COVERS
Vneshnee oformlenie uchebnoi knigi. Book of technical guidelines for textbook layout. Constructivist covers designed by Solomon Telingater. Moskovskii Rabochii. 88 pages, 5-7/8" x 8-7/8". Edition 1,500. Moscow-Leningrad. 1928.

10. 1933 SURVEY OF PICASSO'S PAINTINGS
Mastera sovremennoi zhivopisi. Masters of Contemporary Painting [series]. Pablo Picasso. Covers by S. Bershadsky. Text by N. Iavorskaia. Thirty black and white reproductions of his paintings from 1895 to 1932. Two page bibliography. Has rare printed tissue protector of printed paper wraps. 42 pages of text, 5-1/8" x 7-1/8". Ogiz-Izogiz. Moscow. 1933.

11. FOUR 1932 PHOTOMONTAGE BOOKLETS PUBLISHED BY PARTIZDAT

(A) Delo chesti, delo slavy, delo doblesti i geroistva. Honors, Glory, Heroism. Letters from workers, engineers, technicians at the Moscow based automobile factory named for Stalin. Constructivist layout with photos and photomontage. 32 pages, 6-1/4" x 8-3/4". Moscow. Partizdat. 1932.

(B) Zavety Lenina. Lenin's Precepts. Speech by Stalin delivered to the Congress of Soviets USSR. Photos and photo montage. 16 pages, 6-1/4" x 8-3/4". Moscow. Partizdat. 1932.

(C) Novaia obstanovka novye zadachi khoziaistvennogo stroitel'stva. 6 uslovii. New Conditions - New Tasks in Economic Construction. Speech given by Stalin to a conference of business executives on June 23, 1931. All text but for photo montage inside rear cover. 32 pages, 5-3/8" x 7-3/4". Moscow. Partizdat. 1932.

(D) [same speech as C above]. Text, photos and photomontage. 40 pages, 6-1/8" x 8-3/4". Moscow. Partizdat. 1932.

12. DMITRI MOOR
Masters of Soviet Art (series). Sovetskii khudozhnik. Dmitrii S. Moor (1883-1946). Biographical essay by A. Kozlov. 50 pages of black and white reproductions of Moor's illustrations and drawings for posters, newspapers and journals. Printed paper wraps. 5-3/4" x 7". Moscow-Leningrad. 1949.

13. ARCHITECTURAL - ADOLF STRAKHOV

Programma mezhdunarodnogo konkursa na proekt pamiatnika T.G. Shevchenku v g. Kharkove.

Program for an International Design Competition for a Monument to T.G. Shevchenko in Kharkov. In Ukrainian and Russian. With 2 inserts. 14 black and white printed plates, one is a fold-out. Binding restored. 1" tear at bottom of p. 47.

Design by A. Strakhov. Kharkov. 1930. Forty-seven pages of text. 7" x 9-3/4". Edition 800. See MoMA #908 [with differences].

14. VKhUTEIN - SUCCESSOR SCHOOL TO VKhUTEMAS

[F. Tagirov]. VKhUTEIN. Viytshii gosudarstvennyii khudozhestvenno-tekhicheskii institut v Moskve. Higher State Art-Technical Institute in Moscow.

School's course prospectus features information on faculty for courses in architecture, wood and metal working, polygraphic techniques, textiles, ceramics, painting and sculpture. Sixteen pages of course and faculty descriptions. Twelve full pages that illustrate faculty art. 9-3/4" x 11-1/2". Moscow. 1929.

15. TWO ISSUES OF ISKORKA FROM ITS FIRST YEAR

Iskorka. "Sparkle". Two issues from its first year of publication, 1924 #3 (July) and #7 (November).

This simple, colorful and high quality, monthly children's magazine (intended primarily for city kids) ran from 1924 to 1933. Alexander Deineka was its art director. The best Soviet illustrators and authors of the time contributed: Ushakova, Echeistov, Kuznetsov, Kupreianov, Kozlov and Laptev. There were poems by Barto and Fedorchenko.

#3 measures 7-1/8" x 8-3/4" and #7 measures 6-15/16" x 8-1/2". Rabochaia Moskva. Moscow. Issues from the first year are scarce.

16. THREE 1931 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY N. P. L.

These 3 books of poetry each were published in 1931 as part of the series from Novinki Proletarskoi Literatury (Latest Works of Proletarian Literature), Moscow-Leningrad. Each measures 4-3/8" x 6" with paper wraps printed on board.

(A) Anatolii Kudreiko. Serdtse mira. "Heart of the World". Poems.

(B) Al. Surkov. Zapev. "Solo". Book of Poems.

17. ART WORKERS GROUP EXHIBITION AT VKhUTEMAS

"ISTR" (Iskusstvo trudiashchimsia) 2-ii Vystavka

ISTR. (Art Workers Group) Second Exhibition. 1927.

Poster for exhibition at Vkhutemas for this artists' group which existed from 1925-1928. Unrestored. Offered with original catalog for the exhibition. Tirage 500. Poster measures 14-3/8" x 42-5/8". Catalog measures 4-1/4" x 6-3/4".

18. MARSHAK - LEBEDEV: FIRST EDITION OF TSIRK
Samuil Marshak.Tsirk. The Circus. First edition. Cover and illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev. Color lithograph cover and twelve color lithographed illustrations. 12 pages, 8-3/4" x 10-3/4". Raduga. Leningrad. 1925.

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